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The concern over critical Internet resources has led to a development of the multistakeholder model for Internet governance. A key stakeholder is civil society, which is recognised for bringing a diversity of views to contribute to the democratisation of global governance. Although deliberative democracy theory prescribes diversity of civil society and thus inclusiveness as the normative conditions for civil society to be able to influence the global policy-making space, there is a tension between them. The diversity of civil society poses a challenge for the groups to operate cohesively in order to influence policy-making space. Civil society sometimes sacrificed inclusiveness in order to increase their influence in a policy-making space. This tension suggests a gap in the theory.

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