IGF 2025 Launch / Award Event #159 Book launch: NETmundial+10 Statement in the 6 UN languages

NETmundial+10: global challenges for the governance of the digital world was an event hosted by the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee – CGI.br, and held in São Paulo, Brazil, on April 29 and 30, 2024. The conference drew upon the successful experience of the first NETmundial meeting, held in 2014, to once again address the pressing issues of Internet governance and the challenges for the global community. Casting a look at the future governance of the digital world, NETmundial+10 provided a space for relevant players from all interested stakeholder groups and regions to meet, discuss and reach consensus on a new set of guidelines and recommendations that aimed to tackle the most pressing challenges of governance processes. It also fostered a debate on a common, structured agenda of priority issues for the global community, along with furthering multistakeholderism to all relevant global digital governance and decisional arenas. As an outcome of an extensive and in-depth process involving collaboration among stakeholders from around the world, NETmundial+10 produced the document NETmundial+10 Multistakeholder Statement: Strengthening Internet governance and digital policy processes, now being published within CGI.br Book Series, presenting the declaration in the 6 UN official languages and the Portuguese. The Statement outlines pathways to applying the multistakeholder approach and enhancing multilateral processes. It emphasizes the value of participation in these processes, particularly how to ensure meaningful and inclusive engagement, especially from the Global South. The main results of this work were the São Paulo Multistakeholder Guidelines (SPMGs), a set of guidelines and process-steps focused on improving multistakeholder practices for all kinds of digital governance decisional processes. Through the SPMGs, the NETmundial+10 outcomes also foster the global digital ecosystem to move toward more concrete and results-oriented multistakeholder collaboration and decision-making processes. The São Paulo Guidelines strengthen multistakeholder processes by providing a flexible, inclusive, and actionable framework for Internet governance, supported by ongoing adaptation and global collaboration. Considering the importance of widely disseminating these outcomes and guidelines to a broad range of stakeholders, the Statement has been translated into multiple languages and compiled into a book with the 6 official languages of the United Nations and the Portuguese. The book is available in digital and printed versions. Launching this book at the IGF represents a significant landmark to promote and debate the results of NETmundial+10 with a wider community. It is particularly relevant because NETMundial+10 recognized the IGF as a venue that should be strengthened as a central hub for Internet governance debates. This book launch also marks an important moment for reflection and dialogue one year after the NETmundial+10 event. The launching of the book NETmundial+10 Multistakeholder Statement in all 6 UN languages will feature an in-depth discussion with key stakeholders who took part in the NETmundial+10 process. The discussion will focus on the process, its results, and how they have been integrated into the Internet governance ecosystem over the past year, especially when it comes to the São Paulo Multistakeholder Guidelines. Efforts for a continued promotion and dissemination of the guidelines will also be addressed. Challenges inherent to translation processes will also be discussed. The session will feature a distribution of book copies as well as other reference materials.

The session will be divided into three segments: the first will consist of a brief opening and presentation of main aspects. The second segment will handle short speeches from invited speakers to address the proposed subjects. In the last part, a Q&A with the audience will happen, allowing for participants to ask, comment and discuss several topics with the speakers. In this context, to ensure proper interaction between the online and onsite audience, the session will have onsite and online moderators. During the session, the onsite moderator will be responsible to oversee the interventions and interact with the speakers to ensure that the session's goals will be sought appropriately. Also, the moderator will care for safeguarding due balance and meet diversity expectations within interventions, either by the speakers or the audience. The online moderator will take care of the flow of questions within all the online tools involved in the session, reading, selecting and guaranteeing that the onsite moderator will be aware of questions and comments from the remote audience (Zoom Chat and Q&A). Finally, the rapporteur will ensure to capture all the highlights and critical information of the session to consolidate a final report. The organization team will also be alert to help participants with any technical issues and delays they may have, in order to avoid negatively impacting the session dynamics.