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<p class="MsoNormal">We would like to invite you to participate in our workshop session on<b> INTERNET GOVERNANCE AND OPEN GOVERNMENT DATA</b> on Thursday November 12th, 2015 from 11:00am - 12:00 (Time Zone: BRT) at Workshop Room 3. ( <a href="https://igf2015.sched.org/event/a9da15681c7cc17785289d14ed828a34#.VkORlVI4FR8">https://igf2015.sched.org/event/a9da15681c7cc17785289d14ed828a34#.VkORlVI4FR8</a> )<br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Prof. Nii Quaynor, the father of internet in Africa, pioneered Internet development and expansion throughout
Africa for nearly two decades, establishing some of Africa's first
Internet connections and helping set up key organizations, including the
African Network Operators Group. He also was the founding chairman of
AfriNIC, the African Internet numbers registry, Former ICANN Board Member, IGF Advisory Board Member and Open Government Partnership Member will chair the workshop session.<br></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The workshop seeks to explore the relationship
between access to the Internet, and the development of web-based Open Data initiatives.
As the number of Open data initiatives increases worldwide, including in
countries where open governance is not common, the Internet governance issues
surrounding such release of data have yet to be thoroughly investigated. The
workshop will focus on some of the issues that have arisen with the advent of
Open Data, particularly in the African Sub-region. This will be done with a
view to helping to bring focus to Internet governance issues, such as access,
Infrastructure, the data divide and privacy. We will also examine the need for
global ethical standards that can govern the responsible release and use of
such data globally within an Internet governance framework. In these present
days, Open Data issues are being discussed outside Internet governance domain.
We will examine perspectives from multiple Internet governance stakeholders
about determination of what data is released and how it is used. This will be
done to stimulate discussion about the issues by looking at the number of
culturally influenced views on the issue of Internet governance and open data.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><b>Resource person for the session as follows:</b></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Mr. Wisdom
Donkor (Moderator)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Prof.Nii
Quaynor (Chair)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Prof. Tao
Xiaofeng</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Ms. Nnenna
Nwakanma</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Mr. Eric
Akumaih (Remote panel)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Ms.
Valentina Pavel</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Mrs.
Florence Toffa</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Mr. Bonface
Witaba</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Mr. Sonigitu
Ekpe</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><br></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>The link for remote participation as follows:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="https://intgovforum.webex.com/intgovforum/j.php?RGID=r29bfa4428e6802dc3ae830de85509243" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://intgovforum.webex.com/intgovforum/j.php?RGID=r29bfa4428e6802dc3ae830de85509243</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I look forward to seeing you all.<br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<br><br><br><br><br><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:small">WISDOM DONKOR (S/N Eng.)<br></div><div style="font-size:small">ICANN Fellow / ISOC Member<br></div><span style="font-size:small">Web/OGPL Portal Specialist</span></div><div><div style="font-size:small"><div>National Information Technology Agency (NITA) <br></div><div>Ghana Open Data Initiative (GODI)</div><div>Post Office Box CT. 2439, Cantonments, Accra, Ghana</div><div>Tel; +233 20 812881</div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:wisdom_dk@hotmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">wisdom_dk@hotmail.com</a><br></div><div><a href="mailto:wisdom.donkor@data.gov.gh" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">wisdom.donkor@data.gov.gh</a><br></div><div><a href="mailto:wisdom.dk@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">wisdom.dk@gmail.com</a><br></div><div>Skype: wisdom_dk</div><div>facebook: facebook@wisdom_dk<br></div><div>Website: <a href="http://www.nita.gov.gh/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.nita.gov.gh</a> / <a href="http://www.data.gov.gh/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.data.gov.gh</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.isoc.gh/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.isoc.gh</a> / <a href="http://www.itag.org.gh/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.itag.org.gh</a> <br></div></div></div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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