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

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Adam and all,

  I personally don't have a need for a "Study" however well
meaning, to inform me that Self Regulation doesn't work.

Adam Peake wrote:

> 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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