December 14, 2023, 10:30am-12:00pm
NETmundial +10: Opportunities and Challenges for Multistakeholder Global Internet Governance
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In April 2014, Brazil hosted the NETmundial Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance in São Paulo. Held after a substantial online preparatory consultation, the meeting brought together over 1200 participants from governments and stakeholder groups to adopt a NETmundial Multistakeholder Statement that advanced guiding principles and a roadmap for the future evolution of Internet governance. The NETmundial strengthened international support for multistakeholder cooperation at a very difficult moment that was shaped by the Edward Snowden revelations, divisive Internet negotiations in the United Nations, and the US government’s planned transition of its authority over critical Internet resources to the global community.
On November 23, 2023 the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) announced that Brazil will convene a NETmundial +10 meeting in São Paulo in the Spring of 2024. The stated objectives include reviewing and renewing international commitments to the NETmundial principles and strategic agenda, and debating the role of multistakeholder participation in today’s even more heatedly divided geopolitical environment. The prospective meeting is stimulating discussion around the world and in the new year will likely reanimate the wide-ranging debates about the roles of states and stakeholders and the balance between multistakeholder and intergovernmental cooperation in global Internet governance.
This webinar assembles a panel of veteran expert participants in global Internet governance for an initial open global discussion of the NETmundial+10 meeting. We will begin with an update from the Coordinator of CGI.br on the thinking and planning behind this initiative, and then undertake a critical assessment and brainstorming on how the international community can learn from the previous experience, leverage the opportunity and manage the inevitable challenges. As always, the panelists’ conversation will be followed by an open dialogue among all webinar participants.
Moderator
William J. Drake is Director of International Studies at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information and an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School. In 2014 he organized the book, Beyond NETmundial: The Roadmap for Institutional Improvements to the Global Internet Governance Ecosystem, and at the 2019 Internet Governance Forum he organized a stocktaking session on the NETmundial+5.
Panelists
Avri Doria is an independent researcher and consultant. She has served on the Board of Directors and chaired the GNSO Council of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and has been a member of the UN Working Group on Internet Governance, the UN Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation, and the Multistakeholder Advisory Group of the Internet Governance Forum. In the technical community, Doria is a new member of the Internet Engineering Task Force’s Ombudsteam and has been chair of the Internet Research Task Force’s Routing Research Group and founder and co-chair of the Research Group on Human Rights Protocol Considerations. (USA)
Wolfgang Kleinwächter is Professor Emeritus of International Communication Policy and Regulation at the University of Aarhus. He was a member of ICANN’s Board of Directors, served as Special Ambassador for the NETmundial Initiative, is the founder and Chair of the European Summer School on Internet Governance, and was a member of the Global Commission on Stability in Cyberspace and of the UN Working Group on Internet Governance. (Germany)
Renata Mielli is the Coordinator of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) and a special adviser to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. Previously she has been a journalist and has twenty-five years of experience working on communication and digital rights. In addition, Renata is currently a PhD student in the School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo. (Brazil)