IGF 2011
Workshop Proposals
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Internet Governance for Development [IG4D] (Cross cutting Priority) ................................... 5
4: Internet Governance and ICT for Development ............................................................................... 5
21: Title: Mapping Internet Governance .............................................................................................. 6
26: Title: Arabic Youth and ICT : Empowerment through Social Media ............................................ 7
72: Good Practice Forum: Building Trust Environment for e-Commerce------Challenges and
Innovation ............................................................................................................................................. 8
74: New gTLD program: an opportunity for development or a mean for more digital divide? .......... 9
89: Transforming the East African ICT Sector by Creating a Business Engine for SMEs ................ 10
93 : Title: Multistakeholder Internet Public Policy Dialogue:Lessons Learned and Best Practice
examples of local to global policy dialogue ....................................................................................... 11
95 : Between protection and enhanced e- participation, a Hands on experience from Egypt and
Tunisia ................................................................................................................................................ 12
109: Mobile Internet –enhancing the new age of the Internet ............................................................ 13
121: Open spectrum for development in the context of the digital migration ................................... 14
125: Parliamentarian Challenge: a Round Table between Parliamentarians and other Stakeholders 15
143: Teaching Internet Governance, the experience of the Schools on Internet Governance ........... 16
162: The I* organizations and their contribution to development ..................................................... 17
181: How can Internet Governance impact disaster preparedness and response and help save lives?
............................................................................................................................................................ 18
183: A possible framework for global Net Neutrality ........................................................................ 19
192: Mobile Internet, Its Regulation And Its
................... 20
198: Title: Legal Policy And Regulatory Issues Pertaining To Digital Divide And Its Impact On
Internet Governance ........................................................................................................................... 21
203: Internet Governance Principles: initiatives toward the improvement of a global Internet
Governance ......................................................................................................................................... 21
210: Innovator Roundtable: An Intergenerational Dialog with Internet Entrepreneurs ..................... 22
215: Intra-Stakeholder Balance in Multi-Stakeholder Internet Governance ...................................... 24
263: Internet for Knowledge:Free and Open Classrooms across Continents ..................................... 24
417,Title: Can Digital Citizenship Scale into the Emerging and Developing Countries Effectively?
Should it? ............................................................................................................................................ 26
2. Emerging Issues ................................................................................................................................ 28
8: Protecting Professional Identity ..................................................................................................... 28
9. Initiatives advancing “principles” for internet governance – lessons learned and the way forward
............................................................................................................................................................ 29
63: SWOT analysis of the impact of Mobile Internet on Internet Governance in Africa .................. 29
79: Copyright under a magnifying glass: thought provoking ideas ................................................... 30
80: Digital (alter)natives with a Cause? ............................................................................................. 32
82: The Governance Dimension of the Internet of Things ................................................................. 34
98: Emerging issues in the ccTLD ecosystem: The next decade challenges ..................................... 34
108: Mobile and cloud services for development .............................................................................. 35
122: Putting your Trust in the Clouds: why Trust Matters to the Open Internet ............................... 36
132: Conflict minerals: Bringing accountability and governance to ICT production. What are the
challenges? ......................................................................................................................................... 37
139: Green ICTs And Innovation ....................................................................................................... 38
155: Human rights: a unifying approach for development, freedom, access and diversity? ............. 39
175: Role of Policy Maker / Regulators in Better Governance of Internet ........................................ 40
184: Using the Internet as a Tool for Political Change: Lessons Learned and Way Forward ........... 41
201: Proprietary Influences in Free and Open Source Software: Lessons to Open and Universal
Internet Standards ............................................................................................................................... 42
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214: A Practical & Pragmatic Look at Making Cloud Successful in Developing World .................. 44
277: Making Cloud Computing Work: International Standards As A Catalyst For Innovation? ...... 46
3. Managing Critical Internet Resource ............................................................................................. 49
18: Policy Issues Affecting cctlds in Africa ....................................................................................... 49
70 : On The Outside, Looking in: Real-World Solutions to Effective Participation in ICANN, IGF
and ITU............................................................................................................................................... 49
69 : IDNs and New gTLDs: Why Local Languages Are the Answer to a Truly Global Internet ...... 50
25: Internationalized Domain Names “IDN”: Implementations, Experiences and Challenges ......... 51
135: 'Strengthening Cctld's in East Africa'- Interrogating the Research Findings ............................. 52
165: Understanding IPv6 Deployment and Transition ....................................................................... 53
168: Internet Resource Certification: What Is It, And How Does It Work? ...................................... 54
180: Mitigating Domain Name System Cyberattacks ........................................................................ 55
4. Security, Openness and Privacy ...................................................................................................... 57
Framework for International Cooperation on Child Online Protection ( the Newly submitted
workshop) ........................................................................................................................................... 57
2: Digital Citizenship - a charter of children's and young people's rights in the online world .......... 57
20: Charter of Human Rights and Principles For the Internet ............................................................ 58
62: Guideline of OKE (Open Knowledge Environment) in the Developing Countries ..................... 59
75: Putting users first: how can privacy be protected in today’s complex mobile ecosystem? ......... 61
77: Exporting the Internet: Human Rights and Technology .............................................................. 62
85: Free flow of information and social networks: a role for democracy and social participation .... 63
105: Strengthening the Protection of Cross-Border Internet Personal Data ...................................... 64
110: Open Data: Challenges and Solutions ........................................................................................ 65
111: Young people and their safeguards in an increasingly connected world ................................... 67
115: Cybercrime Strategies ................................................................................................................ 68
116: Cloud governance ....................................................................................................................... 68
118: Global Principles for the Stability and Resilience of the Internet .............................................. 70
123: Public Sector Information Online: Towards A Global Policy Framework ................................ 71
124: Blocking content: issues, principles and paths forward ............................................................. 73
130: Protecting the Most Vulnerable Users In Society: The Roles of Different Actors in Helping the
New User Survive in an On-Line World ............................................................................................ 74
153: Aspects of Identity ..................................................................................................................... 75
160: Global Trends to Watch: The Erosion of Privacy and Anonymity and The Need of
Transparency of Government Access Requests ................................................................................. 77
166: Enhancing Understanding: Facilitating Internet Governance Through Openness and
Transparency ...................................................................................................................................... 79
176: What is the role of the media in ensuring the Internet is a resilient and stable platform ? ........ 80
193: Addressing some unintended consequences of participation in the digital environment .......... 81
194: Social Media – Legal Policy Related Aspects and Its Impact On Internet Governance ........... 82
195: Protecting Children Online and Its Relevance to Internet Governance ................................... 83
196: Cyber Terrorism, Cyber Security And
– Connected Legal, Policy And
Regulatory Aspects............................................................................................................................. 83
202: Cybersecurity: Safeguarding the Global Internet and Emerging Issues/Opportunities for
Developing Countries ......................................................................................................................... 84
205: Freedom of Expression on the Net: Current Threats to the Internet’s Architecture That
Undermine Citizens’ Rights and the Free Flow of Information ......................................................... 85
212: Privacy and security in an open/realtime/linked data world ...................................................... 87
219: Privacy, Security, and Access to Rights: A Technical and Policy Analyses ............................. 88
231: Challenges and Best Practices for Internet Regulation in Africa and Latin America ................ 89
438 : The business of human rights: corporate responsibility and ICTs ............................................ 90
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5. Access and Diversity ......................................................................................................................... 92
12 : Connectivity and Access in Sub-Saharah Africa - Status, Challenges and Opportunities .......... 92
64: Interconnecting Africa: Opportunities and Obstacles along the way ........................................... 93
67: E-participation Principles ............................................................................................................. 94
73: FOSS as an Instrument for Accessible Development .................................................................. 95
76: The challenges to access from a youth and global perspective .................................................... 95
87: Citizen empowerment through the social use of ICTs ................................................................. 97
88: The Internet as the Universal Service .......................................................................................... 98
90: E-learning: an innovating educational tool for global awareness and citizenship ....................... 99
91: M-government for Effective and Inclusive Public Services ...................................................... 100
92: Challenging Myths about Young People and the Internet ......................................................... 101
96: Economic Aspects of Local Content Creation and Local Internet Infrastructure ...................... 102
101: Are We Meeting The Challenges Of Bringing Content and Access To The World? .............. 103
112: Securing the future of Youths through ICT's ........................................................................... 105
113: Access and Diversity of Broadband Internet Access ............................................................... 105
126: Internet for Democratic Participation of Vulnerable People in Public Life-Best Practices
Exchange .......................................................................................................................................... 108
129: Media in Mutation: What Is The Future of The News and Media Industry In a World Of Social
Networking? ..................................................................................................................................... 109
137: Mainstreaming the Disability Perspective for an Inclusive Society ........................................ 110
138: HOW CAN WE REACH THE MEDIA HAVE-NOTS OF THE DEVELOPED AND
DEVELOPING WORLDS ............................................................................................................... 111
144: Human Rights Come First - A Constitutional Moment for Internet Governance .................... 112
145: Do gentlemen's agreements work for Internet sustainability? ................................................. 113
147: Use of Latin and Native Languages on the Internet ................................................................. 113
163: Right to Information, Internet Access & Inclusive Development ............................................ 115
185: Do Policymakers Understand The Role Of Libraries In Mobilising The Internet As A Catalyst
For Development, Innovation And Freedom? .................................................................................. 117
188: Transforming Higher Education through Broadband– Maximizing the Opportunities ........... 118
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199: The Future of the Internet and its impact on the world: A Scenarios Summit ......................... 119
211: The Impact of Regulation: Open Source and Enterprise .......................................................... 122
262: Internet Governance across cultures: Asia Pacific Region as a microcosm of the World of
Diversity Regional interests in a global setting ................................................................................ 123
6. Taking Stock and the Way Forward ............................................................................................ 125
10: Reflection on the Indian proposal towards an IGF 2.0 .............................................................. 125
134: IGF improvements.................................................................................................................... 126
178: Institutional Choice in Global Internet Governance ................................................................ 126
182: Global Internet related public policies – Is there an Institutional Gap? ................................... 129
207: Is the Youth Factor Counting in IG? And Is IG Affecting the Youth? .................................... 130
258: Improving the IGF: How can we get the most out of IGF improvement processes? ............... 131
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1. Internet Governance for Development [IG4D] (Cross cutting Priority)
4: Internet Governance and ICT for Development
Concise Description:
This Workshop Proposal on Internet Governance and ICT for Development will explore the
interaction between national and global Solutions to problems the lack effective collaborations
with/among our government officials, the private sector, particularly ISPs in the country,
nongovernmental entities, academic institutions and ordinary citizens towards the development of
national policies on different internet related matters, including the establishment effective internet
infrastructures, Internet Exchange Point, internet access in marginized rural and sub-urban
communities, responsible use of the Internet, protection of Children online, re-delegation of national
ccTLD etc.
