With regard to the ILO (International Labour Organization) I was first recruited to ICANN/NPOC based in part on my knowledge of the ILO. I worked for UNCTAD in Geneve but my office was at the ILO and I had considerable time to study the ILO. John Laprise is correct. The ILO is not analogous. The ILO operates more like a multistakeholder think tank, where each stakeholder group (gov't, industry, labour) had a vertical representation process. For example, when discussing the global beverages sector the labour representatives do not "represent the interest of" workers in the beverages sector. They in fact "represent the workers" in a process of election and selection. In addition to participants who are actual designated representatives of their constituencies, the ILO has no policy making authority. It can draft policy, say for maritime worker safety, but draft policy goes back into an multinational treaty/agreement process. ILO can lead but it cannot decide. ICANN is a very different, and quite novel, entity and probably the largest not-for-profit social business on the globe. If there are any lessons learned from the ILO they probably have to do with where they slot in expertise (academic, worker, or industry based). Sam Lanfranco, NPOC/csih On 12/19/2016 10:40 AM, John Laprise wrote:
I don’t think the ILO is analogous. It doesn’t make policy/enter into contractual relationships in the same way that ICANN does.
Best regards,
John Laprise, Ph.D.
Consulting Scholar