Reminder: IGF workshop on a development agenda remote participation beginning

[Alex Gakuru]

It's actually good quality. Thanks Bill and the technical folks on the ground.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Robin Gross <robin at ipjustice.org> wrote:
> 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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