Best Bits 2012
Best Bits organized a workshop at the IGF. It was held on November 3 and 4, 2012. Pranesh Prakash and Elonnai Hickok participated in the event.
Agenda
Day 1, Saturday, November 3, 2012
| 9.00 - 10.45 |
Internet governance history and review
- Mapping Internet governance – institutions and actors
- Last 20 years of Internet governance: ITU, ISOC, WSIS and IGF
- Last 2 years – ACTA, SOPA/PIPA and online activism eg. StopTheMeter.ca, government assertions of sovereignty over IG
- Southern perspectives on global Internet governance
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| 11.00 - 12.45 |
The ITU and the International Telecommunications Regulations
- What are the real dangers of the proposed ITR revisions?
- Remaining opportunities for input into the WCIT process
- How to engage with your national delegation to the ITU
- Beyond WCIT – WTPF, WTSA, IMPACT, and the Dedicated Group
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| 12.45 - 14.00 |
Lunch and networking break |
| 12.00 - 17.30 |
Drafting a civil society statement to WCIT
- Draws together points of consensus
- Defines the legitimate role of the ITU
- Judges it against the WSIS criteria
- Refers to statement on IG principles
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Day 2, Sunday, November 4, 2012
| 9.00 - 10.30 |
Declarations of Internet rights and Internet governance principles
- Background to Internet principles declarations 1999 to 2012
- Declaration of Internet Freedom – first and second iterations
- Other current initiatives – “rival” Declaration, Marco Civil, etc.
- Respective advantages of consolidation and maintaining diversity
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| 10.45 - 12.15 |
Process towards enhanced cooperation on Internet public policy issues
- If not the ITU, then what?
- The global vacuum on Internet-related public policy issues
- Likely scenarios (favourable or not) if the vacuum is not filled
- Discussion of reform proposals – Committee on Internet Related Policies, Enhanced Cooperation Task Force
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| 12.15 - 13.00 |
Lunch and networking break |
| 13.00 - 16.00 |
Drafting civil society IG principles for the IGF
- Development of existing statements
- Reinforces multi-stakeholder approach
- Suggests roadmap for improved implementation of enhanced cooperation
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| 16.15 - 17.45 |
Next steps
- Making an inclusive civil society network on IG issues sustainable
- Other existing civil society+ networks – Internet Defence League, Internet Governance Caucus, Global Network Initiative, CSISAC, OpenMedia network, Internet Progress Administration
- Recap of upcoming events and campaigns for possible joint action
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Participants
- Alejandro Pisanty
- Andrew Puddephatt
- Anja Kovacs
- Anna Orlova
- Anriette Esterhuysen
- Antonio Medina Gomez
- Arthit Suriyawongkul
- Ashnah Kalemera
- Avri Doria
- bdelachapelle
- Brett Solomon
- Carlos Alberto Afonso
- Claudio Ruiz
- Deborah Brown
- Dixie Hawtin
- Donny B U
- Elonnai Hickok
- Emma Llanso
- Fouad Bajwa
- Gene Kimmelman
- Iarla Flynn
- Imran Ahmed Shah
- Jeremy Malcolm
- Joana Varon Ferraz
- Jochai Ben-Avie
- Joonas Mikael Mäkinen
- Joy Liddicoat
- Katitza Rodriguez
- Kevin Bankston
- LAURA ABBA
- matthew shears
- Mawaki Chango
- Michael Gurstein
- Nnenna Nwakanla
- Norbert Bollow
- Parminder Jeet Singh
- Pranesh Prakash
- Premila Kumar
- Raquel Gatto
- Rashmi Rangnath
- Sanja_Kelly
- Shahzad Ahmad
- Shita Laksmi
- STEFANO TRUMPY
- Stephanie Borg Psaila
- Sylwia Rudnik
- Tapani Tarvainen
- Theresa Züger
- Valeria Betancourt
- William Drake
- Wolfgang Kleinwächter
Attending Remotely
- AHM Bazlur Rahman
- Alex Comninos
- Baudouin SCHOMBE
- chaitanyabd
- cveraq
- De
- encels
- Fatima Cambronero
- ganda
- Hanane
- Hindenburgo Francisco Pires
- Jorge Gonzalez
- Julian Casasbuenas G.
- Lorna Tingu Makuma
- Narine Khachatryan
- natienciso
- Pitshou Bulembi Ndongala
- richaraix
- rohanjay
- Siranush Vardanyan
- Sonigitu Asibong Ekpe
- Susan Coughtrie
- thierrys
- vinsolo
- Virginia Paque
