[lac-discuss-en] Fwd: Evolving ICANN 3.0 - Innovations for Multi-stakeholder Model
Carlton Samuels
carlton.samuels at gmail.com
Thu Dec 12 18:03:54 UTC 2013
Some discussions on evolving ICANN below from the Multistakeholder
Innovation Panel. The ideas that were crowd-sourced and captured could be
useful to our own struggle with inclusion and a more participatory model
for LACRALO.
-Carlton
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Carlton A Samuels
Mobile: 876-818-1799
*Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround*
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The Brainstorm Begins: Initial Ideas for Evolving ICANN
- Posted on December 9, 2013
- by Jillian Raines <http://thegovlab.org/author/jillian/>
- in GovLab Blog <http://thegovlab.org/blog/>, Smarter
Governance<http://thegovlab.org/smarter-governance-2/>
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The ICANN Strategy Panel on Multistakeholder Innovation (MSI
Panel)<https://www.icann.org/en/about/planning/strategic-engagement/multistakeholder-innovation>
is
underway working to curate a set of concrete proposals for ways that the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers
(ICANN<http://www.icann.org/>)
could prototype new institutional arrangements for the 21st century. The
Panel is working to identify how ICANN can open itself to more global
participation in its governance functions. Specifically, the MSI Panel is
charged with:
- Proposing new models for international engagement, consensus-driven
policymaking and institutional structures to support such enhanced
functions; and
- Designing processes, tools and platforms that enable the global ICANN
community to engage in these new forms of participatory decision-making.
To help answer this charter, the MSI Panel launched an “Idea
Generation” or ideation
platform <http://thegovlab.org/wiki/Ideation>, designed to brainstorm with
the global public on how to evolve the way ICANN could operate given
the innovations
in governance <http://thegovlab.org/wiki/Main_Page> happening across the
world.
*We’re now 3 weeks in* to this Idea Generation stage – taking place online
here: *thegovlab.ideascale.com <http://bit.ly/1dS9sLp> *– and we wanted to
share with you what the Panel and The GovLab has heard so far regarding
what tools, technologies, platforms and techniques ICANN could learn from
or adapt to help design an innovative approach to problem-solving within
the Domain Name System going forward.
These initial ideas begin to paint a picture of what 21st century
coordination of a shared global commons might involve. These brainstorms
all point to certain core principles the Panel believes provide the
groundwork for an institution to legitimately operate in the global public
interest today. These principles include:
- *Openness* – Ensuring open channels as well as very low or no
barriers to meaningful participation.
- *Transparency* – Providing public access to information and
deliberation data.
- *Accessibility* – Developing simple and legible organizational
communications.
- *Inclusivity and Lack of Domination* – Ensuring access to global
participation and that no one player, entity or interest dominates
processes or outcomes.
- *Accountability* – Creating mechanisms for the global public to check
institutional power.
- *Effectiveness* – Improving decision-making through greater reliance
on evidence and a focus on flexibility and agility.
- *Efficiency* – Streamlining processes to better leverage time,
resources and human capital.
With these core principles as the backdrop, the ideas we’ve heard so far
roughly fall within the following categories:
Creating New and More Effective Forms of Global Participation
*ICANN could . . .*
- Leverage *expert networking tools* (like VIVO <http://www.vivoweb.org/>)
to proactively find experts for working groups with the needed know-how and
willingness to decide what must be accomplished and how. This would expand
the participation pool beyond the traditional suspects.
- Use* open brainstorm tools* (like Ideascale <http://ideascale.com/>)
to enable people in and outside of existing ICANN structures to raise
issues and problems by topic online and to allow for commenting, voting and
ranking for importance.
- Make all projects subject to *open peer review* (as used on
LIBRE<http://liberatingresearch.org/>)
as a way to get more people involved in vetting solution proposals and in
identifying potential outcomes and/or unintended consequences of ICANN’s
decisions on the global Internet community early on.
- Use *collaborative drafting tools* (like a
wiki<http://www.wikipedia.org/>)
to develop issue reports and final recommendations for the ICANN Board to
consider that are open to input from individuals/organizations across all
ICANN structures and beyond.
Innovating Institutional Processes, Structures, and Legal Norms to Support
New and Meaningful Participation and Collaboration
*ICANN could . . . *
- Use a *topic-based, merit-based working group model* to develop
solutions to problems (e.g., like that used by the Internet Engineering
Task Force <http://www.ietf.org/wg/>) as opposed to the
constituency-based model currently in use at ICANN.
