To be (constructively) provocative, let me call the below as an exercise in exploring post-multistakeholderism models of participatory digital policy making, since MS ism is mostly corporate captured now: ... Worth some collective thought perhaps. We welcome your engagement. parminder Dear All The Just Net Coalition (JNC) is doing a 2.5 hours event, consisting of 3 panels, on ***"Digital policy making from below -- Ask the impacted sectors first"*, on *December 6th*, from 09.30 to 12.00 UTC. Those at the venue of the Internet Governance Forum in Katowice, Poland, the physical place will be Ballroom A. As will be clear from the workshop note below, and enclosed, the event is around discussing *a new paradigm of digital policy development*, which in our view should be the best way of discovering and anchoring public interest with respect to our digital future. In pursuance of this belief of JNC, which is still shaping up, and this event is a part of that exercise, it is also expected that JNC will re-orient itself more consciously to this new direction in its work -- developing the required networks of civil society groups, from inside and outside digital arena, and proposing and advocating for institutions that would best enable and facilitate this new context and the needs of the proposed new paradigm of digital policy making. The event should therefore be interesting and useful for *all JNC members and friends*, as well as *all those who grapple with* *institutional issues around how to best develop digital policies*, so key to humanity's future. We invite all of you to attend. Instructions on how to attend are in the workshop note. For those never been to an IGF and/or not registered for this one, please do *register right away - -meaning today* - -to be able to participate. See you at the discussions. parminder /*Digital Policy Making from Below – Ask the Impacted Sectors First*/ *Hybrid****e**vent organized by Just Net Coalition at **the* *16th **United National Internet Governance Forum (IGF)* *December 06, 09.30-12.00 UTC* *Ballroom A (onsite) /Online * The Just Net Coalition <https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj-tpTnuMX0AhXOQTABHY9sA10QFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fjustnetcoalition.org%2F&usg=AOvVaw3GQ88UYHKCtGWXIFVUd0Mk>(JNC) invites you to our hybridevent, ‘/*Digital Policy Making from Below – Ask the Impacted Sectors First’*/, taking place on December 6^th 2021, from 09.30 to 12.00 UTC. JNC has been conveningregular events at the UN Internet Governance Forum’s (IGF) annual meetings, bringing key contemporary issues in digital justice, as well asJNC’s work and journey, intoa public discussion. At the last in-person meeting, at the IGF Berlin in December 2019, we released the _JNC Manifesto for Digital Justice_ <https://justnetcoalition.org/digital-justice-manifesto>. In 2020, our virtual session at the IGFon‘Digital Justice Conversations’, witha keynote from Saskia Sassen,saw a renewed commitment and dialoguetowards a _Digital New Deal_ <https://itforchange.net/digital-new-deal/>. This year, the IGF will be held at Katowice, Poland, in a hybrid formant and we convene again to push the needle on aprogressive agenda for digital justice. It is crucial to open up avenues and create spaces for organizations and civil society from sectorsthat are actually impacted by the ‘digital’ – health, education, agriculture, labor, trade, finance, media, etc., that enable them toinfluenceand shapedigital policies. They should be able to engage with central digital policy issues such as 'who owns data’, 'what are the appropriate rules of platform management’, what is ‘just and fair AI', etc. Such ‘sectoral actors’ need to be put intoa sustained dialogue with actors in the digital arena on digital policy issues. This has to be undertakenin a manner that respects and employs their respective competences to together determine what is public interest in a digital society. This we think must bethe future of how digital policy is made. Just Net Coalition plans to orient itself towards building such possibilities, and appropriate networks and institutions, for cross-sectoral, participatory, digital policy making. The Coalition has embarked on a project in this regard, working with leading progressive organizations in various sectors. At theevent on/*Digital Policy Making from Below – Ask the Impacted Sectors First’, */the first panel discussion will bring together some of the ‘sectoral organisations’ collaboratingwith JNC to present their views, ideas, as well as the current work that they are undertakingin JNC’sproject on cross-sectoral engagement for digital policy making. A second panel will pick up from the first panel’s presentions to build upa more general discussion about the way digital policies should be shaped with equitable and empowering participation of actors from the ‘impacted sectors’, ***towards **a new****paradigm of digital policy **making**. * In the end, we will have an open discussion on what role the Just Net Coalition, and other progressive groups, both in the digital arena and the ‘impacted sectors’, couldplay to develop the needed networks, as well as advocate for development of *the**institutional **conditions **required **for **the new policy paradi**gm**.*Here wewill zoom in to explore some specific directions that JNC maytake in the coming years. We invite you to be a part of this urgent and important conversation. *How to join:* * If attending in person, please join us at Ballroom A at the IGF venue in Katowice, Poland * If attending virtually o If you are already registered to attend IGF, please add our session <https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2021-day-0-event-64-digital-policy-making-from-below-ask-the-impacted-sectors-first>to your IGF schedule and click the register and attend option 24 hours before to receive your meeting link. o If you haven’t registered for the IGF 2021, you can do so here <https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2021-registration>to attend our sessions as well as other workshops. *Agenda* *Time Slot (UTC) * *Session Details * 9.30 to 9.35 Check-in 9.35 to 9.45 Opening remarks Sean O'Siochru & Parminder Jeet Singh , Just Net Coalition – who will also anchor the event with its three panels 9.45 to 11.00 *Session**1 – **A view from the sectors impacted by the ‘digital’* * Lara Merling, International Trade Union Confederation * Jun Ho Jung, People’s Health Movement * Chee Yoke Ling, Third World Network * C/é/dric Leterme, The Tricontinental Centre * Elenita Dāno, ETC Group 11.00-11.30 *Session 2 – ‘Impacted sectors first’ – A new paradigm of digital policy making* *Speakers* * Deborah James, Centre for Economic Policy and Research * Nachiket Udupa, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan * Richard Hill, Association for Proper Internet Governance * Amber Sinha, Center for Internet and Society 11.30-11.55 *Open discussion on the future role and directions of Just Net Coalition, and other progressive actors interested in digital policies * 11.55-12.00 *Closing remarks *