[governance] Re: [bestbits] US style Multistakeholderism

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

As long as the right jargon is employed, inconvenient truths just get 
dismissed or ignored.. Per usual.



On 14 October 2014 9:38:18 pm McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 9:14 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Monday 13 October 2014 11:39 PM, David Cake wrote:
> >
> > Seemed to almost entirely be a criticism of the US govts hypocrisy in
> > talking up its commitment to multi-stakeholderism while simultaneously
> > pursuing lobbyist led goals by other means.
> > As a criticism of US govt hypocrisy, its fine.
> >
> >
> > Thanks David, that was the primary purpose of the posting.
> >
> > As a criticism of multi-stakeholderism, its incoherent.
> >
> >
> > If it is just incoherence that is your problem, you may like to read the
> > following rather well argued and supported critique of multistakeholderism
> > (MSism)
> >
> > "State of Davos: The camel's nose in the tents of global governance"
> > 
> http://www.tni.org/sites/www.tni.org/files/download/state_of_davos_chapter.pdf
> >
> > What is interesting is that it critiques practically every currently
> > practised aspect of MSism in the global IG space, without ever referring to
> > IG. Shows how MSism is not some special state of governance associated with
> > the Internet's oft-claimed 'special nature'. It was not even invented by the
> > IG guys... It was invented by hard neolibs of Davos kind, for obvious
> > reasons.
>
> So 40 years of bottom up, consensus based open, transparent policy
> making was invented in 2009-10?
>
> That implies time travel.
>
> As usual, the facts don't fit your paradigm.
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
>
>



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