Session
Global Digital Governance & Cooperation
Multistakeholderism
Role of IGF
Internet Governance Caucus
Valéria Betancourt, APC, Civil Society, GRULAC Sheetal Kumar, Global Partners Digital, Civil Society, WEOG Michaela Shapiro, Global Partners Digital, Civil Society, WEOG Peter Micek, Access Now, Civil Society, WEOG Bruna Martins dos Santos, Internet Governance Caucus, Civil Society, GRULAC
Valéria Betancourt, APC, Civil Society, GRULAC Sheetal Kumar, Global Partners Digital, Civil Society, WEOG Peter Micek, Access Now, Civil Society, WEOG
Sheetal Kumar
Bruna Martins dos Santos
Michaela Shapiro
9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
10. Reduced Inequalities
Targets: This session submission aims to discuss avenues to facilitate a qualified integration of Civil Society participants in the broader Global Digital Compact discussions, as well as raise awareness to the relevance of including voices from the Global majorities.
Civil Society Day Zero Gathering organized by Internet Governance Caucus
The United Nations (UN) Global Digital Compact (GDC) is one of the most relevant current discussions regarding the digital space and human rights online, and for the potential it has for possibly revolutionising the Internet Governance ecosystem. Despite the relevant participation possibilities facilitated in this process with the Deep Dives and Consultations, the recent publication of the UN SG policy brief highlights that there's still the need to further discuss relevant aspects such as: Strengthening the Human rights and international law aspects, reinforcing the relevance of the internet governance Forum as well as avoiding the risk of duplication of existing forums and fragmentation. Based on the GDC process most recent developments such as the thematic Deep dives and the UN SG Policy Brief, this session aims to gather input from Civil Society members in order to better scope our stakeholder engagement. During this opportunity, we also plan to discuss what are the better paths of engagement in moments such as the beginning of negotiations at the Ministerial meeting that will be initiated after the Issues Paper, as well as the Summit of the Future. In order to enable a fair and open discussion around scoping civil society organisation and participation in future phases of the GDC process, the session moderator will frame the discussion with brief introductory remarks, after that, the proposed session will be divided into three parts of speakers interventions followed by a Q&A in order to allow audience to bring their views and inputs. Another important factor to encourage interaction was the selected session format - gathering. Although this session has pre-defined panellists, we want to ensure every single attendee that wishes to contribute can join the conversation and bring their inputs
We aim to promote hybrid participation by: (i) alternating questions between online and on-site audience; (ii) using a jamboard with a group of questions to the participants online and onsite and in order to gather inputs; (iii) invite some people interested in the thematic to participate online; (iv) giving an active role for the online moderator, who will also be a part of presenting the speakers and commenting on presentations.