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0. APSIG Documents
         APSIG Overview (ppt)
             2016 APSIG - Plan (Schedule A), 
             2017 APSIG - Plan, 
             2017 APSIG - Annual Report
             2018 APSIG -  Plan
             APSIG Operations Manual - Draft

1. Background
            There are week-long regional schools on Internet governance in Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, and Latin America in addition to national and other schools.

      Regional
             AfriSIG                   African School on Internet Governance
             APSIG                    Asia Pacific School on Internet Governance
             APIGA                    Asia Pacific Internet Governance Academy
             Euro SSIG              Euro Summer School on Internet Governance
             MEAC-SIG             Middle East and Adjoining Countries School on Internet Governance
             South SIG              South School on Internet Governance (Escuela del Sur de Gobernanza de Internet); [2011 SSIG], [2016 SSIG],  [2017 SSIG]                                            
      National
             Afghanistan           Afghanistan School on Internet Governance (afSIG) 
             Brazil                    Brazilian Internet Governance School (EGI.nic.br)
             China                    Beijing-Asia Pacific Internet Leadership Program (Beijing-APILP)
             India                     India School on Internet Governance (inSIG)             
             Pakistan                Pakistan School of Internet Governance (pkSIG); [2016 pkSIG - Plan] [2016 pkSIG - Report] [2016 pkSIG website]   
             Sri Lanka              Sri Lanka School on Internet Governance (lkSIG), Sri Lanka IGF(SIG Track)   
             Philippines            Philippine Internet Governance Colloquium
             Nepal                    Nepal SIG  (npSIG)       
             Bangladesh           Bangladesh SIG (bdSIG)                             
             
       Others 
            APC                       Association of Progressive Communications (ittrainonline, APC Impact,...)
            Citizen Lab            Summer Institute, University of Toronto.
            Diplo Foundation   Introduction to Internet Governance, online course.
            Eliademy               Internet Governance Series, online course
            IG Academy          Online course
            Internet Society     Inforum Course: Shaping the Internet: History and Futures, online course.
            Public Knowledge Open Internet Course (13 weeks course in Spanish)

         Remark 1:   IGF workshops and meeting on SIGs in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2016.
         Remark 2:   Arabic SSIG in Egypt, 2009.

2. Objective 
      There are around 1.8 billion Internet users in Asia Pacific out of 3.5 billion globally.  There are around 5,000 ~ 10,000 Internet governance practitioners 
      in Asia Pacific who participate to global, regional and national IGFs/SIGs and related organizations.  There are 500 ~ 1,000 Internet governance 
      leaders and experts including organizers and speakers in these IGFs/SIGs and related organizations.
      
      Asia Pacific School on Internet Governance (APSIG) intends to serve these 500~1,000 Internet governance leaders and experts in Asia through
      professional courses on the Internet governance. We expect  local and other SIGs and IGFs to serve the 5,00 ~10,000 Internet governance practitioners through 
      their courses. 

3.  Scope
       - Develop open courseware on the Internet governance,
       - Archive video recording of lectures, presentation materials and other documents for public access,
       - Offer professional courses on the Internet goverenance
       - Collaborate with the relevant organizations including other regional and local schools on Internet governance.
       - Offer fellowships for IGF participation as well as national SIGs.

4.  Organization 

        APSIG-Discuss Group 
                  Consensus development group with mailing list, monthly remote meeting, and occasional face-to-face meetings.

        All SIG Group
               Satish Babu - Chair (until 2018-08-31)
                 Cooperation of all SIGs and related organizations including an annual meeting: [website],  [charter]
                 Members: (Refer All SIG - APSIG.asia for the current members
                     
        Finance Committee (2017-09-01 ~ 2018-08-31)
                 Members: Kilnam Chon - Chair, KS Park(Open Net Director), Satish Babu (All SIG Liaison)
                
                APSIG/Amazon Fellowship Subcommittee (2018-01-31 ~ 2019-01-31)
                                Members: KS Park - Chair, Satish Babu, Kilnam Chon, Mohit Saraswat
                Recommendation Subcommittee (2018-01-31 ~ 2019-01-31)
                          Members: KS Park, Satish Babu, Ihtisham Khalid, Dr. Govind
                
