The GovLab at NETmundial

On April 23rd and 24th, a diverse collection of international entities and individual stakeholders involved with Internet Governance convened in São Paulo, Brazil for the NETmundial Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance. Stefaan Verhulst, the GovLab’s Chief of Research and Development, took part in a discussion on creating new avenues for public participation in Internet Governance decisionmaking processes.  You can read Verhulst’s recap of the key narratives of Internet Governance discussed at the meeting, as well as Participa.br’s look back at the public participation forum (in Portuguese).
You can also view the meeting’s agenda; read and comment on the forum’s official outcome document, which includes a collection of Internet Governance Principles and a “Roadmap for the future evolution of the Internet Governance Ecosystem” and watch the entirety of the meeting, in a variety of language options, on the NETmundial YouTube page.