Evan and all, Discussion of this report could perhaps be paired and compared (though not exactly contrasted) with the book "*The Great Takeover: Mapping of Multistakeholderism in Global Governance*" by Mary Ann Manahan and Madhuresh Kumar (in collaboration with the People’s Working Group on Multistakeholderism). Richard Hill introduced this book thusly on another mailing list: A recent book documents how multi-stakeholder models have been used in many areas in order to favor greater corporate influence, see: https://www.tni.org/en/publication/the-great-takeover I cite from that web page: "From health, to food and agriculture, from education to internet, from environment to public services and human rights, the research shows that decisions made in these Multistakeholderism mechanisms as well as in captured multilateral institutions, have direct impact on on people's health, children's education, digital rights, access to basic public services and human rights in the territories, including the right to a healthy environment. "By dislocating the locus of key policy decisions from the multilateral system into mixed mechanisms where the private sector rules-with the support of some states, international institutions, and big philanthropists-the phenomenon of "multistakeholderization" of the global governance has become systemic." The book includes a chapter on Internet governance (full disclosure: I contributed to that chapter). -------------------------------------------------------------------- *Greg Shatan | President, ISOC-NY* greg@isoc-ny.org *"The Internet is for everyone"* On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 1:00 PM Evan Leibovitch via NA-Discuss < na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:
I think it would be a good idea for a future NARALO meeting, for the authors of this paper to introduce it and present/defend its findings:
Not Fit-For-Purpose: The Grand Experiment of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives in Corporate Accountability, Human Rights and Global Governance <https://www.msi-integrity.org/not-fit-for-purpose/>
Given recent NARALO discussions that have framed ICANN's accountability purely as an exercise of entrenching vested interests, perhaps a briader, more-thoughtful examination of ICANN's true societal accountability (and lack thereof) is in order.
Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch / @el56 ------ NA-Discuss mailing list NA-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/na-discuss
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