Multi-stakeholder consultation on UNESCO project Defining Internet Universality Indicators – Pre 05 2017
5 June 2017 | 15:00 - 17:00 | Room Tornimäe II, Swissotel, Tallinn, Estonia
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New Project of defining Internet Universality Indicators
Keywords
Internet Universality, Connecting the Dots
Session description
UNESCO takes the occasion to present its new project of Defining Internet Universality Indicators supported by Sweden and ISOC(Internet Society) and seeks to engage with various stakeholders for their inputs and contribution. The project is an immediate response and action following UNESCO’s adoption of ‘Connecting the Dots’ Outcome document in 2015 as its new approach to Internet issues as well as the successful development and application of the UNESCO IPDC Media Development Indicators. The project aims to elaborate appropriate Internet indicators which can serve to enrich stakeholders’ capacity for assessing Internet development, broaden international consensus, and foster online democracy and human rights towards knowledge societies engaged in sustainable development. This task will use the UNESCO concept of Internet Universality and related R.O.A.M principles as the guiding framework that promotes an Internet based on human rights, and the principles of openness, accessibility and multi-stakeholder participation. The discussion will be very interactive as a roundtable. The session will be started by a brief presentation of draft indicators. The moderator will structure the discussion into five slots on Human Rights, Openness, Access, Multi-stakeholderism and crosscutting dimension, and invite speakers to give brief remarks before open the floor to audience. A draft introduction report on Defining Internet Universality Indicators will be shared and released before the session as a basis for discussion. Written contribution is welcome to send via mail An online platform for consultation will be available here
Format
Presentation, discussion
Agenda
Opening remarks by the Moderator: Xianhong Hu, UNESCO Proposed Speakers
- Presentation of the project
Ms Anriette Esterhuysen (Association for Progressive Communications)
- Speakers on Human rights dimension indicators
Ms Karmen Turk (Triniti University of Estonia), Mr. Lee Hibbard (CoE), Mr. Luca Belli (FGV Direito Rio)
- Speakers on Openness indicators
Ms Marietje Schaake (Member of the European Parliament), Mr Bejdak Radek (Mapping project, EPMA, Czech Republic) Mr Thomas Schneider (Federal Office of Communications of Switzerland)
- Speakers on Accessibility indicators
Ms. Divina Frau-Meigs (Sorbonne University), Mr Stephen Wyber (International Federation of Library Associations), Mr Chris Buckridge (RIPE NCC)
- Speakers on Multi-stakeholderism indicators
Mr. Nigel Hickson (ICANN), Mr Xingdong Fang (CEO of Cyberlabs), Ms Michelle Paulson (Wikimedia foundation), Ms Cristina Monti (European Commission)
- Speakers on crosscutting dimension indicators
Mr Andrea Calderaro (Cardiff University), Mr Wolfgang Kleinwächter (Aarhus University)
Further reading
http://www.unesco.org/new/internetstudy
People
Presenter: Xianhong Hu, UNESCO, France
Messages
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