The meeting will focus on the tensions and complementarities between global
and national policy making for issues related to the lack of widely accepted principles and
commitment on the part of national stakeholders including the government to address issues regarding
policies and the technical matters of the Internet in our country. We recognized that this situation is not
based on political disagreements, but often a result of the lack of knowledge and comprehension about
technical and policy aspects of the Internet.
The target beneficiaries of this proposed workshop are Government Ministries and agencies in charge
of ICT and internet developments, Private Sector particularly IT technicians and management teams,
authorities and students of academic institutions, internet end-users and potential end-users, ISOCLiberia Chapter members.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Internet Governance for Development [IG4D] (Cross cutting Priority)
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? No
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Anne-Rachel Inné, Regional Liaison for Africa
Addition names to be provided
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Internet Society Liberia Chapter(ISOC-Liberia.)
ISOC-Liberia affiliates with varous stakeholder as partner.
Organization:Internet Society Liberia Chapter
Contact Person: Philip F. Johnson
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21: Title: Mapping Internet Governance
Concise Description:
This workshop will explore where and how Internet Governance decisions are currently taken. What
are the relevant fora and decision-making bodies? In what topic areas do they make decisions and with
what kinds of impacts? How can individuals and stakeholder organizations make sure that their
viewpoints and concerns are appropriately taken into consideration?
Besides having a discussion of these topics in Nairobi, the workshop aims at initiating a
multistakeholder process for creating a document "Map of Internet Governance" which addresses these
questions from a balanced, multistakeholder perspective, and for thereafter keeping this document upto-date. As a starting point for the discussions, a list of already existing documents with similar goals
and a rough draft for a first edition of the Map will be prepared in advance. At the workshop itself, it
will be a main goal to learn from diverse stakeholders about what information is important to them to
empower their effective participation in Internet Governance fora.
There will be special emphasis on the challenges related to effective participation from developing
countries in Internet Governance decision-making processes, with the objective of ensuring that the
resulting decisions become more conductive to development goals.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Internet Governance for Development [IG4D] (Cross cutting Priority)
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? No
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panelists you are planning to invite:
Panelists:
Thomas Lowenhaupt: Founder & Chair, Connecting.nyc Inc.
Jeremy Malcolm: Consumers International, Kuala Lumpur Office for
Asia-Pacific and the Middle East
Bitange Ndemo: Permanent Secretary in The Ministry for Information And
Communications, Republic of Kenya
Douglas Onyango: CTO, Lake Victoria IT & Bio-tech Park (LAVIT), Kampala
(Uganda); AfriNIC, IANA, EA-IGF, ISOC
David Souter: Managing Director, ict Development Associates; author
of http://www.apc.org/en/pubs/books/mapping-internet-public-policy ;
Visiting Professor in Communications Management, Business School,
University of Strathclyde; Visiting Senior Fellow, Department of
Media and Communications, London School of Economics; Associate of
the International Institute for Sustainable Development
TBC: A representative of the European Commission
TBC: A DiploFoundation fellow from the Latin America / Caribean region
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Remote Moderator:
Ginger Paque [Born in US, 35 year resident of Venezuela]:
DiploFoundation, ISOC, IGC, RPWG
Note on IGF Themes:
The workshop falls under the Internet governance for development cross-cutting priority. In addition,
all of the five broad IGF Themes will be explicitly addressed by discussing what are the main
governance processes relevant to each of these themes. The workshop and its resulting "Map of
Internet Governance" document will contribute to capacity building in all of these thematic areas, and
to empowering individuals as well as stakeholder organizations to become directly involved in the
Internet Governance processes which are relevant to their area of interest.
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Norbert Bollow, Internet Governance Caucus, Swiss Open Systems User Group
Organization:Internet Governance Caucus
Contact Person: Norbert Bollow
26: Title: Arabic Youth and ICT : Empowerment through Social Media
Concise Description:
The momentous political changes sweeping through the Middle East have, some say, been both
initiated and supported by young people using social media. FaceBook and twitter are cited as the
media of choice to inform and mobilize support for regime change.
The workshop objectives are to explore what we know about young Arab’s use and attitudes to ICT
and to reflect on how this impacts on journalistic practice and democratic engagement.
The speakers will present ground breaking research into young people’s use of ICT, exchange their
experiences of the use of social media by young people in the MENA region and comment on how this
is changing the foundations of journalism through the events of the last few months.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Internet Governance for Development [IG4D] (Cross cutting Priority)
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? No
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Khaled Koubaa, ISOC Board of Trustees, Founder of Arab World Internet Institute
Sharrway Al Sharrawy, Founder, Chairman of Ofok
Rafik Dammak, Youth Coalition on Internet Governance (YCIG)
Ammar Khaled, Head of Social Media, Al Jazeera.
Amr Elsadr, Chief Operating Officer Tele-Med International
Representative from facebook (invited)
Naila Nabil Hamdy, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, American University in
Cairo
Robin Blake, Executive Director ICT and Society , ictQATAR
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Mina Nagi Takla, ictQATAR (Remote Participation and Social Media moderator)
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
ictQATAR “ The Supreme Council of Information & Communication Technologies, State of Qatar”,
agency promoting the effective use of ICT in Qatar.
Organization:ictQATAR
Contact Person: Robin Blake:
72: Good Practice Forum: Building Trust Environment for e-Commerce------Challenges and
Innovation
Concise Description:
With the rapid development of e-commerce in recent years, online shopping has become one of the
most popular Internet applications for Chinese netizen. According to Ministry of Commerce of China,
transaction value of China e-commerce in 2010 reached 4.5 trillion Yuan, with a 22% growth rate
year-on-year. And it is predicted that the transaction value will keep an average annual growth rate
over 20%, and reach 12 trillion Yuan in 2015. Another report released by CNNIC shows that Internet
users in China have hit 457 million at the end of 2010, and online shopping users hit 161 million.
Meanwhile, Group buying service (Groupon Mode) has also acquired sharp development that about
2600 group buying websites were set up by the end of 2010, attracting more than 180 million users and
creating a total 8.86 billion Yuan transaction value.
However, the complaint on online shopping has been increasing due to online fraud or bad credit
running, which has caused consumers’ legal interest violated and properties lost. The Internet users’
experience of Internet application has been seriously impacted. On the other hand, we are pleased to
find that there are many e-business companies attach great importance to building trust environment
for e-commerce, and even some of them make great efforts to cultivate a credit model on their own
initiatives. Their creative efforts have played an active role to promote a trust environment
development of Internet in China.
