Dear all,
Thanks for all your comments. Good to hear feedback on the curriculum – those we listed are for reference on the basic tracks that we can have and we’ll certainly need to have a more in depth discussion on this, and/or have a smaller group to help drill down on the curriculum planning based on the needs of the regional community, and the time required. Of course, comments are always welcome as usual.
For Dr. Anja, ICANN will be at RightsCon in Manila and we’ll be running a session on ICANN topic such as the IANA transition issue, just to share. Hope to see you there. And yes, you’re right, the proposal below is for APILP for now to be tied to a regular regional event, in APrIGF.
Would anyone have further comments on this or other aspects of my note below, such as that with regard to the Vice Chairs?
And for those celebrating it, have a great Lunar New Year/Spring Festival/Seollal! Kung Hei Fat Choy!
Dear Kelvin and all,
It is a great idea to integrate the APILP systematically into the APrIGF. I had hoped that we could take this to other fora as well, and had earlier this year suggested that we try to have a session at RightsCon in Manila in March also. However, I think too
few of us had planned to be present there to make this work for now. A yearly one-day session at the APrIGF is a great start (though I can also see the point that in the medium to longer term, we probably need to start thinking about a longer event, of the
summer school type, instead!).
As for the curriculum, would it be possible to add human rights and the Internet as well? This topic remains a considerable challenge across the region, and I believe different communities (including the business and technical communities) would benefit from
capacity building on this issue. I would be happy to contribute on this, as well as on Internet governance as before.
With best regards,
Anja