Preliminary draft rolling programme based on discussions during the EuroDIG preparatory meeting in Madrid on 19 January

DRAFT FOR COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS AT THE LATEST BY 8 FEBRUARY

DRAFT TO BE DISCUSSED ON 9 FEBRUARY IN GENEVA AT THE UN PALAIS DES NATIONS IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE IGF CONSULTATION MEETING

08:30 – 09:30      Registration

09:30 – 10:00      Welcome and introductions

10:00 – 12:00     Opening sessions

Priorities for OUR European Information Society Debate between high-level representatives of governments and parliaments about inter alia a single European digital space and what is European in a globalised Internet market

An Internet by the people, for the people and with the people? Multi-stakeholder debate on the role and voice of users in the Information society

12:00 – 13:00 Round table

National IGFs: The role and value of national debate on Internet governance

13:00                     Lunch

14:30 – 16:30 Workshops 1-3

Room […]            Jurisdiction, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, cloud computing

Room […]            Geographical and other names of public interest as New TLDs?

Room […]            Industry needs and European expectations in delivering Internet content – developing new business models vs. individual rights of access/public service value of the Internet?

16:30 – 18:30     Plenary

Consumerism in the information society

18:30 – 19:45      Reception

Friday, 30 April 2010

09:15 – 10:30     Plenary

Privacy by design and in the workplace.

10:30 – 11:45     Workshops 4-6

Room […]            IPv6 transition – business impact and governance issues

Room […]            The protection, provision and participation of children on the Internet

Room […]            Sovereignity of states, jurisdiction and the role of governments in the global Internet environment

11:45 – 13:00     Plenary

Net Neutrality for Europe

13:00                     Lunch

14:30 – 15.15     Plenary

Looking to the future: new technologies, products and services, emerging trends

15:15 – 16.15     Plenary

Multistakeholder discussion AND governance?

16:15 – 17.45     Closing session

Wrap-up, takeaways and conclusions

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Sala de Juntas (room has changed!)
A Building
ETSI Telecomunicacion
Avenida Complutense s/n
Ciudad Universitaria
28040 Madrid

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Remote participation

Compared to the first EuroDIG of 2008, several steps had been taken for EuroDIG 2009 to enhance the participation of relevant stakeholders in the event: At the opening, a parliamentary roundtable was organized with representatives from the European Parliament, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and of national parliaments from EU member states and non EU member states. A number of youth representatives were invited to participate in the discussions.[1] An Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme was conducted prior to EuroDIG with a priority for stakeholders from Central and Southern European Countries. This programme included six months of teaching and research activities, participation of the best students at the EuroDIG event and a feedback loop through reports back to the programme.[2] Remote participation was provided through a combination of a streaming within the EuroDIG web and the informal discussions and social reporting performed by participants through tweets, social network and wiki reports (including individual reports in several European languages[3]).

The participants at EuroDIG 2009 expressed their view that EuroDIG should continue to be the platform open to all European stakeholders for discussing public policy issues related to Internet governance and should be considered the future European IGF. A number of messages emerged from EuroDIG 2009 of which the key ones can be summarised as follows:

HUMAN RIGHTS and the rule of law were considered to be fundamental issues in Internet governance with attention given to how best to implement and consolidate existing human rights standards in this context. The public value of the Internet as an infrastructure on which citizens increasingly rely for their social, economic and political development was highlighted as well as governments’ key responsibilities in guaranteeing their citizen’s rights and freedoms online.

THE INTERNET and Internet services should be accessible to all and be stable and well-functioning. All regulation should be people-centred and use innovative approaches, taking into account the respective roles of all stakeholders.

MORE MEDIA EDUCATION to empower users was considered essential, and national government initiatives to increase media education need to be implemented. Here, it was stressed that the Council of Europe should take a leadership role.

EUROPEAN STAKEHOLDERS should also support stakeholders from the developing world in successfully facing the challenges brought about by the Internet and support their participating in its governance.

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[2] This was done through the DiploFoundation’s European Capacity Development Programme in Internet Governance (ECDIG) sponsored by the Swiss government. For more information see: http://www.diplomacy.edu/ig/display.asp?Topic=news-more/EuroDig

[3] Wiki presenting personal summaries, views and impressions of some participants is available at: http://www.diplomacy.edu/ig/ eurodig09.

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