On Friday December 21 2012 from 9.30-11.30am EST IGF-USA will present a Post-WCIT Roundtable Discussion at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC. The Roundtable participants are from the IGF-USA Steering Group who attended the ITU World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai including Ambassador Phil Verveer, US State Department; Fiona Alexander, NTIA; and participants from civil society; business, and technical community. This IGF-USA event will focus on implications for IG and how to advance the effectiveness of the IGF and the IGF-USA in addressing key issues highlighted during the WCIT, but which are clearly in the IG space. The Roundtable wil be webcast live on the Internet Society Chapters webcast Channel, and archived.

What: IGF USA WCIT ROUNDTABLE
Where: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC
When: Friday December 21 2012 9.30am-11.30am EST } 1430-1630 UTC
Webcast: http://www.livestream.com/internetsocietychapters
Contact; Marilyn Cade - marilynscade at hotmail.com
Topics:

• What are the key implications from WCIT for Internet Governance, and the IGF?
• Roadmap of upcoming events of relevance that will revisit IG issues
• Will the Improvements to the IGF just agreed by UN GA suffice?
• What is needed to strengthen the IGF to address key issues raised by the WCIT?