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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
- send an email to <igovap-request at lists dot apdip dot net>
with the word 'subscribe' in the subject line and provide the following
information in the message body:
For more information about the IGOVAP mailing list contact Adam Peake
(list moderator) <ajp at glocom dot ac dot jp>, for more information about APDIP
and the ORDIG initiative contact Dieter Zinnbauer <dieter at apdip dot net>,
Internet Policy Advisor, UNDP-APDIP <dieter at apdip dot net>