[council] MSI Panel - Draft blueprint published

[Marika Konings]

Multistakeholder Innovation
by Beth Noveck on January 31, 2014

The ICANN Strategy Panel on Multistakeholder  Innovation
<http://www.icann.org/en/about/planning/strategic-engagement/multistakeholde
r-innovation> ,  supported by The Governance Lab @ NYU
<http://thegovlab.org/>  (GovLab), has been working over the course of the
past several months  to develop recommendations for how ICANN can evolve the
ways it engages and  collaborates with global stakeholders in coordinating
the Internet¹s unique  identifier systems. Specifically, we were tasked by
Fadi with:
1. Proposing  new models for broad, inclusive engagement, consensus-based
policymaking and  institutional structures to support such enhanced
functions; and 
2. Designing  processes, tools and platforms that enable a global ICANN
community to engage  in these new forms of participatory decision-making.
To undertake answering this important  charter, the Panel and GovLab
launched a 3-stage brainstorm initiative in  November at ICANN 48 in Buenos
Aires. This initiative began with Stage 1: Idea  Generation, which consisted
of an open call for ideas for how to innovate the  way ICANN practices
multistakeholderism and collaborates across borders. This  took place via an
online engagement platform <http://thegovlab.ideascale.com/> .

Starting  in the new year, the Panel and GovLab proceeded into Stage 2:
Proposal  Development, which has involved reviewing and organizing the
innovative ideas  shared to inform an initial set of 16 proposal ideas for
ICANN. These proposals  have been informed by the dialogue and ideas shared
via the engagement  platform, interviews with ICANN staff and community
members, observation of  ICANN¹s day-to-day work (in particular of the
Policy Development Support Team),  participation in ICANN 48, expert
consultations and further independent  research.

These proposal ideas are captured in an initial draft  blueprint
<http://images.thegovlab.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Questfora2
1stCenturyICANNABlueprint_Jan30_14-7.pdf>  meant to provide a framework for
moving ICANN toward a truly effective, legitimate and evolving 21st century
organization. Each of the blueprint¹s 16  proposals will be further fleshed
out into individual proposal drafts, which  the Panel will share online,
asking experts, community members and the global  public to comment, react
and provide feedback via line-by-line annotation and  commenting features.
Each proposal draft will include some open questions that  with your help
will enable the Panel to further marry these innovative  approaches to
ICANN¹s current practices. This stage is designed to help take  ideas closer
to implementation. The final stage of the Panel¹s work will  feature
Collaborative Drafting, wherein the Panel will release a full report  draft
via a wiki and ask the community and public for help to fine-tune.

The Panel and GovLab welcome  your continued input on the preliminary set of
conclusions it has reached. We  encourage all to visit the GovLab  Blog
<http://thegovlab.org/>  and ICANN  project page
<http://thegovlab.org/icann2/>  to learn more about how you can provide
feedback, comments and reactions to  help the Panel move these initial
conclusions even closer to implementation.  You can also reach the panel
anytime by email at icannmsipanel at thegovlab.org


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