From February 18-19, Marietje Schaake will attend the (private) meeting of the Global Commission on Internet Governance in California.
The Global Commission on Internet Governance was established in January 2014, to articulate and advance a strategic vision for the future of Internet governance. With work commencing in May 2014, the two-year project will conduct and support independent research on Internet-related dimensions of global public policy, culminating in an official commission report.
Chaired by Carl Bildt, the commission will inform concrete policy recommendations for the future of Internet governance, by providing a framework both for coordination among advanced industrial democracies and for addressing the interests and values of states that are uncertain about the future of multi-stakeholder governance. Key issues to be addressed by the commission include governance legitimacy and regulation, innovation, online rights and systemic risk.
Launched by two independent global think tanks, the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and Chatham House, the Global Commission on Internet Governance will help educate the wider public on the most effective ways to promote Internet access, while simultaneously championing the principles of freedom of expression and the free flow of ideas over the Internet.
For more information, please visit
ourinternet.org.
For more on internet governance by Marietje Schaake, see:
12-11-2015
Internet Governance Forum 2015: Joint Declaration
11-11-2015
Videos: Internet Governance Forum 2015
07-05-2015
Media (Project Syndicate) – Safeguarding the Open Internet
15-04-2015
Global effort needed to rebuild trust and resillience in the open internet
11-02-2015
Media (The Digital Post): Marietje Schaake: EU needs a more coherent agenda on Internet Governance
09-02- 2015
Plenary speech & Resolution on Internet Governance
18-04-2014
Letter to Commissioner Kroes concerning internet governance
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