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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Following a couple of suggestions from Parminder and Jeremy I’ve redrafted the proposals. I’ll submit them tomorrow so last chance for suggested changes coming up!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best Bits Workshop proposals<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:54.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Workshop working title (60 characters ):<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b>Who runs the internet – how people can have a voice<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>2. Concise description of broader thematic area of interest (500<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>characters):<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'>Debates about internet governance are coming to head in the next two years through the WSIS plus 10 process. There are fierce disagreements between states about whether, or how, the internet should be governed. <span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>This multi-stakeholder discussion will present outputs from a civil society network, Best Bits, that has brainstormed ideas for effective multi-stakeholder working arrangements that allow different stakeholders, governments, business and civil society, to take an appropriate role in the future of Internet governance</span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>3. Concise description of specific issues or policy questions to be<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>addressed (500 characters)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Where are existing Internet governance arrangements failing, and whom are they failing the most? </span>Is effective multi-stakeholder policy making possible where issues are fiercely contested?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>How can the IGF evolve and be strengthened</span>?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>What improvements could be made to these arrangements without setting the scene for an intergovernmental takeover of the Internet?*</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>How can the suggestions of the Best Bits group be taken forward (e.g. as appropriate within the CSTD Working Group, the MAG, the UN General Assembly, etc.)?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:54.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Workshop working title (60 characters ):<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b>The internet we want – supporting democracy and human rights</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>2. 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style='letter-spacing:-.05pt'>p</span>racti<span style='letter-spacing:-.1pt'>c</span>e. <span style='letter-spacing:.2pt'> While there is high level </span><span style='letter-spacing:-.15pt'>n</span><span style='letter-spacing:.05pt'>o</span><span style='letter-spacing:-.15pt'>r</span><span style='letter-spacing:.05pt'>m</span>at<span style='letter-spacing:-.1pt'>i</span><span style='letter-spacing:.05pt'>v</span>e th<span style='letter-spacing:-.05pt'>in</span>ki<span style='letter-spacing:-.05pt'>n</span>g<span style='letter-spacing:.1pt'> </span>a<span style='letter-spacing:-.05pt'>b</span><span style='letter-spacing:.05pt'>o</span><span style='letter-spacing:-.05pt'>u</span>t the<span style='letter-spacing:.1pt'> </span>i<span style='letter-spacing:-.05pt'>n</span><span style='letter-spacing:-.1pt'>t</span>ernet there is a need for more detail about the <span style='letter-spacing:.05pt'>t</span><span style='letter-spacing:-.1pt'>e</span>ch<span style='letter-spacing:-.05pt'>n</span>ical in<span style='letter-spacing:-.05pt'>f</span>ras<span style='letter-spacing:-.1pt'>t</span>r<span style='letter-spacing:-.05pt'>u</span>cture and commercial environment needed to promote democracy and human rights.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>3. Concise description of specific issues or policy questions to be<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>addressed (500 characters)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Drawing upon existing initiatives such as the current MAG review of principles and the “Web we want”, the workshop will seek to define the specific technical features, the necessary commercial environment and the legal and normative measures that shape policy and regulation online, which, taken together, create the type of internet that can support democracy and human rights.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Andrew Puddephatt, Director</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Global Partners & Associates<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Direct: </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>+44 (0)20 7549 0336<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Office</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>: +44 (0)20 7549 0350<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Mobile</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>: +44 (0)771 339 9597<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Email</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>: <a href="mailto:niamh@global-partners.co.uk"><span style='color:gray;text-decoration:none'>andrew@global-partners.co.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Address</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>: Development House, 56-64 Leonard St, London EC2A 4LT, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><a href="http://www.global-partners.co.uk">www.global-partners.co.uk</a> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>