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Brazilian and German challenges within Internet Governance

by Gregory Ryan
On the 22th of April 2014, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation supported a workshop on Internet Governance in São Paulo.

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The event was hosted in cooperation between the Rio Institute for Technology & Society, the Network of Interdisciplinary Internet & Society Research Centers and the Global Public Policy Institute. At the heart of the gathering was the question of how Brazil and Germany may join their efforts so as to advance a free, open and secure internet. The mostly German or Brazilian experts represented civil society actors, corporations, governments and the academia.

The workshop consisted of two parts: A private meeting in the morning and an open discussion forum in the afternoon. The aim of the first part was to identify norms of internet governance that both Germany and Brazil share, and as such, to outline a possible common agenda going forward. One major area named by the participants was the right to privacy. The afternoon event reflected on the two key tasks of NETMundial: developing a set of guiding principles in a highly diverse internet governance system and developing a roadmap for the “globalization” of core internet governance modalities.

The workshop took place on the verge of NETmundial, a global multi-stakeholder meeting which happened in São Paulo, Brazil on the 23rd and 24th of April and which was about the future of internet governance. The conference had been called for by Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff called in the wake of the leaks on US surveillance activities.

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