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Program Committee

Initially promoted by just three organizations, this process immediately began to attract new sponsors and gain the community’s trust and attention. Once the space had been consolidated, it was necessary to formalize a coordination mechanism that would transcend the founding organizations, guarantee the representation of all sectors involved, and ensure the forum’s continuity and sustainability.

Thus, the forum’s Program Committee was created, a multistakeholder coordination group comprising representatives of the various actors and aimed at managing the process in representation of the Latin American and Caribbean community.

The Program Committee is the forum’s general coordination body and is made up by 3 members appointed by each of the following interest groups:

  • Regional organizations representing the private sector.
  • Latin American and Caribbean government representatives, appointed according to the eLAC follow-up mechanism.
  • Civil Society organizations.
  • Regional organizations representing the technical Internet community.

Each sector plans its own course of action and selects its representatives based on its own criteria.

THIS YEAR, THE 2022 PROGRAM COMMITTEE IS MADE UP AS FOLLOWS:

GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES:

  • Chile: Juan Pablo Vial / Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile.
  • Uruguay: Virginia Pardo and Beatriz Rodríguez / Agencia de Gobierno electrónico y Sociedad de la Información y del Conocimiento de Uruguay (AGESIC).
  • Paraguay: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores del Paraguay.

PRIVATE SECTOR REPRESENTATIVES:

  • ALAI (Latin American Internet Association): Raúl Echeberría.
  • ASIET (Ibero-American Association of Telecommunication Companies:  Pablo Garcia.
  • LACISP (Latin American and Caribbean Federation of Associations and Chambers of Internet Providers.) / Esteban Lescano.

CIVIL SOCIETY REPRESENTATIVES:

  • APC (Association for Progressive Communications) / Valeria Betancourt
  • Derechos Digitales / Jamila Venturini, Juan Carlos Lara
  • IPANDETEC / Lía Hernández

REPRESENTATIVES OF THE TECHNICAL INTERNET COMMUNITY:

  • ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers): Rodrigo de la Parra.
  • LACNOG (Latin America and the Caribbean Network Operators Group): Lía Solis.
  • LACTLD (Latin American and Caribbean TLD Association): Rocio de La Fuente.

The current Program Committee has begun discussions to establish mechanisms for deciding the Committee’s composition and how its members will be renewed. These discussions are open to the entire regional community and the mechanisms are expected to be approved during this year’s LACIGF meeting. Among other aspects, these mechanisms should establish number of members representing each stakeholder group and the process for their selection and renewal, as well as the Committee’s attributions.

In addition to appointing the Program Committee, it was also necessary to assign the role of Secretariat in order to have a stable structure that would support the process over the years and to cooperate with meeting logistics in close consultation with the Program Committee.