[governance] Internet Governance Project Receives Ford Foundation Grant

[Robert Guerra]

For those of you who might not have seen this already .... below is news
on a funding development regarding key people involved in the Caucus.
Congrats.

Though, I am concerned that there's no mention of a development focus -
a key aspect in the WSIS process.

regards

Robert




Internet Governance Project Receives Ford Foundation Grant

Syracuse, New York, 1 March 2006-- The Internet Governance Project
(IGP), a university-based research and policy analysis consortium, was
awarded a two-year grant of $175,000 by the Ford Foundation.

IGP influences international Internet policy by producing regular
analyses of policy debates and proposals for international institutional
change related to the Internet. Its publications played a significant
role informing and shaping the debates in last year's World Summit on
the Information Society (WSIS). The Project is composed of six
professors from three Universities: Syracuse University, Georgia
Institute of Technology, and Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fur
Sozialforschung.

By supporting this network of politically engaged scholars, the Ford
grant will allow IGP to nurture wider public awareness of Internet
governance and its consequences; a better informed and more effective
global public interest advocacy network; and policies that advance
individual rights to free expression and privacy, unrestricted global
communication, and more democratic global governance of the Internet.
"The IGP will play an important role in demystifying what to many may
seem an arcane and inaccessible area of policy making, but one that
demands our attention as it will increasingly affect all of our lives,"
remarked Ford Program Officer Becky Lentz.

Over the next year, the Project will place particular emphasis on the UN
effort to create a new "Internet Governance Forum." This new Forum would
provide a relatively open platform for discussion and debate of
international Internet policy issues. IGP members will be supporting a
structural model that permits open participation and equal status for
all participants, as opposed to the more restrictive, government-only
deliberations of traditional UN agencies. IGP will also be pushing for
the use of information technologies that permit international agencies
to discuss and develop policies without face-to- face meetings.

The Internet Governance Project's secretariat is hosted by Syracuse
University's Convergence Center. IGP's core members are: Drs. Milton
Mueller, John Mathiason, Derrick L. Cogburn and Lee McKnight of Syracuse
University, USA; Dr. Jeanette Hofmann, WZB, Germany, and Dr. Hans Klein,
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

Its website is http://www.internetgovernance.org

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