[governance] WSIS Forum Workshop next Thursday 17th

[William Drake]

Hi

People who will be in Geneva next week are invited to attend the following WSIS Forum workshop at the ILO.  Registration for the IGF gets you into the WF too.  There will also be remote participation http://groups.itu.int/wsis-forum2012/Information/RemoteParticipation.aspx.

Cheers,

Bill

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WSIS Forum 2012 Workshop
 
9:00-10:45, Thursday 17 May 2012
Room XI, the International Labor Organization
 
 
Global Internet Governance for Development
 
Does global Internet governance promote the effective participation of developing country stakeholders in the information society?  What are its implication for national development trajectories?  To fully address these and related questions, it would be useful to establish an Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) agenda.  Such an agenda could comprise a holistic program that mainstreams development considerations into the procedures and policy outputs of global Internet governance mechanisms.  While development agendas are being pursued in the multilateral organizations dealing with issues like international trade and intellectual property, there has been no corresponding effort with respect to global Internet governance.  Accordingly, since 2007 a series of workshops and main sessions exploring the idea have been held at the annual Internet Governance Forum meetings. This workshop seeks to broaden the dialogue by engaging interested attendees at the WSIS Forum.
 
A development agenda could involve organizing and improving access to knowledge about global Internet governance issues and institutions, including best practices and lessons learned such institutions could consider within their respective work programs.  In addition, it could encourage concrete actions that strengthen the fit between governance and development, such as: a) facilitating access to capacity building programs that help enable the effective participation of governmental and nongovernmental actors from developing countries in global technical and policy processes; b) enhancing institutional procedures and practices in order to promote such participation; and c) identifying issues that raise distinctive developmental considerations and possible options for improvements in related policy frameworks.  Given the highly distributed institutional ecosystem of global Internet governance, a development agenda would need to be flexible enough to facilitate varying responses that are appropriate to the issues and actors involved in each case.
 
The workshop will consider these matters in relation to relevant multistakeholder, industry self-governance, and intergovernmental institutions.  Of particular interest in this regard is the governance of critical Internet resources, e.g. names, numbers, and standards; and current proposals for new Enhanced Cooperation initiatives within the United Nations, and for international treaty regulations that could be applicable to the Internet.
 
 
Organizer
 
William J. Drake 
International Fellow, Media Change & Innovation Division
Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research
University of Zurich, Switzerland


Co-Sponsoring Organizations
 
Association for Progressive Communications
 
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
Government of Egypt
 
Kenya Internet Governance Steering Committee, Ministry of Information and Communications
Government of Kenya
 
Federal Office of Communications 
Government of Switzerland
 
 
Speakers
 
Olga Cavalli
Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Government of Argentina
 
Avri Doria
Researcher & former Chair of the ICANN GNSO Council
United States of America
 
William J. Drake  [moderator]
International Fellow, Media Change & Innovation Division
Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research
University of Zurich, Switzerland
 
Anriette Esterhuysen
Executive Director, Association for Progressive Communications
South Africa
 
Wolfgang Kleinwächter
Professor of Internet Policy and Regulation, Department for Media and Information Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Germany
 
Markus Kummer
Vice President of Public Policy, The Internet Society
Switzerland 
 
Alice Munyua
Convener, East Africa IGF, Kenya ICT Action Network; and Chair, Kenya Internet Governance Steering Committee, and Kenya Network Information Center
Government of Kenya
 
Nermine El Saadany
Director of International Relations Division, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
Government of Egypt
 
Thomas Schneider
Deputy Head of International Relations Service, Federal Office of Communications 
Government of Switzerland
 


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William J. Drake
International Fellow & Lecturer
Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
University of Zurich, Switzerland
william.drake at uzh.ch
www.mediachange.ch/people/william-j-drake
www.williamdrake.org
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