<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><i class="">Apologies for cross-posting</i><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In case anyone is interested, just in time for the WSIS+10 Review, yesterday the APC released the below book, which is edited by myself and populated by various familiar IG mavens. The free PDF version is available now from the APC website, and in a week or so there also will be e-book and print on demand versions at Amazon and other dealers for a couple dollars.</div><div class=""><br class="">Best</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bill</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">--------------------<br class=""><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templatePreheader" class="" style="width: 600px;"><tbody class=""></tbody></table><div class=""><br class=""></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateContainer" class="" style="width: 600px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="center" valign="top" class=""><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateHeader" class="" style="width: 600px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="headerContent"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr class=""><td align="center" valign="top" class=""><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" id="templateBody" class="" style="width: 600px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="bodyContent" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" class="" style="width: 580px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="">PRESS STATEMENT</span><span class=""> </span><span class="">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span></font><p class=""><strong class=""><font size="4" class="">New publication: The Working Group on Internet Governance - 10th Anniversary Reflections</font></strong></p><p class=""><font size="4" class="">JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 14 December 2015 – <span class="" style="line-height: 1.6em;">2015 marks the 10th anniversary of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The UN General Assembly reviewed the progress made over the past decade and negotiated a text that addresses a number of global Internet governance issues. 2015 is also the 10th anniversary of a multistakeholder experiment that helped bring the WSIS to a successful conclusion: the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). Convened in 2004, the WGIG assembled 40 representatives of governments and stakeholders who engaged in months of intensive peer-level dialogue and collective analysis. The WGIG process was an important turning point and catalyst in the intergovernmental recognition of multistakeholder processes for Internet governance. In June 2005, the WGIG released a widely noted report that advanced a “broad definition” of Internet governance; holistically addressed a range of policy issues; offered four competing models for the ”oversight” of critical Internet resources; and proposed the establishment of the Internet Governance Forum. The report significantly influenced the final agreement adopted by WSIS.</span></font></p><p class=""><span class="" style="line-height: 1.6em;"><font size="4" class="">This book, edited by William J. Drake and published by APC with the support of APNIC, <a href="http://cgi.br/" class="">CGI.br</a>, ICANN and Internet Society, reflects on the WGIG’s procedural and substantive contributions to the evolving global Internet governance dialogue and institutional ecosystem. Written by former WGIG members and others who played key roles in the debates on the WGIG and WSIS, the volume is a follow-up to a book produced in the summer of 2005: William J. Drake, ed., <a href="http://www.wgig.org/docs/book/WGIG_book.pdf" class="">Reforming Internet Governance: Perspectives from the UN Working Group on Internet Governance</a>. </font></span></p><p class=""><font size="4" class=""><em class="">Topics include:</em> historical overview; understanding Internet governance; institutionalizing multistakeholder cooperation; from oversight to stewardship; Internet governance for development; and closing reflections.</font></p><p class=""><span class="" style="line-height: 1.6em;"><font size="4" class=""><em class="">Authors include:</em> Fiona Alexander, Peng Hwa Ang and Sherly Haristya, Karen Banks and Anriette Esterhuysen, Nitin Desai, Avri Doria, William J. Drake, Raúl Echeberría, Baher Esmat, Juan Fernández González, Hartmut R. Glaser and Diego R. Canabarro, David Hendon, Jānis Kārkliņš, Wolfgang Kleinwächter, Jovan Kurbalija, Markus Kummer, Olivier Nana Nzépa, Alejandro Pisanty, Paul Wilson and Pablo Hinojosa, and Michael Yakushev.</font></span></p><p class=""><em class=""><strong class="" style="line-height: 1.6em;"><font size="4" class="">The full publication can be downloaded <a href="https://www.apc.org/en/WGIG" class="">here</a> </font></strong></em></p><hr class=""><p class=""><strong class="" style="line-height: 1.6em;"><font size="4" class="">About the Association for Progressive Communications</font></strong></p><p class=""><font size="4" class="">The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is an international network and non-profit organisation founded in 1990 that wants everyone to have access to a free and open internet to improve lives and create a more just world.<br class=""><a href="https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3756&qid=248329" class="">apc.org</a></font></p><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div class="vcard location"><span class="adr"><font size="4" class=""><span class="street-address">PO Box 29755</span><br class=""><span class="locality">Melville</span>, <span class="region">GT</span> <span class="postal-code">2109</span><br class=""><span class="country-name">South Africa</span></font></span></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><p class=""><strong class=""><font size="4" class="">Media contact</font></strong></p><p class=""><font size="4" class="">Flavia Fascendini<br class="">APC Communications <br class=""><a href="mailto:mallory@apc.org" class="">flavia@apc.org</a></font></p><font size="4" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></font></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">*********************************************************<br class="">William J. Drake<br class="">International Fellow & Lecturer<br class=""> Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ<br class=""> University of Zurich, Switzerland<br class="">Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, <br class=""> ICANN, <a href="http://www.ncuc.org" class="">www.ncuc.org</a><br class=""><a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch" class="">william.drake@uzh.ch</a> (direct), <a href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com" class="">wjdrake@gmail.com</a> (lists),<br class=""> <a href="http://www.williamdrake.org" class="">www.williamdrake.org</a><br class=""><i class="">Internet Governance: The NETmundial Roadmap </i><a href="http://goo.gl/sRR01q" class="">http://goo.gl/sRR01q</a><br class="">*********************************************************</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></body></html>