[kictanet] Statement made by Alice Munyua at the opening session of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) taking place in India 3-6th December 2008

[waudo siganga]

Congratulations for the wonderful presentation Alice - and for keeping
our regional profile high at this event.
Waudo

On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 11:06:24 -0000 (UTC), alice at apc.org said:
> Dear all
> 
> Below the statment i presented at the IGF opening session this afternoon.
> 
> best
> alice
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> 
> Statement by  Alice Munyua at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) taking
> place in India 3-6th December 2008
> 
> 
> Good afternoon,
> Chairman your Excellencies, Distinguished Guests,Ladies, Gentlemen, and
> remote participants.
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> 
> We wish to thank India for hosting the third IGF and to extend its
> sympathy and condolences over the recent acts of terrorism experienced in
> Mumbai.
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> The WSIS Society underscored the need for Multi-stakeholder processes
> initiated at the national, regional, and international levels to discuss
> and collaborate on the expansion and diffusion of the Internet as a means
> to support development efforts to achieve internationally-agreed
> development goals and objectives, including the Millennium Development
> Goals.
> It was in this regard that Kenya organized and hosted the First East
> African Internet Governance Forum (EAIGF) from the 10 to 12 November,
> 2008. The forum’s main theme was: Opening the Internet Governance Debate
> in East Africa; Thinking globally, acting locally. It was a follow up to
> national Internet Governance Forums (IGFs) held in Kenya, Uganda,
> Tanzania
> and Rwanda in September and October 2008, to identify local priority
> issues in the respective East African countries. The national IG issues
> were then used as a building block for the regional Internet Governance
> Forum (EAIGF). The forum was attended by approximately 180 stakeholders
> drawn from the business, civil society, media, academia, internet users,
> government, and general public.
> 
> It was the first of its kind in the Africa region and was initiated from
> the realization that there was a need to address the limited
> participation
> by African stakeholders on global internet governance debates and
> processes and the need to ensure effective and meaningful contribution to
> global ICT policymaking.  It was organised through a collaborative
> partnership between various government institutions from the region,
> private sector, civil society, media and international partners.
> Some of the priority issues and recommendations identified by the EAIGF
> meeting are:
> •	Universal affordable Access (not from an incremental approach that
> focuses on creating more consumers rather looking at creating
> entrepreneurship opportunities, allowing for creativity, innovation that
> would by extension translate into social, economic, cultural and
> political
> benefits for all)
> •	Capacity and skills development
> •	Management of critical internet resources, including transition from
> IPv4 to IPv6 and more clarity and improved mutual collaboration on red
> legation of country code top level domains..Specifically dot UG and dot
> RW
> •	 Cyber crime, security and privacy (creating a national and regional
> framework, which would involve setting national and regional computer
> emergency readiness team and computer security incident response team
> among other strategies
> •	Development of national and regional Internet exchange points
> •	The MSP model is important to us in the EA region and it has worked so
> far in terms of ICT policy and regulatory process. So it is crucial that
> we continue to work with all stakeholders giving them an equal footing in
> not only this IGF process but others as well.
> 
> Finally, the EAIGF will be an annual event with the second one taking in
> Tanzania in 2009, prior to the Cairo IGF.
> For more information about the EAIGF, Visit: www.eaigf.or.ke.
> Thank you for your kind attention.
> 
> 
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