Dear all,<div><br></div><div><br></div><div> I am sorry for the minor correction.</div><div><br></div><div> I think the discussion was that Mr.Kimura will be the vice chair to support mainly child protection issues since the security and privacy will be a wider topic. We also support Mr.Aizu as a chair for emerging issues and hope that he will cover topics like cloud computing, which is of major interest among Japanese corporations.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div><br></div><div>Yoshihiro Obata<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/4/28 Izumi AIZU <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iza@anr.org" target="_blank">iza@anr.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Dear all,<br>
<br>
Here follows is our Summary Report and Proposal (2), reflecting our discussion<br>
held on Apr 27 in Tokyo.<br>
<br>
We hope these will make things clearer and advance the work ahead.<br>
We welcome your comments, suggestions and counter-proposals very much.<br>
<br>
izumi (on their behalf as "liaison")<br>
<br>
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Summary Report and Proposal (2)<br>
from APrIGF Local Host to MSG<br>
<br>
April 28, 2012<br>
<br>
We had our local team meeting yesterday. Here follows and the files<br>
attached are our summary report and proposals.<br>
<br>
1. ORGANIZATION/Logistics<br>
<br>
1) Local Steering Group (JP-SG)<br>
First, we like to report that Local Steering Group shall be formally<br>
established around the end of May. It should have been done well<br>
before, but circumstances prevented that from happening. We are aware<br>
of some delay in work progress and will do our best to catch up.<br>
<br>
We plan to elect Mr. Takeo Watanabe, Chairman of JAIPA, as the Chair<br>
of JP-SG and will have a few Vice Chairs to be decided later. Mr<br>
Toshiaki Tateishi, Vice Chair of JAIPA, as Secretary for JP-SG. We<br>
also like to nominate Adam Peake as the Liaison from JP-SG since he<br>
has extensive experience of organizing global and regional IGFs.<br>
We will work on logistics issues and provide pragmatic information shortly.<br>
<br>
2) Letter of Request<br>
We like our Chair and the host of APrIGF in Singapore, PengHwa<br>
together with the past host of Hong Kong, Edmon, to prepare a joint<br>
letter addressed to the Chairman of JAIPA, Mr. Taketsune Watanabe, to<br>
pass the baton by formally requesting to organize the APrIGF, on<br>
behalf of the AP IGF community, reflecting the decision at the last<br>
AP* Retreat in India in February.<br>
<br>
3) MSG<br>
We support Ms. Hong Xue to become the Vice Chair of MSG as indicated<br>
by the Chair.<br>
We will forward the name of another Vice Chair from Japan shortly.<br>
We like to ask DotAsia headed by Edmon to be the Secretary for AP MSG.<br>
We like to nominate Izumi Aizu to be the Liaison person at MSG to<br>
liaise with global IGF and local works since he is now a member of<br>
MAG.<br>
<br>
4) Division of Labor<br>
We propose to share the tasks in the following manner; willing to<br>
listen to your response to reach mutual agreement.<br>
<br>
AP MSG will<br>
- Manage the overall operation and coordination for the third APrIGF<br>
maintaining the integrity and continuity of APrIGF.<br>
- Make final decision on the program<br>
- Manage speaker selection and session coordination with track chairs<br>
- Execute out-reach to bring as many people from Asia Pacific and<br>
other regions, including the management of the official website in<br>
English<br>
- Help JP-SG for their fund-raising, with the focus on potential<br>
donors and supporting organizations in the Asia Pacific and other<br>
global regions.<br>
<br>
JP-SG will<br>
- Manage the local organizational works with main focus on logistics<br>
and government relations with MIC of Japan.<br>
- Raise sufficient funding with corporate and other sponsors with the<br>
focus on domestic sponsors.<br>
- Handle local logistics including the venue, staff, and other<br>
resource management.<br>
- Handle material preparation such as printed and/or digital program<br>
and other hand-outs.<br>
- Provide sufficient information material on suggested hotels, visa<br>
process and other travel related matters to APMSG.<br>
- Execute out-reach targeting Japanese organizations and participants<br>
including the preparation of local website in Japanese.<br>
<br>
<br>
2. PROGRAM/Substance<br>
<br>
1) Call for Participation<br>
We ask MSG to prepare and publish a formal “Call for Participation”<br>
openly through various channels as soon as possible. The call will be<br>
closed within three weeks, then evaluated by select members of MSG to<br>
reach final decision by the end of May.<br>
<br>
2) Plenary and Sessions<br>
We propose to have “Plenary” and “Sessions” where no sessions are<br>
scheduled simultaneously when Plenary meetings are held.<br>
Sessions can be classified as Main Session and Parallel Sessions if so needed.<br>
<br>
5) Tracks with Themes<br>
We agree to the proposed Tracks with the following themes<br>
- Security, Openness and Privacy (SOP)<br>
- Critical Internet Resources (CIR)<br>
- Emerging Issues (EI)<br>
- Internet Governance for Development (IG4D)<br>
- And may have “General” tracks that deals with themes not fallen into<br>
the above.<br>
<br>
We propose to have Chair (s) for each track and nominate Izumi Aizu<br>
for EI Track with a focus on Disaster management and Takashi Kimura<br>
for SOP with a focus on protecting children online.<br>
<br>
>From Japanese side, we like to have first Plenary as “Internet for<br>
Disaster Relief and Restoration: 1) Overview” followed by the Session<br>
“Internet for Disaster Relief and Restoration: 2) Reports from the<br>
Local Governments on ICT and Restoration works” on the first day, July<br>
18.<br>
<br>
We are offered an optional “Tohoku Study Tour and Conference” by<br>
Information Support pro bono Platform (iSPP), an independent<br>
non-profit group, to bring participants to the devastated areas of<br>
Tohoku hit by East Japan Great Earthquake last year, to see the actual<br>
sites, hear from local people and learn and share their experience<br>
with some focus on ongoing current restoration works using Internet<br>
and ICT.<br>
It will be held on July 21-22 immediately after APrIGF.<br>
<br>
Details are in the attached files.<br>
<br>
END<br>
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