Principles for Internet Governance: NETmundial 2014 — What do the Contributions Reveal?

This post by Geetha Hariharan analyses the contributions of the academic community to draw out broad agreements and divergences concerning Internet governance principles.

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Defining the Roles of Stakeholders in Multistakeholderism

This post by Jyoti Panday analyses the submissions at NETmundial that focused on Roadmap, towards an understanding of stakeholder roles in relation to specific governance functions and highlighting the political, technical and architectural possibilities that lie ahead.

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Accountability of ICANN

The issue of how to ensure the legitimacy and accountability of ICANN is a concern which finds voice in many of the proposals. Smarika Kumar gleans four broad stands from the submissions to NETmundial 14 on this issue.

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Suggestions for IANA Administration

This post by Smarika Kumar maps the discussion across the NETmundial submissions and presents six emerging evolution scenarios related to the IANA functions.

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NETmundial Day 0

Achal Prabhala reports: Day O of NETmundial began at Arena NetMundial, an alternative-ish, Brazilian counterpart to the official "multistakeholder" meeting being organised at the very expensive Grand Hyatt... it's being organised at the very democratic Centro Cultural São Paulo - free to all, no registration required - and offers space for a whole host of organised and spontaneous activity.

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NETmundial Day 1

Achal Prabhala reports: The experience of sitting for five hours in a room where the word "multi-stakeholder" is repeated at the rate of five mentions per minute is not for the faint-hearted; it almost makes you wish for more of the straight-talking tough-love of people like Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt.

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Brazil Passes Marco Civil; the US-FCC Alters its Stance on Net Neutrality

Geetha Hariharan writes about the Brazilian Senate's enactment of Marco Civil da Internet, and the possibility of US FCC proposing a new net neutrality rule.

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NETmundial Day 2

Achal Prabhala reports: Fadi Chehade, the ICANN boss, closed NETmundial 2014 with these words "In Africa we say if you want to go first, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together." He should have added: And if you want to go nowhere, go multi-stakeholder.

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The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, India

Analysing Contributions to NETmundial 2014

This set of analysis of the contributions submitted to NETmundial 2014 is part of the effort by the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, India, to enable productive discussions of the critical internet governance issues at the meeting and elsewhere.

The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, India, is a non-profit research organization that works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression, privacy, accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR reform, and openness, and engages in academic research on digital natives and digital humanities.

The visualisations are done by Sumandro Chattapadhyay, based on data compilation and analysis by Jyoti Panday, and with data entry suport from Chandrasekhar.