[bestbits] INVITATION TO BRASIL IGF 2015 WORKSHOP 226: INTERNET GOVERNANCE AND OPEN DATA

[Wisdom Donkor]

We would like to invite you to participate in our workshop session on*
INTERNET GOVERNANCE AND OPEN GOVERNMENT DATA* on Thursday November 12th,
2015 from 11:00am  -  12:00 (Time Zone: BRT)  at Workshop Room 3. (
https://igf2015.sched.org/event/a9da15681c7cc17785289d14ed828a34#.VkORlVI4FR8
)


Prof. Nii Quaynor, the father of internet in Africa, pioneered Internet
development and expansion throughout Africa for nearly two decades,
establishing some of Africa's first Internet connections and helping set up
key organizations, including the African Network Operators Group. He also
was the founding chairman of AfriNIC, the African Internet numbers
registry, Former ICANN Board Member, IGF Advisory Board Member and Open
Government Partnership Member  will chair the workshop session.



The workshop seeks to explore the relationship between access to the
Internet, and the development of web-based Open Data initiatives. As the
number of Open data initiatives increases worldwide, including in countries
where open governance is not common, the Internet governance issues
surrounding such release of data have yet to be thoroughly investigated.
The workshop will focus on some of the issues that have arisen with the
advent of Open Data, particularly in the African Sub-region. This will be
done with a view to helping to bring focus to Internet governance issues,
such as access, Infrastructure, the data divide and privacy. We will also
examine the need for global ethical standards that can govern the
responsible release and use of such data globally within an Internet
governance framework. In these present days, Open Data issues are being
discussed outside Internet governance domain. We will examine perspectives
from multiple Internet governance stakeholders about determination of what
data is released and how it is used. This will be done to stimulate
discussion about the issues by looking at the number of culturally
influenced views on the issue of Internet governance and open data.


*Resource person for the session as follows:*


Mr. Wisdom Donkor (Moderator)

Prof.Nii Quaynor (Chair)

Prof. Tao Xiaofeng

Ms. Nnenna Nwakanma

Mr. Eric Akumaih (Remote panel)

Ms. Valentina Pavel

Mrs. Florence Toffa

Mr. Bonface Witaba

Mr. Sonigitu Ekpe




*The link for remote participation as follows:*

https://intgovforum.webex.com/intgovforum/j.php?RGID=r29bfa4428e6802dc3ae830de85509243



I look forward to seeing you all.








WISDOM DONKOR (S/N Eng.)
ICANN Fellow / ISOC Member
Web/OGPL Portal Specialist
National Information Technology Agency (NITA)
Ghana Open Data Initiative (GODI)
Post Office Box CT. 2439, Cantonments, Accra, Ghana
Tel; +233 20 812881
Email: wisdom_dk at hotmail.com
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Website: www.nita.gov.gh / www.data.gov.gh
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