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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">In the statement we should also mention that special 3 hour workshops
on the two themes of dev agenda and NN were organized last year, which
represents a certain degree of maturity of these themes within the IGF
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<div>A Development Agenda for Internet Governance</div>
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<div>Development is a key focus of the Tunis Agenda and its mandate
for the IGF. But while development has been posed as a cross-cutting
theme of IGF meetings, they have not featured a broadly inclusive and
probing dialogue on what Internet Governance for Development (IG4D)
might mean in conceptual and operational terms. To address this gap,
the IGC previously has advocated a main session on A Development Agenda
for Internet Governance, and some its members have organized workshops</div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div>(including a special three hour event at Sharm el Sheikh)</div><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><blockquote cite="mid:75379CDA-69EB-4127-BCC7-542D4A91F0B7@graduateinstitute.ch" type="cite"><div>
or produced position papers elaborating different visions of what such
an agenda could entail. In light of the related discussions during
the Sharm el Sheikh cycle, we renew our call for a main session on this
theme. The dialogue at Vilnius could, inter alia, identify the
linkages between Internet governance mechanisms and development, and
consider options for mainstreaming development considerations into IGF
discussions and Internet governance processes, as appropriate. We also
continue to support the Swiss government’'s proposal to consider
establishing a multi-stakeholder Working Group that could develop
recommendations to the IGF on a development agenda.</div>
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Bill</div>
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