Following the NETmundial Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance, there is increased awareness of how civil society’s participation in and shaping of multi-stakeholder Internet governance processes can reorient them towards promoting an open, neutral and free Internet that promotes social and economic development and upholds human rights. The 2014 meeting of the Best Bits network moves forward from NETmundial to share analysis and strategy on a range of key Internet policy processes that civil society groups plan to influence over the coming year. Through the shared outputs of this meeting and the indirect benefits of participation, we expect to empower civil society organisations and individual activists to create more informed, effective, inclusive and complementary advocacy outcomes, in which the public interest is better reflected in high-level policy discussions and in the outputs that these discussions produce. The meeting will also place Best Bits itself on a firmer institutional footing, in order to enhance its legitimacy as a broad-based civil society advocacy network and improve its long-term sustainability.