Center for Global Communications

GLOCOM's Adam Peake contributed to a study led by RAND Europe conducted for the European Commission assessing the efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of self- and co-regulation initiatives in the Information Society beyond 2007.

The study is available from European Commission.

The study consists of two main parts: a mapping exercise that examined existing regulatory and co- and self-regulatory institutions, and identified "candidate" case studies for closer analysis; and a second phase report providing the results of short case studies of 21 Information Society Self Regulatory Organisations (SROs) using a common template and methodology. Case studies were presented in four groupings:

Internet Infrastructure and Standards (ICANN, Nominet, IETF, W3C, ICRA)

Internet Self- and Co-Regulation (IWF, INHOPE, EuroISPA, KJM, FSM)

Content and Filtering/Rating (ICSTIS, IMCB, NICAM, PEGI, ATVOD)

Emerging Self Regulation Areas (SecondLife, Creative Commons, Social Network: Bebo, Trustmarks, London Action Plan, IGF)

A clear conclusion of the report is that robust self-and co-regulatory organisations only develop where their design and dynamics take a multi-stakeholder approach as their basic principle.