New governance models and best practices

No	Name	Affil./Org.	SH-group	Topic and sub-issues	Description	Remarks
54	Marianne Franklin	IRP Coalition - UN IGF	Civil society	3) Collaboration as Best Practice: Redressing Disconnects in Internet Governance Forums -- Developing synergies between regional, national, global IGFs with different priorities & organizational cultures; address need for more mutual awareness of diverse positions and priorities.	This theme addresses ongoing debates about representativeness, legitimacy, and accountability within stakeholder groups on the role of the global IGF and burgeoning national IGFs, new (e.g. Tunisia) and established (e.g. Brazil). Regional IGFs take place independently despite need to identify common narratives and issues. Aim to create ways to generate awareness and knowledge-sharing beyond reporting back or documenting best practice; location and sharing of resources, research, points of contention and agreement between and amongst participating groups; address any democratic deficits in organization of different IGF by identifying robust forms of diverse and broad-based participation in preparation and running of these meetings, and official outputs.
59	Hubert Schoettner	BMWi, Germany	Govern. Org.	Outlook on ITU Plenipotentiary 2014 and WSIS follow-up -- EuroDIG 2014 should be used to give an outlook on major conferences where internet governance issues will be discussed.	From 20 October to 7 November 2014, ITU's plenipotentiary conference will take place in Busan, Republic of Korea. Further conferences within the UN are to be expected on the WSIS+10 process. It might be interesting for European stakeholders to get an oversight on the discussion in these fora. EuroDIG is probably one of the first international conferences on Internet governance where the outcomes of the Brazil conference, that will take place in April 2014, can be reflected and discussed.
68	Michal Pukaluk	Department of Telecommunications Ministry of Administration and Digitization, Poland	Govern. Org.	Principles of Multi-Stakeholder Cooperation -- Citizen participation – PL case study	The Polish government believes that the Internet should remain free and open around the world. If any changes to the way global Internet is governed are necessary, they should be a result of transparent and democratic consultations with the community of its users. We believe that everyone has the right to know and understand how the Internet works. Regulations governing the Internet should be clear and the process of developing them should be fully transparent.
70	Sebastian Haselbeck	Internet & Society Collaboratory e.V.	others	Multi-stakeholder approaches to enabling dialogue on internet policy on all levels -- How can we employ the multi-stakeholder approach beyond international contexts to enable creative solutions for Internet policy challenges on national and regional levels?	Multi-stakeholderism enables heterogeneous groups with different positions to find ways of governance. It is a proven concept for avoiding blind spots and increasing legitimacy by reaching higher levels of inclusion not yet broadly adopted outside the IGF context. On national levels processes are often driven behind walled gardens in traditional governmental fashion due to lack of knowledge or habit. There are platforms for internet and society related challenges, and experiments with formats, that can be discussed as opportunities for enabling constructive ideation environments, discourse culture and collaboration. How can stalemates in policy making be overcome? What are models of stakeholder inclusion and balance? How can innovative governance of socio-political dynamics look like?
82	Thorsten Benner	GPPi	Academia	Brazil and Germany/Europe: Joint Leadership for an Open, Free and Secure Internet?	Can Brazil and Germany/Europe bring together a coalition for an open, free and secure internet that Charts middle ground between US and the "Information sovereignty" repressive regimes. The session would build on the results of a multi-stakeholder Brazilian-German Workshop in Sao Paulo in February 2014 organized by ITS, FGV and GPPi (with participation of Humboldt Institute). It would also reflect on results of Sao Paulo 23/24 April summit.
93	Nigel Hickson	ICANN	Intern. Org	"ICANN's Role in the evolving Internet Governance Ecosystem" --	2013 has, and 2014 is likely to, witness some important and potentially far-reaching developments on the Internet Governance landscape; from privacy and cybersecurity to the changing nature of the DNS as the TLD space expands. This couples with ample opportunity for debate and discussion, whether in Brazil; Dubai (for the WTDC); London for ICANN; Berlin for EuroDig or Busan (for the PP-14) on these issues as well as the fundamental nature of Internet Governance in a changing world. There will be no blueprint or pat solution to read out in Berlin but, given the audience, an informative and lively discussion should be guaranteed".