Excerpts from mail posted on31 juil. 2007 17:34
List of Accepted Workshop Proposals
Forewords
Dear workshop
proponents,
During the stock-taking phase after the Athens
meeting it was generally felt that organizers need to be given more
time than last year to prepare their workshops. At the consultations
in May we agreed therefore to notify them by 31 July whether or not
to go ahead with their projects. We received many excellent proposals
, by far exceeding the available slots. Any selection will not,
therefore, be satisfactory to eveyone, as it is not possible to
accommodate all proposals.
Please find attached a list of
workshop proposals that in our view reflect the basic IGF principles.
We applied common selection criteria to all proposals. The criteria
we used are based on the concept we have been developing in our
consultations and Web based discussions since the inception of the
IGF. These criteria are the following:
relevance to the agenda of the meeting;
multi-stakeholder approach in planning and carrying out the workshop;
approaching a subject from multiple perspectives (and thus avoiding advocacy positions);
geographical diversity in general and the involvement of experts from developing countries in particular;
the relevance with regard to the cross cutting priorities of development and capacity building.
We stated at the outset that the readiness to
cooperate with others was a prerequisite. We therefore also took into
account the outreach activities of the various workshop proponents
and their responsiveness to cooperation initiatives.
While
the workshop proposals contained in the list are solid, most of them
could gain from increased geographical diversity, in particular by
including more developing country panellists. We therefore appeal to
all organizers to make an additional effort and look out for voices
from developing countries, or, if approached, to be open and
inclusive and give them a say.
We have been appealing to all
workshop proponents to consider merging their proposals with similar
ones. Some mergers have taken place - some of them at the very last
moment - while discussions on other mergers continue. They will be
included in the list once they come to an agreement. Others may wish
to approach the workshops that deal with similar issues. We would
like to encourage the workshop organizers who have been given the
green light to be open to any such initiative. We have also been in
touch with the proponents of some proposals to discuss the
possibility of shifting them into the Best Practice or Open Forum
sections. Some have already agreed to this while discussions with
others are still under way.
The list is a 'positive list' of
workshop proposals which offer solid prospects for staging
interesting and successful events. We have not drawn up a 'negative
list' of proposals we are rejecting. Other workshops still stand a
chance of being chosen, as the selection process will be finalized
after taking into account the number of applications we receive for
Best Practice and Open Forums.
Best regards
The IGF
Secretariat
List of workshops
Critical Internet Resources
The functioning of the Domain Name System
***Merged workshops***
Legal aspects of managing critical Internet resources
***Merging with “Governance of Critical Internet Resources - Exploring Commons and Public Interest Based Frameworks”***
The Communications Infrastructure of the Internet
Access
Internet Traffic Exchange In Less Developed Internet Markets
Qualifying, Quantifying, and Meeting the Challenge of Internet Access Costs.
***Merged with International peering and transit agreements***
Diversity
Accessibility needs for people with special requirements
Accessibility guidelines and standards for persons with disabilities
Establishing standards for a multi-lingual global Internet
Interoperable multilingual directories and solutions provided by the semantic web
***Merging with Research and Cultural Diversity: The State of art and perspectives***
Openness
'Quality' And The Internet: Using And Trusting Internet Web Content
Freedom of Expression as a Security Issue
Upholding Human Rights on the Global Internet - Toward a Unified Industry Solution
Security
Protecting children from sexual exploitation through ICTs
Legislative responses to current and future cyber-threats
The global culture for cyber-security
Managing security issues: authentication at the transaction level
International Cooperation on the Capacity Building of Information Security
*** merged with “Computer Emergency Response Teams and their contribution to national 'cultures of cyber security'”***
Development / Capacity Building
Toward a Development Agenda for Internet Governance
Worldwide NIC's co-development : "Joint initiative for an automated management"
Other
31 July 2007