{"id":521,"date":"2010-03-14T10:38:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T15:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rigf.asia\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2024-01-25T06:49:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T06:49:59","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/event.rigf.asia\/2010\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About APrIGF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According  to Internet World Stats, with over 780 Million Internet users, Asia Pacific is  already the region with the largest online population.  Yet the penetration rate for Asia is only at  around 20%, which signals continued rapid growth ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Building on  the United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals, and the mandate given at  the Second Phase of the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis in  2005, the IGF (Internet Governance Forum) is a United Nations activity  initiated in 2006 as a global platform for multi-stakeholder policy dialogue on  prevailing and emerging issues on Internet governance so as to foster the  sustainability, robustness, security, stability and development of Internet.  The annual Forum was previously held in Greece  (2006), Brazil (2007), India (2008), and Egypt (2009).<\/p>\n<p>The Internet  has become an integral part of people\u2019s life.  Despite the advantages, misuses and abuses lead  to social problems, such as digital divide, Internet addiction, information  safety, security, privacy and other evolving issues.  These issues have no respect to national  borders, and therefore require collaboration between countries and territories  to address.  The IGF approach is an open  forum for knowledge sharing between stakeholders across borders, which in turn  inform local policy development.<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"?page_id=19\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"home-img\" src=\"http:\/\/rigf.asia\/wp-content\/themes\/silverline\/images\/banner-aprigf.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"APrIGF\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"?page_id=24\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"home-img\" src=\"http:\/\/rigf.asia\/wp-content\/themes\/silverline\/images\/banner-hkigf.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"HKIGF\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"?page_id=39\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"home-img\" src=\"http:\/\/rigf.asia\/wp-content\/themes\/silverline\/images\/banner-yigf.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"YIGF\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"page-heading\">Asia Pacific Regional IGF (APrIGF)  in Hong Kong<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To  complement and supplement the global IGF, a group of active participants, with the OGCIO (Office of the Government Chief Information Officer) as the advisor, have come together to organize the first Asia  Pacific Regional IGF in Hong Kong.  The  event will consist of 3 parts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"?page_id=39\">Youth  IGF Camp<\/a> (June 12-14), Sai Kung<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"?page_id=19\">Asia  Pacific Regional IGF Roundtable<\/a> (June 14-16), Cyberport<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"?page_id=24\">Hong  Kong IGF Conference<\/a> (June 17-18), Cyberport<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While the  global IGF is already in its fifth and final year of its initial charter, and  Regional IGFs have been established in many other regions, including Africa,  Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, to date, Asia has seen no parallel  forum for discussing Internet governance issues at a regional level.  For the first time, the APrIGF is therefore  being convened with objectives to raise awareness and encourage participation  from relevant stakeholders around the region on Internet governance issues, as  well as to foster multi-lateral, multi-stakeholder discussion about issues pertinent  to the Internet in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>The Hong  Kong IGF Conference aims to introduce to the various stakeholders in Hong Kong,  in particular NGOs and youth, the status of internet governance and the global IGF.  The APrIGF Roundtable will bring together  experts in the region and around the world from the civil society, private  sector and public sector for an intensive discussion that should help shape the  future of the IGF.  The Youth IGF Camp is  organized and led by young leaders.  During  the 3-day (2 nights) forum, participants will role-play to represent different  stakeholders in the society and interact with international experts in the  field to discuss different social topics concerning the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>All 3  component events combine to become a platform for regional collaboration and,  albeit organised independently of the global IGF, intends to report its  discussion to the global IGF to be held in September 14-17 in Vilnius,  Lithuania.  This adds to the significance  of the APrIGF in that the ideas, recommendations and other outputs from the  event will be used as inputs for the coming global IGF meeting in September.<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute;left: -10000px;top: 557px;width: 1px;height: 1px;overflow: hidden\"><a href=\"..\/?page_id=19#yigf\">Sai Kung<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Internet World Stats, with over 780 Million Internet users, Asia Pacific is already the region with the largest online population. Yet the penetration rate for Asia is only at around 20%, which signals continued rapid growth ahead. Building on the United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals, and the mandate given at the Second &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/event.rigf.asia\/2010\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About APrIGF&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-521","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/event.rigf.asia\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/event.rigf.asia\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/event.rigf.asia\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/event.rigf.asia\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/event.rigf.asia\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/event.rigf.asia\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/event.rigf.asia\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/521\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/event.rigf.asia\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}