Session
CFIEC
Junko Kawauchi, Director, CFIEC Digital Society Research Institute, Private sector, Asia
Keisuke Kamimura, Head of Internet Governance Research Group, CFIEC, Private Sector, Asia
Avri Doria, Freelance Writer, Civil Society, North America
Lillian Nalwoga, Program Management Specialist, Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa, Africa
Amrita Choudhury, Director of CCAOI, Internet Society India Delhi Chapter, Civil Society, Asia
Keisuke Kamimura
Junko Kawauchi
Targets: SDG's 17.16 is, "Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries". This session will discuss about multistakeholder model which would be vary depending on issues.
Classroom
Moderator and speakers will present the discussion points, and discuss with audience.
Under the Tunis Agenda, the IGF has nurtured multistakeholderism for the past 20 years. Discussing various issues on the Internet in a forum attended by a wide range of stakeholders has been effective in understanding the issues and considering solutions. After the GDC, the IGF will continue, as will multistakeholderism that it has fostered. However, according to the GDC ZERO draft, after the GDC, many of the topics that the IGF has dealt with will move to other initiatives and processes. As Doria (2023) suggests, multistakeholderism can be characterized by several maturity levels. Some will take the IGF-style multistakeholder approach, while others will remain in multistakeholder consultation (consultation only). There is also a wariness of the use of the new phrase multistakeholder cooperation (even weaker) to describe multistakeholderism (Komaitis, 2023). On the other hand, multistakeholderism that has been adopted in the IGF arena may not be equally valid for all issues of a different nature: the scope of issues raised by Internet governance is too broad, the stakeholders involved are too diverse, and national interests are too intricate." The scope of issues raised are too broad, the stakeholders involved are too diverse, and the national interests too conflicted" (Mueller, 2023). Because such issues are Under the GDC, the meaning of multistakeholderism may change if issues that have been discussed under the common umbrella of Internet governance are divided. We will consider how multistakeholderism will (or won't) change at such a turning point.
Online moderator will manage the online activities including questions/comments through chat, and support the onsite moderator to enable hybrid meeting.