multi-stakeholder internet governance

As we continue to navigate the ever-evolving digital landscape, auDA is pleased to share our Public Policy Agenda for 2024-25. This Agenda identifies the key technology policy issues we focus our advocacy and attention on in 2024-25. The issues align with our purpose and are vital to support Australia’s digital transformation.

auDA monitors and engages with a range of organisations and processes where internet governance and policy issues are under discussion. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is one such organisation, and this blog explores a major event in the ITU’s standardisation work, the ITU World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA), happening in late 2024.

In June, we shared the Statement of Purpose for a Technical Community Coalition for Multistakeholderism (TCCM). This is an initiative of auDA and other technical operators to bring a perspective from the internet technical community to shape the future of internet governance. It’s critical for stakeholders to set out their expectations for what good governance in the technology sphere looks like. The TCCM has now done so, highlighting weaknesses in the UN process in a statement released this week.

The .au Domain Administration (auDA) launches the inaugural Asia Pacific Internet Governance Academy Australia (APIGA Australia), an intensive two day event to be held in Melbourne over 20-21 November 2024.

Submission to The Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade inquiry into Australia’s response to the priorities of Pacific Island countries and the Pacific Region.

auDA, alongside other country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) managers CIRA for .ca, InternetNZ for .nz and Nominet for .uk, announced the establishment of a technical community Coalition dedicated to supporting multi-stakeholder internet governance, and invited others to join us in our mission. We are delighted to be able to share the Coalition’s Statement of Purpose.

auDA is pleased to report on the outcomes of the NETmundial+10, a multi-stakeholder internet governance and digital policy event held in São Paulo, Brazil on 29-30 April 2024.

auDA provides its views on the Zero Draft of the GDC was published on 2 April 2024 and was presented to UN Member States on 5 April 2024. It will be negotiated by governments over the next few months and is scheduled to be   adopted at the Summit of the Future in September 2024. 

auDA's submission to the NETmundial+10 is taking place in Sao Paulo, Brazil on 29-30 April, convened by the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee. The meeting will bring together government, private sector, civil society and technical stakeholders from around the world to discuss and build consensus on how to strengthen and improve the multi-stakeholder governance framework.

auDA recently provided a comments on the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Leadership Panel's paper titled, The Internet We Want, which sets out a high-level vision for the future of the internet. The call for comments closed on 1 March 2024.