2015 Meeting of the Global Multistakeholder Policy Network

Towards Transnational Due Process Frameworks

Internet & Jurisdiction convened a meeting of the global multistakeholder policy network on October 8-9, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. The meeting gathered key actors from states, Internet companies, technical operators, civil society, academia, and international organizations to address the tension between the cross-border nature of the Internet and geographically defined national jurisdictions.

Internet & Jurisdiction provides a neutral platform for states, business, civil society, and international organizations to discuss the elaboration of a transnational due process framework to handle the digital coexistence of diverse national laws in shared cross-border online spaces. This pioneering multistakeholder cooperation effort seeks to develop a “policy standard” for transnational requests for domain seizures, content takedowns, and access to user data.

2015 is an important moment that determines the future of the multistakeholder model in global Internet Governance. Internet & Jurisdiction hopes to provide an opportunity to demonstrate that multistakeholder cooperation can produce operational solutions to concrete policy challenges that no stakeholder group can solve on its own.