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Multistakeholder approach and human rights in Internet Governance
The decision-making system in international organizations is still very conservative. The composition of the international forums that can generate significant international instruments has not changed for centuries. Only diplomats and representatives of international organizations whose credentials confirmed in a certain way admitted to international decision-making. The only exception to this rule is the International Labor Organization (ILO), which works on the principle of tripartism. The ILO in its work involves not only the representatives of the states, but also representatives of employers and workers from each of the member states of the ILO.
Internet Governance Forum, under the auspices of the UN, UNESCO and the International Telecommunication Union, is established in 2006 on the basis of the World Summit on the Information Society, which is today the world's most authoritative international discussion forum on Internet governance, not fully use their potential in order to best regulation of international Internet governance processes. The basis for this regulation is multistakeholder approach, which consists in a multiplicity of categories of decision-making mechanism, which includes, in addition to the traditional representatives of states and international organizations, civil society, business, academic and technical community, the media, and other interested stakeholders.
This research is expected to provide guidance in improving the global Internet governance arrangements, taking into account the interests of all categories of participants, as well as to establish rules of procedure for decision-making based on multistakeholder-approach in the Internet governance to give the Internet Governance Forum the opportunity to adopt international “soft law” instruments. An example of this is the Draft Charter of rights and principles on the Internet, developed by Dynamic Coalition on Human Rights and the principles of the Internet Governance Forum - a kind of analogue of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with regard to the Internet. The need to take human rights instruments on the Internet determines the direction of the development of programs and policies in global Internet governance and role of the Internet Governance Forum in these processes.