Framework of Principles for the Internet

The Internet Bill of Rights and Framework of Principles for the Internet Dynamic Coalitions merged in December 2008 to form the Internet Rights and Principles (IRP) Dynamic Coalition.  Please visit the IRP page: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/dynamic-coalitions/72-ibr

Aims
The objective of the dynamic coalition on 'Framework of Principles for the Internet’ is to understand, influence and contribute to the processes of making international laws, conventions, treaties etc., in the area of Internet Governance – both of the soft law and hard law varieties – incorporating the multi-stakeholder principle. For this purpose, the coalition will explore the possibility of civil society taking the lead in collaboratively developing some overall normative principles for the Internet which can underpin such international processes, and/or themselves be adopted through a framework convention kind of a process.

About the Workshop
The present workshop will map out the objectives and work-methods of the dynamic coalition, apart from taking on a substantive agenda of exploring what kind of frameworks and principles will be suitable for guiding the global public policy for the Internet. It will also seek to address the possibility of engaging with global Internet public policy processes including the WSIS mandated ‘enhanced cooperation’.