My view below<br><br>Very good vision, Jeremy. Congrats<br><br>Baudouin<br><div class="gmail_quote"><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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<div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;">Since the first IGF meeting was held in Athens, a similar concept has been taken up at a regional and national level. There are currently as many as eight of these at a regional level, and fourteen at a national level. Often, these meetings also use the name "Internet Governance Forum" or "IGF". However, they have no formal link with the Internet Governance Forum beyond being listed on the IGF's Web site, and sharing a few of the same participants.</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;">The main issue that this question raises, as I see it, is whether there should be a stronger link between the regional meetings and the central one. If so, we need to consider and provide feedback on questions such as:</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><ul><li>What criteria should the regional/national IGFs satisfy in order to qualify for this stronger linkage? For example, how open and multi-stakeholder must they be, and how transparent and inclusive their organisation?</li>
</ul></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" id="result_box" class="long_text">As
primary endpoint, should the organization or institution has been
present and active since the first phase of WSIS up the second.<br>The secondary criteria that must be taken into account are:<br>-Implementation of the action plan and the Tunis Agenda at national level: constraints and challenges<br>
-National ICT strategies<br>-The structural mechanism put in place for the management of gTLDs and stakeholders such as the registry, registrars etc ...<br><span style="" title="">-The consumer right ....<br></span>These
approaches at national and regional level requires a working synergy
between all actors involved and engaged in the ownership and
development of ICT service providers and consumers.<br>A national report on the development of ICT is an option of capital importance.</span></i> <br></div><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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<div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><ul><li>If there should be a set of criteria that regional/national IGFs must meet, how and by whom should it be developed?</li></ul></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div>
</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" id="result_box" class="long_text"><span style="" title="">To this question, I am referring to the mechanism of WSIS implementation Action Lines. </span><span style="" title="">Until
proven otherwise, agencies of the United Nations system were each
responsible for coordinating the implementation of Geneva Action Plan. In my humble opinion, it is logical that these agencies play the
role it has </span>assigned.<br>In
collaboration with official institutions, the private sector and civil
society entities involved in the process of building an information
society should work in synergy.</span><span id="zippyspan" onclick="_rolldown()" style="display: block; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><img src="http://www.google.cd/images/cleardot.gif" style="margin-right: 0.33em; cursor: pointer; visibility: visible;" id="zippyicon" class="buttons square13 zippy-plus"></span></i><div id="translit" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; display: none;">
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<div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><ul><li>Should it be permitted to have more than one IGF per region or country, or should the global IGF enforce a rule that only one event per region or country can be officially recognised?</li>
</ul></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"><span id="result_box" class="medium_text"><span style="" title="">It is
really important to have a national IGF by country first and a regional IGF will
resume all national concerns in order to build a regional position.</span></span></i> <br></div><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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<div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><ul><li>Should the programme of the regional/national IGFs be coordinated with that of the global IGF? If so, how? - perhaps through some sort of global council of IGFs?</li></ul>
</div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"><span id="result_box" class="long_text">It is a process of extreme importance to the exponential growth of digital technology. The digital divide is becoming increasingly growing in some communities. The
use of this technology must be well controlled to secure the most
venerable are no longer in that case, women, children, people of the
third age, disability .... But the people, communities that have no knowledge of the destructive capacity of this technology.<br>It
is desirable to have national IGFs consist of actors involved and
coordinated among relevant institutions and agencies of the UN system
to the realities of each country.<br>The national coordination will in turn set up a regional coordination with focus thematics groups split in each country.</span></i> <br></div><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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<div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><ul><li>Should written reports of regional/national IGFs be distributed to the global IGF?</li></ul></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></div>
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<div><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"><span id="result_box" class="medium_text"><span style="" title="">I admire the logic of the problem as submitted. </span><span style="" title="">Indeed,
with such organizational arrangements as proposed above, it is
essential that each year there is a national report and a regional
report.</span></span></i> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style=""><div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;"><div style="">
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<div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><ul><li>Should verbal reports from regional/national IGFs be given at a main session at the global IGF?</li></ul></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"><span id="result_box" class="medium_text"><span style="" title="">This
concern follows the foregoing, it is crucial at this stage that each
region has its verbal report that will provide power during the plenary
by the national participants of the IGF.</span></span></i> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style=""><div><div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><ul><li>Should panelists from the other IGFs be given priority in selection for panels at the global IGF?</li></ul></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"><span id="result_box" class="medium_text"><span style="" title="">Indeed,
in my opinion, the panelists IGF world must be identified and selected
among the IGF panelists from regional and national level.</span></span></i> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="">
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<div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><ul><li>Should each session organiser at the global IGF be required to give an opportunity for reports relevant to that session from regional/national IGF organisers?<span id="result_box" class="short_text"><span style="" title=""></span></span></li>
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<div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;">I'm sure you can think of more ideas, so please let's hear them. A practical example of how one organisation has addressed a similar issue is found in the guidelines that the TED conference sets for its affiliated events: <a href="http://www.ted.com/pages/view/id/351" target="_blank">http://www.ted.com/pages/view/id/351</a>.</div>
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