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Alison Gillwald, director of Research ICT Africa!, and Helani Galpaya, director of Strategic Development for LIRNEasia, are attending the 2008 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) this week in Hydrabad, India.

Gillwald is a panelist for the first main session on Access: Reaching the Next Billion(s).
Click here for the transcript of the Access session.

Galapaya will participate as a panelist for the workshop session, Digital convergence beyond technology: socio-economic benefits, SMEs & public policy – 9:30-11:00 am, Day 3 (5 December), in Room 1.

Click here for the full IGF programme.

Click here for the IGF workshop schedule.

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Alison Gillwald, director of Research ICT Africa!, and Helani Galpaya, director of Strategic Development for LIRNEasia, are attending the 3rd Internet Governance Forum (IGF) this week in Hydrabad, India.

Gillwald is a panelist for the first main session on Access: Reaching the Next Billion(s).
Click here for the transcript of the Access session.

Galapaya will participate as a panelist for the workshop session, Digital convergence beyond technology: socio-economic benefits, SMEs & public policy – 9:30-11:00 am, Day 3 (5 December), in Room 1.

Click here for the full IGF programme.

Click here for the IGF workshop schedule.

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Participants from policy and regulatory agencies, telecommunications operators and ISPs, the private and public sector, educators and civil society organizations, as well as interested individuals, recently came together, in Trinidad and Tobago, to discuss the potential for mobile Internet technology to promote economic and social development in the Caribbean and to contemplate what is required to create an enabling environment.

These discussions were the focus of the Sixth Caribbean Internet Forum, which took place at the Crown Plaza, Port of Spain from October 29 to 31, 2008. The Forum was organized by the MRP (Telecommunications) programme of The University of the West Indies (UWI), and co-hosted by the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) and the Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority (ECTEL).

Click here for the agenda, presentations and other resources.

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The 3rd GigaNet Annual Symposium will be held in Hyderabad, India, on 2 December 2008, one day prior to the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF). The GigaNet Annual Symposium is an opportunity to showcase some of the best current research on internet governance from around the world and provides a venue for scholars to discuss and debate these crucial issues. The GigaNet Program Committee encourages all scholars in the field to submit proposals on their current Internet Governance related research.

Deadline for submissions is 15 July 2008.

Click here to go to the GigaNet website.
Click here for the Symposium webpage.
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The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) has released a paper identifying and documenting the main areas of discussions and ‘recommendations’ that were generated under the access theme at the second Internet Governance Forum (IGF), held in Rio de Janeiro in November 2007. The paper summarises the discussions emanating from the thematic IGF workshops on Access, as well as the proceedings of the Access plenary session.

Click here to download the paper from the APC website.
Click here to go to the APC access news item.

Click here to go to the APC and WDR dialogue on Regulatory Frameworks for Improving Access.

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