[npoc-voice] Tracking the Strategic Panel on Multistakeholder Innovation
NPOC Colleagues, As part of my due diligence in research watch the suppliers of services used by the organizations I am involved with. ICANN retained The GovLab at New York University to run the current Strategic Panel on Multistakeholder Innovation, and they produced the "Quest for a 21st Century ICANN: A Blueprint". That is the document I wrote a long comment about earlier. I suggested, and could be wrong, that The GovLab also appeared to be positioning itself for further work on this area within ICANN's remit. This posting to NPOC-VOICE is to note that The MacArthur Foundation is just funded The GovLab to run a new research network, apparently in collaboration with Google technology, to study and design innovative ways of solving public problems. A press release from the Governance Lab (The GovLab) at New York University today (March 4, 2014) announced the formation of a Research Network on Opening Governance, which will seek to develop blueprints for more effective and legitimate democratic institutions to help improve people’s lives. Convened and organized by the GovLab, the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Opening Governance is made possible by a three-year grant of S5 million from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation as well as a gift from Google.org, which will allow the Network to tap the latest technological advances to further its work. I have attached a pdf of the press release email. It will be interesting to see how this connects to the multistakeholder governance model work. A good part of NPOC's mandate is to expand the civil society sector stakeholder voice in Internet ecosystem issues and in Internet governance. There will undoubtedly be lessons to be learned here. Sam Lanfranco Attachment:
NewGovLabInitiative.pdf |