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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Main Author: Jeremy Malcolm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society 2015-12-01
Series:Internet Policy Review
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Online Access:https://policyreview.info/node/391
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description 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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spelling doaj-art-e72544b5c3814269b6a23d3399e94f772025-08-20T02:02:50ZengAlexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and SocietyInternet Policy Review2197-67752015-12-014410.14763/2015.4.391Criteria of meaningful stakeholder inclusion in internet governanceJeremy Malcolm0Electronic Frontier FoundationJust 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.https://policyreview.info/node/391Multi-stakeholderismInternet governance
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Criteria of meaningful stakeholder inclusion in internet governance
Internet Policy Review
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Internet governance
title Criteria of meaningful stakeholder inclusion in internet governance
title_full Criteria of meaningful stakeholder inclusion in internet governance
title_fullStr Criteria of meaningful stakeholder inclusion in internet governance
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Internet governance
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