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Announcing
Priorities in Internet Governance for the Asia-Pacific Region
(IGOVAP): An Online Forum, Jan 13 - Feb 17, 2005]
(with apologies for duplicates)
UNDP's Asia Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP) is
organising an online debate to facilitate discussion about Internet
governance issues and the concerns and needs of AP region
stakeholders.
Regional perspectives developed in this debate will help target
future research efforts and provide input to the World Summit on the
Information Society process and the Working Group on Internet
Governance (WGIG) established by the United Nations Secretary
General. The debate is an integral part of and sets the stage for
APDIP's Open Regional Dialogue on Internet Governance (ORDIG). Other
major activities under ORDIG, which is supported by the International
Development Research Centre of Canada and in which the U.N. Economic
and Social Commission for Asia Pacific (UN-ESCAP), the Asia Pacific
Network Information Centre (APNIC) and DIPLO Foundation are partners,
include a regional multi-stakeholder survey and a community-managed
portal on Internet governance priorities for the Asia-Pacific region,
as well as research on best practice policies and the development of
Internet governance training materials.
APDIP invites all Asia Pacific region stakeholder from government,
business and civil society to join the online forum, participate in
the conversation and help identify priority concerns and best
practices in Internet governance for the Asia-Pacific region.
The forum will be launched on Jan 13 and run for five weeks to Feb
17. An interim rapporteur's report of the debate will be directly
forwarded to the second meeting of the UN Working Group on Internet
Governance in Geneva in mid-February. The ideas and resources
suggested during the forum will also inform the resource collection
for the Internet governance portal that will be developed in parallel
to the forum
To register:
either
- go to URL
<http://igov.apdip.net/opening_discussion/subscribe/formmailer> and
fill out the online form
or
- send an email to <igovap-request@lists.apdip.net>
with the word 'subscribe' in the subject line and provide the
following information in the message body:
First Name:
Surname:
Organizational affiliation:
Country of residence:
Email:
Website URL (optional)
The public archive of the forum is at URL
<http://lists.apdip.net/pipermail/igovap/>
For more information about the IGOVAP mailing list contact Adam Peake
(list moderator) <ajp@glocom.ac.jp>, for more information about APDIP
and the ORDIG initiative contact Dieter Zinnbauer <dieter@apdip.net>,
Internet Policy Advisor, UNDP-APDIP <dieter@apdip.net>
For more information about:
APDIP <http://www.apdip.net>
APNIC <http://www.apnic.net> and
IDRC <http://www.idrc.ca>
DIPLO Foundation <http://www.diplomacy.edu>
UNESCAP <http://www.unescap.org>