This workshop aims to introduce the best practice of Chinese e-commerce operating, and share the
experiences and lessons learned in the construction of a trust environment. We hope this workshop
could be helpful to the stakeholders who are interested in related fields.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Internet Governance for Development [IG4D] (Cross cutting Priority)
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=136
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
*Moderator：
Mr. GAO Xinmin, Vice President, Internet Society of China
*Panellists：
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Mr. GAO Xinmin, Vice President, Internet Society of China (NGO)
Ms. ZHANG Wei, Vice President, Alibaba Group (Global leadership in e-commerce)
Mr. WU Bo, CEO, Lashou.com (Leading group buying service provider in China)
Mr. YU Chen, Vice President, YeePay.com (Leading e-payment service provider in China)
*Remote Moderator：
Mr. ZHONG Rui, Internet Society of China
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
*Internet Society of China (NGO, Civil Society)
Organization:Internet Society of China
74: New gTLD program: an opportunity for development or a mean for more digital divide?
Concise Description:
The ICANN new generic Top Level Domains (gTLD) program will have an economic effect that can
either impact the development of the developping countries, or increase the already existing digital and
the economic divide.
The speakers will explain in which case the so called new gTLD program can positively impact the
economic development and what are the obstacles that might prevent the developing countries from
the benefit of this new opportunity.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Internet Governance for Development [IG4D] (Cross cutting Priority)
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=61
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
1. Fatimata SEYE SYLLA, Chair of ICANN AFRALO (Senegal)
2. Zahid Jamil, Pakistan
3. Alice Munyua, Kenyan Government Representative
4. Jean Jacques SUBRENAT, France
5. Avri DORIA, USA
6. Tijani BEN JEMAA, ICANN ALAC Member
7. Olivier Crépin Leblond (Remote Moderator)
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Fatimata SEYE SYLLA, President of Bokk Jang Bokk Jef, chair of ICANN AFRALO, and leader of
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
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Tijani BEN JEMAA, Executive Director of FMAI, Vice Chair of ICANN AFRALO and Member of
ALAC.
Organization:ICANN AFRALO
Contact Person: Tijani BEN JEMAA
89: Transforming the East African ICT Sector by Creating a Business Engine for SMEs
Concise Description:
This listening session will bring together techpreneurs from Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya.
These are individuals who are actively building technology related SMEs in the region and share a
unique perspective i.e. firsthand experience overcoming challenges unique to the African technology
sector. These individuals provide a unique insight into the difficulties and policy related issues they
face on a day-to-day basis. Identifying common issues these entrepreneurs provide the input for an
invaluable session that will see the production of a letter outlining the key issues entrepreneurs face
from across the region. This letter will be submitted to the organizers of the IGF and policy institutions,
government ministries and institutions present at the event.
The ICT sector has driven up to 40% of economic growth in East Africa in the past 10 years. Most of
that growth has been in large companies; the next phase can be led by SMEs, as long as the necessary
and targeted policy interventions are made:
- Develop a fully connected SME network
- Fill the skills gap in advanced business and technical knowledge
- Provide start-up and early stage funding for companies
- Enable job creation for knowledge workers, and
- Upgrade the business environment, with focus on stable and competitive legal framework
These policy interventions can address the system-wide challenges that ICT-related SMEs in East
Africa face, and allow SMEs to create more of the quality jobs East Africa needs.
The workshop builds on the recently published report, ‘Transforming the East African ICT Sector by
Creating a Business Engine for SMEs.’ This report asks, given the current state of the EAC ICT
landscape and the challenges facing SMEs, what interventions are necessary to strengthen the
emerging SME sector and boost their participation in economic development? To address this question,
infoDev, Hivos and UKaid commissioned an intensive study of SMEs within the East African ICT
sector. The work was conducted by the Excelsior Firm, a US and Africa based advisory group.
Rigorous in its approach, the study centered on direct and primary participation of over 100
entrepreneurs, policy makers, donors, investors, and experts in order to understand the interventions
and partnerships required to create a favorable environment for SME growth.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Internet Governance for Development [IG4D] (Cross cutting Priority)
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/2010/contributions/FoE_DC_Report_Sharm_Dec09.doc
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Amongst many other possible candidates:
Solomon King, Founder NodeSix
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John Waibochi, the founder of Virtual City
Sam Gichuru founder of the Nailab
Erik Hersman founder iHub and Ushahidi
Paul Bagyenda founder of Digital Solutions
Barbara Birungi, founding MGR Hive Colab
Ntare Karitanyi, founder Hobuka
Suhail Sheriff, founder Simbanet
Wim Rullens (Head of International Organisations, Dutch Ministery of Economic Affairs, Agriculture
and Innovation)
Dutch ict entrepreneur (to be confirmed)
Name of Remote Moderator:
Jessica Colaco: Mobile Technology Evangelist and Founder of Mobile Boot Camp Kenya , the iHub
Manager, Researcher and one of the Top 40 women in Kenya in 2009 in the Kenya Business Scene.
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Ben White, VC4Africa
Sophie Veraart, ECP-EPN/ NL IGF (Dutch IGF)
Monique Doppert, Hivos
Worldbank,-Infodev or UKaid (as preferred partner)
Organization:NL IGF
Contact Person: Sophie Veraart
93 : Title: Multistakeholder Internet Public Policy Dialogue:Lessons Learned and Best Practice
examples of local to global policy dialogue
Concise Description:
In the past five years, Internet public policy dialogue has taken various forms, shapes and approaches,
and have been implemented at various levels and in various regions of the world. National fora has
been seen as a positive outcome of the global process resulting in an increased number of dialogue
spaces, especially in developing countries. The quality of discussion however is called to question as it
is reflected in the outcomes of public policy dialogue at levels other than global. The workshop sets
out to discuss some of these issues and especially some of the valuable lessons learned from global to
local internet public policy dialogue processes, based on research conducted at all levels of the IGF
(global, continental, regional and national), tools and methodology used for effective public policy
dialogue, and how these can influence the way in which future internet policy dialogue is designed and
implemented.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Internet Governance for Development [IG4D] (Cross cutting Priority)
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2010Vie
w&wspid=49
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Anriette Esterhuysen, APC
Heather Creech, IISD
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Byron Holland, CIRA/Canadian IGF
Alice Munyau, East African IGF
TBC, West African IGF
TBC, Nominet UK
TBC, Brazilian/South American IGF
David Souter, IISD
Ben Akoh, IISD (Remote moderator)
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
APC, NGO
IISD, NGO
West African IGF, Multistakeholder forum
Brazilian/South American IGF, Multistakholder forum
East African IGF, Multistakeholder forum
Nominet UK, Internet registry/ technical community
CIRA, Internet Registry/technical community/government
Organization:International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Contact Person: Ben Akoh
95 : Between protection and enhanced e- participation, a Hands on experience from Egypt and
Tunisia
Concise Description:
This workshop describes how Social Networks as Facebook and Twitter contributed in the political
transformation taking place in the middle East especially in Egypt and Tunisia, and how youth used
these Networks in political mobilization that sparked major changes reshaping the political scene in
their countries.
The session will also tackle the efforts and challenges facing governmental institutions to run a
dialogue with the masses. The session will also tackle the issue of balancing protection and eparticipation by presenting efforts towards child safety in Egypt with a special focus on technology
solutions
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Internet Governance for Development [IG4D] (Cross cutting Priority)
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshopsr
eports2009View&curr=1&wr=28
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
1. Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
2. Journalist from Ahram (TBC)
3. Samy Tayie, Professor of Public Relations and Advertising, Faculty of Mass Communication, Cairo
University, Egypt (TBC)
4. Tunisian Panelist
5. Dr Hussein Badran – Cisco
6. Mr. Sherif Eissa- mobinil
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Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Government)
Organization:Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
Contact Person: Yomna Omran
109: Mobile Internet –enhancing the new age of the Internet
Concise Description:
The Internet of the past has been brought to people primarily through the traditional wired networks.
This has been changing tremendously over the past few years and for the vast majority of the next
billion new users, the Internet will be from the start mobile. The proliferation and increasing use of
smart mobile devices is fundamentally shaping the future of the Internet. The mobile Internet provides
creates a totally new more personal and accessible user experience. This trend is particularly felt in
emerging markets, as the mobile Internet access is the most cost effective and practical way to connect
to the Internet.
This workshop will examine build on the key questions posed on the IGF 2011 Programme paper, and
feed into the main theme of the conference by discussing new possibilities of the mobile Internet, their
policy consequences and governance implications in terms of:
1. Improving access, accessibility and diversity; bridging the digital divide with the Mobile Internet
2. New opportunities for personal, social and economic development provided by Mobile Internet
access in emerging markets
3. Micro-entrepreneurship
4. Innovation and application development on the grass-roots level in developing countries
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Internet Governance for Development [IG4D] (Cross cutting Priority)
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
The suggested panel will consist of:
1. Hossein Moiin, CTO, Nokia Siemens Networks
2. Jean-Marie Rolland, CTO, Renesas Mobile
3. Jussi Impiö, Head of Nokia Research Center, Nairobi
4. George Sadowsky, Web foundation consultant (tbc)
5. Mervi Kultamaa/Juuso Moisander, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland (tbc)
6. Anriette Esterhuysen, Association of Progressive Communications (tbc)
7. Govt of Kenya (tbc)
8. NGO Kenya (tbc)
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
The supporting organizers of the event are: Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, Rensas Mobile, local
entrepreneurs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Finland, Government of Kenya (tbc), Web Foundation,
APCNGO, UNESCO. The organizers also welcome contribution and participation from other
organizations wishing to share the goals of this workshop.
