[kictanet] Fwd: [Internet Policy] New book: The Working Group on Internet Governance: 10th Anniversary Reflections

[Barrack Otieno]

Listers,

Could be beneficial for those following the IGF.

Regards


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 1:54 PM
Subject: [Internet Policy] New book: The Working Group on Internet
Governance: 10th Anniversary Reflections
To: internetpolicy at elists.isoc.org


Apologies for cross-posting

Hi

In case anyone is interested, just in time for the WSIS+10 Review,
yesterday the APC released the below book, which is edited by myself
and populated by various familiar IG mavens.  The free PDF version is
available now from the APC website, and in a week or so there also
will be e-book and print on demand versions at Amazon and other
dealers for a couple dollars.

Best

Bill

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PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New publication: The Working Group on Internet Governance - 10th
Anniversary Reflections

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 14 December 2015 – 2015 marks the 10th
anniversary of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The
UN General Assembly reviewed the progress made over the past decade
and negotiated a text that addresses a number of global Internet
governance issues. 2015 is also the 10th anniversary of a
multistakeholder experiment that helped bring the WSIS to a successful
conclusion: the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). Convened
in 2004, the WGIG assembled 40 representatives of governments and
stakeholders who engaged in months of intensive peer-level dialogue
and collective analysis. The WGIG process was an important turning
point and catalyst in the intergovernmental recognition of
multistakeholder processes for Internet governance. In June 2005, the
WGIG released a widely noted report that advanced a “broad definition”
of Internet governance; holistically addressed a range of policy
issues; offered four competing models for the ”oversight” of critical
Internet resources; and proposed the establishment of the Internet
Governance Forum. The report significantly influenced the final
agreement adopted by WSIS.

This book, edited by William J. Drake and published by APC with the
support of APNIC, CGI.br, ICANN and Internet Society, reflects on the
WGIG’s procedural and substantive contributions to the evolving global
Internet governance dialogue and institutional ecosystem. Written by
former WGIG members and others who played key roles in the debates on
the WGIG and WSIS, the volume is a follow-up to a book produced in the
summer of 2005: William J. Drake, ed., Reforming Internet Governance:
Perspectives from the UN Working Group on Internet Governance.

Topics include: historical overview; understanding Internet
governance; institutionalizing multistakeholder cooperation; from
oversight to stewardship; Internet governance for development; and
closing reflections.

Authors include: Fiona Alexander, Peng Hwa Ang and Sherly Haristya,
Karen Banks and Anriette Esterhuysen, Nitin Desai, Avri Doria, William
J. Drake, Raúl Echeberría, Baher Esmat, Juan Fernández González,
Hartmut R. Glaser and Diego R. Canabarro, David Hendon, Jānis
Kārkliņš, Wolfgang Kleinwächter, Jovan Kurbalija, Markus Kummer,
Olivier Nana Nzépa, Alejandro Pisanty, Paul Wilson and Pablo Hinojosa,
and Michael Yakushev.

The full publication can be downloaded here

About the Association for Progressive Communications

The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is an
international network and non-profit organisation founded in 1990 that
wants everyone to have access to a free and open internet to improve
lives and create a more just world.
apc.org


PO Box 29755
Melville, GT 2109
South Africa

Media contact

Flavia Fascendini
APC Communications
flavia at apc.org


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International Fellow & Lecturer
  Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
  University of Zurich, Switzerland
Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency,
  ICANN, www.ncuc.org
william.drake at uzh.ch (direct), wjdrake at gmail.com (lists),
  www.williamdrake.org
Internet Governance: The NETmundial Roadmap http://goo.gl/sRR01q
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