Best Bits 2014 @ Lares Park Hotel

Aug 31 all-day

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Following the NETmundial Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance, there is increased awareness of how civil society’s participation in and shaping of multi-stakeholder Internet governance processes can reorient them towards promoting an open, neutral and free Internet that promotes social and economic development and upholds human rights. The 2014 meeting of the Best Bits network moves forward from NETmundial to share analysis and strategy on a range of key Internet policy processes that civil society groups plan to influence over the coming year. Through the shared outputs of this meeting and the indirect benefits of participation, we expect to empower civil society organisations and individual activists to create more informed, effective, inclusive and complementary advocacy outcomes, in which the public interest is better reflected in high-level policy discussions and in the outputs that these discussions produce. The meeting will also place Best Bits itself on a firmer institutional footing, in order to enhance its legitimacy as a broad-based civil society advocacy network and improve its long-term sustainability. Registration is now closed.

Objectives

To raise the level of shared understanding about related groups, initiatives and issues and their political contexts.
To broaden and diversify participation in the initiatives that participants are undertaking individually or in smaller networks in the areas of Internet governance and Internet and human rights.
To amplify the voice of global civil society at upcoming multilateral Internet governance and Internet rights meetings.
To strengthen involvement from civil society from the Global South in particular in global Internet governance and Internet rights debates and to dissolve North-South divides.
To produce tangible shared civil society outputs addressing pressing current issues that can be used in advocacy at important upcoming Internet governance and Internet rights events.
To develop an inclusive and sustainable civil society network for Internet governance and Internet rights issues.

Sunday31 August 2014

9:00 — 9:15

Registration

9:15 — 9:30

Welcome and introductions (moderation: Andrew)

9:30 — 11:30

Highlights and tactics for IGF (moderation: Nnenna)

Ministerial event
Renewal of IGF mandate
IGF evaluation report
NETmundial Alliance (moderation: Carolina/Jeremy)

11:30 — 13:00

Policy slam – people have 10 min to present or discuss something they find relevant

Civil society coordination group (Jeremy)
African draft Declaration of Internet rights and freedoms
Latin American learning platform (Francisco Vera/Claudio)
~~ICANN (Jean-Jacques Sahel)~~
Multistakeholder definition – presentation of online discussion (Jeremy)
TPP and the impact of trade on IG (Burcu)
Internet Ungovernance Forum (Niels)
Feminist principles for the Internet (Joy)
Network of Centres case studies on multi-stakeholderism (Jeanette)
Preparing for ITU-Plenipot (Carolina)

13:00 — 14:30

Lunch and networking break

14:30 — 16:00

Follow-up to WSIS+10 and tactics moving forward (moderation: Deborah + Anja)

Modalities
What we know of the process by then
What we know about the big substantive issues that will likely dominate the government agenda
What we can start doing even without knowing what the process will look like

16:00 — 17:00

Best Bits way forward

Recap of 2013 annual report
Working group on review of procedures
Staffing and funding
The way forward and priorities for next year

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Consensus output from the Best Bits meeting, 31 August 2014

We call for the establishment of the IGF as a multistakeholder forum within the framework of the United Nations with an open-ended mandate, that should be reformed and strengthened.

See also this statement which grew out of discussions at the meeting and is endorsed by a subset of participants.

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Geneva Internet Conference – Internet Governance at a Crossroads @ Geneva

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Global Voices Summit 2015

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WSIS+10 Overall Review – Information sharing and CS coordination event @ ICC Headquarters

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Mar 2 @ 9:00 am – 5:30 pm

On Monday, March 2, in Paris, a group of civil society organisations including Global Partners Digital (GPD), Association for Progressive Communications (APC), Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), Internet Democracy Project, KICTANet, Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi, and the Internet Rights and Principles (IRP) Coalition – in collaboration with the Internet Society (ISOC) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) – will be holding a 1-day event focused on the WSIS+10 Overall Review.

For more information about the WSIS review and why it matters, follow this link. The purpose of the event is to raise awareness of the review process and to facilitate coordination and strategy development for effective civil society engagement. Part of the event will be dedicated to facilitating cross-community dialogue with representatives from the technical community, the business sector and governments.

A rough agenda for the day is as follows:

Time	Session
09:00-12:00	Civil society awareness raising and coordination session 1
12:00-13:00	Lunch
13:00-14:00	Cross-community session 1: Setting the scene for the WSIS process in 2015: what is at stake?*
14:00-15:00	Cross-community session 2: Sharing strategies and finding synergies*
15:00-15:30	Break
15:30-17:30	Civil society awareness raising and coordination session 2

A detailed agenda for the civil society sessions as well as info on speakers for the cross-community sessions will be shared closer to the date. The event will be held on the margins of UNESCO’s CONNECTing the Dots conference.

To participate remotely at the cross-community sessions, please follow this link: http://www.twiginteractive.com/public/blix/ISOC/email.html