[CPWG] Suggested reading: "Hegemonic practices in multistakeholder Internet governance: Participatory evangelism, quiet politics, and glorification of status quo at ICANN meetings"

[Maureen Hilyard]

It would be good to have similar research done on the AC communities who
aren't paid to produce the outputs that are pushed by the various GNSO
constituencies each guarding their own group's interests. You can't compare
the work that is done by volunteers in the ALAC and the GAC who don't come
to the ICANN table with the technical knowledge and expertise of the SO
community, so that AC end-user interests are dismissed as insignificant. It
is forgotten that ACs cannot be effective in the work of communication to
the public at-large when the language of the information they have to work
with is targetted at the wider SO technical community and may be
incomprehensible to the AC lay-person. How often do the ALAC and the GAC
have to make that point?

On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 6:38 AM Evan Leibovitch via CPWG <cpwg at icann.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 10:31 AM David Mackey via CPWG <cpwg at icann.org>
> wrote:
>
>
>> It may be noted that ALAC is only referenced once in the article content,
>> and then only as a definition. Even the definition of ALAC has a
>> spelling error ... "Ad-Large Advisory Committee".
>>
>
> Incorrect.
>
> Under section 4 we have:
>
> *"an absence of awareness of ICANN among the public at large leaves the
> regime with a narrow base of legitimacy. True, the world’s 4.7 billion
> regular internet users (as of 2020) obtain notional representation in the
> ICANN multistakeholder framework through the At-Large Constituency.
> However, participants in At-Large are self-selected and have few systematic
> communications with the wider public."*
>
> Plus, the 2017 At-Large Review is cited in the bibliography.
> So, the authors are aware of ALAC and At-Large but dismiss its
> significance in ICANN's governance.
> Sounds accurate to me.
>
> As I have said repeatedly... concentrating all efforts on *user-focused
> public education* and *selective advocacy based on research of public
> needs* is ALAC's best (and I would argue only) path to legitimacy.
>
> - Evan
>
>
>
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