Reminder: IGF workshop on a development agenda remote participation beginning

Tue Nov 17 09:03:28 CET 2009

Thanks, listening to this now over the web - sounds good.  - Robin

On Nov 16, 2009, at 11:27 PM, William Drake wrote:

> For any night owls in North America or people elsewhere who are  
> interested in development aspects of IG, a reminder that a remote  
> participation enabled workshop is beginning in ten minutes.   
> Details and log on info below.
>
> Bill
>
> On Nov 10, 2009, at 5:33 PM, William Drake wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> For people who will not be attending the IGF in Sharm el Sheikh,  
>> there is now another remote participation opportunity, in addition  
>> to the IGF main sessions and the GigaNet symposium, courtesy of  
>> Derrick Cogburn and his Cotelco center.  This is the workshop I've  
>> organized on, "Implementing the WSIS Principles: A Development  
>> Agenda for Internet Governance."  Description and RP information  
>> are below if the topic is of interest.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/devagenda-igf2009proposal
>>
>> Concise Description:
>>
>> The Tunis Agenda’s WSIS principles on Internet governance comprise  
>> both procedural and substantive prescriptions. The former state  
>> that governance should be conducted in a manner that is  
>> multilateral, transparent, democratic, and fully inclusive of all  
>> stakeholders. The latter state that governance should, inter alia,  
>> ensure an equitable distribution of resources, facilitate access  
>> for all, and be an essential element of a people-centred,  
>> inclusive, development-oriented, and non-discriminatory  
>> information society. Taken together, these latter principles  
>> suggest that Internet governance should help to advance  
>> development objectives. In addition, the Tunis Agenda mandates the  
>> IGF to, “Promote and assess, on an ongoing basis, the embodiment  
>> of WSIS principles in Internet Governance processes.” Implementing  
>> the substantive WSIS principles and this element of the IGF  
>> mandate would require that stakeholders use the collaborative  
>> opportunities afforded by the IGF to assess and encourage  
>> governance mechanisms’ contributions to development. But  
>> unfortunately, the development dimension often has been overlooked  
>> in discussions of the WSIS principles and the IGF mandate.  
>> Accordingly, this workshop will help redress the problem by  
>> fostering a dialogue that takes seriously the concept of IG4D and  
>> by exploring ways to promote its realization in both the IGF and  
>> Internet governance mechanisms.
>>
>> More specifically, the workshop will consider the possible  
>> establishment of a development agenda for Internet governance that  
>> would facilitate implementation of the WSIS principles and the IGF  
>> mandate. A development agenda is a holistic program of analysis  
>> and action intended to mainstream development considerations into  
>> the procedures and policy outputs of global governance mechanisms.  
>> While there have been concerted efforts to pursue such agendas in  
>> the multilateral institutions dealing with issues like  
>> international trade and intellectual property, there has been no  
>> discussion of a corresponding initiative for global Internet  
>> governance. With this in mind, a workshop entitled “Toward a  
>> Development Agenda for Internet Governance” was held at the IGF in  
>> Rio de Janeiro in 2007 http://tinyurl.com/devagenda-igf2007report.  
>> Participants considered the general desirability of pursuing a  
>> development agenda and agreed that a properly configured and  
>> consensual initiative could help to promote an open, accessible,  
>> diverse, and secure global Internet. To carry the discussion  
>> forward, a second workshop entitled “A Development Agenda for  
>> Internet Governance: From Principle to Practice” was held at the  
>> IGF in Hyderabad in 2008 http://tinyurl.com/devagenda- 
>> igf2008report. Here participants began to explore the possible  
>> substantive focus and operational aspects of a development agenda,  
>> and inter alia affirmed that the IGF is the most appropriate venue  
>> in which to elaborate a cross-cutting and flexible agenda that  
>> could encourage development-oriented enhancements within Internet  
>> governance institutions.
>>
>> This third workshop in the series, to be held at the IGF in Sharm  
>> el Sheikh, will build on the prior discussions and seek to  
>> progress consensus building in three interrelated issue-areas:
>>
>> 1. The substantive focus of a development agenda, i.e. the key  
