How do you get global stakeholders with diverging interests to produce common decisions on internet governance?
Diagnosis & challenge
Internet & Jurisdiction is the reference organization on a question with no obvious answer: how national laws can coexist with a borderless internet. It brings together states, major platforms, technical operators, academics and NGOs, who share neither the same interests nor the same vocabulary. In this context, my role was to design a process able to lead them to common, actionable decisions.
Designing the governance process
As Policy Manager, I co-designed and set up the working process for the organization's three programs (cross-border access to data, content restrictions, domain-name suspensions): Coordinating Groups to steer, Working Groups to produce, and a feedback process to circulate points for deliberation and reach a consensus.
I prepared and co-facilitated this work between conferences, then drafted the documents that served as the basis for the Berlin Global Conference, whose format I co-designed.
The outcome in Berlin
In Berlin, I spoke in plenary and co-facilitated the working groups, which brought together secretaries of state, General Counsels of major platforms and NGO directors. This work led to the Operational Approaches documents, which I co-drafted: the first common ground of concrete solutions validated by all the actors.
Co-author of "What Is the Digital Society We Want to Build Together?", Council on Foreign Relations, 2018.Read the article ↗
