| Blog post summary by Maureen Hilyard | ||
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| Personal Schedule | Day 0 - My introduction to the Synthesis Document 2018 as co-Chair of the Drafting Committee (as part of Capacity Building Day 9.20 - 9.30am). See the final Synthesis Document prepared after the APrIGF in Bangkok 2017, and presented in an NRI session at the IGF Geneva. PPT presentation Days 1 & 2 - co-Chair the Town Hall sessions of the Synthesis Document with Chat Garcia Ramilo (Philippines) at the end of Tuesday and Wednesday sessions Day 2 - Pacific-focused Workshops a) I am moderating the plenary session on "Preparing for natural disasters" (11.00-12.30pm) with participants from Vanuatu, NZ, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Japan.This workshop was coordinated by Hiro Hotta (Japan) PPT presentation1; PPT Presentation2; PPT Presentation3 b) I am presenting digital literacy for environmental and climate change issues for SIDS in (NZ) Winston Roberts' "Digital literacy, libraries and information services: supporting the community on the platform of the Internet" (1.30-2.00pm) c) AP* 2018 Community Update - I have coordinated this workshop which is to be moderated by Rajnesh Singh (APrIGF Chair) - My update is on ALAC and APRALO events in 2018 (2-3pm), Also involves ISOC, PICISOC, APC, APTLD, APNIC, APAC Hub PPT Presentation1; PPT Presentation2; PPT Presentation3 d) My workshop which I am also moderating is on "Effective eGovernment for empowering Pacific Citizens" (3.30-5pm) Participants are from Vanuatu, Fiji, Cook Islands and Japan, Singapore, Taiwan. Learning lessons from Pacific and Asian eGov models. PPT Presentation1; PPT Presentation2 --------------------------------------------------- Spent Saturday 11 August travelling from Auckland to Port Vila via Brisbane (Virgin Australia). Arrived a few minutes after a direct Auckland to Port Vila (Air Vanuatu) also carrying several APrIGF participants - including Keith Davidson (ex-InternetNZ and ccNSO Council), Raul Echeberria (Internet Society), Joyce and Ken (APAC Hub), Ellen Strickland (InternetNZ Policy) and a few others. But a contingent of 60 is arriving tomorrow (Sunday 12 August). A blog item has just been published by the Pacific section of OpenForum.au about my being selected as Chair Spent all of Sunday preparing 10 slides to go with various presentations I am giving, as well as those that I am moderating or that I organised and needed to provide the title slide and agenda./list of speakers. For one group I had to make up a package of slides because none of the panel provided one (to explain what their eGovernment website was like in their country and what value it gave to its citizens. I felt that the audience should be able to see what they were talking about. |
Presenting with the APrIGF team at the Global IGF Geneva 2017
Preparing a session with the Digital Literacy Team |
Day 0 Capacity Building Monday, 13 August | The day started with a welcome to the Fellows and an introduction to the APrIGF by the MSG Chair, Rajnesh Singh. He introduced the theme of the conference, "Empowering communities in the Asia Pacific region, to build an affordable, inclusive, open and secure internet". I followed Raj as the co-Chair of the SynDoc Drafting Committee, with a promotion for the Synthesis Document and the Town Hall Sessions at the end of each conference day, where we will collect comments that which will be synthesised by Sub-Theme teams and compiled to make up the final Synthesis Document. The Fellows session then continued with an introduction to Internet Infrastructure and how the Internet works using a "DNS and Addressing Network" Card Game. They had Fellow participants representing servers responding to queries requesting a particular web address. This active workshop was taken by Pablo from APNIC, and Edmon from DotAsia,who also explained DNSSEC. The capacity building programme then began with a panel which was moderated by my SynDoc co-Chair, Chat Garcia Romilo. The panel was the first group to introduce one of the sub-themes of the conference "Diversity and Multistakeholder Participation" During the lunchbreak, the Pacific IGF started their sessions which included a semi-tutorial on Internet Governance provided by 3 IGF MAG members from the region - Salanieta (Fiji), Dalsie (Vanuatu) and Sylvia (APNIC). It was then followed by a presentation on a Blockchain application developed by a local in Fiji for the fishing industry, and some queries from first timers to the IGF from the Solomon Islands and Tonga. We made it back to the plenary hall to catch the end of lunch (2.30pm) and
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Day 1 Opening Ceremony Tuesday, 14 August | ||
Day 2 Pacific Workshops Wednesday, 15 August | Have been asked to be interviewed by local radio host and journalist, Dan McGarry (Media Director, Vanuatu Daily Post/Buzz FM 96, PICISOC member, 9-10am) | |
Day 3 Closing Ceremony Thursday, 16 August | ||
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