Hello<br><br>ISOC India Chennai has proposed these four workshops. If the topics interest the IGC and the Caucus participants, these workshops could be jointly organized.<br><br>Thank you.<br><br>Sivasubramanian Muthusamy<br>
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<span><b>Title: </b>Roundtable: Balancing Security and Privacy Concerns</span>
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<span style="line-height: 180%;"><b>Concise Description:</b><br>Privacy
and Security concerns are often seen as conflicting concerns as each
side often tends to be overwhelmed by its own concerns. On a deeper
level, even the most activist privacy proponents would desire a Secure
Internet relatively free of electronic dangers. At the same time, those
who apparently appear to disregard privacy concerns would acknowledge
the need for privacy to the necessary degree. This round table is
proposed to bring together the strong and moderate proponents of
Security and Privacy and encourage a free and unrestrained debate to
look for convergence in some areas between the two divided sides. <br>
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<br><div><div align="justify"><span style="line-height: 180%;"><b>If so, who would you approach as co-organizers ? If not, who do you think should organize it?</b><br>To
approach some of the Internet pioneers known for their commitment to
Internet values. To extend invitations to those from Law and Order,
Banking, Online Commerce and Civil Society Security advocates on the
one side and to extend invitations to Privacy Groups, Privacy Lawyers
and Foundations as also to organizations committed to preserving the
values of privacy and freedom. This workshop would define the concerns
of each side and identify points on which there could be agreement
between the apparently conflicting interests.</span></div></div>
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<div><div align="justify"><span><b>The Workshop is proposed on behalf of:</b>ISOC India Chennai</span></div></div>
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<span><b>Title: </b>Children Online: The promises of the Internet and the necessary aspects for Online Safety</span>
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<span style="line-height: 180%;"><b>Concise Description:</b><br>Internet
is a permeative medium that offers invaluable resources and tools for
learning so it becomes important for schools and parents to enable
Internet access for Children. Time spent by children online can be very
productive and Children can learn in easy and innovative ways, for
example, by using tools available for collaborative learning. But this
requires an essential orientation for Children for guided exposure to
the valuable resources available so as to get them to to focus on the
productive resources. <br>
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As Internet is becoming a part of every day life, especially for our
Children, it becomes important for Children to be aware that there are
good and bad 'places' and good and bad people just as there are good
and bad locations in our physical neighborhood and good and bad people
in real life. <br>
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Most children, in their first phase of Internet exposure tend to become
curious and exploratory on undesirable content and get drawn to Adult
content and unsafe places such as chat rooms online. In the absence of
a proper orientation and guidance there is also a danger of children
coming into contact with the wrong kind of people.<br>
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Children seem to be active participants in popular Social Networking
sites, chat-rooms, virtual places, online games etc. Children tend to
be exploratory and adventurous and need a orientation on how to
safeguard themselves and on aspects such as what information can be
shared at such sites with co-participants who are often unidentifiable
strangers with misleading identities.<br>
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While such wrong corers are a part of the Internet, there is ample
goodness in the Internet for Children to learn from. With the idea of
orienting children towards productive use of the Internet and guide
them on Online Safety aspects, ISOC India Chennai proposes to organize
this workshop.<br>
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<br><div><div align="justify"><span style="line-height: 180%;"><b></b>Participants
with expertise in Online Safety aspects, parents, teachers. We will
approach Parry Aftab, leading advocate of child safety aspects to be a
co-participant.</span></div></div>
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<div><div align="justify"><span><b>The Workshop is proposed on behalf of:</b>ISOC India Chennai</span></div></div>
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<a href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2009View&wspid=198" target="_blank">http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2009View&wspid=198</a><br>
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<span><b>Title: </b> Internet in Education and Curriculum Development and Sharing: Alexandria Everywhere</span>
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<span style="line-height: 180%;"><b>Concise Description:</b><br>Even
with an estimated 1.4 billion users connected, Internet is still a
phenomenon in its nascent phase of evolution. Internet has fostered
innovation and has caused all round progress to happen in an
accelerated pace, but the thinking that Internet makes it possible to
globally coordinate concrete developmental programs for an enhanced
level of economic progress is yet to set in. <br>
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Education is one of the areas where Internet can cause tremendous
change. Collaborative, participatory learning Models are evolving and
classrooms around the world are experimentally connected. <br>
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A concrete, globally adaptable, CO-ORDINATED program could bridge the
gap between quality of education between a classroom in a well funded
school in a developed country and one in an inadequately funded school
in a developing or under-developed country. This workshop (panel and
public participation) would examine models by which resources could be
shared across Internet and create a rough, actionable framework for
educational institutions to connect by commercial and non-commercial
