Time
    Monday, 6th December, 2021 (14:45 UTC) - Monday, 6th December, 2021 (16:45 UTC)
    Room
    Conference Room 6

    CTS-FGV
    Luca Belli, FGV, Academia, Brazil; Adam Burns, Free2Air, Technical Community, Germany; Alek Tarkowski, Open Future, Poland

    Speakers

     

    Opening remarks: Luca Belli, FGV, and Adam Burns, Free2Air 

    Segment one: Evolving Conceptions of Digital Commons 

    • Yu Ping, Office of the UN Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology 
    • Rebecca MacKinnon, Wikimedia Foundation
    • Renata Avila, Open Knowledge Foundation
    • Alek Tarkowski, Open Future

    Luca Belli, FGV, and Adam Burns, Free2Air, moderate

    First Q&A (15 min)

    Segment two: Digital Commons and Digital Public Goods. 

    • Lucy Harris, UNICEF / Digital Public Good Alliance
    • Osama Manzar, Digital Empowerment Foundation
    • Denis "Jaromil" Roio, Dyne.org

    Jane Coffin, ISOC, and Alek Tarkowski, Open Future, moderate

    Second Q&A + open debate (15 min)

    Concluding remarks: Anriette Esterhuysen, UN IGF MAG Chair

    Wrap-up and takeaways: Luca Belli, FGV, and Adam Burns, Free2Air

     

    Onsite Moderator
    Luca Belli
    Online Moderator

    Adam Burns

    Rapporteur

    Alek Tarkowski

    Format

    Roundtable

    Duration (minutes)
    120
    Language

    English

    Description

    The structures of the Internet affect us more deeply than ever before, reaching out to all aspects of our lives, from our societies and cultures to our finances and politics – to our very individual human behaviours and identities. This event will explore different views of Internet Commons, Digital Commons, and Digital Public Goods, exploring strategies for a less concentrated Internet.

    The Internet Commons Forum (ICF) has been jointly organised by FGV, ISOC, APC, Centrum Cyfrowe and Free2Air, since 2019. The ICF aims at gathering thinkers and doers that are developing ideas and solutions for a less concentrated and more just Internet. See http://www.intcomforum.org/ Internet Commons Forum | #ICF | For a more just Internet The structures of the Internet affect us more deeply than ever before, reaching out to all aspects of our lives. The Internet Commons Forum aims at gathering thinkers and doers that are developing ideas and solutions for a less concentrated and more just Internet. www.intcomforum.org

    The ICF will feature well-respected thinkers and doers exposing their ideas and innovative approaches to digital commons, with regard to the development of Internet access infrastructure, digital platforms, digital policies and data. This workshop will ami at fostering a collaborative discussion with the participants in order to identify concrete actions and strategies for collaboration and implementation of digital commons.

    Organisers will make use of a variety of social networks to encourage and diversify participation

    Key Takeaways (* deadline at the end of the session day)

    The "Digital Commons" and "Digital Public Goods" are powerful concepts to opertationalize digital rights. However, there is a need to improve the mechanisms through which they are organised and put into practice. Initiatives that can be initially commons-oriented might suffer proprietary capture through market forces, especially from large internet platforms that act as intermediaries.

    Call to Action (* deadline at the end of the session day)

    Multistakeholder regulatory efforts should aim at fostering digital commons and protecting the Internet as a Digital Public Good.