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Thursday, November 17, 2016

Challenges for National and Regional IGF

There has been a huge debate about why we need a Internet Governance Forum(IGF) from national perspective as well as Regional perspective. Still in developing nation where the government plays a crucial role in lobbying the ICT policy, the monopoly and rudeness of regulators has not been accepted to the feasibility in terms of facilitating the industry. The IGF not only soothes the process of standardization but helps to identify various aspect of growth and development.

Nevertheless, contradicting and accepting the modern development and international charters voicing the concerned issues of all stakeholders in terms of their problems and issue is a matter of national concern which cannot be ignored. IGF gives the variable stakeholder not  just a platform  to forwards their recommendation but helps to create a better dialogue situation.
Adapting the multistakeholder approach is terms of practice is the best possibility of creating a better scenario for the industry as well as ensuring the rights of individual.

 Basic challenges   
1. Specific module about the operational details of conducting IGF in terms of process need to be developed
2. Most of the fellowship for IGF are processed by organization where the fellows lack to address the issues and commitment, their progress and development have to be network and monitored
3. IGF secretariat should initiate an open platform for registration and should record the initial data of regional and national IGF
4. Funding at times can be a problem so major guideline can be initiated
5. Most of the participant of the IGF are from prominent stakeholders who are interested so there should be at-least one section focusing and promoting nation and regional IGF in a stalls or any way possible
6. Specific coordinators should be assigned as per region
7. There is a good network of organizations like ISOC and ICANN so better communication can initiated for creating better coordination among the chapters in boosting up the national IGF
8. IGF is all about speaking and owning your rights so there should be strategies developed in terms of motivating people through infographic and multimedia
9. The major problem about IGF is, it overlooks the regional voices (personal experiences) a certain level of hesitation develops in people
10. Lack of proper knowledge and capacity building programs about IG process needs to be adopted
11. Values of cooperation and networking needs to be developed and integrated among regional and national IGF where number of  fellowship needs to be financed 

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