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The Global Digital Compact: Lessons Learned from the Submissions of the Multistakeholder Internet Community report was commissioned by auDA and conducted by Konstantinos Komaitis and published in January 2024.
This report provides a high-level assessment of the submissions received by the UN Secretary-General in response to his report, Our Common Agenda, in which a Global Digital Compact (GDC) was recommended to be agreed at the Summit for the Future, scheduled to take place in September 2024. The report is supported by an Annex of Themes and a matrix setting out the views of all 178 submissions.
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Key findings include:
- Broad multistakeholder input to the submission process with:
- Greater participation from the global north
- Significant participation from government stakeholders, in particular those from Europe
- Keen interest from research institutions and the academic community
- Little support for a new internet governance process such as the ‘Digital Cooperation Forum’ outlined subsequently in the Secretary-General’s Policy Brief 5: A Global Digital Compact
- A strong commitment to the multistakeholder governance model for the Internet.
