[bestbits] RE: Best Bits workshop proposal for the 2013 IGF]

[Andrew Puddephatt]

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!

Best Bits Workshop proposals



1.                   Workshop working title  (60 characters ):



Who runs the internet - how people can have a voice





2.            Concise description of broader thematic area of interest (500

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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.  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.





3.            Concise description of specific issues or policy questions to be

addressed (500 characters)


Where are existing Internet governance arrangements failing, and whom are they failing the most? Is effective multi-stakeholder policy making possible where issues are fiercely contested?
How can the IGF evolve and be strengthened?
What improvements could be made to these arrangements without setting the scene for an intergovernmental takeover of the Internet?*
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.)?




2.                   Workshop working title  (60 characters ):



The internet we want - supporting democracy and human rights





2.            Concise description of broader thematic area of interest (500

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Building upon broad  principles  for  the  internet, including the Brazilian Internet Principles, the Council of Europe Internet Governance  Declaration,  the OECD Internet Policymaking Principles and  the  Internet  Rights  and  Principles  Coalition  Charter, there is a need to provide more detail and clarity on how human rights principles apply to the internet in practice.  While there is high level normative thinking about the internet there is a need for more detail about the technical infrastructure and commercial environment needed to promote democracy and human rights.



3.            Concise description of specific issues or policy questions to be

addressed (500 characters)



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.





Andrew Puddephatt, Director
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