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
Internet governance and digital policy processes need unprecedented coordination to unlock technologies’ benefits and tackle its harms. But multistakeholder forums face huge challenges. We must improve how they build consensus and influence multilateral processes and global decisions—ensuring communities’ voices shape real, impactful solutions.
Session description
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.
Format
Panel discussion with invited speakers, followed by Q&A with audience.
Further reading
People
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Organising Team (Org Team) List Org Team members here as they sign up.
- Flavio Wagner (CGI.br, Brazil, and MAG/IGF)
- Ana Neves (Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation, Portugal, and MAG/IGF)
- Jorge Cancio (OFCOM, Switzerland, and MAG/IGF)
The Org Team is a group of people shaping the session. Org Teams are open and every interested individual can become a member by subscribing to the mailing list.
Key Participants
- Ana Neves (Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation, Portugal)
- Jordan Carter (AuDA, Australia)
- Jorge Cancio (OFCOM, Switzerland)
- Lise Fuhr (GEANT, Denmark)
- Valeria Betancourt (APC, Ecuador)
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Moderator
- Wolfgang Kleinwächter, Professor Emeritus, University of Aarhus
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Remote Moderator
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Reporter
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Current discussion, conference calls, schedules and minutes
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Messages
- are summarised on a slide and presented to the audience at the end of each session
- relate to the session and to European Internet governance policy
- are forward looking and propose goals and activities that can be initiated after EuroDIG (recommendations)
- are in (rough) consensus with the audience
Video record
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Transcript
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