AGENDA

Survey

https://www.apc.org/limesurvey/index.php

 

Timetable	Monday 24	Tuesday 25	Wednesday 26
8:00 am	Registry
9:00 am	Official Opening	Internet governance for development	Emerging Issues
9:30 am	Access and Diversity
11:00 am	Break
12:00 am	Access and Diversity	Internet governance for development	Emerging Issues
1:30 pm	Lunch
3:00 pm	Security, Privacy and Openness	Administration and management of critical Internet resources	Taking stock and the way forward
4:00 pm	Break
5:00 pm	Security, Privacy and Openness	Administration and management of critical Internet resources	Taking stock and the way forward
6:00 pm			Giving ceremony of FRIDA Awards
7:00 pm		Cocktail: courtesy of ICANN	FRIDA Cocktail

SUB-THEMES UNDER MAIN THEMES

INTERNET GOVERNANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT (IG4)

• Agreeing internet governance themes that a development impact in the region
• Building capacity of the various regional stakeholders for effective engagement on internet governance at national, regional and global levels

EMERGING ISSUES

• WCIT
• ITRs: its impact on regional and global internet governance
• Principles for internet governance:
• Mechanisms for a pluralist internet governance at global level
• Transparency and accountability in global internet governance
• Multistakeholder participation
• Promotion, respect and defense of freedoms and human rights on the internet:
• Online freedom of expression standards
• Censorship and surveillance
• Online peaceful freedom of association
• Privacy
• Mobile internet:
• Regulation (costs and quality of service)
• Contents for mobile devices
• Net neutrality:
• Risks and threats from the private sector and governments
• Internet as a public good
• Impact of ICTs on environmental sustainability and climate change and its relation to internet governance

ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT OF CRITICAL INTERNET RESOURCES

• Agreeing a common regional definition of CIR
• New gTLDs:
• Challenges
• Opportunities
• Impacts for the region
• Implementation of DNS server copies in the region
• IPv6:
• Capacity building for Ipv6 adoption and deployment
• Prevention of black market in response to termination of IPv4 and not enough implementation of IPv6
• Capacity building on implementation of BGP security mechanisms
• Stability of CIR:
• Securing integrity of CIR
• Security and stability of CIR at all levels from ICANN to the periphery
• Security of DNS and stability of root servers
• LAC governments' participation in the GAC
• Review of IXPs proposals and models to respond to the current regional context and trends
• Development of NGN and IMS networks
• IDNs, its impact and benefits

SECURITY, PRIVACY AND OPENNESS

a) Security

• Cyber crime legislation: regional situation and harmonization
• Coordination of security incident response institutions
• Other mechanisms of response?
• Security at the level of users:
• Encryption and authentication
• Secure transactions
• Security of content distribution systems
• Cloud computing security
• Combat to spam
• Secure online communications: capacity building and promotion of good practices
• Uniformity of international security norms and standards
• Security practices by ISPs
• Capacity building of final users, public and private instances
• Security of systems previously separated from internet (such as industrial control ones)
• Monitoring, evaluation and management of cyber security risks

b) Privacy

• Personal data protection:
• Legal and regulatory harmonization
• Responsibility of internet intermediaries in relation to protection of personal data
• Minimum standards for protection of privacy, anonymity and personal data
• Privacy risk management
• Privacy legislation harmonization
• Privacy on social networks

c) Openness

• Preserving the open nature and architecture of the internet :
• Open standards
• Net neutrality, including the development of net neutrality legislation at national levels
• Mobile internet and net neutrality Internet
• Open government:
• Open government data
• Intellectual property rights:
• Restrictions for access to knowledge
• Regional alternatives and trends
• A rights approach to ensure openness:
• Online freedom of expression
• Increasing trend to monitor, block and filter online content
• Promotion of free and open culture and technology to preserve the openness of the internet

d) General Answers:

• Balancing privacy and security

ACCESS AND DIVERSITY

a) Access

• Structure of internet access costs
• Regional interconnection / terms for the international internet transit
• Expansion of access:
• Universalization
• Digital inclusion policies
• Public service internet access – the role of governments
• Alternative management and use of spectrum
• Regulation for the development and sustainability of municipal and community networks
• Quality of access
• Installation of IXPs in countries with low internet penetration
• Telecommunications, radio and TV regulation to enable digital convergence and facilitate access
• Access to knowledge:
• Impacts of intellectual property legislation
• Influence of big media, music, editorial and audiovisual corporations that restricts free culture exchange and access to knowledge, information and entertainment

b) Diversity

• Production of local content
• Multilingualism on the internet
• Remote participation in discussion spaces to diversity them
• Community access models to stimulate geographical diversity
• Inclusive policies for disabled people

TAKING STOCK AND THE WAY FORWARD

In progress....

CROSS CUTTING ISSUES

Based on the responses offered by people from the regional internet community to the open public online survey, the following are the most important cross cutting issues which should be taken into account for the discussion of the general themes:

• Development
• Human rights
• Capacity building