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Report by the Panel on Global
Internet Cooperation and
Governance Mechanisms
Andile Ngcaba

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“Towards a Collaborative, Decentralized
Internet Governance Ecosystem”

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The Panel on Global Internet Cooperation and
Governance Mechanisms
+Formed through a partnership between ICANN and the World
Economic Forum (WEF), with assistance from The Annenberg
Retreat at Sunnylands;
+Chaired by Estonia’s President Toomas Ilves, and vice-chaired by
Internet pioneer Vint Cerf;
+Impressive cohort of panelists, representing a broad array of
stakeholders from government, civil society, the private sector, the
technical community, and international organizations;
+Team of Internet governance experts helped inform and energize
discussions.
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5. Text • First gathering
• Desirable propertiesLondon,
Dec 2013
Brussels,
Jan 2014
Sunnylands,
Feb 2014
• Drafting team
• Properties finalized
• Draft
principles
• Draft outline v1
• Draft report v1
• Principles adopted
• NETmundial submission
Dubai,
May 2014
• Panel adopt
NETmundial
principles
• Panel finalize
their report
NTIA
announcement
NETmundial
TIMELINE

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The Report
• Based on the concept of rough consensus, the report
supports a decentralized and collaborative Internet
governance ecosystem that is:
1) distributed
2) participatory, and
3) layered
to ensure suitable allocation of resources and
expertise
• The Panel presents the report to the global community in
order to inform it of their actions and the evolution of a
collaborative, decentralized Internet governance system that
has at its core a unified Internet that is unfragmented,
interconnected, interoperable, secure, stable, resilient,
sustainable, and trust building.

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Report’s components of a global, collaborative,
decentralized Internet governance ecosystem
• The Panel adopted the Principles from the historic NETmundial
meeting in São Paulo, and built upon this momentum by given
outlining the key components of a collaborative, decentralized
Internet governance ecosystem:
o Distributed Governance (DG) Groups: Defined as a group of
organizations and/or individual experts that come together to
address a specific issue in an outcome that can be a policy
recommendation/model, a standard, a specification, and/or a best
practice
o The Internet Governance Process defined in four elements:
• Issue Identification
• Solution Mapping
• Solution Formulation
• Solution Implementation
o Enablers: Enablers that facilitate the above two components
including forums and dialogues, expert communities, and toolkits.

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Report Recommendations building on NETmundial
The Panel’s Report presented recommended next steps towards a
developed, collaborative, decentralized Internet governance ecosystem
(by 2017):
• Coalesce and support broad multistakeholder alliances;
• Develop new and strengthen existing IG mechanisms;
• Evolve collaborative decision-making;
• Establish urgently needed sustainable funding and resource
models to enable IG evolution and to strengthen and
operationalize the collaborative IG ecosystem;
• Support ICANN accountability and IANA globalization;
• Explore additional questions to be answered for moving
forward.

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For more on the Panel, Panelists, and to access
the Panel’s interactive report:
http://internetgovernancepanel.org/
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