[IGFmaglist] Inclusion WG

Sun Mar 3 04:08:35 EST 2019

Dear Paul,

Appreciate your excellent work in Digital Inclusion Theme. However, I
realized that  the  sub theme could have been made unambiguous by choosing
the terminologies that have already been a standard in the IG issues such as

1.    Access: Availability, affordability, design for inclusion, and public
access ( universal access and service).

2.    Adoption: Relevance, digital literacy, and consumer safety.

3.    Application: Economic and workforce development, education, health
care, public safety and emergency services, civic engagement, and social
connections.

The Policy Questions can be adjusted to reflect the issues identified in the
sub themes in a very clear manner such as:

Access:

1.       What kind of policy and regulatory interventions/initiatives need
to be taken to deploy broadband backbone infrastructure ?

2.       What could be the business model for deploying such infrastructure
? ( Public Private partnership, Multi stakeholder partnership etc.?)

3.       How can access networks be deployed ? What kind of technology?
Capacity of the network etc? ownership of the networks?

4.       Affordability has been one the greatest barrier for adoption of
internet . What could be the role of the stakeholders in making internet
affordable? 

5.       How can we ensure that ICTs can be made accessible for persons with
disabilities ? What kind of policy, legal and regulatory interventions are
required? What would be the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders? 

6.       If universal access cannot be ensured, how can we make Internet
available for people in a community?  Community access centers have been in
operation but the business models have not been successful. What could be
the reasons and what new models  can be developed in making community access
a viable option in making Internet available, accessible ,affordable,
relevant and useful for society ?

7.       What are the major challenges in the adoption of internet even if
it is available and affordable?

8.       How can Internet be made relevant to the public? What is the role
of local content in making Internet relevant ?

These are few sample questions. I can elaborate for all the three sub themes
If you think that my inputs are matching with what you are proposing .
please let me know

Thanks and regards

ananda

From: Paul Rowney [mailto:prowney at outlook.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2019 11:55 AM
To: Ananda Raj Khanal <arkhanal at nta.gov.np>
Cc: 'IGF Maglist' <Igfmaglist at intgovforum.org>; inclusion at intgovforum.org
Subject: Inclusion WG

Thank you Amanda.  I will see how we can incorporate into the existing
document and post to Google docs so that we make adjustments to the
document. 

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From: Ananda Raj Khanal

Sent: Monday 11 February, 06:52

Subject: Re: [IGFmaglist] MAG Chair's Blog

To: 'Arsène Tungali', 'Mamadou LO'

Cc: 'IGF Maglist'

Hi All

My thoughts on the narrative and sub themes on Digital Inclusion:

Narratives for the Digital Inclusion: 

We claim to live in the knowledge and information society. Social inclusion
is a political agenda of a democratic polity. Combining both of these we
come to an umbrella term called Digital Inclusion which ensures that in the
21st century individuals including the members of the disadvantaged groups,
institutions, businesses all have access to the digital infrastructure
including access to broadband Internet, such infrastructure is affordable,
everyone has the skills to use all kind of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs), and are therefore able to participate in and benefit
from today’s growing knowledge and information society to further their
political, social, economic, cultural and other aspects of human
development.

Digital inclusion has three broad facets: access, adoption, and application.
These facets show the ultimate goal of creating digitally inclusive
societies.

Access: Availability, affordability, design for inclusion, and public
access.

Adoption: Relevance, digital literacy, and consumer safety.

Application: Economic and workforce development, education, health care,
public safety and emergency services, civic engagement, and social
connections.

There are 4 main kinds of challenge people face in the information society:

access – the ability to actually go online and connect to the internet

skills – to be able to use the internet

motivation – knowing the reasons why using the internet is a good thing

trust – the risk of crime, or not knowing where to start to go online

Digital inclusion consists of policies, programs, and actions developed to
close the digital divide, promote digital literacy, and ensure digital
equity and readiness. Specific policy, legal and regulatory interventions
are needed to ensure digital inclusion in all countries. 

The UN and ITU have made significant efforts in this direction and have
adopted many resolutions to address the issues of digital inclusion to the
following disadvantaged groups:

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

•       RESOLUTION 1225405 UN Resolution (2012) - Indigenous women: key
actors in poverty and hunger eradication 

•       PP RESOLUTION  184  (Guadalajara, 2010) - Facilitating digital
inclusion initiatives for indigenous peoples

•       WTDC RESOLUTION 11 (Rev. Buenos Aires, 2017)
-Telecommunication/information and communication technology services  in
rural, isolated and poorly served areas and indigenous communities

•       WTDC RESOLUTION 46 (Rev. Buenos Aires, 2017) - Assistance to
indigenous peoples and communities through information and communication
technology

PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

•       WTDC RESOLUTION 58 (Rev. Buenos Aires, 2017)-
Telecommunication/information and communication technology accessibility for
persons with disabilities and persons with specific needs

