[npoc-voice] This week / NPOC side session at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Baku, Azerbaijan

[Eduardo Monge <eduardo.monge@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear NPOC Colleagues,


This week NPOC is present at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Baku, 
Azerbaijan along with many other ICANN community members.



NPOC is being represented by Cintra Sooknanan from ISOC-Trinidad & Tobago 
Chapter and NPOC Vice Chair, Marie-laure Lemineur from the Center for Study, 
Analysis and Training in Human Rights and NPOC Program Committee Chair, and 
Poncelet Ilelji of YMCA of The Gambia and NPOC Program Committee Co-Vice Chair.



The program committee has put together an excellent side session in cooperation 
with the Global Knowledge Partnership Foundation.   See below, and on our web 
site<http://www.npoc.org/>, the details of the side session to be held on Nov. 
9  at  09:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.  Baku time  (UTC/GMT +4 hours) including access 
to remote participation links.



Share this information with your colleagues and contacts and join me in 
thanking Cintra, Marie-laure, Poncelet, Alain and Klaus for their work in 
making NPOC´s participation possible.



Regards,



Eduardo Monge

NPOC Communications Committee Chair



NPOC is co-organizing a panel session at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in 
Baku, Azerbaijan

Side session at the Internet Governance Forum 
(IGF)<http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/content/article/114-preparatory-process/927-igf-2012>,
 Baku, Azerbaijan

Friday 9th, November 2012.

09:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Conference Room 8. IGF venue.

"Why is the participation of the social sector in the Internet Governance 
important for everybody?"

Description:
There is an ongoing tension around the multi-sectored approach to Internet 
Governance as practiced by ICANN and affirmed by the WSIS process in Tunis. One 
of the main questions is if the social sector should be included in Internet 
Governance at all; and if so to what extent.

The panelists will seek to provide answers to this question not only from the 
civil society sector perspective, but also
from the private and governmental sector perspectives. The panel will 
inevitably explore other questions such as; Are there insurmountable 
differences in the different sectors approach to Internet Governance? or Can 
Internet Governance only function well if there exists a symbiotic relationship 
between sectors?

The panel discussion will aim to close down the debate with a final proposal on 
how civil society can have improved interaction with other sectors involved and 
more engagement in Internet
Governance processes.

Names of the speakers:

 *   William J. Drake, International Fellow & Lecturer Media Change & 
Innovation Division, Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research, 
University of Zurich, Switzerland.
 *   Hong Xue, Director of Institute for the Internet Policy & Law (IIPL), 
Beijing Normal University.
 *   Osman Gunduz,  President of the Azerbaijan Internet Forum,  Director of 
the  Multimedia Center and lecturer of Internet journalism at Baku State 
University.
 *   Poncelet O. Ileleji, Coordinator, the Gambia YMCAs Computer Training 
Centre & Digital Studio. The Gambia.
 *   Theresa Swinehart, Executive Director of Global Internet Policy at Verizon.
 *   Marco Pancini, Public Policy Counsel at Google.

This side session is organized by NPOC and the Global Knowledge Partnership 
Foundation (GKPF) http://gkpfoundation.org<http://gkpfoundation.org/>

On the day of the event:

    *   Remote participant links, access Room 8: 
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/remote-participation/connect-now
    *   Webcast: http://webcast.igf2012.com/#room8
    *   Textstreaming: http://webcast.igf2012.com/textstreaming/room8.html