[kictanet] [isoc_ke] Fwd: [Internet Policy] Now business wants to lead policy making

[Ali Hussein]

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.

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> On 12 May 2016, at 6:51 PM, Barrack Otieno via isoc <isoc at lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
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> Dear Listers,
> 
> Might be of interest to some of us.
> 
> Regards
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>
> Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 11:26:22 +0530
> Subject: [Internet Policy] Now business wants to lead policy making
> To: "internetpolicy at elists.isoc.org" <internetpolicy at 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-controlled/article8581476.ece
> 
> 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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