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African Civil Society Conversation on Internet Governance

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Where Discussion is on a mailing list. You can participate in English or French. We will post weekly summaries of the discussion in English and French.

When The discussion space will be open from 11 September to 31 December 2012.

How Go to: https://lists.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/africs-ig and subscribe to the list.

Purpose

This purpose of this site is to serve as a platform that will help garner African civil society's views and contributions to ICT policy and internet governance issues and processes, with a special focus on the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) and the proposed review of the International Telecommunications Regulations (ITRs) that will take place in December 2012.

Goal

The goal of this undertaking is to build awareness, understanding and engagement among African civil society organisations around the WCIT, the proposed revisions to the ITRs and the 'state' of internet governance from more broadly. It is hoped that this platform will facilitate and further African civil society's engagement with internet governance processes at national, regional and global levels while enabling them to contribute to shaping the future development of the internet and telecommunications.

Objective

Develop specific objectives for improvements of internet governance from an African perspective and to promote African access to and participation in the development of the internet.

Background materials

Please send proposals for materials to mawaki [at] apc.org.

Below are links to documents and resources that are intended to inform African CS constituents as well as all participants in this discussion about the contexts and the issues related to internet governance and the review process of the international telecommunication regulations.

• WCITLeaks page of policy analyses and other resources for CS globally http://wcitleaks.org/resources/

• The International Telecommunication Regulations of 1989

• APC’s current bylaws

Activities linked to this discussion

• African IGF http://afigf.uneca.org/
• West Africa IGF http://www.waigf.org/
• Central Africa IGF http://www.fgi-ac.org/
• Southern African IGF http://www.ngopulse.org/saigf
• Highway Africa http://www.highwayafrica.com/
• BestBits Civil Society Meeting, Baku, 3-4 November 2012 http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/BestBits