[governance] Announcing the First Arab IGF

Tue Feb 14 14:52:31 EST 2012

Qusai we should suggest to our egyptian friends a online form to get stakeholders involved :)
We can share it here as well :)
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From: Qusai AlShatti <qshatti at gmail.com>
Sender: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:49:08 
To: <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>; Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro<salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com>
Reply-To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org,Qusai AlShatti <qshatti at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [governance] Announcing the First Arab IGF

GOOD SUGGESTION.

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Qusai and others,
>
> Continue to be encouraged and know that you guys are doing an excellent
> job. The main thing is that others will come later and join. Someone has to
> pioneer. Perhaps, Tijani and others can make a list of all other
> stakeholders and send them to Qusai to add them to the mailing list of Arab
> e forum that is currently available.
>
> Let's do this together!
>
> Best Regards,
> Sala
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:29 AM, <tijani.benjemaa at planet.tn> wrote:
>
>> Hi Qusai,****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Thank you for the update. I do wish great success to the Arab IGF.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> You said that all participants from all stakeholder groups were involved
>> in the open consultation. I think that this was true to a certain extend. A
>> very large portion of the Arab civil society wasn’t involved, neither
>> informed. Perhaps the origin of this deficiency came from the fact that
>> Beirut was organized by ESCWA which scope is limited to its geographic
>> region (West Asia). The African part of the Arab region is thus excluded
>> from its interest.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> I do wish that in the future, this situation will not happen again, and
>> that all Arab civil society activists will be invited to participate.****
>>
>> ** **
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>> TI*jani BEN JEMAA*
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>> *De :* governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:
>> governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] *De la part de* Qusai AlShatti
>> *Envoyé :* mardi 14 février 2012 17:28
>> *À :* khaled koubaa
>> *Cc :* Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro; governance at lists.igcaucus.org
>> *Objet :* Re: [governance] Announcing the First Arab IGF****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Dear Khaled:****
>>
>> We wish that you were there with us in Beirut. The open consultation were
>> conducted in an open transparent inclusive multistakeholder process were
>> all participants from all multistakeholder groups actively engaged in an
>> equal manner in discussing the Arab IGF and in drafting the outcomes of the
>> open consultations. I don't have the list of final participants but all
>> stakehlders groups from the Arab World were represented. Actually we
>> requested the ESCWA and LAS before the meeting to ensure a
>> multistakeholders representation in the open consultations. A public
>> announcement was made for this purpose. Furthemore when the open
>> consultation was requested by the Arab ministers of communication, they
>> requested that it should be conducted in a multistakeholder format. ****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> We look forward for your participation in the Arab IGF and its process.**
>> **
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> Regards,****
>>
>>
>> Qusai AlShatti****
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 4:57 PM, khaled koubaa <khaled.koubaa at gmail.com>
>> wrote:****
>>
>> Hi Qusai,
>> Could you please share with us the list of participants at that meeting
>> in Lebanon.
>> I have real concern with contnuous oversight of some gov-organizations of
>> the Arab IGF without real multistakeholders involvment.
>> Thank you,****
>>
>> Khaled Koubaa****
>>
>> Sent by an Android phone****
>>
>> Le 14 févr. 2012 11:41, "Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro" <
>> salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> a écrit :****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> 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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