[IGFmaglist] IMPORTANT: Announcing the 2021 Internet Governance Forum DC-SIDS Roundtable - The Pandemic Internet: Ensuring SIDS do not fall behind on Thursday, 9th December, 2021 at 1250 UTC.

Wed Dec 8 11:27:28 EST 2021

Dear All,

Will try my best to bring along participants, Carol Roach is on site, she is Bahamian . Will copy her into this email.

June Parris Ms

Registered General Nurse
Registered Psychiatric Nurse
BSc Sociology
MSc Economics ( Health Services Management and Policy)

Civicus Member (MAG)
Internet Society
Dynamic Coalition (SIDS: IRPC: BANGO)

> On 8 Dec 2021, at 15:25, Tracy F. Hackshaw @ Google <tracyhackshaw at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi June,
> 
> I'm not sure if anyone else will be onsite from the DC-SIDS in Katowice, so I am counting on you to convince colleagues to join all of us who will be remote onsite along with yourself.
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> Hoping that @Sorina Teleanu and @Anja GENGO can also help out with this. 🙏
> 
> @Anriette Esterhuysen - we would honoured to have you join us once again for at least part of the session ... and to bring along any of your colleagues. 😉
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> It would great to have some folks in the room so that we are not "lonely" and so that we can get some great photos to motivate the DC-SIDS members.
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> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Tracy
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>> On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 12:31 AM Maureen Hilyard <maureen.hilyard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Take care, June. Wish I was brave enough. :)
>> 
>> Maureen
>> 
>>> On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 11:28 AM June Parris <parrisjune51 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> All,
>>> 
>>> Will be attending face to face.
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> 
>>> June Parris
>>> 
>>>> On Sun, 28 Nov 2021, 16:40 Tracy F. Hackshaw @ Google, <tracyhackshaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Join us for the IGF 2021 DC-SIDS Session -  The Pandemic Internet: Ensuring SIDS do not fall behind.
>>>> 
>>>> Please contact us if you would like to participate as a Lead Discussant in this year's Roundtable. Please also let us know if you will be attending the 2021 IGF onsite in Katowice. 
>>>> 
>>>> Details of the session are provided below:
>>>> 
>>>> Link to register and add the session to your calendar and #IGF2021 Schedule.
>>>> 
>>>> Time
>>>> Thursday, 9th December, 2021 (13:50 CET) - Thursday, 9th December, 2021 (15:20 CET)Add to Calendar
>>>> Room
>>>> Conference Room 8
>>>> DC
>>>> Dynamic Coalition on Small Island Developing States in the Internet Economy
>>>> Round Table - Circle - 90 Min
>>>> Theme
>>>> IGF 2021 MAIN FOCUS: Universal access and meaningful connectivity
>>>> Subtheme
>>>> Barriers to universal and meaningful access: What are the main challenges that people face in obtaining and making full use of Internet access? To what extent are these the result of social, economic and cultural factors, and to what extent do they result from aspects of the digital environment? How can we use the responses to these questions to better understand the intersection between digital policies and other policy areas? Can this understanding help us to develop and implement more realistic Internet-related policy goals?
>>>> Leveraging infrastructure and technology innovation and development: How can the significant expansion of mobile infrastructure around the world, as well as other existing and emerging technologies such as satellite, fibre, and wireless networks, be used to expand affordable access?
>>>> Description
>>>> The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the economies of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in several devastating ways. For example, from an economic standpoint, many of the SIDS economies are tourism-dependent and the sudden and dramatic onset of the pandemic has resulted in many SIDS economies being starved of anticipated foreign exchange earnings, which have lasting ripple effects through both the formal and informal sectors. From a more internal perspective, however, the various lockdowns and related restrictions including the pivot to online learning, working and business models have exposed and amplified significant digital inclusion and digital literacy issues that have been simmering under the surface for at least two decades. The IGF 2021 DC-SIDS Roundtable will seek to address these issues, attempting to uncover the underlying systemic problems with inequity, access, and inclusion that contribute to ensuring that these problems continue to exist despite the continuous attention being called to them and will also attempt to propose concrete solutions for partnership and digital cooperation among SIDS stakeholders that will ideally address these concerns once and for all.
>>>> 
>>>> Using the pioneering DC-SIDS Roundtable format, lead discussants will introduce key points on the topic, and Roundtable participants will be invited to contribute by the Moderator. While this is being proposed as a hybrid session, online/remote Participation will be prioritized and encouraged through the posting of advance questions/topics and will be fully integrated into the Roundtable through full participation of the Remote/Online Moderator as a Discussant as well as the utilization of complementary tools such as WhatsApp/Signal/Slack and social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc.)
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