The Group of Organizers of LACIGF are pleased to announce the realization of the Seventh Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) to be held in July 16-18, 2014. 
San Salvador, El Salvador will host the 2014 LACIGF edition.

Program Committee

What started out as a process promoted by just three organizations immediately began gaining support and new sponsors and, in turn, earned the community's trust and attention. Once the space had been consolidated, formalizing the integration of a coordination mechanism that would transcend the founding organizations, provide for the representation of all sectors involved, and ensure the forum's continuity and sustainability became necessary.

Thus, the forum's coordination body or Program Committee came to be – a multistakeholder group made up by representatives of the various interest groups aimed at managing the process in representation of the Latin American and Caribbean community.

The Program Committee is the forum's general coordination body. It is made up by two members appointed by each of the following interest groups:

• Regional organizations representing the private sector
• Latin American and Caribbean governments, 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 chooses its representatives based on its own criteria.

The LACIGF 2014 Program Committee will be made up as follows:

Government Representatives:

• Argentine Republic / Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Olga Cavalli
• Federal Republic of Brazil / Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Itamaraty): Ambassador Benedicto Fonseca and Fernando Mallmann Junior
• United Mexican States / Federal Institute of Telecommunications: Ricardo Castañeda
• Oriental Republic of Uruguay / AGESIC: Alejandra Erramuspe

Private Sector Representatives:

• AHCIET (the Latin American Association of Telecommunication Companies): Andrés Sastre and Juan Jung
• ECOMLAC (the Latin American and Caribbean Federation for Internet and e-Commerce): Pedro Less and Ana Lucia Lenis

Civil Society Representatives:

• APC (the Association for Progressive Communications): Valeria Betancourt and AGEIA DENSI Argentina: Fátima Cambronero and José Francisco Arce
• NGO Derechos Digitales: Claudio Ruiz and Civil Rights Association (ADC): Eleonora Rabinovich and Ramiro Álvarez Ugarte

Representatives of the Technical Internet Community:

• ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ): Rodrigo de la Parra
• LACTLD (the Association of Latin American and Caribbean TLDs): Carolina Aguerre

In addition to creating the Program Committee, it was also necessary to decide who would be responsible for the Secretariat duties in order to provide a stable structure that would support the process over the years and cooperate with meeting logistics in close consultation with the Program Committee.

LACNIC), one of the three organizations that founded the process.

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