[WSIS CS-Plenary] UNDP-APDIP selects Advisory Panel

Tue Dec 7 11:05:29 GMT 2004

En français ci-aprés
If there is a Continent in need to such an initiative
(UNDP-APDIP) it is Africa.
Why the UNDP African Bureau has not undertaken such an
approach ? Where are our great African leaders who are
promising so through NEPAD, Solidarity Digital Fund
(SDF) which means in French homeless Sans Domicile
Fixe ?
Even regional initiatives like the proposed one
UNDP-ADPIP has no relevance if it is not intergrated
in a global vision a new mechanism to collect and
allow finance for development in respect of
international cooperation and not in service of
private interests.
All the best
Djilali
S'il ya un continent dans le besoin et dans la
désespérance en ce domaine c'est bien l'Afrique.
Alors ne peut-on se demander que fait le Bureau du
PNUD pour l'Afrique et que font nos leaders divins du
NEPAD et des fonds de solidatiré numérique.
Cette initiative PNUD Région asir Pacifique me
réconforte dans ma conviction que l'approche régional
et ou sectorielle est contre productive et qu'il
faille d'abord résoudre le problème global du
développement et des mécanismes de mobilisation et
d'allocation des ressources pour le rattrappage des
pays en sous développement et non les initiatives
tendant à servir les profits des société privées
dominantes du secteur.
Bien à vous
Djilali 
--- Phet Sayo <phet at apdip.net> wrote:

> >>Excellence, vision, creative diversity: supporting
> the quest for open,
> >>inclusive and development-oriented Internet
> policies<<
> 
> Synopsis:
> UNDP-APDIP selects Advisory Panel for its 'Open R
> egional Dialogue on
> Internet Governance'. Distinguished information and
> communication technology
> and development policy experts from government,
> research, industry and civil
> society from 13 countries in the Asia-Pacific to
> advise on Internet
> governance policy priorities in the Asia-Pacific
> region
> 
> In more detail:
> Kuala Lumpur, December  6, 2004
> 
> 
> Making Internet governance work for human
> development
> 
> In October 2004 UNDP's Asia-Pacific Information
> Programme (APDIP) launched a
> new initiative to strengthen the voice of
> stakeholders from the Asia-Pacific
> in Internet governance and make ICT policy-making
> responsive to development
> priorities. Upcoming activities of this Open
> Regional Dialogue on Internet
> Governance (ORDIG) include a community-managed
> portal (www.igov.apdip.net)
> for ICT policy-issues, surveys in more than 15
> countries in the region to
> identify priority concerns for further research and
> direct information
> sharing with the UN Working Group on Internet
> Governance in the run-up to
> the second part of the UN World Summit on the
> Information Society to be held
> in Tunis in November 2005.
> 
> 
> All these and many more activities are envisaged to
> be developed and
> executed in close consultation with a
> multi-stakeholder Advisory Panel.
> 
> A tough choice
> 
> An open call for nominations to the Panel had
> attracted nearly one hundred
> high quality expressions of interest. From this pool
> APDIP and its partners
> have carefully selected a group of high-level
> experts that come from all
> parts of the Asia-Pacific region and bring to the
> task the widest range of
> experience and interest in ICT policy issues
> possible. "The choice was a
> very difficult one", admits Shahid Akhtar, Regional
> Co-ordinator of APDIP,
> "but the outcome is a unique mix of expertise,
> experience and backgrounds
> that is as inclusive and creative as one would want
> the overall system of
> Internet governance to be."
> 
> Panel members include senior public officials
> responsible for ICT
> policy-making, eminent scholars and researchers from
> the Internet
> development community, key representatives of civil
> society organizations
> working on Internet governance issues and high-level
> Internet entrepreneurs
> from the private sector. The Panel will be tasked to
> advise UNDP-APDIP on
> all activities related to ORDIG and will carry out
> its work in online
> consultations and face-to-face meetings. The
> individual members are:
> 
> - Izumi Aizu, Secretary, Internet Governance Task
> Force of Japan, Japan;
> - Al Alegre, Coordinator, Foundation for Media
> Alternative, Philippines;
> - Dr. R.K. Arora, Group Coordinator & Senior
> Director, Department of IT,
> Ministry of Communications and Information
> Technology, India;
> - Sanjib Raj Bhandari, CEO, Mercantile
> Communications, Nepal;
> - Valerie de Costa, Director, International
> Division, Infocomm Development
> Authority of Singapore, Singapore;
> - Dr. Gihan V Dias, Programme Director, Technology,
> Standards and
> Compliance, ICT Agency, Computer Science and Eng.
> Dept. University of
> Moratuwa, Sri Lanka;
> - Thinley Dorji, Director, Bhutan Communications
> Authority, Bhutan;
> - Dr. Thaweesak Koanantakool, Director, National
> Electronics and Computer
> Technology Center, Thailand;
> - Fuatai Purcell, Secretary, ICT advisor, Samoa
> National ICT Committee,
> Samoa;
> - Dr. Budi Rahardjo, Director of R&D, Center on
> Industry and Information
> Technology, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia;
> - Dr. Masoud Shafiee, , Deputy Minister for
> ICT/Education and Research,
> Ministry of Information and Communications
> Technology, Iran;
> - Karaitiana Taiuru, Managing Director, Net Home
> Internet Solutions, New
> Zealand;
> - Yan Hongqiang, Deputy Director, Telecommunication
> Administration Bureau,
> Minstry of Information Industry, People's Republic
> of China.
> 
> For further information on ORDIG, which receives
> support from the
> International Development Research Centre and is a
> collaboration effort
> between APDIP, UN-ESCAP, the Asia Pacific Network
> Information Centre, Diplo
> Foundation and the Open Regional Dialogue on
> Internet Governance, please
> visit www.igov.apdip.net , or write to Dieter
> Zinnbauer at: dieter at apdip.net
> 
> 
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