New Delegates Briefing Session
6 November, 14.30 - 18.00, Room 11
Background/context:
Following the positive experience from the Nairobi IGF meeting (transcript), an orientation session for newcomers has been planned to take place during the afternoon of day 1 at IGF 2012: "New Delegates Briefing Session".
Outline:
Part I
- Navigating IGF: providing practical hints and inputs on how to navigate the IGF during the meeting (sessions, remote, corridors, etc)
- Mapping the IG field: providing quick reflections of the panelists' understanding of Internet governance
Part II
- Diplomacy (including WSIS/IGF within the United Nations system, UN protocols, procedures), Internet governance processes and actors (including WCIT, ICANN, etc)
- Getting involved: Capacity Building Mechanisms, online/remote participations, national IGF initiatives, preparations for IGF 2013.
Format :
This session will be serious, but amusing. It will be creative but also informative. It should be open, but also guided in order to be effective. It will involve newcomers and experts together.
Resources:
http://www.apc.org/en/pubs/books/mapping-internet-public-policy
http://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/Ecosystem_Factsheet.pdf
http://www.diplomacy.edu/resources/books/introduction-internet-governance-4th-edition
Agenda
14.30 - 16.00 Part I
14.30 - 15.00
Navigating the IGF
● About the IGF: mandate, format and procedures (with Q&A)
● Agenda and session formats at the IGF: main sessions, workshops, Dynamic Coalitions, open fora, capacity building events, side sessions (with Q&A)
● Contributing to the IGF (with Q&A):
○ during the main sessions and workshops
○ through e-participation, social networks and social reporting
○ other forms (corridors, networking, IGF village, etc)
Panelists: TBC
Moderator: Vladimir Radunovic, DiploFoundation
15.00 - 16.00
Mapping the IG field
“Speed presentations”: Presenting IGF Thematic Areas
● Critical Internet Resources (CIR)
● Internet Governance for Development (IG4D)
● Access and Diversity (AD)
● Emerging Issues (EI)
● Security Openness and Privacy (SOP)
● Taking Stock and the Way Forward and Other (TS/WF)
[Panel session, 5min per theme]
Panelists: TBC
Moderator: Vladimir Radunovic, DiploFoundation
Small thematic groups: Discussing thematic areas and related IGF sessions:
● Critical Internet Resources (CIR): DNSSec, ccTLD, ICANN, ITU ITR, IXP, localisation of data, IPv6, RPKI
● Internet Governance for Development (IG4D): building Internet capacity, youth participation, inclusiveness, multistakeholderism, digital divide, sustainable development
● Access and Diversity (AD): access as human right, IDNs, local content, costs, remote participation, vulnerable groups, capacity building
● Emerging Issues (EI): Internet freedoms, copyright, human rights, reative content, intellectual property rights, dispute resolution, open government data, rights, intermediaries, Internet of Things
● Security Openness and Privacy (SOP): cyber-security, cybercrime, child protection, cross border flow, freedom of expression, identity, privacy, data protection, blocking and filtering content, net neutrality, censorship, digital citizenship, cloud computing, open government data, civil rights, trust building
● Taking Stock and the Way Forward and Other (TS/WF): self-governance, multistakeholder IG, jurisdiction in online space, geography of cyberspace, regional and country-level IGF, future of IGF
[Group work session, participants and experts discussing in small thematic groups]
16.30 - 18.00 Part II
16.30 - 17.30
Actors and Process
Interactive panel: Diplomacy, Internet Governance Actors and Processes
● Diplomacy; UN system, protocols/procedures; history, formats and proceedings of WSIS/IGF
● Other IG processes: ITU WCIT/ITR, ICANN, OECD, etc
● IG actors and ecosystem, multistakeholderism
Panelists: TBC
Moderator: Vladimir Radunovic, DiploFoundation
17.30 - 18.00
Getting involved with the IG
Interactive panel: Staying involved with the IG process
● Capacity Building Mechanisms (programmes, fellowships, community building)
● Online space (social networks, discussion lists/fora)
● National/regional IGF initiatives
● Preparing for IGF13: putting up a workshop proposal, e-participation, etc
Panelists: TBC
Moderator: Vladimir Radunovic, DiploFoundation