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The organizers comprise of business, government, and civil society. The organizers aim to approach
the topic from the unique perspectives of the different stakeholders, and provide a complete view. The
range speakers will ensure that the different sides of technical, social, economic, development and
governance issues will be covered.
Organization:Nokia
Contact Person: Pekka Isosomppi
121: Open spectrum for development in the context of the digital migration
Concise Description:
While the communication technologies that use the radio spectrum continue to develop at a brisk pace,
our general approach to regulating the spectrum has not changed much since the 1930s when the
spectrum was regulated to a very high degree in order to assure that interference between signals
would not occur. For this reason, frequencies are assigned for specific uses and overseen quite closely
by national regulators as well as an international system of governance. However, as technology
rapidly changes, approaches to managing the spectrum should change as well.
Around the world, countries are migrating their broadcast systems –in particular, television- from
analogue transmitters and receivers to digital ones. Digital broadcasting utilises the spectrum more
efficiently, generally allowing for more channels in the space where one analogue channel could exist.
This provides opportunity for other uses of the freed spectrum.
This digital migration creates the opportunity for improving how spectrum can be used and regulated.
In particular, for expanding internet access. For this opportunity to realise, new means should be built
into all spectrum allocation regimes. Open spectrum is one approach to spectrum management that
would allow various users to utilise parts of the spectrum that are available. Sharing the spectrum in
such a way would create a “spectrum commons” and would require a simple set of rules for
communicating with one another and making decisions. But even if some frequencies are set aside as
commons, more transparent and clear ways to regulate the spectrum being used by all stakeholders including broadcasters, mobile companies and the military- need to be set.
This workshop will be aimed at identifying current practices that are contributing to build the spectrum
commons, as well as debating different perspectives on policy and regulatory issues involved in
spectrum management and its impacts on development.
In this workshop we will explore alternative regulatory frameworks in different contexts and regions,
considering how technological developments can shape the future of spectrum-based communication.
Considering, in particular, the opportunities brought by the transition to digital broadcasting systems.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Internet Governance for Development [IG4D] (Cross cutting Priority)
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=110
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Abi Jagun, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa (moderator)
Steve Song, Village Telco, South Africa
Russell Southwood, Balancing Act, UK
Muriuki Mureithi, Researcher, Summit Strategies ltd, Kenya
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Shyam Ponappa, Centre for Internet and Society, India
Carlos Afonso, Instituto NUPEF, Brazil (TBC)
Willie Currie, Independent Communications Authority of South Africa, South Africa (TBC)
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (civil society)
KictaNet (multistakeholder network)
Balancing Act (private sector)
Centre for Internet and Society (civil society)
The following institutions have also been invited to co-sponsor this workshop:
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) (international organisation) (TBC)
Instituto NUPEF (civil society) (TBC)
Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) (governmental) (TBC)
Wireless Access Providers’ Association of South Africa (WAPA) (private sector) (TBC)
Organization:Association for Progressive Communications
Contact Person: Pablo Accuosto
125: Parliamentarian Challenge: a Round Table between Parliamentarians and other
Stakeholders
Concise Description:
An increasing number of parliamentarians have attended IGF meetings and engaged in dialogue in
workshops and plenary sessions. Many of these have questions and concerns associated with feedback
and comments from their constituents and from media reports. They need to understand issues to be
effective in the legislative dialogue.
The session will seek to provide an opportunity for the parliamentarians to enter into dialogue with
experts from other stakeholder groups. We will encourage parliamentarians to put forward issues for
discussion and seek to bring together relevant experts from a wide range of stakeholder groups and
different countries and geographical regions for a focused discussion on how to respond to the
parliamentarians’ challenges.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Internet Governance for Development [IG4D] (Cross cutting Priority)
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=114
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=172
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
We expect there to be parliamentarians from at least: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, the
European Parliament, the Netherlands, Finland and the UK. In 2010 there was parliamentary
representation from Bangladesh and South Africa.
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Other participants in the round table will be identified in response to the issues flagged by the
parliamentarians, but with particular attention to geographical coverage, important for developing an
effective rapport.
The remote moderator is yet to be selected.
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Nominet (Industry) on behalf of the UK-IGF.
ECP-EPN on behalf of the IGF-NL
Note: we believe that the Kenyan hosts are keen to promote this dialogue and will be putting forward a
proposal for a discussion framework for parliamentarians. We would be keen to support such an
initiative and in this case we would withdraw this proposal to focus on the Host Country approach.
Organization:Nominet
Contact Person: Martin Boyle
143: Teaching Internet Governance, the experience of the Schools on Internet Governance
Concise Description:
The workshop will review for the third time the experience of the Schools on Internet Govenance,
which that started in Meissen, Germany, as a pioneer project, and has been replicated in Latin América
during three years and once in Egypt.
The Schools main objective is to bring younger professionals to the Internet Governance global
process, and also encourage them to participate and even start different related activities at their
respective national levels.
All experiences have been very successful and the workshop will review the key issues of students
selection and participation,faculty members selection and participation and the future challenges of
organizing these activities.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Internet Governance for Development [IG4D] (Cross cutting Priority)
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=26
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Olga Cavalli - Professor Universidad de Buenos Aires - Regional Director South School on Internet
Governance SSIG
Ricardo Pedraza Barrios - Verisign - Faculty Member SSIG
Pedro Less Andrade - Google - Faculty Member SSIG
George Victor Salama - National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA) – Egypt (to be confirmed)
William J. Drake - University of Zurich , Geneva, Switzerland.
Wolfgang Kleinwaechter - Professor University of Aharus, Dennmark.
Avri Doria - Professor Lulea University
Adrian Carballo - South SSIG Institutional Relations Director
Bertrand de la Chapelle - French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (to be confirmed)
Yamil Salinas - Telefonica de Argentina - Former SSIG student
Sandra Hoferichter - Euro SSIG - Moderator
Beatriz Lopez- Former SSIG Sao Paulo Student - Remote moderator
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Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Olga Cavalli - Direcrtor South School on Internet Governance
University of Buenos Aires
Adrián Carballo - Director Institutional Relations- Sout School on Internet Governance
Organization:South School on Internet Governance
Contact Person: Olga Cavalli
162: The I* organizations and their contribution to development
Concise Description:
The core group of administrators of the Internet's functions, comprising ISOC, ICANN, the RIRs, the
IETF, and the IAB are often referred to as the I* group. Since their inception, they have been giving
increasing attention to issues both indirectly and directly related to economic and social development.
For example, during the 1990s, the Internet Society alone trained over 1500 people from most
developing countries regarding how to link their country with the Internet, how to spread the net and
make resources available and how to manage the increasingly complex environment into which the
Internet was progressing. The UNICODE Consortium and the IETF did significant work to assure a
comprehensive standard of character coding that would encompass all of the world's scripts, and most
recently ICANN has used these developments to implement international top-level domain names.
The current efforts of the I* group of organizations focus on training of various kinds in developing
countries, conferences and networking opportunities, fellowships, and joint projects. As the Internet
evolves and penetrates countries more pervasively, there will be opportunities for additional types of
assistance in the technical and managerial spheres.
The fundamental question that the workshop will address is: what is the effectiveness of these various
components of assistance that are currently being provided, and are there alternative modalities of aid
that should be considered?
Questions that are no relevant include the following:
- What is the proper role of the various I* members with respect to economic and social development?
- What is the proper measure of resources now being directed to development by the I* community?
- Is the current pattern of assistance the most appropriate and the most effective in terms of sustainable
development?
- Should different goals, or a different distribution of resources, be considered and adopted for the
future?
- What types of assistacne are members of the I* community most effective in providing? Does that
reflect the current allocation of resources and if not, what changes might be beneficial?
Using the breadth of experience of the panel in both ICT and development, members will address the
above questions. Their presentations wiill be followed by audience and panel interaction.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Internet Governance for Development [IG4D] (Cross cutting Priority)
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Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2010Vie
w&wspid=174
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
George Sadowsky ICANN Board, GIPI Executive Director, Web Foundation Consultant
Katim Touray ICANN, ICT4D Consultant , The Gambia
Alice Munyua, Government of Kenya (tbc)
Paul Wilson CEO, Aisia and Pacific Network Center (APNIC), Australia (tbc)
Vika Mpisane, CEO, .za National Registry, south Africa (tbc)
Markus Kummer, Vice-President, The Internet Society, Geneva (tbc)
Anriette Esterhuysen, CEO , Association for Progressive Communications (tbc)
Tim McGinnis , ICT consultant, Nairobi (tbc)
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
George Sadowsky ICANN Board, GIPI Executive Director, Web Foundation Consultant
(private sector, civil society)
Katim Touray ICANN, ICT4D Consultant , The Gambia
(private sector)
Kamel Saadoui, Regulator, Tunisia (government)
Organization:Global Internet Policy Initiative
Contact Person: George Sadowsky
181: How can Internet Governance impact disaster preparedness and response and help save
lives?
