Criteria of meaningful stakeholder inclusion in internet governance
Just as the so-called multi-stakeholder model of internet governance has attained broad acceptance, it has also begun to attract criticism for how elastic that term is, extending to processes that at best offer limited opportunity for meaningful stakeholder inclusion, and at worst may be a front for...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
2015-12-01
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| Series: | Internet Policy Review |
| Online Access: | https://policyreview.info/node/391 |
| Summary: | Just as the so-called multi-stakeholder model of internet governance has attained broad acceptance, it has also begun to attract criticism for how elastic that term is, extending to processes that at best offer limited opportunity for meaningful stakeholder inclusion, and at worst may be a front for corporate self-regulation or government policy whitewashing. There is an apparent need for a set of criteria to distinguish these deficient processes from those that truly do promote policy-making that includes the perspectives of all affected stakeholders. This paper proposes such a set of criteria. |
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| ISSN: | 2197-6775 |