Dear Siva, I think this is a great topic/theme for IGF and would be good for the AP region and APRALO to support too. Charles On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn@gmail.com>wrote:
Hello
The following topic has been proposed as a theme for an IGF Seminar. during 27-30 September. This topic is to bring in national and regional views on local concerns in a global setting.
I have filed this topic as a Workshop proposal that could possibly be discussed by APRALO for support as a workshop from the APRALO region. The initial description as filed is as below, but workshop proposals can be amended for some more time.
Title: Internet Governance across cultures: Asia Pacific Region as a microcosm of the World of Diversity Regional interests in a global setting
Description: Asia Pacific is a region of diverse ethnicities of numerous languages, languages that are not etymologically related unlike the languages in the Europe and Americas. The cultural background, the cultural diversity of Asia Pacific is also of a wider spectrum than the cultural diversity in the Europe, Americas and Africa.
What are the special challenges in Internet Governance across Asia Pacific cultures? For instance, IDNs are desired by the Asia Pacific region more than any other region in the world. How does Asia Pacific hope to communicate across IDNs? How does the region collaborate and how does it stay united as a region amidst all this diversity? And across the regions, each different from the other, each with cultures on its own with so many languages, so many different needs, How is unity in diversity achieved?
The topic will elicit an unrestrained discussion on ideologies, ethnic diversity, policies, politics, conflicts and hopes. The idea of this workshop is to ask the Asia Pacific region to think transparently and aloud in a global forum to identify problem areas and opportunities for the region and also deliberate upon the theme diversity management in a Global Setting.
Expanded Questions: How does the region further its regional interests while being part of the whole? How does the region tune its regional priorities to the global agenda? Is it against gloablism to be concerned about the region? Is it a zero sum game to further regional interests? To what extent is it appropriate to further regional interests and what comromises does the region make for the good of the whole world? How would asia pacific region implement its regional Internet priorities while working towards preserving the unity of the internet?
There are answers to some questions, some questions are asked to provoke thinking with a hope to lead to solutions to problem areas that are yet to be foreseen, questions that are not yet raised, questions that one shies away from asking. It is an Asia Pacific topic but the idea behind this topic is to prompt a thought process about the pursuit of regional interests in tune with a global agenda.
Filed Under: Access and Diversity
Sivasubramanian M Isoc India Chennai At Large Structure.
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