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<div dir="ltr">Hello all,<br>
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I'm an advisor to the Stanford University Deliberative Poll
project which debuted as a pilot at last year's IGF, and is being
further trialled at this year's IGF. The researchers are looking
into the potential to bring democratic practices and values in
general, and deliberation in particular, into the multistakeholder
Internet Governance world. They believe that peer-reviewed
balanced briefing materials and well conducted deliberation can
significantly improve informed governance and decision making in
our field.<br>
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As some of you may know, this is also a subject that is dear to my
own heart, and I have expressed disappointment (through my <a
href="http://igfwatch.org">IGF blog</a> and <a
href="https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0980508401">book</a>)
that the IGF has not really begun to tap the potential to
democratize global governance of the Internet through deliberative
democratic innovations. So we have here a unique opportunity to
investigate the possibilities for leveraging this unique global
forum into a more effective tool to improve the inclusiveness and
quality of Internet public policy development.<br>
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The Deliberative Poll event is taking place this year from 2pm to
5pm on Day 1, December 5. Please see the invitation below for
more details and rsvp <a
href="https://goo.gl/forms/657n7bXms0AjUo113" target="_blank">here</a>!
The organizers and I would love to discuss and collaborate with
you on this important project.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear colleagues,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are writing to invite you to our
day 0 workshop at IGF2016 in Mexico! Stanford’s Center
for Deliberative Democracy (CDD) and the Center for
Democracy, Development and Rule of Law (CDDRL) are
hosting a day 0 workshop to discuss bringing
deliberation and deliberative democracy to
multistakeholder Internet governance. <b>The workshop
at the IGF venue from 2p to 5p on Dec 5. </b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To ground the workshop in one of the
current Internet Governance debates, participants will
engage in moderated small group deliberations on the
topic of governing digital encryption. Participants will
engage in knowledge sharing and weighing of tradeoffs
based on balanced briefing materials laying out policy
options and their tradeoffs. Following this hands on
deliberative experience, the workshop will open up the
discussion to strategies, obstacles, and paths for how
deliberative democracy can be effectively used within
multistakeholder governance in general and on the topic
of governing digital encryption in particular.
Participants in this workshop will depart with a
deliberation toolkit which participants can use to
implement in their own communities. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you are interested in joining our
workshop, please rsvp <span
style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><a
href="https://goo.gl/forms/657n7bXms0AjUo113"
target="_blank">here</a></span>! </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jim Fishkin, Eileen Donahoe, Max
Senges </p>
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