Received Content Contributions will sustain discussions on Internet governance at NETmundial Sao Paulo, March 25th, 2014 – The NETmundial – Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance – totaled 188 content contributions received from 46 different countries. The documents, which will sustain the discussions held during the two days of the meeting, were sent by representatives of civil society, the private sector, academy and the global technical community, containing considerations concerning the two topics that will be covered: “Internet Governance Principles” and “Roadmap to the future evolution of the ecosystem of Internet governance”. Content contributions were received until March 7th.The countries with the largest number of content contributions are: United States (31 contributions), Brazil (16), United Kingdom and India (both with seven), followed by Switzerland, France and Argentina (both with six) and Japan and Sudan (both with four). The other countries that contributed were: Tunisia, Spain, Russia, Nigeria, New Zealand, Germany (all with three contributions each), Yemen, South Korea, South Africa, Senegal, Poland, Mexico, Kenya, Italy, Iran, China, Canada, Belgium, Australia (with two contributions each), Zimbabwe, Uruguay, Ukraine, Trinidad and Tobago, Sweden, Portugal, Norway, Mauritius, Malta, Malaysia, Kuwait, Côte d’Ivoire, Denmark, Republic of Congo, Colombia, Bulgaria and Austria (with one contribution each).As for the volume of participation by sectors, organized civil society entities contributed 31% of the total, private companies contributed 23%, government institutions provided 15%, academic community 11% and technical community 8%.CC per sector“We had 31% of content contributions derived from civil society and 23% from the private sector, which shows the multistakeholder aspect of the Conference,” says the chairman of NETmundial, Virgilio Almeida. “In other words, NETmundial is not a Government Conference, but a global event that brings together different stakeholders of society”.ThemesContent contributions received by NETmundial cover various topics related to the Internet governance. From them we can observe the main concerns of participating stakeholders regarding the future development of this ecosystem. Among the subjects addressed in the texts received, there are: multistakeholderism (with 101 contributions), Human Rights (83), the role and responsibilities of the State (62), and users inclusion (also with 62).All 188 content contributions sent to NETmundial are fully available for reading at the address: content.netmundial.br/docs/contribs or in .zip format: content.netmundial.br/contributions-pdf.zipNETmundial is organized in a partnership between the Brazil Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) and /1Net, forum that gathers international entities of the various sectors involved with Internet governance. The meeting takes place on April 23rd and 24th, 2014, in São Paulo, Brazil, and will be broadcast live, as well as allow remote forms of participation, which will be announced before the event.For more information about NETmundial, visit: netmundial.org
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:55:01 +0000
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