[ga] Asia/Pacific Open Regional Dialogue on Internet Governance

[Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>]

UNDP's Asia Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP), with the kind support of the International Development Research Centre, Canada, has launched an initiative on ICT policy issues in the Asia and Pacific region to stimulate a dialogue on ICT policy priorities and to contribute a regional perspective to the global debate on Internet Governance. 

This initiative, the Open Regional Dialogue on Internet Governance (ORDIG), will enable stakeholders from the Asia and Pacific region to express and discuss their views and concerns on a broad range of Internet governance issues, and will contribute to the global discussion underway in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and Working Group on Internet Governance <http://www.wgig.org>. ORDIG will also look beyond the WSIS process and develop a long-term platform for the exchange of ideas and concerns about ICT policy issues among stakeholders from the region.

Major activities for ORDIG include a regional multi-stakeholder survey on Internet governance priorities for the Asia-Pacific; a community-managed online portal and targeted research on various ICT policy aspects and the production of an input paper to the UN Working Group on Internet Governance. 

This four-week online Discussion Forum on Internet Governance Priorities for the Asia-Pacific region (IGOVAP) is an integral part of ORDIG to canvass the views on priority concerns in the region and to catalyze a constructive dialogue on policy remedies and research needs.

The IGOVAP Forum will run from January 13 to February 17, 2005. To register for the Forum please complete the information at http://igov.apdip.net/opening_discussion/subscribe/formmailer and then click on the sign-up button.  Information gathered will be used to enable moderators to better understand the needs and interests of participants and will be confidential. You can choose to receive postings as they are released, or bundled in one daily digest. Once the forum is open, older postings and the entire archive of the mailing list can be viewed at <http://lists.apdip.net/pipermail/igovap/>

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