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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

UN-WGIG unveils book on WSIS+10




The United Nations (UN) Working Group on Internet Governance (UN-WGIG) has released its 10th anniversary reflections to mark the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+10, reports ITRealms.


The UN General Assembly, ITRealms recalls reviewed the progress made over the past decade and negotiated a text that addresses a number of global Internet governance issues, while 2015 is also the 10th anniversary of a multistakeholder experiment that helped bring the WSIS to a successful conclusion through the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). 


Convened in 2004, the WGIG assembled 40 representatives of governments and stakeholders who engaged in months of intensive peer-level dialogue and collective analysis. The WGIG process was an important turning point and catalyst in the intergovernmental recognition of multistakeholder processes for Internet governance.


ITRealms reports that in June 2005, the WGIG released a widely noted report that advanced a “broad definition” of Internet governance; holistically addressed a range of policy issues; offered four competing models for the ”oversight” of critical Internet resources; and proposed the establishment of the Internet Governance Forum. The report significantly influenced the final agreement adopted by WSIS same year.


This book, edited by William J. Drake and published by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), CGI.br, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and Internet Society, reflects on the WGIG’s procedural and substantive contributions to the evolving global Internet governance dialogue and institutional ecosystem. Written by former WGIG members and others who played key roles in the debates on the WGIG and WSIS, the volume is a follow-up to a book produced in the summer of 2005: William J. Drake, ed., Reforming Internet Governance: Perspectives from the UN Working Group on Internet Governance


Some fo the topics include: historical overview; understanding Internet governance; institutionalizing multistakeholder cooperation; from oversight to stewardship; Internet governance for development; and closing reflections.


ITRealms further gathered that other contributing authors include: Fiona Alexander, Peng Hwa Ang and Sherly Haristya, Karen Banks and Anriette Esterhuysen, Nitin Desai, Avri Doria, William J. Drake, Raúl Echeberría, Baher Esmat, Juan Fernández González, Hartmut R. Glaser and Diego R. Canabarro, David Hendon, Jānis Kārkliņš, Wolfgang Kleinwächter, Jovan Kurbalija, Markus Kummer, Olivier Nana Nzépa, Alejandro Pisanty, Paul Wilson and Pablo Hinojosa, and Michael Yakushev.

+Remmy Nweke (ITRealms) +ITRealms DSA

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