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

Wed Jul 15 07:02:46 BST 2015

Dear Christina,

Thank you for your email.  Unfortunately, I did not receive Stuart's 1st 
July message. It may have been blocked as SPAM.

 I will submit some ideas, hopefully before your first draft is put out.

Best regards,
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From:
Christina de Castell <Christina.de.Castell at ifla.org>
To:
PubAccessLibraries-DC <pal-dc at lists.apc.org>
Date:
07/15/2015 08:53
Subject:
Re: [Pal-dc] PAL-DC at the IGF 2015
Sent by:
pal-dc-bounces at lists.apc.org

Hello everyone,

As Stuart Hamilton mentioned in his message below of July 1, I’ve joined 
IFLA as the manager of policy and advocacy and will be the main point of 
contact for producing a document to discuss at IGF in Brazil. We have a 
place on the agenda for the main session, and we need to post a document 
for discussion to the IGF website by August 1 to maintain our agenda slot. 
This gives us just over two weeks to gather ideas. 

Stuart proposed that we produce a set of guidelines or principles to 
communicate the continuing value of public access to ICT via libraries and 
asked three questions:
1.       What format should this take?
2.       Do you know of existing materials that contain valuable content 
we can draw from?
3.       What actions would make things better for users accessing the 
internet through libraries?

I welcome your ideas, input and questions – this can be as brief as 
directing me to a link for a good document that contains principles, or as 
much as you would like to contribute to outline your ideas. You’re welcome 
to post to the list or to contact me directly off-list.

I’ll post a draft to the list by July 28 (2 weeks from today) to seek your 
additional feedback.

I look forward to hearing from all of you.

Best regards,

Christina 

Christina de Castell
Manager, Policy & Advocacy
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5
2595 BE The Hague, Netherlands

christina.de.castell at ifla.org
+31-70-3140884

From: Stuart Hamilton 
Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 12:06 PM
To: PubAccessLibraries-DC
Cc: Christina de Castell
Subject: PAL-DC at the IGF 2015

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
stuart.hamilton at ifla.org
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