[governance] For a real impact of IGF in least developed countries

[Jaco Aizenman]

Hi Ken,

One eventual way that Internet Rights(1) can help on least developed
countries is by giving a bank account (2)  to every person, where this bank
account is connected or related to public and non public entities that help
needed persons, to avoid duplication of efforts and maximize transparency
and efficiency.

More here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070704102907/http://virtualrights.org/files/project_overview_latest.pdf

(1) Having a bank account is considered a human right, in the virtual
personality human right being studied t the Costa Rican Congress.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070704102907/http://virtualrights.org/files/PROYECTO%20PERSONALIDAD%20VIRTUAL.doc
(Spanish)

(2) A bank account is an expression of a virtual personality, even if it is
not on the Internet.

Best regards,

Jaco



On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Ken Lohento <klohento at panos-ao.org> wrote:

>  For your information - KL
>
> ---
>
> The African civil society for the information society (ACSIS) submitted a
> contribution to IGF within the framework of the preparation of the India
> meeting. The contribution targets the draft programme in discussion but
> also general issues around IGF. Some of its comments are directed to stakeholders
> in general (including Africans)
>
> The title of the contribution in English is: "For a real impact of IGF in
> least developed countries"
>
> It includes, among other, recommendations or concerns such as:
>
> - IGF's impact in Africa is hardly seen so far
>
> - the need to decisively make efforts to make the IGF useful to developing
> countries - establishing permanent thematic working groups, provide
> supplementary resources to the secretariat, find more resources for
> participation, etc.
> - the review of IGF should give opportunity to analyze IGF impacts on LDCs
> and a multilingual approach should be followed for this review in order to
> include all stakeholders
> - the need to consolidate and give more visibility to 'best practice fora'
> that potentially favor the reinforcement of capacities of the global South.
> - a proposal to publish results of the IGF (in print and or electronic
> documents : manuel/collection of  best practices, etc.) with particular
> attention to results useful to DCs
> - regarding theme 2 of the draft programme, the replacement of « Promoting
> cybersecurity, and Trust" by « Promoting cybersecurity, and Freedom of
> expression  on the Internet" to also give more visibility to human rights
> issues along with security issues
> - the need to have important information in UN languages on the website
> - a appeal should be made to LDCs's governments in the final documents
> produced at Hyderabad, for them to initiate/strengthen/support national
> IG(F) processes for the consolidation of IG for Development in those
> countries
>
> - the need to strengthen remote participation mechanisms
>
> - the need to discuss norms and standards in India
>
> - an appeal to African stakeholders to better contribute within the
> framework of the IGF to the promotion and consolidations of the IG(F) on the
> continent
> - a proposal of a meeting of CS on IGF prior to Egypt 2009 to discuss IGF
> role and impact.
>
> etc.
>
> The document is in French.
>
> KL
>
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