Digital-neo-ultra-woke-anti-disestablishment-multistakeholderism-transformation
August 13, 2026 at 6:18 AM
Digital-neo-ultra-woke-anti-disestablishment-multistakeholderism-transformation
TIL 'multistakeholderism' is a word but it turns out the ability to withstand polite 4hr civil society meetings is the self-protective bureaucratic superpower that democracies didn't know they needed
We can resist this sort of shit, see
July 31, 2025 at 8:43 AM
TIL 'multistakeholderism' is a word but it turns out the ability to withstand polite 4hr civil society meetings is the self-protective bureaucratic superpower that democracies didn't know they needed
It's only multistakeholderism if it comes from the "stakeholders have actual fucking power" region, otherwise it's just sparkling neoliberalism.
December 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It's only multistakeholderism if it comes from the "stakeholders have actual fucking power" region, otherwise it's just sparkling neoliberalism.
#DigitalRights is "witnessing erosion of multistakeholderism, restrictions on civil society participation, democratic backsliding, + co's divesting from policies... that uphold human rights" says Nikki Gladstone.
ICYMI: my dispatch from #RightsCon www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/04/1...
ICYMI: my dispatch from #RightsCon www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/04/1...
At RightsCon in Taipei, activists reckon with a US retreat from promoting digital rights
The United States government has gone from taking the leading role in supporting an open and safe internet to demonstrating how to dismantle it.
www.technologyreview.com
March 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
#DigitalRights is "witnessing erosion of multistakeholderism, restrictions on civil society participation, democratic backsliding, + co's divesting from policies... that uphold human rights" says Nikki Gladstone.
ICYMI: my dispatch from #RightsCon www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/04/1...
ICYMI: my dispatch from #RightsCon www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/04/1...
Multistakeholderism.
"I licked it, now it's mine" on a worldwide scale.
"I licked it, now it's mine" on a worldwide scale.
January 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Multistakeholderism.
"I licked it, now it's mine" on a worldwide scale.
"I licked it, now it's mine" on a worldwide scale.
Discourse coalitions and discursive orders in internet governance (1990s–2010s), in Pohle&Santaniello(2024) From multistakeholderism to digital sovereignty: Toward a new discursive order in internet governance? OA: doi.org/10.1002/poi3...
#internetgovernance #digitalsovereignty #multistakeholderism
#internetgovernance #digitalsovereignty #multistakeholderism
December 2, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Discourse coalitions and discursive orders in internet governance (1990s–2010s), in Pohle&Santaniello(2024) From multistakeholderism to digital sovereignty: Toward a new discursive order in internet governance? OA: doi.org/10.1002/poi3...
#internetgovernance #digitalsovereignty #multistakeholderism
#internetgovernance #digitalsovereignty #multistakeholderism
✨ New podcast episode out now ✨
This week on #DeadlyIndustryPod, Louis is joined by @ambervandenakker.bsky.social and @spidermaani.bsky.social from @lhgp.bsky.social to unpack a critical concept - multistakeholderism.
🎧 Listen now: shows.acast.com/deadly-indus...
This week on #DeadlyIndustryPod, Louis is joined by @ambervandenakker.bsky.social and @spidermaani.bsky.social from @lhgp.bsky.social to unpack a critical concept - multistakeholderism.
🎧 Listen now: shows.acast.com/deadly-indus...
October 7, 2025 at 8:25 AM
✨ New podcast episode out now ✨
This week on #DeadlyIndustryPod, Louis is joined by @ambervandenakker.bsky.social and @spidermaani.bsky.social from @lhgp.bsky.social to unpack a critical concept - multistakeholderism.
🎧 Listen now: shows.acast.com/deadly-indus...
This week on #DeadlyIndustryPod, Louis is joined by @ambervandenakker.bsky.social and @spidermaani.bsky.social from @lhgp.bsky.social to unpack a critical concept - multistakeholderism.
🎧 Listen now: shows.acast.com/deadly-indus...
