Internet Governance is a broad term that includes the development of norms and principals relating to how the Internet functions by a group of stakeholders including governments, organizations, and commissions and the regulation and administration of those principals by the parties involved. (see ICANN wiki). For this table's purposes, we are mainly looking at European national actors involved in Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) activities.

The table is indicating if several European countries governments are members in ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) who is institution responsible for the Governement representation in ICANN. It also looks if any European countries- based NGOs are involved in At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) from ICANN’s. ALAC is a network of self-organizing and self-supporting At-Large Structures (ALSes) throughout the world involving individual Internet users at the local or issue level. At-Large is the name for the community of individual Internet users who participate in the policy development work of ICANN.

Country	Members in GAC	Institution responsible for GAC representation	At Large Structures	Associations registered as ALSes
Austria	Yes	Ministry for Science and Transport	Yes	Wikimedia Austria WZRI Wiener Zentrum fuer Rechtsinformatik (VCLI Vienna Centre for Legal Informatics) Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft European Individual User Association
Bulgaria	Yes	Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and Communications	Yes	Internet Society Bulgaria University of Library Studies and Information Technologies (UniBIT)
Czech Republic	Yes	Ministry of Industry and Trade	No	-
France	Yes	Laurent Ferrali Official representative Internet governance Service of digital economy David Martinon French Ambassador at large for Internet and the Information Society	Yes	ISOC France chapitre français de l’Internet Society E-SENIORS
Germany	Yes	Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy	Yes	Förderverein Informationstechnik und Gesellschaft Medienstadt Leipzig e.V. Digital Courage Deutsche Vereinigung für Datenschutz (DVD) e.V. Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung Humanistische Union e.V. dotHIV Netzwerk Neue Medien (NNM) - no webpage avilable LOAD Committee for a Democratic United Nations (Komitee fur eine Demokratische UNO)
Italy	Yes	ISCOM – Istituto Superiore delle Comunicazioni e delle Tecnologie dell’informazione,  Ministry of Economic Development and the Presidency of the Council of the Ministers	Yes	ISOC Italy (Società Internet Italia), since September 2003
Malta	Yes	Malta Communications Authority	No	None
Netherlands	Yes	Ministry of Economic Affairs	Yes	ISOC Netherlands
Romania	Yes	National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, Parliament of Romania	Yes	ApTI - The Association for Technology and Internet
Spain	Yes	Secretary of State of  Telecommunications and Information Society – Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism	Yes	AUI - Spanish Internet Users Association ISOC-CAT - Catalan Chapter of Internet Society
Switzerland	Yes (chairmanship)	OFCOM	Yes	Comunica-ch - the Swiss Platform on the Information Society, Wikimedia CH
United Kingdom	Yes	Department for Culture, Media and Sports	Yes	Article 19

 

Last updated on 19 May 2017.

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