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[Andrew Puddephatt]

Hi everyone

Hope you are all  recovering from Bali.

You might remember that on a couple of occasions Fadi mentioned he has commissioned a panel headed by Beth Noveck to help him think through new ways of engaging people and making multi-stakeholder governance more inclusive and transparent.  The panel is based in GovLab, a unit at the Wagner School for Public Policy in NYU.  Other panel members are Alison Gillwald, Joi Ito, Karim Lakhani, Guo Liang, Geof Mulgan and Bitange Ndemo.

The focus of the panel is on advising ICANN how it can best manage the domain name space, but Fadi has said he sees this as a way of finding better ways of involving people in decision making processes more generally.

They plan to launch an online platform to gather input and ideas from a global audience, focused on innovations in governance (with a live training workshop during the ICANN 48 Meeting<http://buenosaires48.icann.org/> in Buenos Aires November 17-21) – this engagement platform will be launched on Nov 17.

The panel is be looking at three areas:
·         Mapping the technologies and platforms that exist for identifying know-how and enabling participatory decision-making across stakeholders.
·         Identifying the best models for leveraging collective intelligence, open innovation and open data around the world (– that could be applied to the ICANN processes.)
·         What to consider when designing innovative ways to manage and coordinate – using new technologies.
I think it is one of the more serious attempts to think through what multi-stakeholder governance might look like given the technology platforms we have.  So I’d suggest we all look out for the engagement platform on the 17th and feed in our ideas.

Some background links here will give more detail:

Details of the Panel's call : http://thegovlab.org/envisioning-a-21st-century-organization-to-coordinate-the-internet-addressing-system-a-shared-global-public-resource/

Some Primers: http://thegovlab.org/new-publications-primers-on-the-internet-corporation-for-assigned-names-numbers-icann/

GovLab living labs: http://thegovlab.org/the-govlab-living-labs-experiments-in-smarter-governance/


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