<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">Hi</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">People who will be in Geneva next week are invited to attend the following WSIS Forum workshop at the ILO. Registration for the IGF gets you into the WF too. There will also be remote participation <a href="http://groups.itu.int/wsis-forum2012/Information/RemoteParticipation.aspx">http://groups.itu.int/wsis-forum2012/Information/RemoteParticipation.aspx</a>.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">Cheers,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">Bill</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">---------</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">WSIS Forum 2012 Workshop<br> <br>9:00-10:45, Thursday 17 May 2012<br>Room XI, the International Labor Organization<br> <br> <br><b>Global Internet Governance for Development</b><br> <br>Does global Internet governance promote the effective participation of developing country stakeholders in the information society? What are its implication for national development trajectories? To fully address these and related questions, it would be useful to establish an Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) agenda. Such an agenda could comprise a holistic program that mainstreams development considerations into the procedures and policy outputs of global Internet governance mechanisms. While development agendas are being pursued in the multilateral organizations dealing with issues like international trade and intellectual property, there has been no corresponding effort with respect to global Internet governance. Accordingly, since 2007 a series of workshops and main sessions exploring the idea have been held at the annual Internet Governance Forum meetings. This workshop seeks to broaden the dialogue by engaging interested attendees at the WSIS Forum.<br> <br>A development agenda could involve organizing and improving access to knowledge about global Internet governance issues and institutions, including best practices and lessons learned such institutions could consider within their respective work programs. In addition, it could encourage concrete actions that strengthen the fit between governance and development, such as: a) facilitating access to capacity building programs that help enable the effective participation of governmental and nongovernmental actors from developing countries in global technical and policy processes; b) enhancing institutional procedures and practices in order to promote such participation; and c) identifying issues that raise distinctive developmental considerations and possible options for improvements in related policy frameworks. Given the highly distributed institutional ecosystem of global Internet governance, a development agenda would need to be flexible enough to facilitate varying responses that are appropriate to the issues and actors involved in each case.<br> <br>The workshop will consider these matters in relation to relevant multistakeholder, industry self-governance, and intergovernmental institutions. Of particular interest in this regard is the governance of critical Internet resources, e.g. names, numbers, and standards; and current proposals for new Enhanced Cooperation initiatives within the United Nations, and for international treaty regulations that could be applicable to the Internet.<br> <br> <br><i>Organizer</i><br> <br>William J. Drake <br>International Fellow, Media Change & Innovation Division<br>Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research<br>University of Zurich, Switzerland</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><br><i>Co-Sponsoring Organizations</i><br> <br>Association for Progressive Communications<br> <br>Ministry of Communications and Information Technology<br>Government of Egypt<br> <br>Kenya Internet Governance Steering Committee, Ministry of Information and Communications<br>Government of Kenya<br> <br>Federal Office of Communications <br>Government of Switzerland<br> <br> <br><i>Speakers</i><br> <br>Olga Cavalli<br>Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs<br>Government of Argentina<br> <br>Avri Doria<br>Researcher & former Chair of the ICANN GNSO Council<br>United States of America<br> <br>William J. Drake [moderator]<br>International Fellow, Media Change & Innovation Division<br>Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research<br>University of Zurich, Switzerland<br> <br>Anriette Esterhuysen<br>Executive Director, Association for Progressive Communications<br>South Africa<br> <br>Wolfgang Kleinwächter<br>Professor of Internet Policy and Regulation, Department for Media and Information Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark<br>Germany<br> <br>Markus Kummer<br>Vice President of Public Policy, The Internet Society<br>Switzerland <br> <br>Alice Munyua<br>Convener, East Africa IGF, Kenya ICT Action Network; and Chair, Kenya Internet Governance Steering Committee, and Kenya Network Information Center<br>Government of Kenya<br> <br>Nermine El Saadany<br>Director of International Relations Division, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology<br>Government of Egypt<br> <br>Thomas Schneider<br>Deputy Head of International Relations Service, Federal Office of Communications <br>Government of Switzerland<br> <br></font><div>
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><br>***************************************************<br>William J. Drake<br>International Fellow & Lecturer<br>Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ<br>University of Zurich, Switzerland<br><a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch">william.drake@uzh.ch</a></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://www.mediachange.ch/people/william-j-drake">www.mediachange.ch/people/william-j-drake</a><br>www.williamdrake.org<br>****************************************************</div></font></span></div></div></div>
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