The Secretariat of the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network is delighted to announce the release of Operational Approaches documents (download links below) for each of its three policy Programs: Data & Jurisdiction, Content & Jurisdiction, and Domains & Jurisdiction. They contain concrete proposals for Operational Norms, Operational Criteria and Operational Mechanisms to address some of the most pressing cross-border legal challenges of the digital 21st century.
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The proposals for concrete Operational Norms, Criteria and Mechanism put forth in the Content & Jurisdiction Operational Approaches documents intend to provide a common frame of reference for public and private decision-makers in their efforts to develop policy standards and cooperation frameworks.
The Operational Approaches documents will feed into the 3rd Global Conference of the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network on June 3-5, 2019 in Berlin, which is organized in partnership with the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, and institutionally supported by six international organizations: Council of Europe, European Commission, ICANN, OECD, United Nations ECLAC, and UNESCO. On their basis, stakeholders will discuss the Berlin Roadmap to structure the work in the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network for the next two years, in preparation for its 4th Global Conference in 2021.
The Operational Approaches documents are the result of a best effort by the Members of the three Programs’ Contact Groups established to address the issues identified by stakeholders in the Ottawa Roadmap of the 2nd Global Conference of the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network on February 26-28, 2018. The work of the Program’s Contact Groups was facilitated by three neutral Coordinators, appointed by the I&J Secretariat and selected for their outstanding expertise and standing in the community.
The Work Plans of the Ottawa Roadmap identified important structuring questions to further guide interactions within the three Programs of the Policy Network. The Operational Approaches released today are a joint contribution by some of the most engaged experts in this field to advance the ongoing debate on the complex cross-border issues of access to electronic evidence, online content moderation and restrictions, and requests for domain suspensions. They should however not be understood as the result of a formal negotiation validated by the Programs’ Contact Group Members’ organizations.
The proposals for concrete Operational Norms, Criteria and Mechanism put forth in the Operational Approaches documents are intended to provide a common frame of reference for public and private decision-makers in order to help stakeholders take into account the full range of relevant parameters when developing and implementing responsible frameworks, rules and practices to address the issues addressed within the three I&J Programs.
From Paris to Berlin and beyond: Stakeholders from Around the World Progress Towards Operational Solutions
On November 14-16, 2016, over 200 stakeholders from more than 40 countries gathered at the 1st Global Conference of the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network in Paris, France, where they collectively identified Areas for Cooperation for the three Programs, based on Framing Papers summarizing four years of international deliberations in the Policy Network. These Areas for Cooperation served as mandate for three Programs’ Contact Groups, whose Members developed Policy Options outlining tangible pathways to jointly address pressing cross-border legal challenges in cyberspace. These three Policy Options documents then formed the basis for discussions at the 2nd Global Conference of the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network, on February 26-28, 2018, in Ottawa, Canada. There, for the very first time, stakeholders defined, concrete Common Objectives and detailed Work Plans to jointly develop policy standards and concrete solutions in each Program of the Policy Network. Together, they form the Ottawa Roadmap. To implement the Ottawa Roadmap, Members from around the world worked intensively in the Programs of the Policy Network between July 2018 and April 2019 to develop the present Operational Approaches. They will feed into the 3rd Global Conference of the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network, on June 3-5, 2019, in Berlin, Germany.
Historical Documents and Background Information
List of Members | Framing Paper (2016) | Policy Options Document (2017) | Common Objective and Work Plan of the Ottawa Roadmap (2018) | Operational Approaches (2019)
Members of the Content & Jurisdiction Program's Contact Group
Coordinator
Wolfgang Schulz
Director
Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
Members
Chinmayi Arun
Assistant Professor of Law and Executive Director
National Law University Delhi, Centre for Communication Governance
Susan Benesch
Project Director
Dangerous Speech Project
Guy Berger
Director, Freedom of Expression and Media Development
UNESCO
Ellen Blackler
Vice President, Global Public Policy
The Walt Disney Company
Agnes Callamard
Director
Columbia University, Global Freedom of Expression Project
Maria Paz Canales
Executive Director
Derechos Digitales
Mark Carvell
Head of International Online Policy
United Kingdom, Department for Culture Media and Sport
Alexander Corbeil
Senior Research Analyst
Canada, Department of Public Safety
Jacques de Werra
Professor and Vice Rector
University of Geneva
Agustina Del Campo
Director
University of Palermo, Centre for Studies on Freedom of Expression (CELE)
Harlem Desir
Representative on Freedom of the Media
OSCE
Elena Dodonova
Administrator, Media and Internet Division
Council of Europe
Anriette Esterhuysen
Senior Advisor on Internet Governance
Association for Progressive Communications
Miriam Estrin
Public Policy Manager
Google
Raquel Gatto
Regional Policy Advisor
Internet Society (ISOC)
Daniel Holznagel
Legal Officer
Germany, Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection
Raman Jit Singh Chima
Asia Policy Director and Senior International Counsel
Access Now
David Kaye
Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression
United Nations
Edison Lanza
Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression
Organization of American States (OAS)
Emma Llanso
Director, Free Expression Project
Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)
Rebecca MacKinnon
Director, Ranking Digital Rights
New America Foundation
Katherine Maher
Executive Director
Wikimedia Foundation
Giacomo Mazzone
Head of Institutional Relations and Members Relations
European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
Corynne McSherry
Legal Director
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Paul Nemitz
Principal Advisor
European Commission, DG JUST
Juan Ortiz-Freuler
Policy Fellow
World Wide Web Foundation
Elena Perotti
Executive Director, Public Affairs and Media Policy
WAN-IFRA
Nick Pickles
Senior Strategist, Public Policy
Twitter
Jason Pielemeier
Policy Director
Global Network Initiative (GNI)
Thomas Schneider
Vice-Director
Switzerland, Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM)
Bernard Shen
Assistant General Counsel
Microsoft
Carlos Affonso Souza
Director
Institute for Technology and Society (ITS Rio)
Christoph Steck
Director, Public Policy and Internet
Telefonica
Peter Stern
Policy Manager, Stakeholder Engagement
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