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[Mawaki Chango]

Thanks for pointing this out, Andrew. Would be interesting to keep an eye
on, indeed.

-mc




On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Andrew Puddephatt <Andrew at gp-digital.org>wrote:

> Hi everyone****
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> Hope you are all  recovering from Bali.****
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.*
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> The panel is be looking at three areas:****
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> **·         **Mapping the technologies and platforms that exist for
> identifying know-how and enabling participatory decision-making across
> stakeholders.****
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> **·         **Identifying the best models for leveraging collective
> intelligence, open innovation and open data around the world (– that could
> be applied to the ICANN processes.)****
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> **·         **What to consider when designing innovative ways to manage
> and coordinate – using new technologies.****
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> 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.****
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> Some background links here will give more detail:****
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> 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
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> Some Primers:
> http://thegovlab.org/new-publications-primers-on-the-internet-corporation-for-assigned-names-numbers-icann
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> GovLab living labs:
> http://thegovlab.org/the-govlab-living-labs-experiments-in-smarter-governance
> /****
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