[governance] Announcing the First Arab IGF

Walid AL-SAQAF <alkasir admin> admin at alkasir.com
Tue Feb 14 06:53:56 EST 2012 

I add my congratulations and gratitude to Qusai and the group for making
this happen and welcome future collaboration and support!

Sincerely,

Walid

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Walid Al-Saqaf
Founder & Administrator
alkasir for mapping and circumventing cyber censorship
https://alkasir.com <walid.al-saqaf at oru.se>


On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:

> We warmly congratulate this development and look forward to including this
> in our Calendar.
>
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Qusai AlShatti <qshatti at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues:
>> I would like to take the opportunity to announce the establshment of the
>> Arab IGF (AIGF). The first meeting of AIGF will be organized by Kuwait
>> Information Technology Society which will be held in Kuwait on the first
>> week of October 2012. I am attaching the AIGF announcement.
>>
>>
>> *Announcement of*
>>
>> *The endorsement of the Arab Internet Governance Forum (AIGF) process*
>>
>> A Multistakeholder open consultation meeting to discuss the launch of the
>> Arab Internet Governance Forum (AIGF) was held during the period of 31/1 –
>> 1/2/2012 in Beirut, Lebanon. The open consultation was organized by the
>> League of Arab States (LAS), the United Nation Economic and Social
>> Commission of Western Asia (ESCWA) and the Council of Ministers of the
>> Republic of Lebanon. The open consultation was sponsored by Kuwait
>> Information Technology Society and RIPE NCC and was attended by the IGF
>> secretariat. More than 50 participants representing stakeholders from
>> governments, private sector, civil society and regional organizations in
>> the Arab World attended the open consultation and engaged actively in
>> discussing the importance of an Internet Governance Forum for the Arab
>> World.
>>
>> The open consultation was carried based on the request of the Arab
>> Telecommunication and Information Technology Council of Ministers (ATICM)
>> to seek feedback from various stakeholders on the need for an Arab IGF. The
>> ministers requested it after receiving the outcome of an expert group
>> meeting that was organized by the ESCWA in October 2010 which emphasized on
>> the need to have a dialogue on Internet Governance with relevance to
>> stakeholders in the Arab World.
>>
>> During the open consultations, a strong consent emerged on the need and
>> the importance for the Arab IGF especially with the turn of events in the
>> region and the major role of the Internet in these events. A report
>> recommending the establishment of AIGF was drafted by the participants and
>> forwarded by the LAS Secretariat to the Executive Bureau of the Arab
>> Telecommunication and Information Technology Council of Ministers (ATICM)
>> on 2/2/2012, who welcomed the outcome, endorsed it and recommended the
>> active participation of all stakeholders, including governments, in the
>> Arab IGF process.
>>
>> The participants in the open consultations focused also on the goals of
>> the AIGF and its structure. There was consent to adopt a structure similar
>> to the IGF’s current structure with a secretariat and a Multistakeholder
>> Advisory Committee (MAG). *A proposal was made by Kuwait Information
>> Technology Society to host the First Arab IGF in Kuwait in early October
>> 2012 and a proposal was made by the Republic of Egypt National
>> Telecommunication Regulatory Authority to be the AIGF secretariat*.
>> There was an agreement and consent on both proposals by the participants.
>> It was agreed that a public announcement for the MAG membership will be
>> made to give the opportunity for all stakeholders in the Arab world to
>> express their interest to participate in it.
>>
>> The open consultation recommended that the AIGF should:
>>
>> ·         Focus on discussing public policies related to Internet
>> Governance especially in the areas of access, stability, security and
>> development.
>>
>> ·         Facilitate the exchange of information, best practices,
>> knowledge and lessons learned by involving experts, technical community and
>> Academics.
>>
>> ·         Gather different opinions and build consensus for unified Arab
>> views on priorities and on mechanisms to respond to Arab countries needs
>> related to Internet governance issues.
>>
>> ·         Discuss emerging issues and present recommendations on it.
>>
>> ·         Build and develop capacity in Internet Governance as well as
>> improve the participation of all stakeholders to benefit from all possible
>> resources of knowledge and expertise.
>>
>> ·         Communicate globally the Arab positions and enhance the Arab
>> role in formulating Internet Governance policies.
>>
>> ·         Outreach with the Internet Governance Forum and other regional
>> IGFs with purpose of exchanging knowledge and expertise.
>>
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