[governance] Invite: Code of Good Practice for IG Workshop

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE WORKSHOP ON A DRAFT CODE OF GOOD PRACTICE FOR
INTERNET GOVERNANCE VERSION 1.0 (Workshop 96) 
Wednesday 18 November, 9.00–10.30 am, Room 3: Suez Canal

This workshop is organised jointly by the United Nations Economic 
Commission for Europe (UNECE), the Council of Europe and the Association
for Progressive Communications (APC), taking forward a trilateral 
initiative that has been developed since the first IGF in Athens.

This workshop will be different from all the previous ones we
convened...We have a draft code and we need your feedback!

Visit http://intgovcode.org/index.php/Main_Page for background
information and a copy of the draft code.

This first draft of a Code of Good Practice on information, 
participation and transparency in Internet governance is based on the 
WSIS principles and on existing arrangements in Internet Governance 
institutions and uses the Aarhus Convention as a benchmark where 
appropriate. It is the result of consultations with IG stakeholders 
during the IGF process since 2006 and of a comparative assessment of 
existing information and participation arrangements in a number of 
selected Internet governance institutions that agreed to participate in 
this exercise.

The aim of the workshop is to discuss the draft text with a view to an 
agreement on its format and its key elements from the perspective of 
both Internet governance entities and Internet users.

The workshop will consist of different stakeholder groups discussing the
draft code of practice from their respective perspectives. Breakout 
groups will be facilitated by representatives of the various stakeholder
groups:

* Internet technical community (including naming and numbering orgs) - Constance Bommelaer, ISOC (Europe), 
Paul Wilson, APCNIC (Asia Pacific)
* Internet standards setting bodies (tbc)
* Capacity building organisations - Ms Natasha Primo, APC (Africa)
* Governments and Inter-governmental organisations- Mr Thomas Schneider,
BAKOM, Switzerland (Europe)
* Academic and research community – Jeanette Hoffman (Europe)
* Civil Society in Internet Governance – Brendan Kuerbis, Internet 
Governance Project (USA)

The initiative will be introduced by:

Michael Remmert, Council of Europe
Anriette Esterhuysen, APC, and,
David Souter, ict Development Associates

It will be facilitated by Karen Banks from the APC.

Looking forward to hearing your views on the draft code!


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anriette esterhuysen - executive director
association for progressive communications
p o box 29755 melville - south africa 2109
anriette at apc.org - tel/fax + 27 11 726 1692
http://www.apc.org


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