Concise Description:
Recent natural and man-made disasters have clearly demonstrated the importance of ICTs for
connecting relief workers, coordinating response operations, and keeping citizens informed. An
increasing number of innovative internet based applications and cloud services have been developed or
implemented to facilitate disaster response and recovery efforts, such as helping to locate victims
during search and rescue operations. Enabling internet connectivity and restoring networks to ensure
continuity of communications following a disaster can mean the difference of lives.
Given the often disproportionate impact of disasters on developing countries, it is critical that disaster
preparedness be taken into account when addressing access, infrastructure development and internet
governance, with focus on the specific needs of developing countries. When considering infrastructure
development plans, what steps can be taken to ensure resiliency or redundancy of critical
infrastructures following a disaster? What impact can internet governance have on the ability of relief
workers, public safety officials, and citizens to communicate and gain access to critical information
following a disaster? What internet applications are being used for disaster response? Do those
applications and other communications systems take account of the specialized needs of persons with
disabilities, those in rural or remote areas, or those who may be illiterate? How can the increased
spread of mobile devices in developing countries help with disaster preparedness and response?
This workshop will explore the connection between disaster preparedness and internet governance,
including a discussion of the role the internet and internet based applications play in disaster response
and recovery operations and steps that can be taken to ensure continuity of operations following a
disaster.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
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Internet Governance for Development [IG4D] (Cross cutting Priority)
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? No
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
- Rep from US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- Prof. Steven Huter, Network Startup Resource Center, Univ. of Oregon
- Martin Owori, Commissioner of Disaster Response, Gov't of Uganda
- Rep. from CONATEL Haiti
- Rep. from ICT for Peace Foundation
- Nan Buzard, Red Cross
- Paul Chiswell, Cisco
- Michael Taylor, Intel
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Access Partnership (private sector)
Organization:Access Partnership
Contact Person: Kelly O'Keefe
183: A possible framework for global Net Neutrality
Concise Description:
Network Neutrality (NN) has been one of the hottest Internet public policy issues in many countries,
over the last year; US's Federal Communications Commission came out with NN guidelines that built
over an agreement between two principal corporate players in the area, EU has bene conducting a
pulbic hearing on the issue, French telecom regulatory authority have come out with a set of NN
proposals and recommendations, Brazil a drafting a new civil rights framework for the Internet of
which NN is an important issue. Earlier, in 2009, Norway came out with a much acclaimed set of NN
guidelines.
In the background, since Internet is essentially a global network and finally there must be common
global norms on whether content can be prioritised across global digital highways
including across global interconnection points) on payments by the content providers or not.
Interesting, cross border network neutrality is a subject being dealt with by an experts committee
on the Council of Europe. If we do not start talking about global norms, taking into consideration the
interests and viewpoints of all involved, we will eventually be faced by a
default regime of global traffic flows which will be whatever gets decided by the key economic powers.
This is undemocratic way of subjecting the global public to the political choices of a few, most
powerful. On the other hand, it is also true that even in the more powerful nations, policy making in
this area may become hostage to the interests of multinational digital corporations at the cost of the
national public interest. It it therefore of considerable value even for the more powerful countries to
seek global norms on NN.
The proposed workshop will explore the emerging progressive regimes in different countries and
explore the possibility of coming up with a common set of global norms on NN.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Internet Governance for Development [IG4D] (Cross cutting Priority)
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Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
A participant from Norwegian telecom regulatory authourity
A participant from Brazil government involved with Internet principles initiative
A participant from Civil society Internet Governance Caucus
A technical community participant
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus
Instituto Nupef, Brazil
Diplo Foundation
IT for Change, India
Organization:IT for Change
Contact Person: Parminder Jeet Singh
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Concise Description:
Today mobile internet is the next big revolution. More and more people are jumping on to the mobile
bandwagon. The mobile ecosystem is continuing to be regulated by various legal regimes across the
world. The proposed workshop will tell more on the aspects pertaining to mobile law and the various
regulations of mobile networks and mobile platforms as also data and information resident or
transmitted on mobile networks and be further help to explore the relationship between the mobile
internet and internet governance and the regulation in that regard. As more and more people in the
world move on to the mobile internet which is expected 5 times bigger than the PCs internet, internet
governance has to keep pace with the mobile internet and evolve appropriate mechanisms and
strategies in that regard. The proposed workshop will also help analyze the various legal , regulatory
and policy issues connected therewith.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Internet Governance for Development [IG4D] (Cross cutting Priority)
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? No
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
The names of the panelists would include interalia
Alexander Seger - Council of Europe
Ravi Shanker- Government of India
Representative of GSMA
Representative of ITU
Representative of UNESCO
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
MOBILE LAW ASSOCIATION - NO AFFILIATION
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Organization:Mobile Law Association
Contact Person: Sheffali Duggal
198: Title: Legal Policy And Regulatory Issues Pertaining To Digital Divide And Its Impact On
Internet Governance
Concise Description:
There is a huge digital divide that is happening across the world between people who are connected on
to the internet and people who do not have access to the internet. Right to access to the internet is the
part of fundamental rights of individuals. With digital divide increasingly happening in different parts
of the world, different governments are trying their own requisite policy and related mechanisms for
the purposes of addressing the same. The proposed workshop shall aim to look at various legal policy
aspects pertaining to digital divide and how the same has a direct impact upon the internet governance.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Internet Governance for Development [IG4D] (Cross cutting Priority)
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? No
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Representatives of National Governments
Representatives of International Organizations
Representative of UNESCO
Representatives of NGOs
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
INDIAN PRIVACY FOUNDATION - NO AFFILIATION
Organization: INDIAN PRIVACY FOUNDATION
Contact Person: PAVAN DUGGAL
203: Internet Governance Principles: initiatives toward the improvement of a global Internet
Governance
Concise Description:
The establishment of principles that should govern and enlight future regulation of key aspects of the
Internet are at the core of the debate over Internet Governace. In a multistakeholder approach (being
multistakeholderism itself a fundamental internet governance principle), a number of initiatives have
been launched in recent years as to debate and frame charters, bills and recommendations.
What are the similarities of such initiatives and how a better understanding of such enterprises could
lead us to a more participative, transparent and effective internet governance? The workshop will focus
on the challenges that such initiatives have faced, from organizational issues (such as diverse
representation, ways to take stock of different perspectives and to reach agreement) to content issues
(such as the preponderancy of some principles and which ones are the most contingent ones).
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The workshop would gather for discussion representatives of (i) IGF’s Internet Rights and Principles
Dynamic Coalition (“10 Principles for Internet Governance”); (ii) Council of Europe Ad Hoc Advisory
Group on Cross-border Internet (“Draft Declaration on Internet Governance Principles”); (iii) Brazilian
Government (“Marco Civil da Internet”); (iv) CGI.br (“Principles for the government and use of
Internet”); and (v) APC (“Code of Good Practice on Information, Participation and Transparency on
Internet Governance”).
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Internet Governance for Development [IG4D] (Cross cutting Priority)
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=126
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
1) Alvaro Galvani/Livia Sobota, Brazilian Ministry of External Relations;
2) Anriette Esterhuysen, Association for Progressive Communication (APC)
3) Carlos Afonso, CGI.br
4) Lisa Horner, Internet Rights and Principles (IRP) Dynamic Coalition - tbc
5) Wolfgang Kleinwächter, Council of Europe Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Cross-border Internet
6) Representative from the European Commission - tbc
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Center for Technology and Society (CTS/FGV) at Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(academia/civil society)
Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza (caf@fgv.br), Marilia Maciel (marilia.maciel@fgv.br) and Joana
Varon (joana.varon@fgv.br)
http://direitorio.fgv.br/cts/
Organization:Center for Technology and Society (CTS/FGV)
Contact Person: Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza
210: Innovator Roundtable: An Intergenerational Dialog with Internet Entrepreneurs
Concise Description:
The triangle of youth, entrepreneurship, and development has emerged as an important topic in
Internet governance debate. The aspects of youth and development have been particularly salient on
the IGF agenda, but the entrepreneurial aspect has yet to receive its due attention. This workshop will
operate under the broad question: What aspects of Internet governance help or hinder an entrepreneur’s
(particularly young entrepreneur’s) chance to succeed? The purpose of this workshop is to begin an
intergenerational, multistakeholder dialog between those already involved in Internet-related
entrepreneurship and those involved in public policy, to discuss the role of internet governance in
creating environment conducive to innovation and entrepreneurship.
