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IC ICANN LE LEGIT GITIM IMACY

IN INIT ITIAL IAL FIN INDIN INGS OF LEVELS AN AND PATTERN RNS

Presentation for GAC 4 November 2019 Hortense Jongen and Jan Aart Scholte University of Gothenburg

PRESENTATI TION OUTL TLINE

• 1. intro to the study (academic & independent)
• 2. ICANN’s legitimacy: the outside picture
• 3. ICANN’s legitimacy: the inside picture
• 4. what your constituency finds most/least important

at ICANN

• 5. what your constituency thinks ICANN achieves

most/least

LEGITIMACY IS IMPORTANT NT: : YOU THINK NK SO

0,4 2,4 16,1 80,6 0,4 6,7 10,0 83,3 0,8 0,8 12,1 86,4 0,3 2,6 18,5 77,9 0,7 1,6 1,6 24,2 71,0 1,6 NOT AT ALL İMPORTANT A LİTTLE İMPORTANT MODERATELY İMPORTANT QUİTE İMPORTANT EXTREMELY İMPORTANT I DO NOT KNOW

Total insiders (unweighted) ICANN board ICANN staff ICANN community Informed outsiders

OUR EVIDENC NCE BASE

‘Insiders’

• ICANN board (30, response rate 100%)
• ICANN community (305, response rate 41.2%)
• ICANN staff/org (132, response rate 72.5%)

‘Outsiders’

• non-ICANN Internet governance (62, response rate 34.4%)
• general elites around the world (860, response rate 31.8%)
• no public opinion survey (awareness of ICANN too low)

Confiden ence in

in Glo Global al Gov

• vernance Ins

nstitut utions ns am among Gen Gener eral al Elit lites es (Mean eans, 0-3 s 3 scale)

0,8 1,4 1,5 1,5 1,5 1,5 1,6 1,6 1,6 1,6 1,7 1,7 1,8 1,8 1,8 2,1

F I F A K P G 2 N A T O U N S C I M F W T O N A T İ O N A L İ N S T İ T U T İ O N S F S C W O R L D B A N K R E G İ O N A L İ N S T İ T U T İ O N S I C A N N I C C U N F C C C U N W H O

Co Confidence in Various Internet Governance

ce Organizations (M (Mean ans, 1-5 5 scale) e)

2,50 2,96 3,02 3,54 3,99 4,14 2,46 2,86 2,60 4,00 4,10 4,38 2,68 2,89 2,88 4,11 3,96 4,21 2,48 2,98 3,05 3,45 4,00 4,12 2,71 2,58 3,52 3,18 3,28 3,80

ITU NATİONAL GOVT IGF ICANN RIRS IETF

Total insiders (weighted)

ICANN board ICANN staff ICANN community Informed outsiders

Confiden ence in

in IC ICANN Over erall all (in in %; %; N=527)

1,9 4,9 34,8 39,9 17,6 0,9 3,3 23,3 43,4 30,0 1,5 18,9 46,2 32,6 0,8 3,0 6,6 42,8 36,8 9,9 1,0 3,3 8,2 49,2 27,9 1,6 9,8

VERY LOW LOW MODERATE HİGH VERY HİGH I DO NOT KNOW

Total insiders (unweighted) ICANN board ICANN staff ICANN community Informed outsiders

Confiden ence in

in IC ICANN Over erall all (M (Means, s, 1-5 s 5 scale; N= ; N=527) 527)

1=v 1=very lo low, 2=lo 2=low, 3=m 3=moderate, 4=h 4=hig igh, 5=v 5=very hig igh 4,11 4,00 3,45 3,54 3,27 3,18 ICANN STAFF ICANN BOARD ICANN COMMUNİTY TOTAL İNSİDERS (WEİGHTED) GENERAL ELİTES INFORMED OUTSİDERS

Co Confidenc idence in

in ICANN by Stak akehold

• lder Gr

Grou

• up

(M (Mean ans, 1-5 5 sc scale ale)

3,79 3,56 3,63 3,61 3,45 3,6 3,61 3,57 3,39 3,30 3,24 3,64 3,39 3,36 3,56 3,44 3,58 3,48 3,65 4,04 3,42 3,40 3,49 3,66

CONFİDENCE İN ICANN OVERALL CONFİDENCE İN ICANN BOARD CONFİDENCE İN MULTİSTAKEHOLDER COMMUNİTY CONFİDENCE İN ICANN STAFF

Academia Business: DNI Business: Other Civil Society Government Technical Community

Con Confidence in ICAN CANN by Region

• n

(M (Means, s, 1-5 s 5 scale)

3,54 3,05 3,42 3,46 3,51 3,60 3,69 3,72 3,83

OVERALL RUSSİA AND CENTRAL ASİA EUROPE MİDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRİCA NORTH AMERİCA OCEANİA LATİN AMERİCA AND CARİBBEAN SUB-SAHARAN AFRİCA EAST, SOUTH, AND SOUTH EAST ASİA

Con Confidence in ICAN CANN by Soc Social Grou

• up
• almost no variation in average confidence by gender: 3.56

for men and 3.48 for women

• little variation by age group, with 0.25 separating the highest

(3.66 for 51-60 band) from the lowest (3.41 for under 30s)

• native English speakers give lower average confidence (3.43)

than persons with medium-to-no English (3.53)

• The largest social group variation occurs by race, with lowest

average among whites (3.44), middle for black/African descent (3.76) and highest average among Hispanics (4.05)

WHA WHAT PRIN INCIP IPLES YOUR CONSTIT ITUENCY CARES AB ABOUT AT IC ICANN (MEANS, SCALE 1-5) 5)

• 1. promote technical stability (4.98 – overall 4.87)
• 2. transparency (4.90 – compared with overall community average 4.86)
• 3. accountability (4.90 – overall 4.64)
• 4. promote technical security (4.90 – overall 4.75)
• 12. promote competition in the DNI (4.06 – overall 3.84)
• 13. promote human rights in the DNS (3.92 – overall 3.53)
• 14. promote human rights in ICANN operations (3.81 – overall 3.74)
• 15. promote democratic values in wider society (3.51 – overall 3.12)

WHAT T PRACTI TICES YOUR CONSTI TITU TUENCY RATE TES AT T ICANN (MEANS, SCALE 1-5) 5)

• 1. technical stability (4.49 – compared with overall average 4.35)
• 2. technical security (4.34 – overall 4.19)
• 3. takes decisions on best available expertise (4.08 – overall 3.62)
• 4. opportunities for stakeholder participation (3.82 – overall 3.82)
• 12. promotion of democracy in the DNS (3.32 – overall 3.19)
• 13. promotion of human rights in ICANN operations (3.32 v. 3.15)
• 14. promotion of democratic values in wider society (3.12 – overall 2.80)
• 15. promotion of fair distribution costs and benefits DNI (3.03 v. 2.86)

NE NEXT STEPS

• This presentation has only covered descriptives: levels

and patterns of legitimacy toward ICANN.

• Next we need to develop explanations: what makes

the legitimacy beliefs have those levels and patterns?

• Drawing on these explanations we could think about

what kinds of reforms could raise legitimacy beliefs higher.

• If interested we can report on these issues at ICANN67

Cancun.