<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi<div><br></div><div>Further to my previous messages, this is the event at which NCUC will be doing an outreach session & reception. NCUC members from Africa may wish to consider applying…<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Bill<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Anriette Esterhuysen <<a href="mailto:anriette@apc.org">anriette@apc.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[governance] African School on IG: call for applications</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">June 3, 2013 11:27:33 AM GMT+02:00<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"<a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>,Anriette Esterhuysen <<a href="mailto:anriette@apc.org">anriette@apc.org</a>><br></span></div><br><div>Dear all<br><br>I am very pleased to be announcing the call for applications for the<br>first African School on Internet Governance (ASIG) scheduled to take<br>place from 10-12 July, immediately prior to the ICANN meeting in Durban<br>South Africa. Thanks to the many people - including those on on this<br>list - who have contributed the input and support that managed to get us<br>to the point of being able to launch ASIG next month.<br><br>Details below and in the attached PDF. Please distribute widely.<br><br>Anriette<br><br>*Call for Applications to Participate in the First African School on<br>Internet Governance in Durban South Africa, July 2013*<br><br>The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and the NEPAD<br>Planning and Coordinating Agency–e-Africa Programme are pleased to<br>announce the call for applications for the first African School on<br>Internet Governance to be held in Durban, South Africa, from 10-12 July<br>2013.<br><br>Internet Governance (IG) is usually defined as the development and<br>application, by governments, the private sector, and civil society of<br>principles, policies, norms, rules, decision-making procedures, and<br>programmes that shape the evolution and use of the internet. While few<br>contest the definition itself, the respective roles, responsibility,<br>power and influence of various stakeholder groups continue to be the<br>subject of intense debate. Also contested is the institutional ecosystem<br>within which decisions that impact on the internet are being made, as<br>well as the principles on which such governance should be based.<br><br>What is not contested is that (a) IG is complex and and participating<br>effectively in IG processes is not easy, (b) African participation in<br>IG, be it in technical, social or political spheres, is insufficient and<br>(b) few African countries have established sustainable open and<br>inclusive policy discussion forums where government, civil society,<br>businesses and technical people are able to interact effectively and<br>collaborate to develop consistent national and institutional strategies<br>aimed at mobilising the internet for economic, social, political and<br>cultural development.<br><br>The first Summer School on IG <<a href="http://www.euro-ssig.eu/">http://www.euro-ssig.eu/</a>> (SSIG) was held<br>in Europe in Meissen in July 2007. It has become an annual event and has<br>given rise to the South School on IG<br><<a href="http://www.gobernanzainternet.org/">http://www.gobernanzainternet.org/</a>> held annually in Latin America for<br>the last four years and an Asia Pacific school that took place in 2011.<br>The African School on IG will build on their experience but customise<br>session content to meet the needs of African IG interest groups. We will<br>utilise the expertise that exists within the continent as well as that<br>of international academics and practitioners in the field. Topics to be<br>covered include:<br><br> *<br><br> History and overview of IG<br><br> *<br><br> Policy, development and human rights<br><br> *<br><br> Regulation and management: standards, protocols, gTLDs, ccTLDs,<br> internet intermediaries<br><br> *<br><br> Multi-stakeholder approaches to IG: roles and processes, challenges<br> and opportunities<br><br><br>APC/NPCA can support two groups of successful applicants:<br><br> *<br><br> Those who are already planning to come to ICANN47<br> <<a href="http://meetings.icann.org/ICANN47">http://meetings.icann.org/ICANN47</a>> but who would need to arrive<br> earlier to attend the School (accommodation and meals)<br><br> *<br><br> Those who are not currently planning to come to ICANN47 but who want<br> to participate in the school (travel, visas and meals and<br> accommodation for the duration of the School)<br><br>The organisers of the School are not able to support accommodation and<br>other costs for particpation in ICANN47, only for participation in the<br>African School on IG.<br><br><br>To apply please fill in the form at *<a href="http://tw.gs/Q7uehW*by">http://tw.gs/Q7uehW*by</a> *12 June<br>2013*. For more information contact *<a href="mailto:emilar@apc.org">emilar@apc.org</a>*<br><br><br>-- <br>------------------------------------------------------<br>anriette esterhuysen <a href="mailto:anriette@apc.org">anriette@apc.org</a><br>executive director, association for progressive communications<br><a href="http://www.apc.org">www.apc.org</a><br>po box 29755, melville 2109<br>south africa<br>tel/fax +27 11 726 1692<br><br></div></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>