multistakeholder

English

Alternative forms

• multi-stakeholder

Etymology

From multi- +‎ stakeholder.

Adjective

multistakeholder (comparative more multistakeholder, superlative most multistakeholder)

1. Of or pertaining to more than one stakeholder.
   • 2005, Best practices for improving law compliance in the forestry sector, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, page 28:

     This multistakeholder dialogue has reshaped the forest sector by increasing the participation and influence of civil society in forest-related decision-making processes.

   • 2009 December 7, Jo Confino, “How the media can be more transparent in its sustainability reporting”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The first opportunity to reflect came during a two-day multi-stakeholder conference to launch the Global Reporting Initiative's media sector supplement.

   • 2013 November 1, Jemima Kiss, quoting Terry Kramer, “NSA furore has roots in US internet imperialism”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     The US saw the failure as a victory, claiming that the internet has never needed UN regulation and that the treaty was not consistent, in the words of US delegation head Terry Kramer, "with the multistakeholder model of internet governance".

   • 2017, Victor Pickard, Media Activism in the Digital Age:

     While the 2008 paper advocated for the devolution of the “Amerocentric” control over Internet governance, and for a more multistakeholder governance process, today it is also possible for users to run last-mile connectivity infrastructure, both by installing the infrastructure and by using it as a platform to govern itself.

Derived terms

• multistakeholderism