<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Evan and all, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Discussion of this report could perhaps be paired and compared (though not exactly contrasted) with the book "<u>The Great Takeover: Mapping of Multistakeholderism in Global Governance</u></font><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">" by </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">M</span><font face="verdana, sans-serif">ary 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:</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">A recent book documents how multi-stakeholder models have been used in many</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">areas in order to favor greater corporate influence, see:</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  </span><a href="https://www.tni.org/en/publication/the-great-takeover" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://www.tni.org/en/publication/the-great-takeover</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I cite from that web page:</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">"From health, to food and agriculture, from education to internet, from</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">environment to public services and human rights, the research shows that</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">decisions made in these Multistakeholderism mechanisms as well as in</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">captured multilateral institutions, have direct impact on on people's</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">health, children's education, digital rights, access to basic public</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">services and human rights in the territories, including the right to a</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">healthy environment.</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">"By dislocating the locus of key policy decisions from the multilateral</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">system into mixed mechanisms where the private sector rules-with the support</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">of some states, international institutions, and big philanthropists-the</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">phenomenon of "multistakeholderization" of the global governance has become</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">systemic."</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The book includes a chapter on Internet governance (full disclosure: I</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">contributed to that chapter).</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#073763">-------------------------------------------------------------------</font>-</div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#0b5394"><b>Greg Shatan | President, ISOC-NY</b></font><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="mailto:greg@isoc-ny.org" t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<a href="https://www.msi-integrity.org/not-fit-for-purpose/" target="_blank">Not Fit-For-Purpose: The Grand Experiment of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives in Corporate Accountability, Human Rights and Global Governance</a>

</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">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. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Evan Leibovitch, <span style="font-size:12.8px">Toronto Canada</span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:12.8px">@evanleibovitch / </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">@el56</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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