[governance] Debunking eight myths about multi-stakeholderism

[Mawaki Chango]

And in addition to the question about who is a stakeholder - who is
enfranchisable and do they get enfranchised? - there is the question of who
is listened to? Are the stakeholders equally listened to or are some "more
equally" listened to than others? [1] In my experience, assuming we have
clear answers to Barry's great questions, this remains a persistent
challenge in MS processes where people consistently tend to listen more
other people they are culturally acquainted with. At times the risk of a MS
setting turning into a club is palpable.

On Apr 29, 2015 6:04 PM, "Barry Shein" <bzs at world.std.com> wrote:
>
> Or by whatever the process for approving decisions is, voting is to
> some extent a metaphor for any reasonably inclusive and transparent
> approval process.

Right! It has been my impression MS-ism tends to be skeptical about voting
per se and tends to prefer consensus processes not formally based on a
proper voting as known so far in demonstratic processes. One may understand
why, although one may or may not agree. Such voting requires well defined
boundaries ahead of time - the boundaries of the polity, of the
enfranchised, so far all individuals notwithstanding the opinion of the
current US Supreme Court - meaning those boundaries are closed at least at
some point. Once those boundaries are defined and implemented, it is a 'one
person one vote' business, which MS-ism does not find all that friendly.

Or am I mistaken in my reading?

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[1] Please set aside cases such as IETF. We are discussing broader policies
which may impact potentially everyone and in which potentially anyone could
be involved, not just processes whereby technical artifacts are designed or
modified, issues requiring specialized knowledge which cannot be acquired
in a day or two of preparation by any (basicly) literate individual.
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