WG5: The public sphere (PUBLIC)

Provisional founding chairman: Philippe Aigrain

You can read the Proposed scope and activities. Will be open later for comments by working group members.

Original presentation in the Description of Work:

WG5 will analyse the way in which the digital public domain interacts with the objective of ensuring a lively public sphere, i.e. the usefulness of the public domain to foster democratic debate and to help citizens to take informed decisions at all levels, from the local to the global dimension. Furthermore, WG5 will study the ways in which norms and norm-setting processes influence the public domain. WG5 will also try to understand whether norm setting and decisional processes on the digital public domain and related issues could be improved in terms of transparency and involvement of all relevant stakeholders, taking into due account the necessary balance between promotion of private investments and activities and protection of public interests.