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ICANN Forum on the Working Group on Internet Governance Report
Sponsored by the ICANN WSIS Working Group
Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 8:30 – 11:00
Main Room, Luxembourg International Fair and Conference Centre
8:30 Welcome and Agenda Overview
- Peter Dengate Thrush, member, ICANN WSIS Working Group, and Director, ICANN Board
8:40 – 9:30 Setting the Stage: ICANN, WGIG, and WSIS PrepCom
- Paul Twomey, CEO and President, ICANN
- Nitin Desai, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General for the WSIS and Chair, WGIG
- Markus Kummer, Secretariat to the WGIG
- Ambassador Janis Karklins, President of WSIS PrepCom
9:30 Experiences and Perspectives from the Working Group on Internet Governance
This session will be interactive involving audience participants. Rather than relying on prepared statements, the panelists/respondents are invited to respond to questions and statements from the audience. The speakers from the previous session will join them in responding to audience/participant questions.
Invited Panelists and Respondents:
- Private Sector and Civil Society:
- Alejandro Pisanty
- Raul Echeberria
- Carlos Alfonso
- Vittorio Bertola
- Wolfgang Kleinwächter
- Charles Sha'ban
- Government Representatives:
- Jose Alexandre Bicalho, Brazil
- David Henton, United Kingdom
- Willy Jensen, Norway
- Peter Zangl, European Commission
- Jean-Paul Zens, Luxembourg
10:50 Closing Comments from Moderator on behalf of the ICANN Working Group on WSIS
11:00 Meeting adjourns