models and examine ways of making it possible to expand the reach of
well developed curriculum (in terms of content, teaching methods and
technology) reach remote corners on a co-ordinated, global scale.<br>
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<br><div><div align="justify"><span style="line-height: 180%;"><b></b>How
this workshop will be organized: We would approach an eminent
educational institution / academic center to be the co-organizers. The
lead participants of this workshop are to have the diversity of
academia from developed and developing countries, policy planners,
e-curriculum experts, students from developed and developing countries
and futuristic thinkers. The choosen topic would also further IGF's
efforts to improve the diversity of participation by attracting
participation / involving the student community from around the world,
in the preparatory phase, during IGF and in follow up collaboration.</span></div></div>
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<div><div align="justify"><span><b>The Workshop is proposed on behalf of:</b>ISOC India Chennai</span></div></div>
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<a href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2009View&wspid=136" target="_blank">http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2009View&wspid=136</a><br>
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<span><b>Title: </b>Workshop on Fundamentals: Internet's Core Values.</span>
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<span style="line-height: 180%;"><b>Concise Description:</b><br>What
is Internet? What makes it what it is? What are Internet's
Characteristics? What are the core values? Open architecture? Free
medium? a medium that fosters Innovation free of intermediaries and
controls? a single unified Network of Networks? a non-discriminatory
medium? a medium open for access by anyone from anywhere? a neutral
medium? What are the core values? And what is happening to the core
values in the process of its evolution? What needs to be preserved and
what changes are inevitable? How could changes and improvements be
brought about without compromising on the core values? How would the
different positions between stakeholders be reconciled to commit to the
Internet's core values?</span>
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<br><div><div align="justify"><span style="line-height: 180%;"><b></b>We
propose to invite one or two organizations / academic institutions
committed to Internet's core values to co-organize this workshop. Some
of the early pioneers of Internet who have contributed to the
Internet's architectural principles are to be invited to define
Internet's core values, followed by a participative discussion on
current positive and adverse trends and how to ensure further progress
without compromising on Internet's core values.</span></div></div>
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<div><div align="justify"><span><b>The Workshop is proposed on behalf of:</b>ISOC India Chennai</span></div></div>
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<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Ian Peter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com" target="_blank">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<font size="4"><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The clear merge here is with workshop proposal 184 on the same subject (net neutrality) from Diplo Foundation (Vladimir Radunovic).<br>
Ginger, given your associations there, can you approach them and see if they are willing to merge? WE need to submit by June 15 so I guess this is fairly urgent.<div><div></div><div><br>
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On 7/06/09 7:22 PM, "Parminder" <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" target="_blank">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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</div></div></span></font></font><blockquote><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><div><div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">Hi All<br>
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I see that 15th is the last date for final workshop proposals and 30th for speakers. IGC has two workshop proposals and we will need to work on this. Best to get working groups made for each. This is how it worked the last time. <br>
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Meanwhile there is a proposal in the program paper that some workshops that are sufficiently representative will be given longer time period - 3 hours, with a view of possibly seeking some useful convergences of views. The precise language of the program paper is<br>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman">"Merged workshops will be given the opportunity to bring their findings to the attention of the related main session. If sufficiently representative, merged workshops will be given three hour slots with the aim of providing an opportunity to identify a range of best practices."<br>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman">I wonder if we can try and propose merger of our network neutrality workshop with another one on the same subject, and apply for a 3 hour slot. We can point to the fact that in at least one country (Norway) all stakeholders have been able to agree to set of NN principles, and it is worth making such efforts at the global level. At the least we can try to agree to some basic set of principles that flow flow from the defining characteristics of 'openness' and 'neutrality' of the Internet. <br>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman">In order to give our best to leverage the new format opened up, perhaps as a back up (since we have no proposed workshop on this subject) we can seek a 3 hour workshop on developing principles and best practices in IG in the area of disability rights - this would perhaps also complement the current work in WIPO on copyright exception for the disabled. <br>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman">On a different note, we should also put in a request for a booth in the IGF village for the IGC, last date fro which is 30th June. We took one in Hyderabad, but it was not advertised among members and did not get used. Such a booth is a good meeting point for the caucus <br>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman">parminder <br>
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