[governance] Invitation: Global Dialogue on Internet Governance

[Milton Mueller]

Dear Colleagues,

As a contribution to the United Nations World Summit on the Information
Society (WSIS), you are invited to participate in a web-based Global
Deliberative Dialogue on Internet Governance, from 19-30 September 2005.
For more information, and to register, go to:
http://www.webdialogues.net/igp. 

The purpose of this Global Dialogue is to raise awareness of Internet
Governance, to broaden participation in the policy debate, and to
provide concrete input into the final deliberations during the Third
Preparatory Meeting for the WSIS, taking place concurrently with the
Global Dialogue in Geneva.

The web-based structure of the dialogue will allow diverse voices from
around the world to contribute to these important deliberations without
traveling to Geneva. The Global Dialogue explores the findings and
recommendations of the official report of the UN Working Group on
Internet Governance (http://www.wgig.org), and will address: 

(1) The WGIG itself, and lessons learned from its processes; 
(2) The working consensus definition of Internet Governance; 
(3) The public policy issues identified in the WGIG report; 
(4) The roles and responsibilities outlined by the report; and 
(5) The four governance models proposed by the report. 

Each of the four main sections of the dialogue will be introduced by an
optional real-time "synchronous" webconference that will feature
updates from participants on the ground in Geneva. At the heart of the
Global Dialogue are the daily "asynchronous" web-based deliberations
on the public policy issues and governance models proposed for Internet
Governance.  For each discussion topic, panels of experts and active
participants in the WSIS processes will be available.  The digital
library includes extensive and searchable background information. Daily
summaries will capture the main discussion points and questions raised.
Periodic polls will capture the viewpoints of participants and may aid
in the development of consensus positions.

This dialogue is hosted by the Internet Governance Project
(http://www.internetgovernance.org), in conjunction with the
Collaboratory on Technology Enhanced Learning Communities (Cotelco) at
the School of information Studies, the Moynihan Institute of Global
Affairs at the Maxwell School, the World Federation of United Nations
Associations (WFUNA), and WestEd. 

Your participation in this Global Deliberative Dialogue is critical. 
We want to be as inclusive as possible to broaden and increase global
participation in and awareness of the issues of Internet Governance. The
ideas discussed in the dialogue will be fed into the decision-making
processes in Geneva, and may help to serve as model for global
deliberative policy dialogues in general.

Please share this announcement with other individuals, groups and
countries.  The dialogue website is publicly available. To learn more
about the Dialogue and to register to participate, please visit the
dialogue Web site: www.webdialogues.net/igp.

For more information, please contact Dr. Derrick L. Cogburn at
dcogburn at syr.edu. 


Dr. Milton Mueller
Syracuse University School of Information Studies
http://www.digital-convergence.org
http://www.internetgovernance.org

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