It is widely recognized that bottom-up entrepreneurship is one of the most sustainable drivers of
socioeconomic development. There is emerging evidence that ICTs and Internet access offer unique
opportunities for aspiring socially-responsible entrepreneurs. Much of the success enjoyed by
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innovative enterprises is a function of the environment in which they work. There are market
characteristics such as access to capital and talent as well as regulatory characteristics such as policies
governing IP protection, privacy, data security, trade, taxation, and labor. Internet Governance around
the world sits at the center of many of these characteristics.
Now, one of the pertaining questions is how to make sure the Internet remains an environment
supportive of entrepreneurial innovation and how the Internet should evolve to allow more
entrepreneurial activities, particularly in the developing countries and among the youth. The set of
relevant issues crosses a number of IGF themes ranging from access to IG4D.
Questions to be considered include:
1. What policies help to facilitate finding funding, new innovations, and entering foreign markets for
Internet-focused enterprises?
2. What role do incubators play in entrepreneurial success and what could make them more useful?
3. What are the unique cultural, political, and financial challenges faced by Internet entrepreneurs in
developing countries and by young entrepreneurs?
4. What is the ideal environment for Internet-oriented enterprises seeking to do business outside their
own country?
5. How do we strike the right balance between consumer protection and business model
experimentation? When is the right time to regulate such issues as data privacy and network neutrality?
6. What is the role of IP in raising capital, forming partnerships and seeing returns on investment
abroad?
The Innovator Roundtable will feature speakers from academia, non-profits and entrepreneurs
themselves from around the world as well as the East African region. The mix of entrepreneurs will
include experienced industry players and young individuals working on starting their Internet
enterprises. The discussion will take place in a roundtable, rather than panel, format to allow for the
free flow of ideas on creating the ideal environment for innovation and entrepreneurship.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Internet Governance for Development [IG4D] (Cross cutting Priority)
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/igf_2010/youth_core_Internet_values.xhtml
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
We are currently in discussions with potential panelists but the panel (or rather roundtable) would be
made up of:
1. Internet entrepreneurs of a variety of ages from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America,
Europe and the US
2. An NGO devoted to entrepreneurship and innovation
3. An economist that studies the ideal environment for entrepreneurship and the role of incubators
4. A representative from a public sector program dedicated to entrepreneurship and incubation,
probably in Africa.
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Jonathan Zuck, The Association for Competitive Technology, Brussels, Business
Dimitry Epstein, Cornell University, USA, Academia
Tim Vorley, Cambridge University, UK, Academia
Gbenga Sesan, Paradigm Initiative Nigeria, NGO
We are in discussion with other organizers from the East African region.
Organization:ACT
Contact Person: Jonathan Zuck
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215: Intra-Stakeholder Balance in Multi-Stakeholder Internet Governance
Concise Description:
As the IGF progresses further, it is necessary to further strengthen the multi-stakeholder process in
various ways. The multi-stakeholder model of Governnace is a process designed to ensure balanced
policies in Governance. Each stakeholder group places its view points on the table, and in disussions
with other stakeholder groups a balance emerges. For this process to bring about a true balance, it
requires the stakeholder groups to be balanced within. For example, in the Interent Governance arena,
Business stakeholder group largely comprises Internet Infrastructure companies, Internet Equipment
Manufactures, Telecommunication Companies, Internet Service providers, Domain Industry, which
are all from business sectors that derive direct revenue from the Internet. Is there sufficient diversity
within this stakeholder group? Should other category of Information Technology Companies, such as
Software or IT Services companies that depend on Internet be encouraged to participate in this policy
debate process? Woud their views as large commercial users of Internet Services differ from that of
companies who are providers of some form of service to connect to the Internet? Would there be
expanded view points if there is participation of representatives from the automobile, travel, healthcare,
cinema, media or the banking sector? To many of these segments, Interent is a business life line and
the Global Internet Policy would have a definite impact in their business progress. This workshop
would deliberate on questions pertinent to the stakeholder groups of Business, Government and Civil
Society with a view to identify ways of attaining intra-stakeholder balance so as to strengthen the
multi-stakeholder process as also to improve confidence in the multi-stakeholder model of Governance.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Internet Governance for Development [IG4D] (Cross cutting Priority)
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshopsr
eports2009View&curr=1&wr=64
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshopsr
eports2009View&curr=1&wr=71
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
To invite Ayesha Hassan, International Chamber of Commerce
To invite Wolfgang Kleinwaechter, University of Aarhus, ICANN
To invite Peter Dengate Thursh, ICANN
(To furnish more names with attention to regional and gender diversity aspects)
Remote moderator (tentative) Sivasubramanian M
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Sivasubramanian M
President, Isoc India Chennai
Civil Society
Organization:Isoc India Chennai
Contact Person: Sivasubramanian M
263: Internet for Knowledge:Free and Open Classrooms across Continents
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Concise Description:
Even with an estimated 2 billion users connected, Internet is still a phenomenon in its nascent phase of
evolution. Internet has fostered innovation and has caused all round progress to happen in an
accelerated pace, but the thinking that Internet makes it possible to globally coordinate concrete
developmental programs for an enhanced level of macro economic progress is yet to set in.
Education is one of the areas where Internet can cause tremendous change. Collaborative, participatory
learning Models are evolving and classrooms around the world are experimentally connected.
A concrete, globally adaptable, CO-ORDINATED program could bridge the gap between quality of
education between a classroom in a well funded school in a developed country and one in an
inadequately funded school in a developing or under-developed country. This workshop (panel and
public participation) would examine models by which resources could be shared across Internet and
create a rough, actionable framework for educational institutions to connect by commercial and noncommercial models and examine ways of making it possible to expand the reach of well developed
curriculum (in terms of content, teaching methods and technology) reach remote corners on a coordinated, global scale.
(Proposed as a workshop theme for IGF Egypt with the title "Internet in Education and Curriculum
Development and Sharing: Alexandria Everywhere" which is based on a 2009 contest entry submitted
to the MacArthur Foundation)
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Internet Governance for Development [IG4D] (Cross cutting Priority)
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshopsr
eports2009View&curr=1&wr=64
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshopsr
eports2009View&curr=1&wr=71 http://coreinte
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
To invite Hon' kapil Sibal, Minster for Human Resources Development
To invite David Theo Goldberg, Ph.D., is the Director of the University of California Humanities
Research Institute, University of California
To invite Derrick L. Cogburn, Associate Professor and Director, Center for Research on
Collaboratories
and Technology Enhanced Learning Communities, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University
To invite Nagarjuna G, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research and Chairperson, Free Software Foundation India
To invite Rishab Aiyer Ghosh,Senior researcher, at UNU-MERIT, Head of Collaborative Creativity
Group
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Sivasubramanian Muthusamy, Isoc India Chennai, to seek the support of OneWebDay
Organization:Isoc India Chennai
Contact Person: Sivasubramanian M
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417,Title: Can Digital Citizenship Scale into the Emerging and Developing Countries Effectively?
Should it?
Concise Description:
Digital Citizenship has emerged as digital youth are using online services for personal and educational
reasons at younger and younger ages. Even though a significant digital divide continues to exist,
increased mobile penetration and the use of online services, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and
downloadable applications are bringing more young users online every day. Estimates are that young
people in some countries spend over 7 hours a day interacting via online and mobile technologies. As
access increases, especially via mobile devices, the number of young “digital citizens" is growing
rapidly and "citizenship" skews younger and younger. Our world is a digitized world, with ICT and the
Internet embedded in common day-to-day functions, including transportation, communications with
governmental services, education, and healthcare.
Proponents argue that digital citizenship necessarily constitutes online safety in a user-driven, social
media environment. Online safety can be aided and enhanced by governments and IT and media
companies, but it cannot simply be provided to end users in a media environment in which users
themselves are producers and media are social or behavioral. Despite the digital divide, this is the
reality in all countries where social media has a strong youth following. Facebook now claims to have
members in every country on the planet.
While being a digital citizen includes elements of being safe online, it goes far beyond to include being
an informed, media literate, and civically engaged user of digital media – someone who understands
the implications, risks, benefits, rights, and responsibilities of Internet use and functions as an active
citizen rather than a passive consumer and potential victim. Because research shows that social
aggression or cyberbullying is the most common online risk to youth, and online aggressive behavior
more than doubles the aggressor's risk of victimization, respectful, mindful, socially literate behavior
toward others online increases the safety and well-being of good citizens online and offline. Digital
citizenship promotes youth agency and self-actualization, turning mere users into stakeholders in their
own well-being as well as that of their communities. This benefits both citizen and country in the "real
world" as Internet use becomes embedded in every aspect of our world.
This workshop will examine the views of youth on the role and uses of the Internet and mobile
technologies and their role as users and citizens; hear the perspectives of some of those who are
working on these concepts; focus on the present status of online safety and approaches; and include a
roundtable of participants interacting with participants both on site and remotely to ask and answer
these critical questions: Can Digital Citizenship Scale into the Emerging and Developing Countries
Effectively? More importantly, how should it? As a concept and a strategy, how might it answer real
challenges for both young users and the world they are growing into? What is their role in supporting it?