        Program Committee (2017-09-01 ~ 2018-08-31)
                Members: Kilnam Chon - Chair, Satish Babu (All SIG Liaison), KS Park,  Mubashir Sargata (2018 SIG Member)
               
                Program Advisory Group (2017-09-01 ~ 2018-08-31)
                           Members: Susan Landau, Kenny Huang, Jim Foster, Rajnesh Singh
             
       Secretariat [Charter]
                Secretariat Staffs:   Glaziel Kae Tagamolila- Administration (2017-10 ~)                                               
                                                Nisarat - Audio-Video (Streaming) (2018-07~)                              
                Consultant:              Miseon Chu - Accounting (2016-08~)
                Ex-Staffs:                 Mubashir Sargata (2016-10 ~)
                                                An, Jungbae (2017-09 ~) 
                                                Sweet Mae Monteclaro  (2017-10 ~) 

5.  APSIG Logo and Name Cards
            APSIG Logo (Large),  APSIG Logo (Small)
            Name Card for Alumni, Name Card for APSIG/Amazon Fellows

6. APSIG Fellowships
          Annual APSIG (2016 APSIG, 2017 APSIG, 2018 APSIG,..)
          National SIGs (2016 inSIG, 2016 pkSIG,..)
          IGF (APSIG/Amazon Fellowships; 2017~ )

7. Mailing Lists

7.1 Active Mailing Lists
    Advisory Group                         APSIG-advisorygroup at googlegroups.com
    All SIG Group                            APSIG-allsig at googlegroups.com                  
    Announce                                  APSIG-announce at googlegroups.com           (moderated)
    APSIG/Amazon Fellowship       APSIG-amazon at googlegroups.com   
    Discuss                                     APSIG-discuss at googlegroups.com                [Discuss Group member list]    
    Finance Committee                  APSIG-finance at googlegrooups.com   
    Info                                            APSIG-info at googlegroups.com    
    Program Committee                 APSIG-program at googlegroups.com
    Secretariat                                APSIG-sec at googlegroups.com
    IGF Workshop Discussion        APSIG-workshop at googlegroups.com
    Law and Regulation                 APSIG-law-and-regulation at googlegroups.com
    
    2018 All Participants                APSIG-2018AllParticipants at googlegroups.com
    2018 Applicant Accepted         APSIG-2018ApplicantAccepted at googlegroups.com
    2018 Lecturers                         APSIG-2018Lecturers at googlegroups.com
    2018 Organizers                      APSIG-2018Organizers at googlegroups.com
    2018 All Applicants                  APSIG-2018AllApplicants at googlegroups.com
    2018 Remote Participants       APSIG-2018RemoteParticipants at googlegroups.com
    2018 SIG Delegates                APSIG-2018SIGdelegates at googlegroups.com

7.2 Inactive Mailing Lists
    AV&Net Group                            APSIG-avnet at googlegroups.com
    Best Alumni                              APSIG-BestAlumni at googlegroups.com
    China                                         APSIG-china at googlegroups.com
    South Asia                                APSIG-southasia at googlegroups.com
    eCourses                                  APSIG-ecourses at googlegroups.com
    inSIG                                         APSIG-insig at googlegroups.com  

    2017 Lecturers                          APSIG-2017lecturers at googlegroups.com
    2017 General Participants        APSIG-2017generalparticipants at googlegroups.com
    2017 Remote Participants        APSIG-2017remoteparticipants at googlegroups.com
    2017 All Participants                 APSIG-2017allparticipants at googlegroups.com
    2017 Applicants                         APSIG-2017applicants at googlegroups.com

    2016 lecturers                            APSIG-2016lecturer at googlegroups.com
    2016 role play group                  APSIG-roleplay at googlegroups.com
    2016 panelist                             APSIG-panelist at googlegroups.com
    2016 speaker                             APSIG-speaker at googlegroups.com          
    2016 participants                        APSIG-2016AllParticipants at googlegroups.com  
    2016 local organization               APSIG-local at googlegroups.com
    2016 facilitator group                  APSIG-facilitator at googlegroups.com

Remark:  2017 Recommendation Subcommittee (on general participant list development for 2017 APSIG), [final report]
2018-03-16
Contact APSIG-info at googlegroups.com for further information.