[discuss] cgi.br release regarding Brazil Global MSM on InternetGovernance

Sat Jan 11 13:58:13 UTC 2014

Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:

> While the Tunis Agenda talked about 3 stakeholder groups, the 
> implementations have always ignored that and persisted in the 
> traditional Government vs. everyone else model.
> 
> Governments seem to, by definition always have at least half the
> seats. That is, in the venues where the rest of us are allowed to
> have any seats at all.

Also, in many settings where there are non-governmental seats, there
are problems with the gatekeeper processes that allocate them.

There are legitimate and important perspectives which tend to get
systematically excluded or reduced to token representation.

Greetings,
Norbert