Dear Colleagues,

A colleague form the CIVIL SOCIETY is seeking a panellist for a workshop that he is planning to organize at the IGF Nairobi in September. If you would like to participate and feel competent as a panellist please inform me and I will send him your contacts. (Workshop description below):

 

  Mapping Internet Governance (IGC sponsored workshop at Nairobi IGF)

  This workshop will explore where and how Internet Governance decisions
  are currently taken. What are the relevant fora and decision-making
  bodies? In what topic areas do they make decisions and with what
  kinds of impacts? How can individuals and stakeholder organizations
  make sure that their viewpoints and concerns are appropriately taken
  into consideration?

  Besides having a discussion of these topics in Nairobi, the workshop
  aims at initiating a multistakeholder process for creating a document
  "Map of Internet Governance" which addresses these questions from a
  balanced, multistakeholder perspective, and for thereafter keeping
  this document up-to-date. As a starting point for the discussions, a
  list of already existing documents with similar goals and a rough
  draft for a first edition of the Map will be prepared in advance. At
  the workshop itself, it will be a main goal to learn from diverse
  stakeholders about what information is important to them to empower
  their effective participation in Internet Governance fora.

  There will be special emphasis on the challenges related to effective
  participation from developing countries in Internet Governance
  decision-making processes, with the objective of ensuring that the
  resulting decisions become more conductive to development goals.