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

[Jean-Louis FULLSACK]

Dear Anriette and all

This Workshop is a very good initiative, mainly for its agenda. As for its organisers, I once more do regret the absence of the European Union (and warmly congratulate the CoE and Mr Remmer, always on the IG forefront) because there are strong links with the developing countries namely in the framework of the EU-ACP agreements and especially with Africa through specialized bodies and mechanisms (Infrastructure, Education, Inter-parliamentarian, ...). 
I do hope Africa will be well represented (i.e. with active CS speakers and contributors) and get the strong support from Europe for the proposals that help alleviate the critical problems Africans are facing in establishing a really continental Internet for the sake of the future of Africa and of its Culture(s). 

With my best wishes for a successful IGF in plain respect with the WSIS CS declarations, and all the best

Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT 





> Message du 12/11/09 19:54
> De : "Anriette Esterhuysen" 
> A : "governance at lists.cpsr.org" 
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> Objet : [governance] Invite: Code of Good Practice for IG Workshop
> 
> 
> 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!
> 
> 
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 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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