Dear All, greetings from the Albanian HUB.
Albania HUB took place in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs conference room. It was organized in cooperation with the Ministry of Innovation, Information and Communication Technology (MITIC). This was the first event of this kind in Albania.
The HUB had participants representing different stakeholders, Government ( IT specialists of Ministry of Education and Interior, and the National Agency on Information Technology), Academic staff, NGO( CoE and UNDP), The Data Protection Commissioner, Civil Society etc.
On the first day we attended the welcome session, IGF for newcomers. The facilitator made a presentation of IGF and its issues in the local perspective. In the afternoon we attended the plenary session were the Deputy Minister of MITIC stressed the role of IGF in Government and Academy.
On the following days IGF was attended by participants interested in joining workshops in accordance with their interest and professional background. We had great interest in Data protection, Child Safety, Teaching IG, best practice from schools, Cybercrime etc.
In its first edition Albanian Hub was attended by 40 people, and we believe we have fulfilled our goal of raising awareness regarding IG issues, and building a network of professionals who will discuss these issues in our local perspective and contribute in improving in their respective fields of competences. We are already working for our National IGF.
Technology was our great ally, and made remote participating to IGF enjoyable and real. Merit must be given to the remote participation group in Vilnius, especially Ginger Marilia and Bernard.
We will continue to consult the materials and transcripts of this meeting in the IGF website.
Last we would like to thank the organizers of IGF 2010 of their great job, and we are looking forward to the next IGF.
Here are some photos of our HUB.
Warm regards,
Elona Taka
