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<p>The final two pre-IGF online discussions this week. Hope to see
you there. Please share with your networks.</p>
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<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Anriette<br>
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><strong>IGF strategy and
strengthening in 2020: A series of pre-IGF online
discussions convened by the IGF MAG chair and the MAG
Working Group on IGF Strategy and Strengthening during
September and October 2020</strong></font> <font
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The IGF's mandate
was renewed for a further 10 years by the UN General
Assembly in December 2015. The current year, 2020, marks
the midway point of this extended mandate. In addition,
the recently released UN Secretary-General's Roadmap for
Digital Cooperation and its support for a strengthened
and expanded IGF (the IGF+) presents the opportunity for
deeper engagement on the IGF's achievements and
challenges and for exploring approaches for addressing
emerging Internet policy issues. To reflect on the IGF's
achievement of its mandate and contribute to the
discussion on the architecture for digital cooperation,
the IGF MAG chair, in collaboration with the IGF MAG
Working Group on IGF Strengthening and Strategy, is
convening a series of online discussions during September
and October 2020. </font></p>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><strong><span
style="line-height:100%">THIS WEEK'S TWO DISCUSSIONS:</span></strong></font></p>
<span style="line-height:100%"><strong>1. The IGF and
capacity development</strong> - Tuesday, 27 October 2020,
13:00-15:00 UTC - </span><a
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<p><b><span
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for capacity building</span></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-left:42px"><i><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span
style="color:black">“The need for
digital capacity-building is
substantial. Achieving real and
sustained progress in the various
dimensions of digitalization requires
skills development and effective
training, in particular in developing
countries.”</span></span></i> </p>
<p style="margin-left:42px"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span
style="color:black">The UN
Secretary-General’s Roadmap for Digital
Cooperation, June 2020</span></span></p>
<p><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span
style="color:black">To be effective and
fair, Internet governance must be
inclusive - it is important to find ways
to make sure all stakeholders and parts of
the world can be involved in the
discussions and decision-making processes.
With its ability to bring people together
at the global level, combined with the
National and Regional IGFs that link back
to the country level, the IGF is
well-placed to play a part in the
necessary capacity-building.</span></span></p>
<p><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span
style="color:black">This webinar will
begin with a review of plans to further
capacity-building within the broader
digital cooperation environment. It will
then explore the ways in which the IGF
currently contributes to
capacity-building, and how these
activities might be further developed as
part of the plans to strengthen the IGF.</span></span></p>
<p><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span
style="color:black">This discussion will
be stimulated by the presentation of a
draft IGF capacity development framework
(which can be found at</span></span><a
href="https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/filedepot_download/3813/2273"
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style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span
style="color:#1155cc">https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/filedepot_download/3813/2273</span></span></a><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span
style="color:black">), as well as
perspectives on the work of Schools on
Internet Governance and Youth
Initiatives. </span></span></p>
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(IGF MAG and member of <a
href="https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/lexicon/8#WG"
title="(MAG) Working Group"
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<p><b><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span
style="color:black">1) The broader
capacity-building environment and
thoughts on how the IGF could support
this </span></span></b><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span
style="color:black">(20 mins)</span></span></p>
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<li><span style="color:black"><span
style="vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Doreen
Bogdan-Martin, Director,
Telecommunication Development Bureau
of the International Telecommunication
Union (<a
href="https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/lexicon/8#ITU"
title="International
Telecommunication Union"
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<li><span style="color:black"><span
style="vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Robert
Opp, Chief Digital Officer / Derek
Pieper, Policy Specialist, UN
Development Programme (UNDP)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color:black"><span
style="vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">JeoungHee
Kim, Office of the Special Advisor to
the UN Secretary General, Fabrizio
Hochschild</span></span></span></li>
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<p><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span
style="color:black"> <b>2) The current
role of the IGF </b>(10 mins)</span></span></p>
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<li><span style="color:black"><span
style="vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Wai
Min Kwok, Senior Governance and Public
Administration Officer, UN Department
of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)</span></span></span></li>
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<p><b><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span
style="color:black">3) Thoughts on
building out the IGF’s capacity-building
activities </span></span></b><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span
style="color:black">(15 mins)</span></span></p>
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<li><span style="color:black"><span
style="vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Research
into capacity development for the IGF
– based on a research study carried
out in 2019 by Anriette Esterhuysen,
2020 Chair of the IGF’s
Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) </span></span></span><br>
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<li><span style="color:black"><span
style="vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Assessment of the
Internet capacity development
needs of IGF stakeholders - <a
href="https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/filedepot_download/3813/2274"
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style="color:#1155cc">https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/filedepot_download/3813/2274</span></a></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color:black"><span
style="vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A draft framework for
capacity development for the
Internet Governance Forum - <a
href="https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/filedepot_download/3813/2273"
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style="color:#1155cc">https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/filedepot_download/3813/2273</span></a> </span></span></span></li>
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<p><b><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span
style="color:black">4) Reflections from
parts of the Internet governance
ecosystem </span></span></b><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span
style="color:black">(15 mins)</span></span></p>
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<li><span style="color:black"><span
style="vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The
role of Schools on Internet Governance
(SIGs) and their relationship to the
IGF - Avri Doria, coordinator, Dynamic
Coalition on Schools of IG</span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color:black"><span
style="vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The
role of Youth initiatives</span></span></span></li>
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<p style="margin-left:48px"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span
style="color:black">- Lily Botsyoe Edinam,
Hacklab Ghana and 2018 IGF Youth Fellow</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:48px"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span
style="color:black">- Elisabeth
Schauermann, German Informatics Society
and Coordinator of YOUthDIG</span></span></p>
<p><b><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span
style="color:black">5) Open discussion </span></span></b><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span
style="color:black">(60 mins)</span></span></p>
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achievements and possible next steps</strong> -
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efforts the IGF is currently making to
respond to the goal to be inclusive and
affirm linguistic diversity. However,
simply providing translation into UN
languages of some documents and
interpretation at certain sessions, is
not only not enough, it could also
consolidate the marginalisation of other
languages and the people that speak
them. Should the IGF make greater use of
machine translation? Are there other
emerging technologies the IGF should
consider using to achieve more
inclusion and linguistic diversity.</span></span></span></p>
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Lucien Castex and Amado Espinosa.<br>
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