>> institutions and issues (pertaining both to Internet  
>> infrastructures and core resources and to their use for networked  
>> information, communication, and commerce) to be assessed from a  
>> developmental baseline so as to identify best practices and  
>> guidelines that organizations could consider employing within  
>> their respective work programs.
>> 2. The procedural and institutional dimensions of an agenda, e.g.  
>> assessing the transparency and inclusiveness of participation, per  
>> the WSIS procedural principles, from the standpoint of people- 
>> centered development.
>> 3. The operational aspects of pursuing an agenda in the IGF and  
>> beyond, e.g. the challenges of agenda setting, building a dynamic  
>> coalition and/or other collaborations, consensually defining  
>> assessment criteria and modalities, aggregating and presenting  
>> information, interfacing with governance stakeholders and  
>> institutions, providing feed-back mechanisms for input, etc.
>>
>>
>> Institutional Co-Sponsors
>>
>> •	Government of Argentina (TBC)
>> •	Association for Progressive Communications
>> •	Centre for International Governance, Graduate Institute for  
>> International Studies
>> •	Council of Europe
>> •	Diplo Foundation
>> •	Institute for Internet Policy & Law, Beijing Normal University
>> •	Internet Society of China
>> •	Federal Office of Communication, Government of Switzerland
>>
>>
>> Scheduling and Remote Participation
>>
>> The workshop will be held on Day 3 of the IGF--- Tuesday 17  
>> November, from 9:30-12:30 in Room 3, Suez Canal.
>>
>> Remote participation in the workshop will be provided for by the  
>> Center for Research on Collaboratories and Technology Enhanced  
>> Learning Communities at Syracuse University, USA.
>>
>> Information on computer system requirements and use of the  
>> webconferencing technology (Elluminate Live!) is available at:
>> http://giganet.igloogroups.org/remotepart
>>
>> Remote participation during the workshop will be available at
>> https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M. 
>> 10FC7E24BA568E8B69C7D3F0DDC21E
>>
>>
>> Agenda
>>
>> I. Welcome and Overview by the organizer
>>
>> William J. Drake
>> Senior Associate, Center for International Governance, Graduate  
>> Institute for International and Development Studies, Geneva,  
>> Switzerland
>>
>>
>> II. Panel Presentations
>>
>> Moderator: William J. Drake
>>
>> Speakers
>>
>> Anriette Esterhuysen
>> Executive Director, Association for Progressive Communications,  
>> South Africa
>>
>> Derrick Cogburn
>> Associate Professor of International Relations, American  
>> University, and Senior Scientist and Chief Research Director at  
>> the School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, United  
>> States of America
>>
>> Olga Cavalli
>> Advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and representative to  
>> the Governmental Advisor Committee of ICANN, Government of Argentina
>>
>> Christine Arida
>> Director for Telecom Planning and Services, Egyptian National  
>> Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA), Government of Egypt
>>
>> Alice Munyua
>> Convenor, East African IGF and Kenya ICT Action Network,
>> Communications Commission, Government of Kenya
>>
>> Hong Xue
>> Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Internet Policy  
>> & Law, Beijing Normal University, China
>>
>> Fiona Alexander
>> Associate Administrator (Head of Office) for International Affairs,
>> National Telecommunications and Information Administration,  
>> Department of Commerce, Government of the United States
>>
>> Elfa Yr Gylfadottir
>> Adviser, Office of cultural affairs, Ministry of Education,  
>> Science and Culture, Iceland
>>
>>
>> III. Q&A with the Panelists
>>
>>
>> IV. Group Discussion
>>
>> Possible elements of a development agenda:
>>
>> 1. Capacity building
>> 2. Institutional/procedural issues
>> 3. Substantive policy issues: Governance of infrastructures
>> 4. Substantive policy issues: Governance of networked
>> information, communication & commerce
>>
>> How to move forward with a DA:
>>
>> 5. In the IGF & global IG institutions
>> 6. Research and capacity building
>>
>>
>> V. Synthesis and Conclusion
>>
>> ***********************************************************
>> William J. Drake
>> Senior Associate
>> Centre for International Governance
>> Graduate Institute of International and
>> Development Studies
>> Geneva, Switzerland
>> william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch
>> www.graduateinstitute.ch/cig/drake.html
>> ***********************************************************

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