Kicked off #ISA2025 with a great Geneva
@gvagrad.bsky.social reunion—this time in Chicago, over some deep-dish pizza. I look forward to presenting my book project on the politics of multistakeholderism and engaging in discussions on visa inequalities and the politics of expertise!
@gvagrad.bsky.social reunion—this time in Chicago, over some deep-dish pizza. I look forward to presenting my book project on the politics of multistakeholderism and engaging in discussions on visa inequalities and the politics of expertise!
March 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Kicked off #ISA2025 with a great Geneva
@gvagrad.bsky.social reunion—this time in Chicago, over some deep-dish pizza. I look forward to presenting my book project on the politics of multistakeholderism and engaging in discussions on visa inequalities and the politics of expertise!
@gvagrad.bsky.social reunion—this time in Chicago, over some deep-dish pizza. I look forward to presenting my book project on the politics of multistakeholderism and engaging in discussions on visa inequalities and the politics of expertise!
new paper with @jacktaggart.bsky.social in @gepjournal.bsky.social on corporate power, multistakeholderism and the Global Plastics Treaty
we contend that multistakeholder partnerships constitute a key hedging strategy for companies facing regulatory pressures to address plastics pollution
we contend that multistakeholder partnerships constitute a key hedging strategy for companies facing regulatory pressures to address plastics pollution
Plastic Partnerships: How Corporations Are Hedging Against the UN Global Plastics Treaty
Abstract. The global plastic crisis has intensified over the past decade, pressuring corporations to address their environmental impact. In response to a UN resolution to negotiate a treaty to end pla...
direct.mit.edu
February 24, 2025 at 9:05 AM
new paper with @jacktaggart.bsky.social in @gepjournal.bsky.social on corporate power, multistakeholderism and the Global Plastics Treaty
we contend that multistakeholder partnerships constitute a key hedging strategy for companies facing regulatory pressures to address plastics pollution
we contend that multistakeholder partnerships constitute a key hedging strategy for companies facing regulatory pressures to address plastics pollution
Watch a milestone moment for the Wikimedia Foundation: Advocating to place digital public goods at the heart of global digital governance.
Wikimedia Foundation at the United Nations: Remarks on Multistakeholderism, Digital Public Goods…
December 2025: Milestone moment for the Wikimedia Foundation, invited to speak at the UN about Wikipedia’s role in global digital…
medium.com
February 27, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Watch a milestone moment for the Wikimedia Foundation: Advocating to place digital public goods at the heart of global digital governance.
3- In short, our submission was not even received because we are not government representatives. The ITU—the UN specialized agency for digital technologies—showed no capacity to include the voices of concerned experts and activists. So much for multistakeholderism as a model of internet governance.
April 25, 2026 at 12:00 PM
3- In short, our submission was not even received because we are not government representatives. The ITU—the UN specialized agency for digital technologies—showed no capacity to include the voices of concerned experts and activists. So much for multistakeholderism as a model of internet governance.
Like others, I received a cease and desist letter [2] from Cloud Innovation regarding Emmanuel Vitus' Medium article "AFRINIC: Hope, Hijack, and the Harsh Lessons of African Multistakeholderism". 1/
July 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Like others, I received a cease and desist letter [2] from Cloud Innovation regarding Emmanuel Vitus' Medium article "AFRINIC: Hope, Hijack, and the Harsh Lessons of African Multistakeholderism". 1/
"AfriNIC: Hope, Hijack, and the Harsh Lessons of African Multistakeholderism" by Emmanuel Vitus medium.com/@emmanuelvit...
AfriNIC: Hope, Hijack, and the Harsh Lessons of African Multistakeholderism
Once a symbol of digital self-rule, AfriNIC now faces collapse. What went wrong in Africa’s Internet governance?
medium.com
July 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
"AfriNIC: Hope, Hijack, and the Harsh Lessons of African Multistakeholderism" by Emmanuel Vitus medium.com/@emmanuelvit...
Definitely worth a read: how plastics producers are trying to use multistakeholderism to dilute global action on plastic.
