Abstract
Criteria of meaningful stakeholder inclusion in internet governance
Highlights
This paper proposes a set of four criteria of meaningful stakeholder inclusion in global internet governance processes, that can simplify the process of examining and critiquing processes that purport to allow for public or multi-stakeholder involvement in public policy development
A multi-stakeholder process does not begin to provide meaningful stakeholder inclusion unless the right stakeholders are participating, where “right” means that it should include sufficient participants to present all the perspectives of all with a significant interest in any policy directed at an internet governance problem
It is hoped that the application of these criteria does provide a modest advance on the status quo in which multi-stakeholderism is too frequently portrayed as an unalloyed good
Summary
This paper proposes a set of four criteria of meaningful stakeholder inclusion in global internet governance processes, that can simplify the process of examining and critiquing processes that purport to allow for public or multi-stakeholder involvement in public policy development. The criteria of meaningful stakeholder inclusion presented here are designed to capture the extent to which the processes in question are effectively designed to incorporate the viewpoints of all affected stakeholders into the development of those policies in a balanced way, this being the essential feature from which this subset of multi-stakeholder processes can claim democratic legitimacy. Since institutions utilising multi-stakeholder processes tend not to directly address these issues, or do not do so in a way that allows them to be compared with other such institutions and processes, this paper is intended to supply a set of criteria that makes such comparison easier.
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