<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear NCUC members,</div><div><br></div><div>Good day to you and I hope your day is going great.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Here is an interesting meeting I like to encourage you to attend at the on-going IGF2021<br></div><div><br><b>IGF 2021 WS #252 Imagining the Future of International Internet Governance </b><br></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>Links <a href="https://igf2021.collectivibe.com/live/150" target="_blank">https://igf2021.collectivibe.com/live/150</a><b><br></b></div><div><b>
<span style="font-size:6.12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(253,233,217);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-586144f1-7fff-8580-e96b-fc9859e90037">8/12/2021 15:30 IGF 2021 WS #252 Imagining the Future of International Internet Governance Conference Room 6 <a href="https://intgovforum.zoom.us/j/82868510110">https://intgovforum.zoom.us/j/82868510110</a></span>
</b></div><div><br></div><div>Area: <a href="https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/taxonomy/term/1002" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="color:rgb(64,132,131);font-family:roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.4px" target="_blank">(EMERGING AND CROSS-CUTTING) Inclusive IG ecosystems and digital cooperation</a>)<br></div><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-size:16px;line-height:25px;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-family:roboto,sans-serif">Another question to address touches on how the technical governance of the protocols and procedures that underpin an interconnected Internet relate to the ongoing Internet public policy discourses.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-size:16px;line-height:25px;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-family:roboto,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">Policy questions </span></p><ol style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-family:roboto,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">Digital sovereignty:</span> What is meant by digital sovereignty? What implications does it have for the global nature of the Internet, for Internet governance itself, and the effectiveness of the multistakeholder approach? From an opposite angle, what are the implications of the Internet and digitalisation for national sovereignty?</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">Assessing Internet governance approaches and mechanisms and fostering inclusiveness:</span> What are the main strengths and weaknesses of existing Internet governance approaches and mechanisms? What can be done, and by whom, to foster more inclusive Internet governance at the national, regional and international levels? </li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">Governance and cooperation for an evolving Internet:</span> How does Internet governance need to change in order to meet the changing nature and role of the Internet? What tools, mechanisms, and capacity building instruments are needed for stakeholders to effectively cooperate, and engage in Internet governance? </li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">Technical Internet governance:</span> How can the technical governance of the Internet (e.g. the development of standards and protocols, and the management of critical resources) take into account the needs and views of all stakeholders?</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">Advancing global digital cooperation:</span> What opportunities are provided by the current focus on digital cooperation resulting from the UN Secretary-General's Roadmap for digital cooperation? What role should the <dfn title="Internet Governance Forum" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:normal;border-bottom:1px dotted rgb(44,62,80)">IGF</dfn> play (and how) in advancing global digital cooperation?</li></ol><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-size:16px;line-height:25px;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-family:roboto,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">Related issues</span></p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-family:roboto,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:circle;line-height:25px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Digital cooperation, digital sovereignty, multistakeholder cooperation, Internet infrastructure, capacity development, national and regional Internet governance cooperation, Internet Governance Forum, technical Internet governance, inclusive Internet governance</li></ul><div><font face="roboto, sans-serif" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></div></div><div><font face="roboto, sans-serif" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="roboto, sans-serif" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:16px">Kind regards,</span></font></div><div><font face="roboto, sans-serif" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:16px">Benjamin</span></font></div></div>