[governance] Debunking eight myths about multi-stakeholderism

Tue May 5 00:54:55 EDT 2015

On May 1, 2015 at 14:31 suresh at hserus.net (Suresh Ramasubramanian) wrote:
 > Add a single extra question - who is / are the targets of active attempts to disenfranchise them from a process?

I agree, in order to be thrown out of a room one must first get in.

  -b

 > > On 01-May-2015, at 2:11 pm, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:
 > > 
 > > 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.
 > > 
 > > 
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 > <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Add a single extra question - who is / are the targets of active attempts to disenfranchise them from a process?<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 01-May-2015, at 2:11 pm, Mawaki Chango <<a href="mailto:kichango at gmail.com" class="">kichango at gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: GillSans; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">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.</p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>
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