[governance] Pro-multistakeholderist versus pro-democracy viewpoints

[Norbert Bollow]

On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:36:22 -0400
Deirdre Williams <williams.deirdre at gmail.com> wrote:

> I should still like to know what is a "stake" - the thing that is
> held by the stakeholder.

My understanding is that whatever is /at stake/ from the perspective of
a given stakeholder, in the sense of being potentially gained or lost,
is the relevant "stake", and it is "held" as a hope (if it's something
to be potentially gained) or "held fast" (possibly in fear, if it's
something that could potentially be lost).

Disclaimer: These thoughts are shared on the basis of much less
reflection than would go into anything that I write e.g. about
democracy or about human rights, as I am not an advocate for any of the
various theories that are based on the notion of stakeholders, nor am I
an advocate of multistakeholderism.

Greetings,
Norbert


> On 10 March 2015 at 12:40, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 10:43:45 -0400
> > Deirdre Williams <williams.deirdre at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > One thing that seems to be missing in everything that I have read
> > > so far is an explanation of "what is a stake"?
> >
> > Humanity is in the process of a very significant transition to a
> > state of organization which is much more globalized and much more
> > ICT-based than anything that we have experience with.
> >
> > In my view, whether democracy(*) will survive this transition is
> > very much at stake.
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Norbert
> >
> > (*) I mean "democracy" in the sense of the literal meaning of the
> > word, as explained in a recent posting on this list and also at
> > http://sustainability.oriented.systems/democracy/
> >
> >
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