1 July 2021
Day 3 of the Advocacy International: Advancing our digital rights agenda for Asia workshop was one of contrasts, with the first two sessions covering advocacy spaces like the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and technical spaces like the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and International Telecommunication Union (ITU) from the perspective of how they function, and the last session speaking to the experience of civil society as they engage in them.
In the day’s first session, “Internet governance and digital cooperation”, Anriette Esterhuysen, the senior advisor on internet governance, policy advocacy and strategic planning at APC and chair of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group of the IGF, invited participants to reflect on how they viewed multistakeholder internet governance. While some believed that it was a way for civil society to have more voice and power in global internet policy decisions, and a few others thought that it is a plo