About the Multistakeholder Working Group (MWG)
Within the Policy Network on Environment there is a Multistakeholder Working Group (MWG) of experts which supports transforming community’s expressed views into concrete actions, such as outputs and actionable next steps. The main goal of the MWG is to publish a report by December 2021 containing concrete, actionable policy recommendations, to be presented and discussed at the IGF 2021 in Katowice, Poland. During the next six months, the PNE aims to use the work on this report and our collective weight of the group as a lever of influence to raise the profile of the issue.
Update on Work
The Working Group is organized into workstreams on different focus topics. Learn more about our work in our Statement of Action.
Members of the PNE Multistakeholder Working Group
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Ado Lõhmus |
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Andrew Zolli Planet Director Global of Impact initiatives and Ethics |
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Ayman Elsherbiny UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia ICT Policies Section |
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Adil Suleimani (interim) Senior Policy Officer, AU Commission, African Union |
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Daniel Akinmade Emejulu Microsoft Corporation Program Manager, UN Affairs |
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David Jensen UN Environment Programme Head of Environmental Peacebuilding |
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Ilias Iakovidis European Commission DG-CNECT’s Adviser, Green and Digital Transition |
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Jacob Malthouse, Foresight Cleantech Accelerator VP Business Development |
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Joan Carling Indigenous Peoples Major Group for Sustainable Development Convenor and environment and indigenous rights defender |
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Joyce Chen APNIC Senior Advisor for Strategic Engagement and IGF MAG member |
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Karen Bakker University of British Columbia Program on Water Governance Research Chair and Director |
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Kathryn Sforcina IV.AI Head of Global Strategy; Farmbot Monitoring Solutions, Non-Executive Director |
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Richard King Chatham House Senior Research Fellow, Energy, Environment and Resources Programme |
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Selamyhun Adefris Government of Ethiopia, Ministry for Innovation and Technology Director General for Innovation Development and Research |
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Tereza Horejsova DiploFoundation Project Development Director and IGF MAG member |
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Verena Weber OECD Head of the Communication Infrastructures and Services Policy Unit |
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Yoichi IIDA, Deputy Government of Japan, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication Director-General for G7/G20 Relations |
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Youssef Nassef UN Climate Change (UNFCCC) Director |
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Przemysław Typiak, Internet Governance and Digital Dialogue Unit Digital Policy Departement Chancellery of the Prime Minister (Poland) Counsellor |
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David Oehmen UN Climate Change (UNFCCC) Associate Programme Officer, Adaptation Division |
How has the Working Group come about?
Careful research has been carried out to globally map the stakeholders that could be members of the working group. It has mapped the stakeholders on regional and international scene that deal with the intersections between environment and digital technologies, in collaboration with relevant helpdesks and observatories. A contact database has been built. Among these contacts, those having the strongest work focus and achieved impact and results have been invited to be members of the above-described working group. All others are informed about the work and invited to contribute to the consultation processes and other mechanisms established by the working group (e.g. including providing feedback to the draft output document produced by the working group).
The PNE multistakeholder working group will closely collaborate with the members of the IGF's Multistakeholder Advisory Group and its Chair; networks of Dynamic Coalitions; National, Regional and Youth IGF initiatives; Best Practice Forums and all other interested stakeholders.
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