IGF 2024

A Technical Community Coalition for Multistakeholderism (TCCM) was formed in April 2024 by auDA, CIRA, InternetNZ and Nominet, with a growing membership that represents a group of aligned members of the technical community with a long history of involvement in multistakeholder Internet governance. The TCCM recognises that the technological success of the Internet is the direct result of the multistakeholder approach to internet governance. This approach enables stakeholders to come together on an equal footing to discuss or make decisions about the Internet and to foster its ongoing evolution and expansion. Multistakeholderism fosters a level of diversity, accountability, and transparency that cannot be replicated in intergovernmental environments alone, and ensures decision-making about the Internet and its governance are not led by individual nation-based political interests.
Protecting the multistakeholder model of Internet governance for the years to come is of crucial importance, particularly in the current period of critical decision-making at the UN across 2024 and 2025. Ensuring the inclusion of the technical community, on an equal footing with other stakeholders, as a key voice in Internet governance, continuing to strengthen the multistakeholder model, and a renewed mandate for the IGF are priorities for us. The TCCM therefore aims to defend, evolve and strengthen multistakeholderism in decision-making and dialogues about the Internet and digital policy processes. This event would look to formally launch the TCCM in the global setting of UN IGF. It would provide an opportunity to reflect on some of the successes to date (for example the TCCM’s contribution to shaping the Global Digital Compact) and the challenges that lie ahead (including the upcoming WSIS+20 review) and ways we can work together to evolve and strengthen the multistakeholder approach.
Broadcasting of the keynote addresses and Q&A will enable those joining virtually to be informed of the work of the TCCM and to have the opportunity to ask questions or share perspectives. A facilitated discussion for virtual participants (moderated by one of the organizers) will enable networking opportunities in an online setting.