[governance] Study on ICT self- and co-regulation initiatives

[Adam Peake]

Hi,

The European Commission recently published a study assessing the 
efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of ICT self- and 
co-regulation initiatives. The study was led by RAND Europe (Chris 
Marsden <http://chrismarsden.blogspot.com/>)

The study is available from European Commission 
<http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/information_society/evaluation/studies/s2006_05/index_en.htm> 


The study consists of two main parts: a mapping exercise that 
examines existing regulatory and co- and self-regulatory institutions 
and identifies "candidate" case studies for closer analysis. And a 
second phase report providing the results of 21 short case studies. 
Case studies were presented in four groupings:

Internet Infrastructure and Standards (ICANN, Nominet, IETF, W3C, ICRA)

Internet Self- and Co-Regulation (IWF, INHOPE, EuroISPA, KJM, FSM)

Content and Filtering/Rating (ICSTIS, IMCB, NICAM, PEGI, ATVOD)

Emerging Self Regulation Areas (SecondLife, Creative Commons, Social 
Network: Bebo, Trustmarks, London Action Plan, IGF)

Total of all phases about 1300 pages.

A clear conclusion of the report is that robust self-and 
co-regulatory organisations only develop where their design and 
dynamics take a multi-stakeholder approach as their basic principle.

Parts already seem dated and it wasn't written too long ago (3rd qtr 2007).

Adam
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