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Dear Colleagues,</div>
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A colleague form the CIVIL SOCIETY is seeking a panellist for a workshop that he is planning to organize at the IGF Nairobi in September. If you would like to participate and feel competent as a panellist please inform me and I will send him your contacts. (Workshop description below):</div>
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Mapping Internet Governance (IGC sponsored workshop at Nairobi IGF)<br />
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This workshop will explore where and how Internet Governance decisions<br />
are currently taken. What are the relevant fora and decision-making<br />
bodies? In what topic areas do they make decisions and with what<br />
kinds of impacts? How can individuals and stakeholder organizations<br />
make sure that their viewpoints and concerns are appropriately taken<br />
into consideration?<br />
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Besides having a discussion of these topics in Nairobi, the workshop<br />
aims at initiating a multistakeholder process for creating a document<br />
"Map of Internet Governance" which addresses these questions from a<br />
balanced, multistakeholder perspective, and for thereafter keeping<br />
this document up-to-date. As a starting point for the discussions, a<br />
list of already existing documents with similar goals and a rough<br />
draft for a first edition of the Map will be prepared in advance. At<br />
the workshop itself, it will be a main goal to learn from diverse<br />
stakeholders about what information is important to them to empower<br />
their effective participation in Internet Governance fora.<br />
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There will be special emphasis on the challenges related to effective<br />
participation from developing countries in Internet Governance<br />
decision-making processes, with the objective of ensuring that the<br />
resulting decisions become more conductive to development goals.</div>
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