[APCPress] SUBJECT: For media reporting on IGF: APC submission to preparatory meetings

[Analia Lavin]

The first preparatory meeting for the next Internet Governance Forum 
will be held in Geneva on 26 February 2008. APC prepared a document to 
feed into the discussions on access issus.

*Building consensus on internet access at the Internet Governance Forum*

This paper identifies and documents the main areas of discussions and 
‘recommendations’ that were generated under the Access theme at the 
second Internet Governance Forum in Rio De Janeiro, November 2007.

Whilst recognising that the IGF is currently viewed and operates 
primarily as a space for discussion, the paper finds that (specifically 
in the case of Access) it is also a space in which commonality of 
opinion occurs to the level at which ‘recommendations’ can be made and 
repeatedly asserted independently/individually in the workshops, and 
strategically reinforced at different levels of the IGF.

Read the full paper here:
http://rights.apc.org/documents/IGF_AccessRecommendations_0208.pdf

Background information:
Statement from the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) on 
the second Internet Governance Forum
Rio de Janeiro, November 12-15 2007
http://rights.apc.org/documents/apc_statement_igf2007_EN.pdf

For further information please contact:
Willie Currie
APC Communication and Information Policy Programme Manager
wcurrie at apc.org