(Personal Note: Hi... I was part of their advisory panel
but strangely, we did not have a formal discussion of
the Panel on the input paper to WGIG...a meeting was
supposed to be held before the Tehran Asia WSIS for this
purpose regional meeting fell through, and a smaller
group met in Bangkok instead...I was invited but could
not make it... so am also reading it for the first
time... - Al Alegre)
**Please disseminate widely**
**Apologies for cross-postings**
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UNDP Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme
(UNDP-APDIP) Releases
ORDIG Policy Brief and Input Paper on Internet
Governance
7 June 2005
Voices from Asia-Pacific: Internet Governance Priorities
and Recommendations
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After almost ten months of research and activities,
UNDP-APDIP's Open
Regional Dialogue on Internet Governance (ORDIG*) has
produced a two-part
report entitled, "Voices from Asia-Pacific: Internet
Governance Priorities
and Recommendations" - consisting of 1) the ORDIG Policy
Brief and Executive
Summary, and 2) the ORDIG Input Paper for the UN Working
Group on Internet
Governance (WGIG) and the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS).
These documents stem from months of consultations
involving stakeholder
groups from the public and private sectors, as well as
civil society.
ORDIG consulted over 3,000 stakeholders through
sub-regional meetings,
jointly organized with UNESCAP and others; a region-wide
online forum that
allowed for open and candid discussions on the issues;
and a region-wide,
multi-lingual, issues-based online survey that looked at
the Internet
governance priorities of the region.
The resulting two reports are the synthesis,
consolidation, and reading of
the voices from the Asia-Pacific region. They outline
the principles and
dimensions that make up the framework for building
recommendations, which
are provided in the documents at two levels - general
and specific
recommendations.
Issues and recommendations covered in the Infrastructure
dimension are
access costs, VOIP, and wireless networks. Issues and
recommendations
covered in the Logical dimension are DNS management, IP
address management,
and technical standards. Issues covered in the Content
dimension are
content pollution (spam, viruses, spyware, etc.) and
cybercrime. Issues
covered in the Social/Developmental dimension are
culture diversity and
participation.
The "Voices from Asia-Pacific: Internet Governance
Priorities and
Recommendations" documents were shared with and endorsed
by delegates at the
High Level Asia-Pacific Conference for the World Summit
on the Information
Society, in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran (31 May-2
June 2005).
Furthermore, these reports will be provided to the WGIG
at their upcoming
Fourth Meeting (14-17 June 2005), as the Asia-Pacific
input for the Working
Group's deliberation.
For all documents, please go to:
ORDIG Policy Brief
http://igov.apdip.net/ORDIG_Policy_Brief.pdf
ORDIG Input Paper
http://igov.apdip.net/ORDIG_Paper.pdf
ORDIG Survey Report
http://igov.apdip.net/ORDIG.Survey.Report.pdf
ORDIG Forum Summary
http://igov.apdip.net/undp-apdip%20forum%20summary.pdf
Contact:
Phet Sayo, UNDP-APDIP Programme Specialist,
phet@apdip.net
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* ORDIG is an initiative of UNDP's Asia-Pacific
Development Information
Programme (UNDP-APDIP), in collaboration with the United
Nations Economic
and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
(UNESCAP), and the Asia
Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC). It was
carried out with the aid
of a grant from the International Development Research
Centre, Ottawa,
Canada.