São Paulo Multistakeholder Guidelines – The Way Forward in Multistakeholder and Multilateral Digital Processes – WS 11 2025

14 May 2025 | 09:30 - 10:30 CEST | Room 8
Consolidated programme 2025

Session teaser

The NETmundial+10 Multistakeholder Statement from 2024 offered and called upon the worldwide community to adopt and use a set of guidelines and related process steps (“São Paulo Multistakeholder Guidelines” - SPMGs) in Internet governance and digital policy processes, which are distilled from existing foundational documents as well as from current good practice and experience. While no one size fits all, they shall help sub-national, national, regional, and global communities to build trust and to establish and implement multistakeholder collaboration processes and mechanisms, as well as to assess processes and mechanisms that are presented as being multistakeholder, but are so only by their name. They shall also serve as inspiration for evolving and improving multilateral processes. This session will discuss the SPMGs and their application to current and future processes.

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