Best Practice Forum: Developing meaningful multistakeholder participation mechanisms
Tuesday, November 10 • 09:00 - 10:30 - Workshop Room 6
The BPF-Multi has been working for two years to create a document that explores some of the issues involved in enabling multistakeholder participation. At IGF 2014 the focus was on definitions and exploration of some of the theory behind multistakeholder models. This year, the group documented a number of existing practices and attempted to extract some practices that can be considered when working within a multistakeholder model.
The group developed a document that has been undergoing public edit for the last half year that is being considered by the group as an output document that can be used as an input by other groups involved in developing, or evolving, their own multstakeholder processes. The meeting will consider the document and consider the next steps for the document.
0. Review and revise Agenda
1. Brief update on the status of the working document
2. Discussion of some notable issues encountered during the course of the past year:
Nature of consensus in multistakeholder organization and decision making
The bad actor problem
The relationship of multistakeholder models to democracy
Best practices and examples of multistakeholder mechanisms submitted to the process
Other issues (interactive discussion)
3. Disposition of the document: Should it be forwarded to the Chair of IGF2015 for inclusion as output of the meeting?
4. Future of the multistakeholder mechanism work
5. Any other issues.
