Avenue de la Paix 7BIS
1202 Genève
Switzerland
Joint organizers of this meeting are the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), Best Bits, the Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus (IGC), the Just Net Coalition (JNC), and ICANN’s Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG). The meeting is hosted by courtesy of Diplo Foundation and the Geneva Internet Project.
The overall theme for this meeting is Private Regulation of the Internet. The detailed session agenda (which is subject to change) may be found under the “Latest agenda” tab.
- 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.
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Registration
Welcome and introductions
Private regulation of the Internet
- Internet infrastructure providers’ role in content censorship
- Digital violence (beyond the protection of assets)
- Developing Guidelines of private regulation
- Mega Internet companies as private regulators of the Internet
- IGP paper on DNS private ordering and NCSG statement on ICANN
Regional issues
- Internet Shutdown and Implications for Africa
- Disappearance of the multistakeholder model: threats like the case of CGIbr
- Multi-stakeholder construction of national IGF in Latin America
- Building Regional Education programs to let know the people about Internet Rights and comparisons with other countries
- A few words on Middle East Internet Governance Landscape
Trade and the Internet
- Update on trade and the Internet
- The future of NAFTA, TTIP, RCEP
- Economic nationalism, civil society and Internet governance
- Internet openness, data ownership, and data flows
Privacy and economic value of data
- Privacy and Our data online
- Cross-border access to electronic evidence: a new protocol to the Cybercrime Convention
Flash/policy slam sessions
NCUC/NCSG presentation
Civil society strategy session
- Civil Society Strategy at the IGF
- Global civil society strategy: identifying shared goals
- Best Bits steering committee briefing
Background papers
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Reports
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Outputs
To be confirmed.
