[Pal-dc] PAL-DC at the IGF 2015

[Stuart Hamilton]

Dear members of the PAL-DC mailing list

At this year’s main IGF in Brazil there will be an opportunity for the Dynamic Coalitions to showcase their work in the form of a main session. Priority will be given to Dynamic Coalitions who have inter-sessional work to present for feedback. IFLA and EIFL are of the opinion that this is a good time for us to work together as a community on something concrete around public access, perhaps a set of guidelines or principles that can be shared with the rest of the IGF community to make them more aware of the continuing value of public access to ICTs.

We all know that we have a lot of material around public access already. So perhaps this exercise is more about identifying an appropriate format for our product (other coalitions have done guidelines, or principles), pulling together existing materials, and then drafting something off the back of this exercise. IFLA and EIFL are willing to get this exercise underway, and then to share out with the whole PAL-DC community for input.

As a parallel track, but also a contribution exercise, we would be interesting to know what you think are the unresolved issues in public access i.e. what concrete actions would you like to see taken by actors in the public access space to make things better for users accessing the internet through libraries? We can build your responses into the draft of the product, and then share back with the mailing list for further input. The document could then be taken in a more advanced draft for to the IGF in Brazil for discussion in the Pal-DC session, and showcased in the main session for all DCs.

What do you think? Could you find some time by the end of July to share your thoughts with the list? My colleague, Christina de Castell, who is the new Manager of Policy and Advocacy at IFLA, will be the main point of contact for this exercise, and will be responding to questions and keeping things moving.

Looking forward to hearing from you all. As a separate question, please could you also indicate in your responses if you are planning to attend the IGF in Brazil in November?

Kind regards,

Stuart

Stuart Hamilton
IFLA Deputy Secretary General
IFLA Headquarters
The Hague
Netherlands

00 31 70 314 0884
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