Status:
IGF Theme(s) for workshop:
- Internet Governance for Development [IG4D] cross cutting priority
- Emerging Issues
Main theme question address by workshop: What does it take in terms of IG policy, legal and regulatory approaches?
Concise description of the proposed workshop:
The workshop will address the idea of having a national or a regional framework of principles on Internet Governance as a mean to address internet issues. The framework can be a flexible approach suitable to address Internet related issues rather than using regulation measures and mechanisms. The workshop will focused around the following questions:
• Is a framework of principles for internet governance is needed on national/regional levels and how it can plays a role in improving internet usage to all relevant stakeholders.
• Can the framework of principles for internet governance replaces regulation on national or regional levels. In what areas related to IG it can be applied and in what other areas of IG regulation still will be the most suitable approach.
• What type of process can be adopted to develop the national/regional framework of principles on Internet Governance. How can we ensure that this process will be inclusive and multistakeholder. What steps that should be included in this process.
• In what ways consent on national level and regional level can be reached to adopt this framework and it ways or means can it be brought into effect.
• Are their currently examples of national Internet Governance frameworks that can be used and followed as a best practice.
Background Paper: Workshop Framework of Principles.pdf
Name of the organiser(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder groups:
Kuwait Information Technology Society (Civil Society)
Have you, or any of your co-organisers, organised an IGF workshop before?: Yes
Please provide link(s) to workshop(s) or report(s):
Participation in the following:
• Moderated two best practice forums during the Rio meeting (Senegal and Bulgaria)
• During The Hyderabad Third Internet Governance Forum:
i. National multi-stakeholder processes and their relation to the IGF
ii. Steps toward an Internet that is multilingual, yet remains global
iii. Governance for gatekeepers – shaping access to the Internet.
• During the Nairobi Meeting: The Role of Policy Maker: Regulators in Better Governance of Internet
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
• Representative from civil society.
• Representative from government.
• Representative from private sector.
• Representative from intergovernmental organizations.
• Representative from the academic community.
• Representative from the technical community.
We will ensure that the panelist are geographically and gender balanced.
Name of Remote Moderator(s):