- Create an *open data policy* for ICANN to facilitate easy access,
sharing and reuse of ICANN data in open, machine-readable formats. This
would increase transparency, facilitate creation of new services and enable
research and evaluation opportunities within and outside of ICANN.
- Use *StratML <http://xml.fido.gov/stratml/>* – an XML vocabulary – for
easy sharing, referencing, indexing, discovery, reuse, linking, and
analyzing of strategy and vision documents.
- Write and publish all ICANN contracts using open and consistent data
standards aligned with international *open contracting
<http://www.open-contracting.org/>* norms.
- In an effort to shift ICANN’s reputation from a complex,
acronym-riddled organization to a simple, accessible and legible 21st
century organization – publish more *“plain English reports”* (e.g.,
annual report, monthly digest, dashboards, infographics) to communicate
work and accomplishments within, across and outside structures.
- Develop a *repository of online tools* and what their uses/purposes
are. Enable peer-evaluation on the set of tools where various groups within
the community might rank tools’ utility for different purposes.
- Leverage* other multistakeholder forums* to discuss ICANN issues and
increase input into ICANN decision-making (e.g., the Internet Governance
Forum (IGF <http://www.intgovforum.org/>), the Internet Society
(ISOC<http://www.internetsociety.org/>
)).
- Create an *ICANN Research arm* or institute *issue-framing sessions *early
on to serve as a mechanism to better identify and get smart on potential
policy implications of ICANN decisions, and to anticipate and frame issues
across all ICANN structures prior to solution development.
- Use *ranked-choice voting* to elect ICANN Board members. This could
give people a chance to communicate a more comprehensive opinion than is
possible through a single-person, single-vote system.
- Use a technique such as *Liquid Democracy <http://liquidfeedback.org/>* to
create a more dynamic election model by providing individuals the option to
vote on a given issue or delegate their vote to a trusted party.
- As an alternative to convening volunteer working groups, *sponsor a
paid* *bug bounty program
<http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/now-theres-a-bug-bounty-program-for-the-whole-internet/>*
for
decentralizing the process of uncovering security issues within the DNS
that are within ICANN’s remit to control.
Developing Public Interest Metrics to Review Decisions
*ICANN could . . .*
-
Create an *ICANN Research arm* to serve as a cross-community resource in
order to provide objective, evidence-based research regarding the
technical, policy/regulatory, social, economic, and political landscape in
which ICANN operates and to assist in measuring impact and success of ICANN
initiatives and policy development.
Providing Education and Resources to Lower Barriers to Participation
*ICANN could . . .*
- Establish an *ICANN Foundation* to inform the global general public
about emerging issues in Internet Governance as well as its impacts and its
uses.
- Establish an *open course* in ICANN’s online education
platform<http://learn.icann.org/> around
what multistakeholderism means, how it works and its ability to remain
agile as the Internet expands.
But these ideas are just the start. *Which would work? How?* As we start
categorize and transform these from disparate ideas into a constellation of
implementable proposals, the Panel needs your help. Designing what global,
participatory decision-making across borders looks like requires global
input.
We also aim to make sure that those with concrete ideas know how to
participate in this brainstorm <http://bit.ly/1dS9sLp>. While the site is
designed to be easy to use – we understand ICANN’s complexity may dissuade
some. It doesn’t have to! Any idea of new and innovative decision-making
processes and structures or examples are welcome. The platform is designed
to collect and vet all manner of ideas for governance innovation – whether
constitutional, structural, legal, procedural or technological.
If there are any additional barriers to brainstorming, please let us know
at *icannmsipanel at thegovlab.org <icannmsipanel at thegovlab.org>*. We want to
make sure we capture what works and what doesn’t as we try to get smart on
smarter governance at ICANN.
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*The Tags*: #WeCANN <http://thegovlab.org/tag/wecann/> .
Expertise<http://thegovlab.org/tag/expertise/>
. ICANN <http://thegovlab.org/tag/icann/> . internet
governance<http://thegovlab.org/tag/internet-governance/>
. living labs <http://thegovlab.org/tag/living-labs/>
About Jillian Raines
View all posts by Jillian Raines → <http://thegovlab.org/author/jillian/>
← The Age of Democracy <http://thegovlab.org/the-age-of-democracy/>
Book Review: Three Harbingers of Change
→<http://thegovlab.org/book-review-three-harbingers-of-change/>
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