[bestbits] Invitation, revised IGF day 0 workshop: How to bring democratic deliberation practice to Internet Governance

[Jeremy Malcolm]

Hello all,

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.

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 IGF blog
<http://igfwatch.org> and book
<https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0980508401>) 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.

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 here <https://goo.gl/forms/657n7bXms0AjUo113>!  The organizers and
I would love to discuss and collaborate with you on this important project.

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Dear colleagues,

 

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. *The workshop at the
IGF venue from 2p to 5p on Dec 5.  *

 

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. 

 

If you are interested in joining our workshop, please rsvp here
<https://goo.gl/forms/657n7bXms0AjUo113>!    

Sincerely,

Jim Fishkin, Eileen Donahoe, Max Senges 


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