<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi<br><br></div><div>Please find info on how to contribute to Best Practices Forums<br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><span class="gmail-"><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>Date: Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 7:23 AM<br>Subject: Join and contribute to the work and awareness/outreach of the IGF BPFs!<br><br><br>Dear All,<br><br><br>The
work of the 2016 IGF Best Practice Forum’s is well underway and is
helping pave the way to IGF 2016 in December this year. The Secretariat
would like to take this opportunity to encourage and invite all
stakeholders to participate in these diverse activities. A brief summary
of how you can participate in the BPF processes follows below.<br><br><br>Please
also feel free to contact the Secretariat directly and/or the
co-facilitators of the BPFs (cc'd here) for further information about
how you can get involved and ways in which your respective stakeholders
can join the work if they are not already. (Cybersecurity- Markus; IPv6-
Izumi and Sumon; Gender and Access-Jac and Renata; IXPs-Sala and
Douglas; Anti-Corruption-Mike N.)<br><br><br>BPF Gender and Access:<br><br><br>Following its work on online abuse and gender-based violence against women in 2015,<br><br>the
BPF Gender is currently investigating ways to ensure equal and
meaningful access to the Internet regardless of gender. To plan and
further its work, the BPF holds meetings every two weeks, but also
offers other simple ways for stakeholders to get involved:<br><br><br>Complete
the BPF’s survey, aimed at mapping existing initiatives and research in
the field of gender and meaningful Internet access.<br><br></span><a target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/surveybpgen">http://bit.ly/surveybpgen</a><span class="gmail-"><br><br>Join an in-person or virtual webinar, hosted at various national and regional IGF meetings.<br><br><br>To learn more about the webinars and other ongoing work, join the BPF’s mailing list.<br><br></span><a target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/bpgenlist">http://bit.ly/bpgenlist</a><span class="gmail-"><br><br>BPF on IPv6: Understanding the commercial and economic incentives beneath a successful IPv6 deployment<br><br><br>“Why
adopt IPv6?” and how IPv6 Task Forces and capacity building initiatives
play in encouraging IPv6 adoption was at length discussed by the 2015
BPF on IPv6. However, the decision to adopt IPv6 is not only a technical
one. Building upon last year’s work, this year’s BPF IPv6 will focus on
the economic incentives and commercial drivers behind the decision to
adopt IPv6.<br><br><br>The BPF wants to reach out to organisations which have commercially deployed IPv6 and willing to share their experiences.<br><br><br>If
you want to contribute, assist in reaching out to the commercial and
business community, take part in the brainstorming and help to shape the
2016 BPF outcome document you can join the “bp_ipv6” mailing list and
participate in the regular virtual meetings.<br><br><br>Subscribe to the BPF IPv6 mailing list and keep track of the BPF’s progress at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/best-practice-forums/bpf-ipv6">http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/best-practice-forums/bpf-ipv6</a><br><br><br>BPF on Internet Exchange Points (IXPs)<br><br><br>The
2016 BPF on IXPs is currently finetuning its scope and goals and wants
to target relevant decision makers in the policy, business and
regulatory environments. It was felt that after last year’s focus on
creating and setting up IXPs and identifying an IXP’s stakeholders, it
would be natural for this year’s BPF to focus on growing and further
developing an IXP. IXPs can play a substantive role in achieving the UN
Sustainable Development Goals by in enabling access and contributing to
an inclusive and sustainable growth in their geographic area.<br><br><br>The
BPF on IXPs is seeking to widen its group of contributors and obtain
best practices and lessons learned from different stakeholders and
organisations, different geographic regions and form individual IXPs.<br><br><br>To join the discussions and to contribute one should subscribe to the mailing list and take part in BPF’s virtual meetings.<br><br><br>All information on the BPF on IXPs can be found at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/best-practice-forums/bpf-ixps">http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/best-practice-forums/bpf-ixps</a><br><br><br>BPF on Cybersecurity:<br><br>Reviewing
the outcomes of both the IGF Spam and CSIRT Best Practices Forums over
the last two years, there was an emerging consensus from the community
that the 2016 cybersecurity BPF would most benefit from addressing
cooperation and collaboration between stakeholder groups as a topic. The
community has expressed that all stakeholders may benefit from having a
multi-stakeholder discussion, including each of the major IGF
stakeholder groups, on how to engage and communicate with each other on
cybersecurity issues. There is also a feeling that this would be
uniquely fit for an IGF BPF.<br><br>Currently, the BPF on Cybersecurity
is conducting an open call for inputs/contributions to gather initial
inputs from the community which will subsequently form the basis for the
group’s output documentation. All are invited to contribute to this
call for contributions.<br><br>Sign-Up to Participate in the 2016 BPF on Cybersecurity and Contribute on the Mailing List:<br><br><a target="_blank" href="https://www.intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/bp_cybersec_2016_intgovforum.org">https://www.intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/bp_cybersec_2016_intgovforum.org</a><br><br><br>BPF on Anti-Corruption<br><br><br>Work on the new IGF BPF on Anti-Corruption is underway, to learn more, sign up to the dedicated mailing list:<br><br><br><a target="_blank" href="http://www.intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/bp_anticorruption_intgovforum.org">http://www.intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/bp_anticorruption_intgovforum.org</a><br><br><br>Regards,<br><br>IGF Secretariat<br><br><br></span></div></div>
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