What are the Internet Governance issues or questions that should be addressed going forward?
Workshop Overview:
Youth Panel: Youth participants will discuss their experiences and perspectives about how their online
activity impacts their lives and those of their peers and communities. They will add their perspectives
on how digital citizenship will evolve in their lives as they move into adulthood and have an increased
role in their communities and the world. How do youth define digital rights, responsibilities, risks and
benefits? What are their priorities regarding access and content?
Moderated by Will Gardner, Childnet International
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Internet Governance for Development [IG4D] (Cross cutting Priority)
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Have you organized an IGF workshop before? No
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Moderators: Anne Collier and Martin Cocker
Dr. Imad Hoballah, Chair, Lebanon Communications Commission
Microsoft - Kim Sanchez, Director of Privacy and Safety, Trustworthy Computing Group
AT&T
Nokia
Verisign - Pam Covington, Managing Director of Public Policy
David Miles, Director, Europe, Middle East & Africa, Family Online Safety Institute
Participants from Youth Panel: Childnet, East Africa, Elon University
Remote Participation We will encourage remote participants to interact with the roundtable though the
assistance of a remote moderator.
Remote Moderator: Keith Davidson, InternetNZ
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Anne Collier, ConnectSafely.org
Martin Cocker, NetSafe
Digital Citizenship Globally: The FOSI GRID E-safety Portal.
This segment presents data on a number of developing countries and the demographic implications of
75% of the world's population not having access to the Internet.
David Miles, Family Online Safety Institute
Organization:ConnectSafely.org
Contact Person: Anne Collier
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2. Emerging Issues
8: Protecting Professional Identity
Concise Description:
Professionals, such as teachers, are increasingly the target of online harassment and victimisation often
with catastrophic consequences on their professional integrity and livelihood. New research conducted
in the UK by University of Plymouth and SWGfL concluded that 35% have witnessed abuse of
professionals online with 72% coming from children and even 12% from their colleagues. The
workshop will hear from the professor who undertook the study as well as a School Principals
perspective and the impact of this on youth and professionals.
This issue is clearly an international one and using global evidence and research, the workshop will
discuss and debate the issues and impact on professionals, especially those working with children. The
workshop will also draw on case examples from the new UK Safer Internet Centre's pilot helpline co
funded by the European Commission's Safer Internet Programme.
Strategies will be illustrated that combat the issue on national and local levels.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Emerging Issues
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshopsr
eports2009View&curr=1&wr=70
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Ken Corish, Plymouth City Council and SWGfL, UK
Alan Earl, Avon and Somerset Police, UK
Peter Binding, Headteacher, Worle Secondary School, UK
Marsali Hancock, IKeepSafe, US
Professor Andy Phippen, University of Plymouth, UK
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
David Wright, UK Safer Internet Centre.
The UK Safer Internet Centre is a collaboration between Childnet International, SWGfL and IWF and
is co funded by the European Commission as part of their Safer Internet Programme.
Organization:SWGfL
Contact Person: David Wright
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9. Initiatives advancing “principles” for internet governance – lessons learned and the way
forward
Concise Description:
This workshop will examine the proliferation of “principles” as an Internet governance tool.
Given that the Internet is a global, multistakeholder and fast-changing environment, it is not (in
general) well-suited to traditional forms of governance such as national and International law. Instead,
different stakeholders are increasingly turning to “principles” as a useful tool for bottom-up norm
building. Over the past five years a significant trend has been the proliferation of “principles” covering
many different models, involving different stakeholders, and addressing different issues. Examples
include the Global Network Initiative, the Charter of Human Rights and Principles for the Internet, the
APC Charter, the Council of Europe Internet Governance Principles, Norway’s “Guidelines for
Internet neutrality”, and Brazil’s “Principles for the Governance and Use of the Internet”.
This workshop will examine the landscape of “principles”: What different models exist? Are some
models more successful than others? How do you measure the “success” of principles? Are principles
more appropriate in some circumstances than others? Are the principles promoted by different regimes
compatible? What are the limits of principles? Is it helpful or hindering to Internet governance to have
so many different sets of principles? Is this the future for Internet governance?
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Emerging Issues
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://dcexpression.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/meeting-report-from-the-igf-2010-of-the-freedom-ofexpression-and-freedom-of-the-media-on-the-internet-dynamic-coalition/
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
To approach Susan Morgan, GNI
To approach Patrick Hiselius, Teliasonera
To approach Meryem Marzouki, Internet Rights and Principles
To approach Anriette Esterhuysen, APC
To approach Carlos Afonso, FGV
To approach Johan Hallenborg Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden
To approach Grace Githaiga (Kictanet)
.... more speakers to be identified.
Remote moderator: Dixie Hawtin
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Dixie Hawtin, Global Partners and Associates (civil society)
More to be confirmed
Organization:Global Partners & Associates
Contact Person: Dixie Hawtin
63: SWOT analysis of the impact of Mobile Internet on Internet Governance in Africa
Concise Description:
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Mobile internet is no longer luxury in Africa, it has become a vital tool for fostering Social, Economic
and Technological Development in Africa.
This workshop will discuss:
- The Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats that face Mobile internet in Africa, and how
to leverage each one to the African Community advantage
- The Synergy between Mobile Internet and Internet Governance
- The Community concerns raised
To assist participants more actively during the workshop, AfriNIC will publish a short guide to the
issues under discussion on the AfriNIC website a few weeks prior to the workshop.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Emerging Issues
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposa
ls2010View&wspid=148
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposa
ls2010View&wspid=146
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Hisham Ibrahim (AfriNIC)– confirmed for proposal
Adiel Akplogan (AfriNIC)– confirmed for proposal
Ashok B. Radhakissoon (Legal Consultant)– confirmed for proposal
Pierre Dandjinou (Executive Director at Strategic Consulting Group SCG)– confirmed for proposal
Nyagitari Bosire (SafariCOM)Mobile Kenyan operator - invited
Major Regional Mobile operator in Africa (Orange,MTN, Vodafone) –invitation pending for contact
information
Regulator and Teleco (Mauritius, Kenya, South AFrica, Ghana & Egypt) –invited
(AFCERT) – invitation pending for contact information
John Walubengo (KCCT) (Remote moderator)– confirmed for proposal
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
AfriNIC
Organization:AfriNIC
Contact Person: Hisham Ibrahim
79: Copyright under a magnifying glass: thought provoking ideas
Concise Description:
Considerable efforts are being undertaken across the world to develop new transborder solutions to
online copyright infringement. Countries, regional and international organisations are also reviewing
legal frameworks to assess whether they need to be updated in light of technological developments in
content distribution (e.g. the Internet) and the general trend towards globalisation. Examples include:
ACTA, the EC review of Directive 2004/48/EC, COICA, work being undertaken by WIPO, OECD
and others on Internet intermediaries.
Our objective is to facilitate a robust multi-perspective discussion and generate thought provoking
ideas:
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• What are the challenges and opportunities provided by the Internet?
• Where should legal frameworks regarding copyright on the Internet be developed?
• What roles could stakeholders play in the protection of copyright on the Internet?
• What new approaches could be considered?
• Etc.
Format: A moderated interactive roundtable discussion with all interested participants. To ensure as
many stakeholders as possible contribute, representatives from various groups have been identified as
“discussants”. They will be asked to address specific issues. Audience participants will also be
encouraged to actively participate.
The co-organisers will provide background papers. Discussants will be encouraged to submit short
position papers.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Emerging Issues
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=66
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Moderator: Christine Runnegar, Senior Manager Public Policy, Internet Society [Internet technical
community]
Remote moderator: [to be advised]
Opening remarks (5-10 mins): Victor Vazquez-Lopez, Senior Legal Counsellor, World Intellectual
Property Organization [intergovernmental organisation]
Discussants:
[Intergovernmental organisation] Karine Perset, Administrator, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
[Governmental authorities from different regions:
- Ms. Marisella Ouma, Head of the Copyright Office of Kenya
- Asia (e.g. representative of MCST, Republic of Korea; USA (e.g. representative from USTR);
Europe (e.g. representative from Hadopi)
[Copyright holders/distributors] (e.g. representative of NBC Universal)
[Internet Service Providers] Malcolm Hutty, President, EuroISPA
[Search engine providers] Pedro Less Andrade, Senior Policy Counsel Latin America, Google Inc.
[Civil society/academia] Sisule F. Musungu, President of IQsensato
[Universities/research networks] Andrew Cormack, Chief Regulatory Advisor, JANET(UK)
[Domain name registries] (e.g. representative of VeriSign)
[Policy] (e.g. Alvydas Stanickas, Head of Unit, D3 Enforcement of Industrial and Intellectual Property
Rights, DG Internal Market and Services, European Commission)
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Christine Runnegar, Senior Manager, Internet Society
Victor Vazquez-Lopez, Senior Legal Counsellor, World Intellectual Property Organization
Organization:Internet Society
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Contact Person: Christine Runnegar
80: Digital (alter)natives with a Cause?
