[governance] [bestbits] Remarks at UNESCO Closing Ceremony of "Connecting the Dots Conference"

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

Dear David,

With respect to this statement, I would heavily qualify this. The USG is doing this in the specific ambit of WSIS-related constructs. I think we all know that when it comes to many areas of policy neither the USG, nor any other government, is interested in non-state actors necessarily even being in the room.

That said, one takes what one can. It is great, IMO, that they take this position where they do, as aside from anything else it makes it easier to argue “well, why not at ______ too?”

> On 22 Mar 2015, at 09:12, David Cake <dave at difference.com.au> wrote:
> 
> The USG are not attempting to shift the normative anchor of international discourse from “democracy” to multistakeholderism. They are attempting to move the normative practical mechanism of international discourse from multi-lateralism to multi-stakeholderism, which is a very different thing.

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