<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi Bill,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Congratulations! And thanks to you, your colleagues and the sponsors for putting this together, and for all your efforts all these years. Keep up the great work!<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Season's Greetings and, in advance, best wishes for a GREAT NEW YEAR!!<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Katim<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:42 AM, William Drake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com" target="_blank">wjdrake@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br>
<i>Apologies for cross-posting</i><div><br></div><div>In case anyone is interested, just in time for the WSIS+10 Review, yesterday the APC released the below book, which is edited by myself and populated by various familiar IG mavens. The free PDF version is available now from the APC website, and in a week or so there also will be e-book and print on demand versions at Amazon and other dealers for a couple dollars.</div><div><br>Best</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br></div><div>--------------------<br><table style="width:600px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody></tbody></table><div><br></div><table style="width:600px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top"><table style="width:600px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top"><table style="width:600px" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><table style="width:580px" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><span style="font-size:14px">PRESS STATEMENT</span><span> </span><span style="font-size:14px">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span><p><strong>New publication: The Working Group on Internet Governance - 10th Anniversary Reflections</strong></p><p>JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 14 December 2015 – <span style="line-height:1.6em">2015 marks the 10th anniversary of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The UN General Assembly reviewed the progress made over the past decade and negotiated a text that addresses a number of global Internet governance issues. 2015 is also the 10th anniversary of a multistakeholder experiment that helped bring the WSIS to a successful conclusion: the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). Convened in 2004, the WGIG assembled 40 representatives of governments and stakeholders who engaged in months of intensive peer-level dialogue and collective analysis. The WGIG process was an important turning point and catalyst in the intergovernmental recognition of multistakeholder processes for Internet governance. In June 2005, the WGIG released a widely noted report that advanced a “broad definition” of Internet governance; holistically addressed a range of policy issues; offered four competing models for the ”oversight” of critical Internet resources; and proposed the establishment of the Internet Governance Forum. The report significantly influenced the final agreement adopted by WSIS.</span></p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em">This book, edited by William J. Drake and published by APC, APNIC, <a href="http://cgi.br" target="_blank">CGI.br</a>, ICANN and Internet Society, reflects on the WGIG’s procedural and substantive contributions to the evolving global Internet governance dialogue and institutional ecosystem. Written by former WGIG members and others who played key roles in the debates on the WGIG and WSIS, the volume is a follow-up to a book produced in the summer of 2005: William J. Drake, ed., <a href="http://www.wgig.org/docs/book/WGIG_book.pdf" target="_blank">Reforming Internet Governance: Perspectives from the UN Working Group on Internet Governance</a>. </span></p><p><em>Topics include:</em> historical overview; understanding Internet governance; institutionalizing multistakeholder cooperation; from oversight to stewardship; Internet governance for development; and closing reflections.</p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em"><em>Authors include:</em> Fiona Alexander, Peng Hwa Ang and Sherly Haristya, Karen Banks and Anriette Esterhuysen, Nitin Desai, Avri Doria, William J. Drake, Raúl Echeberría, Baher Esmat, Juan Fernández González, Hartmut R. Glaser and Diego R. Canabarro, David Hendon, Jānis Kārkliņš, Wolfgang Kleinwächter, Jovan Kurbalija, Markus Kummer, Olivier Nana Nzépa, Alejandro Pisanty, Paul Wilson and Pablo Hinojosa, and Michael Yakushev.</span></p><p><em><strong style="line-height:1.6em">The full publication can be downloaded <a href="https://www.apc.org/en/WGIG" target="_blank">here</a> </strong></em></p><hr><p><strong style="line-height:1.6em">About the Association for Progressive Communications</strong></p><p>The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is an international network and non-profit organisation founded in 1990 that wants everyone to have access to a free and open internet to improve lives and create a more just world.<br><a href="https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3756&qid=248329" target="_blank">apc.org</a></p><div><br></div><div><span><span>PO Box 29755</span><br><span>Melville</span>, <span>GT</span> <span>2109</span><br><span>South Africa</span></span></div><div><br></div><p><strong>Media contact</strong></p><p>Flavia Fascendini<br>APC Communications <br><a href="mailto:mallory@apc.org" target="_blank">flavia@apc.org</a></p><div><br></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br>____________________________________________________________<br>
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