[governance] summary report from II pre-IGF LAC

Sun Oct 18 22:04:42 EDT 2009

Dear people,

A summary document based on the reports of each panel in the II Latin
American and Caribbean Preparatory Meeting for the IGF is attached. The
event's Web page is www.nupef.org.br/igf.

fraternal regards

--c.a.

Fouad Bajwa wrote:
> Dear Natasha,
> 
> Thank you for replying to my observations. Once again, I did not
> intend to exceed any pre-agreed session arrangements from the
> September meetings and am only sharing certain observations that may
> appear productive in the spirit of the objectives of the panels
> mentioned. I must agree with Markus that they have done some important
> work and previous should not be just opened because of these
> observations.
> 
> But in the end, I believe there is much more space for more openness
> and inclusion and more representation would result in more productive
> experience sharing. Again, these are just observations and Markus and
> his secretariat team have already done such a wonderful job!
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Natasha Primo <natasha at apc.org> wrote:
>> Dear Fouad,
>>
>> Thank you for the comments and suggestions.
>>
>> With respect to the Access session: We tried to respond to several calls at
>> the September IGF Planning meeting for a focus on the remaining access
>> challenges in Africa (alongside Diversity and Multilingualism), given the
>> location of IGF4 in Africa. At the meeting, proposals were also made to
>> include relevant speakers from LAC. Speakers who can share possible
>> solutions to these remaining challenges were proposed.
>>
>> Our starting point was not to try and balance panelists for representation
>> across all regions. [As an aside: I am also fully aware that the panel is
>> not gender balanced].  However, if there is a strong feeling that regional
>> representation is important for this panel and we should include a panelist
>> from South Asia and Asia Pacific, we can solicit possible names to approach.
>>
>> I think we have Africa well covered.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Natasha
>>
>> On 15 Oct 2009, at 12:35 AM, Fouad Bajwa wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Markus,
>>>
>>> First of congratulations for a very productive meeting in Geneva
>>> during last month and the approach that was applied towards the end to
>>> finalize the speakers and content for the IGF. Yes, the speakers
>>> availability and confirmations is a tedious process but again it has
>>> been significantly dealt in a very productive manner.
>>>
>>> I have some observations that I would like to share and if possible
>>> the IGF Secretariat might want to look into these.
>>>
>>> Going through the scheduled program and speakers, I am very pleased
>>> with the diverse participation of multistakeholders in the orientation
>>> and finding the names of Ginger from the IGC, Lee Hibbard of the CoE,
>>> Nii Qaynor from Ghana and Rafik Dammak for Youth which definitely
>>> identifies careful and appropriate selection of the panellists.
>>>
>>> In the panel of Regional Perspectives, I would be very interested in
>>> bringing on board stakeholders from Central Europe, South Asia and the
>>> Asia Pacific regions as perspectives from these regions are of great
>>> concern and then can be true representative of most of the continents
>>> and regions of the world. Please do reconsider adding more people to
>>> the panel.
>>>
>>> On the panel of Security, Openness and Privacy, you might even
>>> consider bringing in three more important stakeholders missing but
>>> very useful for their input and that is the ITU Cybersecurity group,
>>> the Global Impact from Malaysia and a representative from Interpole or
>>> include Barrister Zahid Jamil for Pakistan to share their
>>> perspectives. Diversity again and the terrible scene of careless
>>> cybercrime related policy making should be discussed too. In my
>>> opinion some more closer legal implication discussants should be there
>>> on this occasion for meaningful dialogue.
>>>
>>> The Access session again lacks regional participation in the panellist
>>> list. You must have someone from IDRC Canada and they will be able to
>>> share some very good panellists from South Asia and Asia Pacific
>>> including Africa.
>>>
>>> I am once again happy to see Sunil Abraham and Rebecca's names in the
>>> panel of Emerging Issues: Impact of Social Networks.
>>>
>>> The rest is wonderfully fine and once again congratulations to the IGF
>>> Secretariat for its efforts and I would also like to request the
>>> secretariat to invite people from the Human Rights Council of the UN
>>> for more diverse and necessary participation in the IGF process.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Markus KUMMER <MKUMMER at unog.ch> wrote:
>>>> Dear colleagues,
>>>>
>>>> It took us longer than expected to get the panels together but by now we
>>>> are
>>>> there and my thanks go to those who moderated the various groups: Katitza
>>>> for security, openness and privacy, Natasha for diversity and access and
>>>> Bertrand for the emerging issues.
>>>>
>>>> The main change since our meeting last month relates to diversity and
>>>> access. After long discussions the group came to the conclusion that it
>>>> would not work as a single session and decided instead to split it into
>>>> two
>>>> sessions of 90 minutes each.
>>>>
>>>> Please find attached the main session programme. It includes the
>>>> programme
>>>> description (mainly as we had it in the previous programme paper) and the
>>>> names of moderators and panellists. We have not yet filled in the names
>>>> of
>>>> the Chairmen for each session, as we want to do so only once we have the
>>>> complete list. The same applies for the speakers at the opening
>>>> ceremony/session, the key note panel as well as the closing session.
>>>>
>>>> There may still be changes, but they will not be reflected in the printed
>>>> programme our hosts are preparing. We have not yet all the moderators
>>>> (the BBC journalist originally foreseen for the merging issues session
>>>> will
>>>> not be able to come to Sharm) and Janis was not yet able to confirm he
>>>> would
>>>> be able to make it, as he has conflicting commitments (hence tbc behind
>>>> his
>>>> name). We will post the programme on our Web site.
>>>>
>>>> We also added a line on the 'formal consultation on the desirability of
>>>> the
>>>> continuation of the Forum'. This will be held in a more formal manner and
>>>> we
>>>> will establish a speakers list. (We created a special email address for
>>>> this
>>>> purpose.) As speakers will address the meeting from the rostrum, this
>>>> will
>>>> also provide a welcome opportunity to give more visibility to Ministers,
>>>> CEOs and other high profile participants.
>>>>
>>>> As an input into that session we have prepared a synthesis paper that is
>>>> being translated into all six UN languages. Once we have all language
>>>> versions we will post the paper on our Web site.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>> Markus
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards.
>>> --------------------------
>>> Fouad Bajwa
>>> @skBajwa
>>> Answering all your technology questions
>>> http://www.askbajwa.com
>>> http://twitter.com/fouadbajwa
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATVDW1tDZzA
>>>
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>> Natasha Primo
>> National ICT Policy Advocacy Initiative
>> Association for Progressive Communications
>> Johannesburg, South Africa
>> Tel/Fax: +27118372122
>> Skype/Yahoo: natashaprimo
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Carlos A. Afonso
CGI.br (www.cgi.br)
Nupef (www.nupef.org.br)
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