[Pal-dc] Policy options for Connecting the Next Billion - PAL DC contributions

[Stuart Hamilton]

Dear Colleagues

First of all, an apology for a very late email to you all. We have been asked to provide input from PAL-DC to the next stage of the IGF's 'Policy Options for the Next Billion' 2017 Intersessional Programme. I attach the call for input - you can see it has quite detailed instructions on what the organisers are looking for.

The deadline for submissions is July 31 - which is why I began this email with an apology. However, we have drafted the attached which we would like comments on, if you have time, before we submit it on Sunday. Please send comments to the list and we'll take them into account in the final submission. If you feel like submitting individual comments please also do so, as I am sure these will be received with gratitude.

For us at IFLA right now we are hugely busy with preparations for our annual conference, which takes place in Columbus in the US next month: http://2016.ifla.org/ Once we are the other side of this event we will be stepping up preparations for the main IGF in December, including picking up work on our Principles document. Right now we have library representatives at the Asia-Pacific IGF, where we are co-organising a workshop on the Right to be Forgotten, and we will also have colleagues at the forthcoming LAC IGF.

Finally, recently I participated in the IGF Retreat in New York (http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/igf-retreat) where improvements to the IGF were discussed. I brought the library and public access viewpoint to the discussions as best I could! You can find the outcome document from these discussions here, and can comment paragraph by paragraph: https://www.intgovforum.org/review/igf-retreat-proceedings-ideas-and-suggestions/

I hope you are all well!

Stuart

Dr. Stuart Hamilton
Deputy Secretary General
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
P.O. Box 95312
2509 CH The Hague
Netherlands

00 31 70 314 0884

Twitter: @ifladpa

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