[governance] Reflections on making Internet governance democratic and participative

[McTim]

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org> wrote:
> On 20/05/2015 3:19 am, Norbert Bollow wrote:
>
> I would be very interested in in your thoughts about this:
>
> Reflections on making Internet governance democratic and participative
> by Norbert Bollow and Richard Hill
>
> http://bollow.ch/papers/democratic_and_participative.pdf
>
>
> Abstract: Recent events have made clear that there is a conflict
> between the demand that global governance must be democratic and the
> ideology of multistakeholderism
>
>
> Opening the abstract with a reference to the "ideology of
> multistakeholderism" gives us the first hint about where this is going...
>
> which underlies the status quo of
> Internet governance. This paper examines to what extent this conflict
> is real (as opposed to being a matter of misunderstandings and/or
> intentional misrepresentations of the other side's positions),
>
>
> Perpetrated in large part by the authors, which again suggests that we might
> not expect a particularly impartial examination of the topic...


The above is exactly why I never made it past the abstract.  Kudos to
you for your bravery in reading the whole thing.




-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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