<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Barrack</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Thanks for sharing. I think the article misses one major point:-</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">That business does and should have a seat at the table of Multi-Stakeholderism. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">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. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">For this to work all players must have a seat and a say at the table.<br><br><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">+254 0713 601113 / 0770906375</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font></font></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div>"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi</div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 12 May 2016, at 6:51 PM, Barrack Otieno via isoc <<a href="mailto:isoc@lists.my.co.ke">isoc@lists.my.co.ke</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Dear Listers,</span><br><span></span><br><span>Might be of interest to some of us.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Regards</span><br><span></span><br><span>---------- Forwarded message ----------</span><br><span>From: parminder <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>></span><br><span>Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 11:26:22 +0530</span><br><span>Subject: [Internet Policy] Now business wants to lead policy making</span><br><span>To: "<a href="mailto:internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org">internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org">internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org</a>></span><br><span></span><br><span>A recent announcement by Alibaba's founder Jack Ma exposes what the real</span><br><span>intent, and the problem, with business led multistakeholderism is,</span><br><span>something a lot of people/ groups have perhaps innocently got into</span><br><span>supporting.... He proposes a new business led initiative to frame global</span><br><span>e-commerce rules, which would rival the WTO, which can keep making them</span><br><span>for offline trade. And he is entirely serious, with Alibaba already</span><br><span>working with a number of groups and intending to present the proposal to</span><br><span>G 20 later this year.. To me it is a political shocker, but that is</span><br><span>where much of multistakholderism ideology is headed.</span><br><span></span><br><span>I wrote an op-ed on this issue in The Hindu, which is at</span><br><span><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/a-borderless-economy-that-will-be-controlled/article8581476.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/a-borderless-economy-that-will-be-controlled/article8581476.ece</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>We must re-assess what does unhinging of the role of legitimate</span><br><span>political actors in key public policy areas means. It just transfers</span><br><span>power to a few global corporates to runs our societies as a</span><br><span>corporatocracy. Many of our discussions here on mulitistakeholderism as</span><br><span>a sovereign political form need to be seen in this context.</span><br><span></span><br><span>parminder</span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>To manage your ISOC subscriptions or unsubscribe,</span><br><span>please log into the ISOC Member Portal:</span><br><span><a href="https://portal.isoc.org/">https://portal.isoc.org/</a></span><br><span>Then choose Interests & Subscriptions from the My Account menu.</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>Barrack O. 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