The Global Commission on Internet Governance (GCIG) is a two-year initiative launched by Canadian think-tank the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and Chatham House. It includes twenty-nine commissioners and thirty-six research advisers. The GCIG will produce a comprehensive stand on the future of multi-stakeholder Internet governance to be launched in the summer of 2016.

The purpose of GCIG and its commission report is to articulate and advance a strategic vision for the future of Internet (a $4.2TN economy in 2016) governance between various stakeholders including governments, NGOs, large corporations and individual users, which has so far never before been assembled.

GCIG has convened meetings in various locations across the world, and the Middle East would have been absent without this meeting in Jordan. The promise that the internet holds for job opportunities for Middle Eastern youth is perhaps among the highest in the world. The feedback we receive in the planned meeting (hosted by Oasis 500) we are holding with Jordanian youth including the challenges that they face, will be taken into consideration in the final report due on June 2016.