@jacktaggart.bsky.social and I have been working together on multistakeholderism, and thinking about how these hybrid forms of governance connect to multilateralism
This is an attempt to think through institutional hybridity in global plastics governance
www.globalpolicyjournal.com/articles/glo...
This is an attempt to think through institutional hybridity in global plastics governance
www.globalpolicyjournal.com/articles/glo...
Early View Article - The Trojan Horse of Hybrid Governance: Corporate Power and Global Plastics Governance | Global Policy Journal
This article examines the emergence of a hybrid institutional complex (HIC) in global plastics governance. By interrogating the structure, features, and contradictions of hybrid global plastics govern...
www.globalpolicyjournal.com
July 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Definitely worth a read: how plastics producers are trying to use multistakeholderism to dilute global action on plastic.
Early launch of the #rightscon2025 in Taipei with a fruitful Follow up from the Paris Al Action Summit. Alongside @accessnow.org, AI Collaborative and 30 others CSOs, open discussions on Al governance and the future of multistakeholderism, which will be more important than ever in the coming years.
February 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Early launch of the #rightscon2025 in Taipei with a fruitful Follow up from the Paris Al Action Summit. Alongside @accessnow.org, AI Collaborative and 30 others CSOs, open discussions on Al governance and the future of multistakeholderism, which will be more important than ever in the coming years.
To learn from past mistakes, we need to properly understand what those mistakes were:
#1–assuming that enhancing modalities for communication was necessarily positive
#2-accepting tech’s arguments that their lack of accountability = our freedom
#3-a naive embrace of multistakeholderism
cont’d
#1–assuming that enhancing modalities for communication was necessarily positive
#2-accepting tech’s arguments that their lack of accountability = our freedom
#3-a naive embrace of multistakeholderism
cont’d
July 2, 2026 at 12:38 PM
To learn from past mistakes, we need to properly understand what those mistakes were:
#1–assuming that enhancing modalities for communication was necessarily positive
#2-accepting tech’s arguments that their lack of accountability = our freedom
#3-a naive embrace of multistakeholderism
cont’d
#1–assuming that enhancing modalities for communication was necessarily positive
#2-accepting tech’s arguments that their lack of accountability = our freedom
#3-a naive embrace of multistakeholderism
cont’d
Two key perspectives structure the issue: one rooted in #legal and #political scholarship, analysing the institutionalisation of #civilsociety participation. The other grounded in #socialscience, focusing on “alternative” governance mechanisms, highlighting the limits of multistakeholderism. ⅖
April 3, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Two key perspectives structure the issue: one rooted in #legal and #political scholarship, analysing the institutionalisation of #civilsociety participation. The other grounded in #socialscience, focusing on “alternative” governance mechanisms, highlighting the limits of multistakeholderism. ⅖
#EventAnnouncement
As part of the #MAPAI Initiative, CCG and GNI
are organising an event on the sidelines of the #IndiaAIImpactSummit on 17 February 2026.
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#CCG #GNI #AIGovernance #Multistakeholderism #GlobalSouth #DigitalRights #ResponsibleAI
As part of the #MAPAI Initiative, CCG and GNI
are organising an event on the sidelines of the #IndiaAIImpactSummit on 17 February 2026.
(1/3)
#CCG #GNI #AIGovernance #Multistakeholderism #GlobalSouth #DigitalRights #ResponsibleAI
February 4, 2026 at 1:49 PM
#EventAnnouncement
As part of the #MAPAI Initiative, CCG and GNI
are organising an event on the sidelines of the #IndiaAIImpactSummit on 17 February 2026.
(1/3)
#CCG #GNI #AIGovernance #Multistakeholderism #GlobalSouth #DigitalRights #ResponsibleAI
As part of the #MAPAI Initiative, CCG and GNI
are organising an event on the sidelines of the #IndiaAIImpactSummit on 17 February 2026.
(1/3)
#CCG #GNI #AIGovernance #Multistakeholderism #GlobalSouth #DigitalRights #ResponsibleAI
Transnational corporations aren't a stakeholder when it comes to a #BindingTreaty to hold THEM accountable.
Violating #HumanRights, decimating the environment and tearing through communities for the sake of profit is a RED LINE.
