| APrIGF 2022 Session Proposal Submission Form | |||||||||||
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| Part 1 - Lead Organizer | |||||||||||
| Contact Person | |||||||||||
| Ms. Pavitra Ramanujam | |||||||||||
| Organization / Affiliation (Please state "Individual" if appropriate) * | |||||||||||
| Association for Progressive Communications (APC) | |||||||||||
| Designation | |||||||||||
| Asia Digital Rights Lead | |||||||||||
| Gender | |||||||||||
| Female | |||||||||||
| Economy of Residence | |||||||||||
| India | |||||||||||
| Primary Stakeholder Group | |||||||||||
| Civil Society | |||||||||||
| List Your Organizing Partners (if any) | |||||||||||
| Gayatri Khandhadai Head of Technology and Human Rights Business and Human Rights Resource Centre khandhadai@business-humanrights.org |
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| Part 2 - Session Proposal | |||||||||||
| Session Title | |||||||||||
| Empowering New Voices in Internet Governance Spaces | |||||||||||
| Session Format | |||||||||||
| Interactive Panel | |||||||||||
| Where do you plan to organize your session? | |||||||||||
| Onsite at the venue (with online moderator for questions and comments from remote participants) | |||||||||||
| Specific Issues for Discussion | |||||||||||
| The field of internet governance can often be challenging for new entrants - it is a complex, diverse, multi-stakeholder, multi-issue system with various policies, processes and agendas, both competing and complementary. Young digital rights advocates and others who are interested in engaging in this system sometimes have difficulty in finding an entry point for discussions and for advocating for their issues of interest. A crucial part of this process is understanding the different stakeholders in the internet governance space and knowing the right approaches and strategies to engage with them effectively. This session will provide an opportunity for an open, informal discussion that will inform the audience of perspectives on how to engage with different stakeholders, such as the private sector, technical community and the government. Inputs and questions from audience members on their experiences and the kinds of approaches they and other new entrants can adopt will be encouraged, so that the needs of new entrants to efficiently engage with internet governance processes is captured. Through audience interaction, speakers will shed light on some of the challenges that new entrants might encounter when approaching each stakeholder, and ways to navigate these challenges. The speakers will also address what can be done by the internet governance community and various stakeholders to enable better participation by newer voices. The session will include perspectives from a new entrant into internet governance and digital rights on the challenges they are facing and the kinds of support they need to participate in internet governance processes successfully. |
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| Describe the Relevance of Your Session to APrIGF | |||||||||||
| This session relates directly to the ‘Inclusion’ track, which is part of this year’s sub-themes. The session aims to explore ways to ensure that internet governance spaces are more inclusive and made more accessible for new entrants. It is an attempt to demystify a crucial part of internet governance processes, the multi-stakeholder model and stakeholder engagement, to ensure that there is more robust cross-disciplinary interaction across the region and there are more diverse and newer voices in internet governance spaces. The session also addresses the ‘Trust’ track. This track speaks to the responsibilities of governments, industry, civil society, and other stakeholders to maintain trust in Internet governance. Ensuring that internet governance processes and spaces are open and inclusive for all, and enabling participation of newer entrants, especially those representing public voices and advocating for rights-respecting internet governance, is key to ensuring that the internet remains a trusted space. Finally, the session directly addresses the overarching theme of this year’s APrIGF, People at the Centre: Envisioning a community-led Internet that is inclusive, sustainable and trusted, by advocating for more diverse, newer voices representing the larger internet community to be a more effective part of internet governance processes. This will ensure that the larger community and everyday internet users are better represented in decision-making around internet governance issues and that internet governance policies and processes are rights-respecting. The reflections from this session will be captured, and can also be shared with the APrIGF’s multi-stakeholder group for consideration in planning for next year’s event. |
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| Moderators & Speakers Info (Please complete where possible) | |||||||||||
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| Please explain the rationale for choosing each of the above contributors to the session. | |||||||||||
| Kelly Koh is a programme officer at Sinar Project, a civic tech organisation in Malaysia working on making important data and information public and more accessible using open technology and open data. Kelly is also a member of APC’s Southeast Asia Digital Rights Collaborative, a capacity and movement building initiative for new entrants into digital rights. She will share her experiences of participating in digital rights and internet governance spaces, the challenges faced by new entrants and the kinds of support that they need to effectively engage in these spaces. Gayatri Khandhadai heads the Technology & Human Rights programme at the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre. She is an international human rights lawyer who has been engaging in internet governance processes and spaces for many years, and an active member of the APrIGF. In her current role, Gayatri focuses primarily on advocating with technology companies and the private sector on adopting a rights-based approach in their policies and practices. Gayatri will share her experiences on advocating with the private sector, the challenges involved in this engagement and how new entrants should understand and approach this important stakeholder. Satish Babu is the current Chair of the Asia Pacific School of Internet Governance and an active member of the APrIGF. He is also Chair of the Asian, Australasian and Pacific Islands Regional At-Large Organization (APRALO) under ICANN. As a long-time member of the technical community and in his position as Chair of the Asia Pacific School of Internet Governance, Satish will be able to share his unique perspective on how new entrants can engage with the technical processes and spaces related to internet governance. He will also share his experiences on some of the outcomes from APSIG that have benefited those newly engaging in internet governance. Waqas Hassan is the Assistant Director (International Liaison & Training) at the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, with regulatory experience of over 14 years that includes international coordination, stakeholder engagement, ICT development analysis, ICT indicators review, Internet Governance, mobile money and civil society engagement. He will share his perspectives on how new entrants can engage with governments better on issues related to digital rights. |
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| Please declare if you have any potential conflict of interest with the Program Committee 2022. | |||||||||||
| Yes | |||||||||||
| If yes, please detail the person and his/her level of engagement on your session proposal. (e.g. 1 or more of the PC members are co-hosting/moderating/speaking at the session) | |||||||||||
| Session Proposer and Moderator is in the PC. | |||||||||||
| Are you or other session contributors planning to apply for the APrIGF Fellowship Program 2022? | |||||||||||
| No | |||||||||||
| Number of Attendees (Please fill in numbers) | |||||||||||
| Gender Balance in Moderators/Speakers (Please fill in numbers) | |||||||||||
| Admin Use | |||||||||||
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| Consent | |||||||||||
 I agree that my data can be submitted to forms.for.asia and processed by APrIGF organizers for the program selection of APrIGF 2022. |
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