Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG)                          

 

WGIG History

 

WGIG Meetings

* Fourth Meeting, 14-17 June 2005

* Third Meeting, 18-20 April 2005

* Second Meeting, 14-18 February 2005

* First Meeting, 23-25 November 2004

Other  Meetings

* 18 July 2005: Presentation of the Report

* Consultations on the establishment  of WGIG, 20-21 September 2004

Origins of the WGIG

The first phase of World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) agreed to pursue the dialogue on Internet Governance in the Declaration of Principles and Action Plan adopted on 12 December 2003, with a view to preparing the ground for a decision at the second phase of the WSIS in Tunis in November 2005. In this regard, the first phase of the Summit requested the United Nations Secretary-General to establish a Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG).  The WGIG was asked to present the result of its work in a report "for consideration and appropriate action for the second phase of the WSIS in Tunis 2005." More information on the mandate of the WGIG...

Funding

The Secretariat's activities are funded through extra-budgetary contributions paid into a Trust Fund administred by the United Nations. Pledges and contributions were received from the following donors.

 


Outcome of the Tunis phase of WSIS on Internet Governance

Click here for the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society.
(For Internet Governance related paragraphs see para's. 29 - 82).

The WGIG Book

A book written by WGIG members was launched at WSIS II in Tunis and is now available on this website for download.

Click here to find out more about the book and the launch event.



The WGIG Report

The WGIG Report is available in all UN languages:

WGIG Final Report*

[Arabic] [Chinese] [English] [French] [Russian] [Spanish]
[Arabic] [Chinese] [English] [French] [Russian] [Spanish]

 * The Arabic and Spanish versions are revised versions made on 21 July 2005 and 4 August 2005, respectively. Please also note that documents in non-ASCII characters take a while to download.

You may view an open format version of the Report (OpenOffice version 1.9 or higher is needed to view the document, click here to download it). 


The WGIG Background Report

A Background Report reflecting the wide variety of opinions within the group as well as  many comments made by stakeholders during the consultation process is available in English and French: 

WGIG Background Report

Word Versions [English] [French]
pdf versions [English] [French]
html versions [English] [French]

WSIS PrepCom-3

The WGIG Report was discussed by the PrepCom-3 of WSIS. The sessions were webcast.

Workshops

A number of workshops took place in the context of the WSIS PrepCom-3:

- Click here for information about the Number Resource Organization's (NRO) workshop on IP addressing and the RIR system.

- Click here for information about the ccNSO workshop. 

- Click here for information about the W3C workshop. 

In conjunction with the presentation of the WGIG Report, a workshop on Internet Governance at the national level was held on 19 July. Presentations and background information on this workshop are available here.

Other resources

The OECD has a website as a contribution to the work of the WGIG. It presents OECD resources on Internet Governance in several critical public policy areas related to the Internet and follows the structure established by the WGIG. 

Further useful resources are available on the websites of 

- The WSIS Executive Secretariat

- The International Telecommunications Union (ITU)

- The UN ICT Task Force  

- The Diplo foundation.

- The Internet Governance Project

- The Internet Society

- Panos media brief on ICANN

- Net Dialogue

 

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