Long-term societal value creation needs to replace the short-term sole stakeholder model.
Modernization and reform can be constructive, but not if the end result is a new global bureaucracy that departs from the multi-stakeholder model.
"We candidly cannot support an ITU treaty that is inconsistent with a multi-stakeholder model of Internet governance, " said Kramer during a conference session.
As part of this conversation, we should underscore the tremendous benefits that the Internet has yielded for the developing world through the multi-stakeholder model.
And you will scour the business manifesto in vain for the briefly-fashionable stakeholder model of business which Mr Blair flirted with as his own big idea just 15 months ago.
The concern is that allowing only governments to regulate the Internet, rather than the current multi-stakeholder model, would alter openness on the Internet, which is a platform for everything from communications to economic development.
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We are seeing a slow, but it seems inexorable, move in North America in many industries to a stakeholder model where the shareholder is the first among equals but not the only person at the table.
The free and open character of the Internet, which is a precondition for online safety, is underpinned by a multi-stakeholder model of governance as confirmed by the resolutions of the World Summit of the Information Society.
They, rather than American neo-liberalism or German-style stakeholder capitalism, are Mr Blair's model and inspiration.
Second prize goes to Japan, a country normally associated with stakeholder capitalism, but which may have tired of its model after two decades of stagnation.
The "50 plus one" rule -- a revered model of football governance whereby fans are the majority stakeholder -- applies to all clubs participating in the Bundesliga, with the exception of Bayer Leverkusen and Wolfsburg.
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Since the government was a majority stakeholder in GM at the time, the Chevy Volt became a model to be emulated.
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