Transparency, accountability and the multistakeholder model in (quasi)democractic societies

No	Name	Affil./Org.	SH-group	Topic and sub-issues	Description	Remarks
39	Leonid Todorov	Coordination Center for TLDs for Russia	Technical community	The PACE report on coordination of effective Internet governance strategies.	A milestone document, the PACE Report for the first time ever is to mirror a consensus-based exhaustive set of fundamental principles, which is set for adoption in the form of Recommendation by PACE. If a success, the process should subsequently culminate in a Resolution by the Committee of Ministers of Council of Europe. It would therefore be appropriate to give the Report a reality check by discussing its main findings and recommendations by and within the EuroDig expert community and with the participation of its authors. The concrete format of the discussion is tbd. The PACE rapporteur from Russia has already agreed to take part in the event and to engage his fellow authors and PACE experts.
41	Ana Neves	FCT- Department of Information Society (Ministry of Education and Science), Portugal	Govern. Org	How much can Europe and its countries influence Internet Governance at global level?	A discussion on: - What have Europe and its different stakeholders been doing until now on this issue? - Is Europe able to bridge with countries worldwide? What should its role be? - What is Europe doing to make multi-stakeholderism clearer? - Could Europe be considered on this discussion as a continent, as a diversity of cultures or as a multiplicity of convictions?
46	Frank Beyersdorf	FU Berlin, Germany	Academia	States and Internet Governance - legitimacy of internet governance through IGF (constituionalisation of internet governance) - discourse of information - International law for information exchange - North-South Imbalances	The process to constituionalise a global „information space“ started under the League system, continued under the early UN, proceeded into UNESCO in the 1970s (NWICO), and is still at large today under the label of internet governance (WSIS, IGF). The notion that the flow of information necessarily has to be free is deeply ingrained in the genes of public discourse. Although media policy has remained a „normal“ tool of state(s), information beyond each national border has remained wholly unregulated, as demonstrated not only by Google, but also NSA’s Boundless Informant. Recently, the German and Brazilian government's move to to turn privacy laws into international law have marked a (re)new(ed) move to constituionalise information.
72	Lee Hibbard	Council of Europe	Europ. Org.	Transparency in Internet governance	How far should state and non-state actors be transparent in their activities and decision-making with regard to (mass electronic surveillance on) the Internet?