[icann-see] Internet governance developments in SEE: October summary ready. Briefing tomorrow

[Michael Oghia]

And thank YOU Lianna for the great recap of the Armenian IGF!

Best,
-Michael


On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 7:51 PM, Lianna Galstyan <lianna at isoc.am> wrote:

> Dear Oksana,
>
> Thank you for sharing this information with us. It is indeed encouraging
> to SEE the activities in the region.
>
> And thanks to everyone who could attend the briefing today.
>
> Best regards,
> Lianna
> On 25.10.2016 18:46, Oksana Prykhodko wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am extremely sorry, I can't join you today.
>
> Please find my unofficial report on  VII IGF-UA (which took place in Kyiv
> on October 14) below.
>
> Best regards,
> Oksana
>
> VII IGF-UA unofficial report
>
> VII Ukrainian Internet Governance Forum took place in Kyiv on October 14
> 2016. This event was co-organized by
>
> Ukrainian Internet Association, Commission for Science and IT, Ukrainian
> League of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Joint European Union — Council
> of Europe project “Media Freedom in Ukraine”, Internet Corporation for
> Assigned Names and Numbers, RIPE Network Coordination Centre, ISOC
> (Internet Society), Internet Governance Forum Supporting Association, iNGO
> European Media Platform, National Commission for the State Regulation of
> Communications and Informatization, with the support of Ministry of
> information policy of Ukraine and Institute of modernization of education
> (Ukrainian Ministry of Education and science). As a partner we had
> Artzinger law firm.
>
> This one-day event was attended by more than 136 participants on site and
> had some dozens viewers. For the first time we had at least one active
> remote participant with very good question (regarding the model of
> decision-making in cybersecurity).
>
> Detailed information regarding representation of different stakeholders
> and different countries will be provided soon.
>
> VII IGF-UA was organized in new format: it means that no one VIP could be
> labeled as “co-organizer” just by delivering welcoming speech and without
> active participation in live discussion. That is why we had only one
> co-organizer from governmental bodies - National Commission for the State
> Regulation of Communications and Informatization – member of which, Sergiy
> Dzyuba, played extremely active role in preparation and carrying of VII
> IGF-UA. Ministry of information policy of Ukraine and Institute of
> modernization of education (Ukrainian Ministry of Education and science)
> was titled as “with the support”, because this institution was not
> represented at the highest level, but a lot of middle-level representatives
> contributed a lot to the success of our event. Unfortunately, some other
> very important governmental institutions could not accept new format of
> IGF-UA and ignored it at all.
>
> In total we had opening ceremony (which went on only for 7-10 minutes and
> during which all co-organizers delivered their welcoming words), one
> opening plenary, during which Michael Yakushev, ICANN VP, delivered his
> report “ Review of Internet Governance on global level and near-term
> prospects” (actually, it was the only one report during our VII IGF-UA),
> one closing plenary with summaries from moderators of all workshops:
>
> - THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN INTERNET GOVERNANCE;
>
> - CYBERSECURITY;
>
> - RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS ON-LINE;
>
> - INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS PROTECTION (IPR);
>
> - DIGITAL ERA OF EDUCATION;
>
> - ROUND TABLE ON DOMAIN ISSUES.
>
> Summaries of all these workshops will be included in official report.
>
> Besides, we had two side-events: Open lecture of Michael Yakushev on ICANN
> educational programms for youth engagement and Stakeholders’ Lunch.
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Michael Oghia <mike.oghia at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you very much for this resource Sorina, and thanks to all that
>> contributed.
>>
>> Hope to see some of you later today at the Diplo briefing.
>>
>> Best,
>> -Michael
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Sorina Teleanu <sorinat at diplomacy.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> We are pleased to inform you that the October issue of our monthly
>>> summary of Internet governance and digital policy developments in South
>>> Eastern Europe and the neighbouring area is now available (online
>>> <http://www.seedig.net/2016/10/23/internet-governance-development-in-see-october-issue/>
>>> and attached).
>>>
>>> The summary includes updates from late September and October, from
>>> countries such as: Georgia, Greece, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, and
>>> Serbia. It also provides an overview of 15 Internet-related events that
>>> took place in the region over the past month, as well as a list of upcoming
>>> events.
>>>
>>> All these developments will be discussed tomorrow, during the SEE Hub:
>>> Internet governance in October 2016
>>> <http://www.seedig.net/2016/10/18/event-see-hub-internet-governance-in-october-2016/>.
>>> Registrations for the hub are still open, and we hope to see you online.
>>>
>>> Special thanks for having contributed to the October summary go to our
>>> community members: Adriana, Panos, Veronica, Vladimir, Ucha, Yuriy and
>>> Zdravko.
>>>
>>> Comments on the October issue are welcome. And so are your contributions
>>> for the next issue.
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Sorina
>>> (on behalf of SEEDIG executive committee)
>>>
>>
>>
>
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