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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">For your information -
KL<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">The African civil
society for the information society (ACSIS) submitted a contribution to
IGF within the
framework of the preparation of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> meeting. </span><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">The contribution targets the draft
programme
in discussion but also general issues around IGF. Some of its comments
are directed to </span><span style="" lang="EN-GB">stakeholders in
general (including Africans)<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">The title of the
contribution in English is: "For a real impact of IGF
in
least developed countries"<br>
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It includes, among other, recommendations or concerns such as:<br>
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- IGF’s impact in <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> is hardly
seen so far<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">- the need
to decisively make efforts to make the IGF useful to developing
countries -
establishing permanent thematic working groups, provide supplementary
resources
to the secretariat, find more resources for participation, etc.<br>
- the review of IGF should give opportunity to analyze IGF impacts on
LDCs and
a multilingual approach should be followed for this review in order to
include
all stakeholders<br>
- the need to consolidate and give more visibility to 'best practice
fora' that
potentially favor the reinforcement of capacities of the global South.<br>
- a proposal to publish results of the IGF (in print and or electronic
documents
: manuel/collection of best practices, etc.) with particular attention
to
results useful to DCs<br>
- regarding theme 2 of the draft programme, the replacement of
« Promoting
cybersecurity, and Trust” by « Promoting cybersecurity, and Freedom of
expression on the Internet” to also give more visibility to human
rights
issues along with security issues<br>
- the need to have important information in UN languages on the website<br>
- a appeal should be made to LDCs's governments in the final documents
produced
at Hyderabad, for them to initiate/strengthen/support national IG(F)
processes
for the consolidation of IG for Development in those countries<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">- the need
to strengthen remote participation mechanisms <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">- the need to discuss
norms and standards in India<br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">- an appeal
to African stakeholders to better contribute within the framework of
the IGF to
the promotion and consolidations of the IG(F) on the continent<br>
- a proposal of a meeting of CS on IGF prior to Egypt 2009 to discuss
IGF role
and impact.<br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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The document is in French.<br>
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KL<br>
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