[governance] Invitation to IISD E-conference on Internet Governance and Sustainable Development

[Tony Vetter]

>From September 17 to 28, the International Institute for Sustainable
Development (IISD) is hosting an e-conference to engage researchers,
practitioners and policy analysts in an open discussion on the
intersections between Internet governance and sustainable development.
Your participation will help advance the debate. 

Please visit the following url for full details,
http://www.iisd.org/infosoc/gov/igsd/, or read on for a brief summary.

Sustainable development efforts cannot be conceived without global
communications and knowledge exchange: therefore, the outcomes of the
Internet governance debate will affect our ability to manage the social,
environmental and economic factors of sustainable development. Beyond
this fundamental link, numerous and diverse issue areas exist where the
Internet governance and sustainable development policy communities could
discover mutual challenges and learn from each others approaches to
confronting them, setting the stage for future cooperation. Over the
past year, in collaboration with partners and stakeholders, the
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) proposed to
focus on five areas in which further exploration of potential links
between these two communities could be anchored:

- governance processes; 

- economic barriers to development; 

- the capacity of developing countries to participate in international
governance; 

- access to local knowledge as a critical input to decision-making; and 

- indicators for development. 


By commissioning a pair of exploratory papers on each of these topics,
IISD aimed to expand the links between these two communities of
researchers and practitioners who have spent over three decades working
in relative isolation from one another, creating gaps in vocabulary and
culture. Each of these papers defines the issue area; describes its
relevant governance structures and processes; identifies the main issues
currently being debated; articulates actual and potential links between
ICTs/Internet governance and sustainable development; and proposes areas
for further study.

The purpose of this e-conference is to give participants an opportunity
to share their thoughts, comments, or questions regarding the content
presented in these paper pairs. You are encouraged join this
e-conference to engage other participant in a discussion of common
positions, mutual challenges and differences, and how lessons from one
side might inform progress on the other, in the context of each issue
area.

Copies of the papers can be downloaded at
http://www.iisd.org/infosoc/gov/igsd/, and an email containing links to
the papers will be sent when you confirm your subscription.

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