No. 24 New Internet Impact on underserved communities development

IGF 2014 sub theme that this workshop fall under

Internet as an Engine for Growth & Development

Description

Impact of the new Internet (IPV6, IDN, new gTLDs) on the development and daily life of underserved communities
this is the complete title of the workshop. I was obliged to shorten it to fit in the space of 60 characters.
With the migration to IPV6, the delegation of around 1500 new generic top level domain, and the apparition of the internationalized domain names, the landscape of the internet is drastically changing allowing a huge number of IP addresses to connect more people and things, and an enormous choice of top level domains for registrants. Also, people ignoring totally the roman script will be able to access Internet using exclusively their language script, and produce content.
The workshop will try to address how this change can affect the development of the underserved communities and improve their daily life:
• How the availability of an almost unlimited IP addresses can serve those communities
• How the availability of hundreds of new gTLDs would give them more choice for their domain names
• How the internationalized domain names would permit them easier access to the Internet applications in their own language and give them the opportunity to contribute in the content production.
The speakers are chosen to be from the 5 regions of the world and gender balanced (if not more women than men).

Name(s) and stakeholder and organizational affiliation(s) of institutional co-organizer(s)

Tijani BEN JEMAA
Civil Society
AFRALO ICANN

Has the proposer, or any of the co-organizers, organized an IGF workshop before?

yes

The link to the workshop report

http://wsms1.intgovforum.org/content/no61-new-gtld-program-opportunity-development-or-mean-more-digital-divide#report

Type of session

Panel

Duration of proposed session

90 minutes

Subject matter #tags that describe the workshop

#development, #Internet, #access, #content creation

Names and affiliations (stakeholder group, organization) of speakers the proposer is planning to invite

Hong Xue (Ms), China, Academia, Contacted, Confirmed
Mohamed El-Bashir (Mr), Sudan, Civil Society, ISOC Sudan, Contacted, Confirmed
Ana Naves (Ms), Portugal, Government, Contacted, confirmed
Tijani BEN JEMAA (Mr), Tunisia, Civil Society, AFRALO, contacted, confirmed
Karla Valente (Ms), Brazil, Private sector, Contacted, TBC
Angie Graves (Ms), USA, Private sector, contacted, TBC

Name of Moderator(s)

Fatimata Seye Sylla (Ms), Senegal

Name of Remote Moderator(s)

Aziz Hilali (Mr), Morocco

Description of how the proposer plan to facilitate discussion amongst speakers, audience members and remote participants

The workshop will be organized as a panel where the panelists will be given up to 8 minutes of presentation each. There will be more than 30 minutes of discussion. it will be up to the moderator to give the floor to all the panelists and then open the debate, or make each panelist speak followed by a short discussion.
there will be no remote speaker, but we will do the necessary outreach to have the maximum of people participate in our workshop face to face or remotely.

Description of the proposer's plans for remote participation

No remote panelist

Background paper

No background paper provided

Brief substantive summary of the workshop and presentation of the main issues that were raised during the discussions

No information provided

Conclusions drawn from the workshop and possible follow up actions

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Estimation of the overall number of participants present at the workshop

0

Estimation of the overall number of women present at the workshop

No information provided

Extent to that the workshop discuss gender equality and/or women’s empowerment

No information provided

A brief summary of the discussions in case that the workshop addressed issues related to gender equality and/or women’s empowerment

No information provided

Reported by

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Workshop transcript

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Youtube video

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Attachments

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