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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple>Tijani,<br/>I was in Beirut meeting as CS participant and could say that the micro group present there was enough to launch it :)<br/>The most important now is that the AIGF will soon be a reality :)<br/>Let's make sure to involve CS as much possible, and we can do so for the first meeting.<br/>All the best,<br/>Bernard<div>Sent via my BlackBerry® smartphone</div><hr/><div><b>From: </b> <tijani.benjemaa@planet.tn>
</div><div><b>Sender: </b> governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org
</div><div><b>Date: </b>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:29:03 +0100</div><div><b>To: </b><governance@lists.igcaucus.org>; 'Qusai AlShatti'<qshatti@gmail.com>; 'khaled koubaa'<khaled.koubaa@gmail.com></div><div><b>ReplyTo: </b> governance@lists.igcaucus.org,<tijani.benjemaa@planet.tn>
</div><div><b>Cc: </b>'Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro'<salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com></div><div><b>Subject: </b>RE: [governance] Announcing the First Arab IGF</div><div><br/></div><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Qusai,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thank you for the update. I do wish great success to the Arab IGF.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You said that all participants from all stakeholder groups were involved in the open consultation. I think that this was true to a certain extend. A very large portion of the Arab civil society wasn’t involved, neither informed. Perhaps the origin of this deficiency came from the fact that Beirut was organized by ESCWA which scope is limited to its geographic region (West Asia). The African part of the Arab region is thus excluded from its interest.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I do wish that in the future, this situation will not happen again, and that all Arab civil society activists will be invited to participate.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#002060'>------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#002060'>TI</span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>jani BEN JEMAA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Vice Chair of the CIC<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>World Federation of <b>E</b>ngineering <b>O</b>rganizations<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Phone : + 216 70 825 231<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mobile</span><span style='font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>: + 216 98 330 114<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Fax : + 216 70 825 231<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>------------------------------------------------------</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>De :</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org] <b>De la part de</b> Qusai AlShatti<br><b>Envoyé :</b> mardi 14 février 2012 17:28<br><b>À :</b> khaled koubaa<br><b>Cc :</b> Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro; governance@lists.igcaucus.org<br><b>Objet :</b> Re: [governance] Announcing the First Arab IGF<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Khaled:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>We wish that you were there with us in Beirut. The open consultation were conducted in an open transparent inclusive multistakeholder process were all participants from all multistakeholder groups actively engaged in an equal manner in discussing the Arab IGF and in drafting the outcomes of the open consultations. I don't have the list of final participants but all stakehlders groups from the Arab World were represented. Actually we requested the ESCWA and LAS before the meeting to ensure a multistakeholders representation in the open consultations. A public announcement was made for this purpose. Furthemore when the open consultation was requested by the Arab ministers of communication, they requested that it should be conducted in a multistakeholder format. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>We look forward for your participation in the Arab IGF and its process.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Regards,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Qusai AlShatti<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 4:57 PM, khaled koubaa <<a href="mailto:khaled.koubaa@gmail.com">khaled.koubaa@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p>Hi Qusai,<br>Could you please share with us the list of participants at that meeting in Lebanon. <br>I have real concern with contnuous oversight of some gov-organizations of the Arab IGF without real multistakeholders involvment.<br>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p><p>Khaled Koubaa<o:p></o:p></p><p>Sent by an Android phone<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Le 14 févr. 2012 11:41, "Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro" <<a href="mailto:salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com" target="_blank">salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>We warmly congratulate this development and look forward to including this in our Calendar.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Qusai AlShatti <<a href="mailto:qshatti@gmail.com" target="_blank">qshatti@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Colleagues:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I would like to take the opportunity to announce the establshment of the Arab IGF (AIGF). The first meeting of AIGF will be organized by Kuwait Information Technology Society which will be held in Kuwait on the first week of October 2012. I am attaching the AIGF announcement. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Announcement of</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:center'><b><u><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The endorsement of the Arab Internet Governance Forum (AIGF) process</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>A Multistakeholder open consultation meeting to discuss the launch of the Arab Internet Governance Forum (AIGF) was held during the period of 31/1 – 1/2/2012 in Beirut, Lebanon. The open consultation was organized by the League of Arab States (LAS), the United Nation Economic and Social Commission of Western Asia (ESCWA) and the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Lebanon. The open consultation was sponsored by Kuwait Information Technology Society and RIPE NCC and was attended by the IGF secretariat. More than 50 participants representing stakeholders from governments, private sector, civil society and regional organizations in the Arab World attended the open consultation and engaged actively in discussing the importance of an Internet Governance Forum for the Arab World. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The open consultation was carried based on the request of the Arab Telecommunication and Information Technology Council of Ministers (ATICM) to seek feedback from various stakeholders on the need for an Arab IGF. The ministers requested it after receiving the outcome of an expert group meeting that was organized by the ESCWA in October 2010 which emphasized on the need to have a dialogue on Internet Governance with relevance to stakeholders in the Arab World. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>During the open consultations, a strong consent emerged on the need and the importance for the Arab IGF especially with the turn of events in the region and the major role of the Internet in these events. A report recommending the establishment of AIGF was drafted by the participants and forwarded by the LAS Secretariat to the Executive Bureau of the Arab Telecommunication and Information Technology Council of Ministers (ATICM) on 2/2/2012, who welcomed the outcome, endorsed it and recommended the active participation of all stakeholders, including governments, in the Arab IGF process.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The participants in the open consultations focused also on the goals of the AIGF and its structure. There was consent to adopt a structure similar to the IGF’s current structure with a secretariat and a Multistakeholder Advisory Committee (MAG). <u>A proposal was made by Kuwait Information Technology Society to host the First Arab IGF in Kuwait in early October 2012 and a proposal was made by the Republic of Egypt National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority to be the AIGF secretariat</u>. There was an agreement and consent on both proposals by the participants. It was agreed that a public announcement for the MAG membership will be made to give the opportunity for all stakeholders in the Arab world to express their interest to participate in it. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The open consultation recommended that the AIGF should:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:38.15pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Focus on discussing public policies related to Internet Governance especially in the areas of access, stability, security and development.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:38.15pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Facilitate the exchange of information, best practices, knowledge and lessons learned by involving experts, technical community and Academics.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:38.15pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Gather different opinions and build consensus for unified Arab views on priorities and on mechanisms to respond to Arab countries needs related to Internet governance issues.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:38.15pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Discuss emerging issues and present recommendations on it.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:38.15pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Build and develop capacity in Internet Governance as well as improve the participation of all stakeholders to benefit from all possible resources of knowledge and expertise.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:38.15pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Communicate globally the Arab positions and enhance the Arab role in formulating Internet Governance policies.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:38.15pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span 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