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id: "govlab:project/project-netmundial-solutions-map"
type: "GovLab project"
title: "NETmundial Solutions Map"
url: "https://thegovlab.org/project/project-netmundial-solutions-map"
summary: "How to develop an open map of the field of Internet Governance through crowdsourcing?"
source: "The GovLab (thegovlab.org)"
licence: "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)"
---

# NETmundial Solutions Map

How to develop an open map of the field of Internet Governance through crowdsourcing?

Project website: [https://map.netmundial.org/](https://map.netmundial.org/)

## Background

Across the world, the Internet has rapidly become essential to people’s daily lives. Access to the Internet impacts all aspects of society. Subsequently, how the Internet is governed has grown in importance but also has become much more complex to navigate. In particular:

## Description

The [NETmundial Solutions Map](https://map.netmundial.org/), an activity of the [NETmundial Initiative](https://www.netmundial.org/), is a tool to support decision makers at all levels and across sectors to make informed decisions on how to govern different aspects of the Internet by providing an open platform of information sharing and collaboration across Internet governance issues. It is designed to facilitate a “distributed Internet governance ecosystem that can propel the Internet as a shared, neutral, and global resource for human solidarity and economic progress ([NETmundial Initiative](https://www.netmundial.org/)).”

## Location

- Global

## Partners

- SecondRise
- Association for Progressive Communications
- Berkman
- Center for Global Communication studies
- Friends of the IGF
- Global Internet Policy Observatory
- Global Partners Digital
- Internet Policy Observatory
- Internet & Jurisdiction
- Instituto de Tecnologia & Sociedade do Rio
- Media Change and Innovation
- MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Opening Governance
- Observatório da Internet no Brasil
- University of Oxford
- FGV - Fundação Getúlio Vargas - Direito Rio

## Additional resources

- [Beta Release of the NETmundial Solutions Map](http://thegovlab.org/?s=Netmundial+solutions+map)