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Sent: 13/06/2005 17:09
Subject: OII News [2005.06.13]: The Oxford Consensus on Internet Governance
The Oxford Consensus on Internet Governance
The Oxford Internet Institute, in collaboration with the Berkman Center
at
Harvard Law School, is today publicly releasing 'The Oxford Consensus'.
It
is based on two days of discussion among international experts in
Internet
governance, which took place at an OII forum, entitled 'The Struggle
Over
Internet Governance: Searching for Common Ground', held at the
University of
Oxford on the 5th and 6th of May 2005.
The Oxford Consensus hopes to make a substantive contribution to the
area of
Internet governance by identifying five critical points that could form
the
cornerstones and a set of common expectations that further deliberations
might build. These areas of consensus are discussed under five broad
headings of: 1) a new realism; 2) achieving balance; 3) admitting
change; 4)
creating a home; and 5) architecture and values.
It is hoped that the Oxford Consensus is used in the deliberations of
the
Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) as one means for locating
areas
of general agreement.
The Oxford Consensus is available online at:
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/collaboration/specialevents/20050505_Internet_Go
vern
ance_Summary_Report.pdf
More information about the OII-Berkman forum can be found at:
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/collaboration/?rq=specialevents/20050505
A more complete overview of the forum discussion will be available at a
later date on this site.
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