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IGF Community Public Consultation: Taking stock of 2017 and suggestions for 2018 - Oral statement from the Association for Progressive Communications My name is Julián Casasbuenas and I am making this input on behalf of the Association for Progressive Communications in my capacity as a member of the APC board of directors. APC is an international civil society network with more than 90 members around the world. It has been an active supporter of the IGF since its inception. Thank you fo...
A. Taking stock of 2017 programming, preparatory process, community intersessional activities and the 12th annual IGF A1. What worked well in 2017? Preparatory processes including venue, timing, logistics, participation and networking ● Geneva and the UN as a venue worked well in many ways, even if there were some downsides which we mention below. In particular it meant that governments could participate more easily through their Geneva-based missions. ● The presence of a diverse set of s...
The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is a multistakeholder policy dialogue space convened by the United Nations Secretary General in 2006 to “foster the sustainability, robustness, security, stability and development of the internet.” Twelve years later, it remains a platform for some of the most controversial internet governance issues, allowing actors with quite radical...
1. Preamble The 12th Internet Governance Forum (IGF) comes at a time when inclusive multistakeholder approaches to internet governance are both mainstreamed and precarious at once. National and regional IGF initiatives (NRIs) are growing, but they are also struggling to achieve legitimacy and sustainability as inclusive platforms for debate and collaboration and to translate multistakeholder ap...
The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is mobilising for the 12th annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Geneva, Switzerland, on 18 to 21 December 2017. This page is your go-to resource, compiling: APC's priorities for the 12th Internet Governance Forum, Geneva, 2017 A schedule of events that APC is hosting and co-organising before and during the IGF A...
Together with a special companion edition: "Internet governance from the edges: NRIs in their own words". A groundbreaking report analysing National and Regional Internet Governance Forums will be released at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Geneva, Switzerland, on 20 December 2017. The latest edition of the Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) report will look at local Internet G...
The global Internet Governance Forum remains a unique and vibrant forum, producing valuable intersessional work, despite its shortcomings. The overall theme for this years’ IGF is “Shape Your Digital Future!”. The main subtheme is “New Technologies & Emerging Issues”. Under these umbrellas, we will try to use our presence in Geneva to capture the activities and highlights of...
This is a schedule with the events hosted and co-organised before and during the 2017 Internet Governance Forum in Geneva by APC. Come join us! PRE-EVENTS – 16 December 2017 Civil society coordination meeting 8:30-17:00 | DiploFoundation, Avenue de la Paix 7BIS 1202 APC co-organising with Best Bits, Non-Commercial User Constituency, Internet Governance Caucus,...
This is a schedule with the events before and during the 2017 Internet Governance Forum in Geneva in which APC is participating in one way or the other. Come join us! PRE-EVENTS – 17 December 2017 Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace 16:30-18:00 | Salle 14 CICG APC speaking Latin America in a Glimpse 15:00-18:00 | Public Salle 13 CICG APC spea...
