Barrack Thanks for sharing. I think the article misses one major point:- That business does and should have a seat at the table of Multi-Stakeholderism. However, Jack Ma also does miss the point if he thinks that a new from of Multi-Stakeholderism with business at the head of the table has any more legitimacy. For this to work all players must have a seat and a say at the table. Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113 / 0770906375 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi Sent from my iPad
On 12 May 2016, at 6:51 PM, Barrack Otieno via isoc <isoc@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
Dear Listers,
Might be of interest to some of us.
Regards
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: parminder <parminder@itforchange.net> Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 11:26:22 +0530 Subject: [Internet Policy] Now business wants to lead policy making To: "internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org" <internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org>
A recent announcement by Alibaba's founder Jack Ma exposes what the real intent, and the problem, with business led multistakeholderism is, something a lot of people/ groups have perhaps innocently got into supporting.... He proposes a new business led initiative to frame global e-commerce rules, which would rival the WTO, which can keep making them for offline trade. And he is entirely serious, with Alibaba already working with a number of groups and intending to present the proposal to G 20 later this year.. To me it is a political shocker, but that is where much of multistakholderism ideology is headed.
I wrote an op-ed on this issue in The Hindu, which is at http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/a-borderless-economy-that-will-be-co...
We must re-assess what does unhinging of the role of legitimate political actors in key public policy areas means. It just transfers power to a few global corporates to runs our societies as a corporatocracy. Many of our discussions here on mulitistakeholderism as a sovereign political form need to be seen in this context.
parminder
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