IGOVAP- an online forum for asia on Internet governance

Subject: [bytesforall_readers] IGOVAP- an online forum for asia
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:50:49 -0500
From: satish.jha@gmail.com
To: bytesforall_readers@yahoogroups.com <bytesforall_readers@yahoogroups.com>

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)

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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>;

________________________________________
satish jha
special advisor,
Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICTs
www.aiti-kace.com.gh
cell:usa: 202 361 3170
cell:ind: 98913 79191

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