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

[David Mackey]

Hi Evan,

I think you are using the link to the ICANN commissioned study with the
link ...
https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/3204233 for
your references.

I was referring to the Research Article titled "Hegemonic practices in
multistakeholder Internet governance: Participatory evangelism, quiet
politics, and glorification of status quo at ICANN meetings" found with the
link ... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01972243.2023.2194295

In addition to not including At-Large, the Research Article actually makes
the following claim under the "Research Questions" section ... "The
Noncommercial Stakeholder Group function to promote the interests of users
and the public. It is the weaker, less-resourced, and marginalized
stakeholder group (Calandro and Zingales Citation2013
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01972243.2023.2194295#>; Gross
 Citation2011
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01972243.2023.2194295#>;
Mueller Citation2009
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01972243.2023.2194295#>)."

The Research Article may be conflating At-Large with NCSG (GNSO), but it
doesn't take away from the higher level observations in my mind.

... and yes, I agree with your point about At-Large's path to legitimacy.

On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 12:37 PM Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.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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