This document outlines the agenda for an Internet Freedom Jam workshop in 2012. The goal is to explore what a fair, free and open Internet might look like in 2025 and identify actions needed to achieve that vision. Using a "backcasting" methodology, participants will imagine it is 2050 and their Internet access is a World Heritage protected by design for human rights compatibility. In small groups, they will develop short stories set in 2025 about a defining event that helped ensure an open Internet, discussing the key factors and issues that enabled this development. After sharing their stories, participants will discuss actions needed between 2012-2025 to help bring about their envisioned futures. The workshop aims to spark ongoing conversation around Internet freedom.

1. Internet Freedom Jam
Internet Freedom Jam
2012 2012
In cooperation with, and the support of :
#iffjam12
#FreedomFellows
FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES
ÉCONOMIQUES ET SOCIALES
Photos: Jacques Erard

2. Agenda
– Welcome message (5’)
– Introduction of the 2012 Internet Freedom
Fellows and Workshop Overview (10’)
– Workshop (90’)
– Closing: What do WE do next ? (15’)
– Networking apéro …

3. Overview
• Goal of the Workshop
– Co-creatively explore and think “out of the box”
• what could be a fair, free and open Internet in 2025 and
• what needs to be done in a not so distant future to make
it happen
• Methodology
– “Backcasting” Innovation Game
– Assisted by a team of awesome strategic facilitators
and innovation gurus !

4. “Backcasting” Innovation Protocol
Present Short Term Medium LongTerm
Past
(2012) (2015) Term (2025) (2050)

5. Imagining the Past
Remembering the Future

6. Workshop timeline
– Thought-provoking context (5’)
– Group work (45’)
– Storytelling (30’ : 6 x 5)
– Discussion (10’)
– Closing: What do WE do next ? (15’)

7. Step #1: Today
is 22 June 2050
BTW, it’s Wednesday ;-)

8. Some Context
• The Internet is a World
Heritage
– It is Fair
– It is Free
– It is Open
It’s Human Rights compatible by
Design…
… and runs on “Ethical”
infrastructures and platforms

9. Digital History Class :
Privacy at the turn of the century
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/

10. 6 IFF à
6 Groups

11. Choose a persona…
• A 2050 IFF (Internet Freedom Fellow) Human
Right activist
• A government policy maker
• A civil society representative
• A technical or social innovator
• A concerned citizen of the world
• Or a persona not listed above!

12. Based on your Group #…
• Form Groups
• Choose
– 1 Storyteller
– 1 Scribe

13. • Now, together,
remember the
amazing “ thing ” in
2025 that made the
Internet a Fair, Free
and Open World
Heritage forever…

14. You’ve got 45 minutes…
• 15' to discuss your context / personas in 2050
• 15' to answer the questions asked (next slide)
• 15' to identify the key actions that must be
undertaken to make that 2025 “ thing ” happen

15. Write Your (5’ max!) Story
• What was that “ thing ” that happened in 2025
• How did it change the Internet, your life, society for the
better ? Or for the worse ?
• What were the elements that needed “recombination” for
that “ thing ” to happen ?
• What were the policy and technical issues that needed to
be addressed to make that “ thing ” possible ?

16. Step #2: Back to 2012 !
• Groups tell their story
• What should we be doing to make that
“thing” happen ?

17. & HOW TO
CONTINUE THE
CONVERSATION
?