Talk:Should I click for Internet governance? Where? – WS 01 2015

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Proposals fitting under the theme of this session

1. EuroDIG proposals

Sub-category: Participation in IG policy making

  • Democratising internet governance: developing together a user based approach
  • How to assure Government's participation in Multistakeholder Process of Internet Governance. Balanced participation of NGO, Business, Government and Academia. Range of issues to discuss in the Internet Governance Commission.
  • Attempts of top-down regulation of IG processes in Eastern European countries. Lack of democratic institutions to balance Soviet-fashion hierarchies. Centralization of power vs participative governance. Camouflage multistakeholderism. How to ensure balance between power structures & government’s other branches; business & the public? Do we build open democracies or revive Soviet dreams?
  • Convergence in Internet Governance: Bottom-up Meets Topdown As the Internet expands into areas traditionally governed via top-down mechanisms (spectrum management, the energy sector), is a bottom-up, multi-stakeholder Internet governance model equipped to negotiate this convergence?

Sub-category: Empowerment

  • How access leads to empowerment in terms of local content and social and political development.
  • Internet Governance for sustainable development and empowerment- what about accountability?
  • How to strengthen the civil society participation in Internet governance: successful strategies to apply the multistakeholder governance model, the role of the civil society organisations (CSO).
  • How to ensure the Internet drives democratic movements, and not only empowers powerful elites? Is providing access to technology and the Web enough to enable the development of societies? What strategies and/or capacity building initiatives are required to promote change in those societies?

Others

  • Are open standards and networking technologies advanced enough to support and help realize the expansive growth of the Internet and as the Internet progresses to the Internet of Things and beyond?
  • Citizenship in a digitalized society - which prerequisites?
  • Internet governance for open innovation - driven social value
    • Internet governance and Porter's (2011) social value concept
    • Closed vs. open innovation?
    • IG focus, role and differentiation in developed and in emerging economies - equality, or disparity?
    • Why open innovation networking matters for MSEs?
    • IG facilitator or burden for MSEs development and growth?


2. SEEDIG questions

Sessions 1 - Introduction to Internet governance ("What is Internet governance and why should I care?")

  • What does Internet governance mean for stakeholders in the region? How is the term perceived?
  • Why is/is not Internet governance relevant for stakeholders in the region?
  • Why is it important for stakeholders in the region to get engaged in regional and global IG processes and organisations? What are the main challenges and reasons preventing stakeholders in SEE to engage in regional and global IG processes and organisations? How to deal with these challenges? What motivates those who do get involved?

Session 2 - Multistakeholder Internet governance mechanisms/approaches at national level

  • What is a multistakeholder mechanism in the Internet governance ecosystem? How do/should such mechanisms function?
  • What are the best practices and experiences from the region in terms of developing and implementing multistakeholder mechanisms? What motivated the creation of such multistakeholder mechanisms? Have regional and international organisations and processes (such as IGF, ICANN, European Commission, Council of Europe) played a role here? If so, what role? What were the challenges in building national multistakeholder mechanisms? How were they addressed? How do these mechanisms function nowadays? Are there more challenges?
  • Why have some countries succeeded in implementing MSH mechanisms and others have not? Can the existing best practices be replicated in other countries in the region? If yes, how? If not, why?