[governance] Text of Parminder's input

[Garth Graham]

> On Dec 22, 2015, at 4:53 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
> 
> On Friday 18 December 2015 10:19 PM, Garth Graham wrote:
>>> On Dec 17, 2015, at 8:14 AM, anita <anita at itforchange.net> wrote:
>>> Pl find the link to a video clip and the corresponding transcript here: 
>>> http://www.itforchange.net/UNGA_WSIS10
>>>  
>> Parminder concludes:
>>> …. left to itself the digital-network phenomenon will certainly be appropriated by the powerful and will result in an even more unequal and unfair world…
>>> 
>> Whereas I would conclude: Left to a "democratic mechanism for global governance of the Internet” the digital-network phenomenon will certainly be appropriated by the democratic mechanism’s representatives.  Centralizing the governance of a distributed system makes it far more subject to capture than by any other method.
> 
> …….. If you really what the know what is distributed, bottom-up and so on, go to the people's movements in different areas, and forms like people's assemblies and the World Social Forum, and ask them if they agree with the globalisation's language of distributed, polycentric etc when it is used to destroy legitimate policy spaces! I am doing nothing other than extend that some logic to the IG space, where this problem has taken an even more vicious form. 


> From: Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [governance] Text of Parminder's input
> Date: December 22, 2015 at 2:59:37 AM PST
> 
> …… The reluctance from some to apply the category of democracy to Internet governance stems from the limitations (and risks? dangers?) of democracy in their eyes. Is there a thoughtful - and as comprehensive as possible - articulation of those limitations, risks and/or dangers to be found somewhere? Do we think the two sets of concerns are irreconcilable?

For me, it’s not so much a question of reconciliation within existing frameworks as it is a question of reframing the question.  I have spent some time thinking about this.  One of my recent attempts at summary might serve to flesh out the cryptic 2 sentences I posted, even it’s not a direct response to the concerns raised by Mawaki Chango and Parminder:

Garth Graham. Cooperating community connections: a changing political reality, October 7,  2014:
https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=49357134&preview=/49357134/49418555/connect.pdf

GG


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