Agenda

Time	TUESDAY, August 27th		WEDNESDAY, August 28th	THURSDAY, August 29th
08.00		Attendee registration
08.15	Newcomers Session
09.00	Welcome and opening remarks		Principles of multistakeholder participation	Openness: human rights, freedom of expression, and the free flow of information on the Internet
09.30	Access and diversity: the Internet as an engine for growth and sustainable development
11.00	Break
11.30	Access and diversity: the Internet as an engine for growth and sustainable development		Principles of multistakeholder participation	Openness: human rights, freedom of expression, and the free flow of information on the Internet
13.00	Lunch		Lunch
14.00	Frank La Rue, Relator de Libertad de Expresión de las Naciones Unidas
14.30			Enhanced cooperation	Internet Governance Principles
15.00	Security: legal, regulatory and other frameworks for spam, hacking and cybercrime
16.30			Break
17.00	Break		Enhanced cooperation	Internet Governance Principles
17.30	Security: legal, regulatory and other frameworks for spam, hacking and cybercrime
18.00			Ceremony: 2013 Frida Award+
19.00	Welcome cocktail		Cocktail

SUB-TOPICS TO BE ADDRESSED IN BREAKOUT SESSIONS

SESSION on Access and diversity: The Internet as an engine for growth and sustainable development

• Connectivity cost structure. How to reduce end-user costs?
• Increasing access:
  - Broadband strategies at national level, including mobile broadband
  - Regional coordination for access to broadband connections
  - Providing access for remote and disadvantaged locations
  - Using and managing the radio-frequency spectrum to increase access
• Installing an IXP: political, economic and technical challenges
• Regional interconnection
• Relationship between IPv4 exhaustion, IPv6 deployment and Internet access

• Invigorating the local digital content industry
• Multilingualism on the Internet
• Enabling remote participation at discussion forums to diversify participation
• Sustainable models for community access

SESSION on Openness: Human rights, freedom of expression, free flow of information and privacy on the Internet

• Online surveillance and espionage:
  - Challenges and constraints (including relevant legislative activities)
  - Censorship
  - Controlling child pornography
  - The legality of government actions

• Respect for, promotion and protection of human rights and freedoms on the Internet:
  - Policy vs. reality
  - Internet freedom of expression standards
  - Defense and remedy mechanisms
  - Online harassment, including violence against women - Limits to intellectual property and copyright. Their impact on access to knowledge, the free flow of information and freedom of expression
  - The right to be forgotten
  - Online content monitoring, filtering and blocking
• Privacy:
  - Personal data protection, including the responsibility of Internet intermediaries in protecting users’ personal data
  - Regulatory harmonization
  - Monitoring and observatories
  - Encryption
  - Minimum privacy standards for the protection of user data, intimacy and anonymity
• Open government and open data policies
• Net neutrality:
  - Risks and threats posed by the private sector and governments
  - Legislation addressing network neutrality at country level
• Promoting free and open technology and culture as a means to preserve openness

SESSION: Security legal, regulatory and other frameworks for spam, hacking and cybercrime

• Analysis and updates on legal and regulatory frameworks (national and regional)
• Coordinating and developing Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs)
• Legislation addressing cybercrime: current status within the region and harmonization
• Security, stability and resiliency of critical Internet resources and infrastructure
• A participative approach to the construction of Internet security models
• Security at user level:
  - Encrypting and authentication
  - Secure transaction
  - Content Distribution System security
  - Security in the cloud
  - Fighting spam
  - Secure internet communications: capacity building, disseminating best practices
• Consistency of international standards addressing security issues
• ISP security practices
• Malware alert systems
• Training, from end users to public and private agencies and organizations
• Monitoring, evaluating and managing computer security risks
• The use of free software and its relationship to security

SESSION: Enhanced cooperation

• Meaning, purpose and scope of enhanced cooperation for the region and its relationship to Internet governance
• Roles and responsibilities of the region's various stakeholders in the different aspects of enhanced cooperation
• The role of the region's countries in global Internet governance
• Enhanced cooperation mechanisms
• Cases where enhanced cooperation has been implemented within the region

SESSION: Principles of multistakeholder participation

• Models for multistakeholder Internet governance collaboration and participation within the region
• Capacity building aimed at multistakeholder participation
• Developing forums and platforms for multistakeholder participation in Internet governance issues at national level

SESSION: Internet Governance Principles

• Global Internet governance transparency and accountability
• Multistakeholder participation
• Defending and promoting respect for human rights
• Openness
• Diversity (including linguistic diversity)
• Inclusion
• Horizontality

CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES

Based on the responses received from the regional Internet community, the main cross-cutting issues to be considered when discussing the various topics on the agenda are as follows:

• Development
• Human rights
• Gender
• Capacity building
• Net neutrality

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