TNCs, you and your reps are not welcome here👋
Violating #HumanRights, decimating the environment and tearing through communities for the sake of profit is a RED LINE.
TNCs, you and your reps are not welcome here👋
December 17, 2024 at 10:18 AM
Transnational corporations aren't a stakeholder when it comes to a #BindingTreaty to hold THEM accountable.
Violating #HumanRights, decimating the environment and tearing through communities for the sake of profit is a RED LINE.
TNCs, you and your reps are not welcome here👋
Violating #HumanRights, decimating the environment and tearing through communities for the sake of profit is a RED LINE.
TNCs, you and your reps are not welcome here👋
So excited for the start of the #Salerno Winter School on #InternetGovernace!!!
Gathered a such exceptional group of students, scholars and pratictioners!!!
#Internet #networks #AI #Chips #DNS #BigTech #DigitalSovereignty #DigitalConstitutionalism #Multistakeholderism
Gathered a such exceptional group of students, scholars and pratictioners!!!
#Internet #networks #AI #Chips #DNS #BigTech #DigitalSovereignty #DigitalConstitutionalism #Multistakeholderism
February 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
So excited for the start of the #Salerno Winter School on #InternetGovernace!!!
Gathered a such exceptional group of students, scholars and pratictioners!!!
#Internet #networks #AI #Chips #DNS #BigTech #DigitalSovereignty #DigitalConstitutionalism #Multistakeholderism
Gathered a such exceptional group of students, scholars and pratictioners!!!
#Internet #networks #AI #Chips #DNS #BigTech #DigitalSovereignty #DigitalConstitutionalism #Multistakeholderism
#IGF2024 From #SummitoftheFuture to #WSIS+20 session: lots of support for the recognition of multistakeholderism in #GlobalDigitalCompact, lots of support for IGF, lots of support for an inclusive, transparent WSIS+20 review next year.
December 16, 2024 at 1:58 PM
#IGF2024 From #SummitoftheFuture to #WSIS+20 session: lots of support for the recognition of multistakeholderism in #GlobalDigitalCompact, lots of support for IGF, lots of support for an inclusive, transparent WSIS+20 review next year.
@jacktaggart.bsky.social and I have been working together on multistakeholderism, and thinking about how these hybrid forms of governance connect to multilateralism
This is an attempt to think through institutional hybridity in global plastics governance
www.globalpolicyjournal.com/articles/glo...
This is an attempt to think through institutional hybridity in global plastics governance
www.globalpolicyjournal.com/articles/glo...
Early View Article - The Trojan Horse of Hybrid Governance: Corporate Power and Global Plastics Governance | Global Policy Journal
This article examines the emergence of a hybrid institutional complex (HIC) in global plastics governance. By interrogating the structure, features, and contradictions of hybrid global plastics govern...
www.globalpolicyjournal.com
July 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM
@jacktaggart.bsky.social and I have been working together on multistakeholderism, and thinking about how these hybrid forms of governance connect to multilateralism
This is an attempt to think through institutional hybridity in global plastics governance
www.globalpolicyjournal.com/articles/glo...
This is an attempt to think through institutional hybridity in global plastics governance
www.globalpolicyjournal.com/articles/glo...
Thanks Rob! I very much look forward to continuing our conversations on multistakeholderism and plastics!
April 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Thanks Rob! I very much look forward to continuing our conversations on multistakeholderism and plastics!
I'm very excited to be invited to join a panel on #digitalsovereignty and #multistakeholderism at the #splintercon at #dgap in Berlin next week to discuss a fragmented digital sphere splintercon.net/berlin/
SplinterCon - Berlin
This edition's thematic focus is on decentralized protocols and technologies, wireless connectivity solutions and innovative approaches to bypassing censorship systems.
splintercon.net
December 3, 2024 at 4:12 PM
I'm very excited to be invited to join a panel on #digitalsovereignty and #multistakeholderism at the #splintercon at #dgap in Berlin next week to discuss a fragmented digital sphere splintercon.net/berlin/