•        PP RESOLUTION 175 (Rev. Dubai, 2018)- Telecommunication/information
and communication technology accessibility for persons with disabilities and
persons with specific needs

WOMEN AND GIRLS

•       PP RESOLUTION 70 (Rev. Dubai, 2018) - Mainstreaming a gender
perspective in ITU and promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of
women through information and communication technologies

•       WTDC RESOLUTION 55 (Rev. Buenos Aires, 2017) - Mainstreaming a
gender perspective for an inclusive and egalitarian information society

YOUTH AND CHILDREN

•       WTDC RESOLUTION 76 (Rev. Buenos Aires, 2017) - Promoting information
and communication technologies among young women and men for social and
economic empowerment

•       PP RESOLUTION 198 (Rev. Dubai, 2018) - Empowerment of youth through
telecommunication/information and communication technology

Since Digital inclusion combines a policy, legal and regulatory intervention
in all levels and requires the effort of all the stakeholders, Internet
Governance Forum ( IGF) is the right forum to discuss this issue in details
and bring to the utmost attention of all the stakeholders.

Sub Themes:

1.      Access: Availability of all kind of Digital Infrastructure including
broadband Internet, hardware and software, Design for accessibility for
people with disabilities, and public access platforms who cannot
individually afford at home.

2.      Adoption:  Affordability, relevance, digital literacy and skill
sets, awareness

3.      Application and services: ICTs for SDGs 

This is for discussion.

Thanks and regards

Ananda

-----Original Message-----

From: Arsène Tungali [mailto:arsenebaguma at gmail.com] 

Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2019 8:24 PM

To: Mamadou LO <alfamamadou at hotmail.com <mailto:alfamamadou at hotmail.com> >

Cc: IGF Maglist <Igfmaglist at intgovforum.org
<mailto:Igfmaglist at intgovforum.org> >

Subject: Re: [IGFmaglist] MAG Chair's Blog

My bad...

I should have done this early enough. But it's okay since my edits were just
minor and not big deal.

Good job.

Regards,

Arsene

2019-02-07 16:36 UTC+02:00, Mamadou LO <alfamamadou at hotmail.com
<mailto:alfamamadou at hotmail.com> >:

> Thanks a lot Arsene for editing..but it was already done and published.

> Kindly find below the link in the IGF Website 

> https://intgovforum.org/multilingual/fr/content/message-from-the-mag-c

> hair?fbclid=IwAR2wbGEU643VVfCDcw6j9wEs9ShYmbD0ZpQAteydBsi2PTOkoPxZ5mPQ

> lQg

> 

> Mercii

> 

> 

> 

> ________________________________

> De : Arsène Tungali <arsenebaguma at gmail.com
<mailto:arsenebaguma at gmail.com> > Envoyé : jeudi 7 février 

> 2019 12:43 À : Lynn St.Amour Cc : Mamadou LO; MAG-public Objet : Re: 

> [IGFmaglist] MAG Chair's Blog

> 

> Hi all,

> 

> Thanks Mamadou for the French translation. Please find attached a 

> version with very few minor edits. Hope this us useful.

> 

> Regards,

> Arsene

> 

> 2019-02-06 18:44 UTC+02:00, Lynn St.Amour <Lynn at internet-matters.org
<mailto:Lynn at internet-matters.org> >:

>> Dear Mamadou,

>> 

>> translating this into French would be excellent. Thank you and thank 

>> you to all our French and German colleagues for their efforts (it is 

>> also being translated into German).

>> 

>> Indeed it is hoped that this helps increase engagement across the IGF 

>> ecosystem as we all try to respond to the many opportunities in front 

>> of us.

>> 

>> Thank you!

>> 

>> Best regards,

>> Lynn

>> 

>>> On Feb 6, 2019, at 10:11 AM, Mamadou LO <alfamamadou at hotmail.com
<mailto:alfamamadou at hotmail.com> > wrote:

>>> 

>>> Dear Chair!

>>> Please, see attached a proposal french translation of the latest MAG 

>>> chair blog. We think, coming from IGF 2018 France, this message 

>>> should reach the francophone wider community to better understand 

>>> what is going on in IGF ecosystem.

>>> I'm looking forward to some edits from francophone MAG members to 

>>> consider updates in IGF website and distribution through francophone 

>>> list and social medias.

>>> It would also great to have this message a German to consider update 

>>> in IGF 2019 website.

>>> Cordially

>>> 

>>> De : Chengetai Masango <chengetai.masango at un.org
<mailto:chengetai.masango at un.org> > Envoyé : mardi 5 

>>> février 2019 08:38 À : MAG-public Objet : [IGFmaglist] MAG Chair's 

>>> Blog

>>> 

>>> Dear All,

>>> 

>>> Just to let you know the MAG Chair has posted a new entry to her blog :

>>> https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/message-from-the-ma

>>> g-chair

>>> 

>>> Best regards

>>> 

>>> Chengetai

>>> <Message de la Présidente du MAG.docx>

>> 

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