The Ninth annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will be hosted by the Government of Turkey and will take place from 2 – 5th September in Istanbul.
Convened by the UN DESA on behalf of the Secretary-General, the overarching theme for the meeting is: “Connecting Continents for Enhanced Multistakeholder Internet Governance.” The Forum will be linked with other Internet Governance processes including the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance (NETmundial) that took place in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in April 2014. The 2014 IGF will actively respond on the suggested principles of, and roadmap for, the Internet issues of the outcome document of the NETmundial in a variety of ways, by both taking forward for further discussion, and by improving, its outcomes.
The IGF is an outcome of the World Summit on Information Society, held in 2003 and 2005. The objective of each annual IGF program is to maximize the opportunity for a multi-stakeholder, open and inclusive dialogue on internet governance. Over 2000 delegates from over 110 countries — representing Governments, the private sector, civil society, the Internet community, international organizations and the media — are expected.
Close to equal number of additional participants are expected online. Information on the full IGF program is available on: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/.
UN DESA’s Statistics Division and the Statistical Office of Mexico (INEGI) are organizing an international conference from 29 September – 1 October 2014 in Aguascalientes, Mexico, to discuss practical ways of measuring trade and economic globalization.
The high level of import content in exports makes gross bilateral trade statistics unsuitable for bilateral trade negotiations. Trade analysis requires new measures which better reflect the level of interdependencies among countries engaged in global value chains. In order to understand the true nature of trade relationships, it is necessary to know what each country along a global value chain contributes to the value of a final product. In addition, it is important to understand how that contribution is linked to those of other suppliers in other countries coming before and after along the chain, and how much employment and income is generated through this value addition.
Within this context the UN DESA’s Statistics Division and the Statistical Office of Mexico (INEGI) in cooperation with OECD, the World Trade Organization and Eurostat are organizing an international conference on the measurement of trade and economic globalization. The objective of this international conference is to discuss conceptual and practical ways of measuring trade and economic globalization, through the understanding of comprehensive statistical frame, global production and business practices, requirements and micro-data compilation for a global Supply-Use Table, firm heterogeneity and the impact of global production on national, regional and global economy. This international conference will bring together international and national experts in the compilation of trade, business or national account statistics and analysts/researchers who are interested in measuring trade and economic globalization.
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International Conference on the measurement of Trade and Economic Globalization
