[governance] Announcing the First Arab IGF

[Izumi AIZU]

Wow! Qusai you did it!

izumi


2012/2/14 Qusai AlShatti <qshatti at gmail.com>:
> 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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          Institute for InfoSocionomics, Tama University, Tokyo

           Institute for HyperNetwork Society, Oita,
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