Concise Description:
With the recent upheavals in Middle Eastern Asia and Northern Africa, there has been a renewed
interest in how the young can bring about systemic changes in the environments they live in, often
mediated by digital and internet technologies. The discourse and practice, even as it focuses on these
regions, still posits the digital user as homogenized, young, middle class, Western, and (mostly) male.
There are different variants of these models which are sometimes localized by material practices and
ground realities, but the information still relies on North-Western models of how digital natives
operate in environments with pervasive technologies and ubiquitous connectivity.
We lack insights into what relationships people within emerging information societies have with the
technologies that are shaping their worlds. Across the platform with researchers, practitioners, policy
makers and grant agencies, we have realized that there are a few stories that get resonated universally,
as illustrating of the Digital Natives’ powers of transformation. However, these stories often become
restrictive because they give us a monotone view of social change. They also become hegemonic as
they become central to attention economies, thus making the everyday practices and processes opaque.
The workshop on “Digital (alter)natives with a Cause?” seeks to tackle these knowledge gaps. It hopes
to look beyond heroes and singular case-studies, and explore processes of change. It articulates our
relationships how technology serves as a catalyst for social change and political participation in the
rapidly changing landscape of political action in the global south.
Drawing from work done with participants from Asia, Africa and Latin America, it hopes to look at 3
basic questions that need further thought in order to understand and integrate Digital (alter)native
practices towards systemic socio-cultural change:
1. How do digital natives become agents of change? – There is a need to make a distinction between
people who are merely digitally connected and those who can strategically use technologies to make
interventions (at the levels of the personal, familial, social, cultural and governmental) in their
immediate environment. It is necessary to explore the processes by which digital natives become eagents of change and catalysts for massive transformation.
2. What is the shape of the new political landscape? – Young people using technologies are not
embedded in unchanging landscapes of social and political landscapes. The complex interplay of
different actors and stakeholders stitch them into their material experiences and also allow them new
avenues of negotiation and contestation. It would be interesting to explore how the young view the
political landscape and also the processes by which they interact with these different governmental
structures.
3. Is the digital native all alone in intervention making? – The Web 2.0 rhetoric of digital paradigms
often make us believe that the digital natives are all alone in the processes that the initiate. Often, when
they seek to produce change, they do not have ways by which they can engage with the larger social,
cultural, political and legal structures in their own contexts. The network effect makes them connect to
their peers but not to the larger legacies of social movements. It is necessary to start a multistakeholder model of sustaining and supporting the changes that the young initiate.
In this workshop, we seek to bring together digital natives, academics, policy makers, practitioners,
artists, corporate and civil society actors, to start a mash-up of discussions to provide different insights
from their locations and experiences. We also want to see how we can build sustained bridges for
interaction, intervention and institutionalization towards social change and political engagement. The
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workshop offers innovative models for research, research based practice, implementation and
sustained interventions for digital natives in emerging ICT landscapes.
Links to background papers:
1. Digital Natives with a Cause? Scouting Study by Nishant Shah and Sunil Abraham available at
http://cis-india.org/publications/cis/nishant/blog/digital-natives-with-a-cause-a-report
2. Digital Natives with a Cause? Thinkathon trigger papers, edited by Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen
available at http://www.hivos.net/Hivos-Knowledge-Programme/Themes/Digital-Natives-with-aCause/Publications/Digital-Natives-with-a-Cause-Thinkathon-Position-Papers
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Emerging Issues
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshopsr
eports2009View&curr=1&wr=94
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
1. Luiz Fernando Marrey Moncau (M), Policy activist and researcher, Brazil Center for Technology &
Society, Brazil
2. Yi-Ping Tsou (F) - Digital Native, artist - Soft Revolt Project, Taiwan.
3. Prabhas Pokharel (M) - Digital Native, Secretary of New Media and Communications at Nepal Ko
Yuwa , Nepal
4. Orky Okello (F) - Founder, Ushahidi; Policy Manager for Google in Africa, Kenya.
5. Maria del Mar Zavala (F) - Digital Native, works at Instituto de Derecho y Economía Ambiental
(IDEA – Environmental Law and Economics Institute), Paraguay
Remote Moderator: Shafika Isaacs, ICT consultant for development in Africa. She serves on a number
of boards and committees including the Steering Committee of ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN, the
Organizing Committee of eLearning Africa, the Board of Directors for SchoolNet South Africa and
was founding Steering Committee member of the Global eSchools and Communities Initiative.
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Nishant Shah (M) - Director Research at Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore; Lead Researcher,
Digital Natives with a Cause? Knowledge programme; Founding member of the Inter Asia Cultural
Studies Consortium; Involved in policy based research work with Transparency and Accountability
Initiative and the Institute of Development Studies.
Fieke Jansen (F) - Knowledge Officer for Digital Natives with a Cause? Knowledge programme, at
HIVOS, Netherlands; Involved in Civil Society Building programmes in East Africa and Middle East
Asia, with organisations like Ushahidi, Twaweza and MidEastYouth.
Organization:The Centre for Internet and Society
Contact Person: Nishant Shah
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82: The Governance Dimension of the Internet of Things
Concise Description:
While there is still a discussion, what the concept of the” Internet of Things” means in practice, the
real process of connecting objects equipped with RFID chips to the Internet via an IPv6 address
continues to move forward. The market is growing and so growths the debate about the governance
implications of the “Internet of Things”. The European Commission has established a “Task Force on
the Internet of Things”, the European parliament has published a report about the issue and the recent
5th UN sponsored Internet Governance Forum (IGF) has reactivated the Dynamic Coalition on the
Internet of Things (IGF-DyCIT).
Among the key issues under consideration is whether an “Internet of Things” needs a governance
mechanisms and, if yes, how such a mechanism should be designed. Other key issues are privacy,
security and the idea to introduce a “right to silence the chip”.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Emerging Issues
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/rio_reports/Broadening%20the%20Domain%20Name%20Space.doc
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Referring to the programme of the EURO-NF & GOVPIMINT Workshop (Leipzig II) in Cooperation
with the annual meeting of the IGF Dynamic Coalition of the Internet of Things (IGF-DyCIoT)
Leipzig, Germany, March, 24-25, 2011
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
All co- organisers
EuroNF / University of Aarhus, Prof. Wolfgang Kleinwächter
Medienstadt Leipzig e.V., Sandra Hoferichter
European Commission, Florent Frederix [tbc]
GS1, Massimiliano Minisci [tbc]
.
.
.
Organization:Medienstadt Leipzig e.V
Contact Person: Sandra Hoferichter
98: Emerging issues in the ccTLD ecosystem: The next decade challenges
Concise Description:
The Top Level Domain ecosystem has gone through many changes and challenges during the past 20
years. Local community support, relations with the governmental authorities, management of the
IANA service by ICANN including the delegation and re-delegation processes, de-regulating internal
policies and procedures to allow registrations from registrants based not only in the ccTLD country,
security concerns and the solution to respond to most of them by implementing the DNSSEC protocol, ,
alternative dispute resolution processes, multilingualism and the introduction of the ICANN IDN
ccTLD Fast Track: Those as well as many others are the topics which characterized the life of the
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TLDs in the past years. Most of the ccTLDs operators have matured and grown. They have reached
stakeholder consensus at multiple levels and improved the dialogue both with ICANN and also with
other international bodies and organizations which over the years have started to get involved in the
internet management. They have found great channels to profile themselves and to share industry best
practices.
But what is next? What are the challenges of the years to come? How can developing regions benefit
from the lessons learned? How will TLDs cope with new internet forces and scenarios like the new
gTLD round ICANN is about to launch, the social networks, the security issues and at the same time
the scarce end-user awareness of the attacks that may impact the domain world, the role of
governments when internet is perceived as a threat and, on the other hand, the usefulness of the
network when contingencies arise? Which developments and opportunities should African ccTLDs
prepare for?
The workshop aims to present several TLD approaches to the next decade changes and challenges to
point out the variety of the ccTLD scenario. At the same time, it will highlight that sharing industry
best practices – mainly via the ccTLD regional organizations and dedicated TLD sites – is a key factor
in determining the further development of TLDs from emerging countries.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Emerging Issues
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=113
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Moderator: Emily Taylor
Remote moderator: Patrick Myles
Panellists:
- CENTR overview of the current TLD challenges (findings of ad-hoc CENTR survey)
- 2 TLD representatives on the relations between TLDs/new gTLD round and social networks
- 1 TLD representative on security aspects
- 2 TLD representatives to debate on internet as a threat or as an added value, including touching on
multilingualism
- 1 ISOC representative: The importance of outreaching TLDs
As on the 4 workshops previously organised by the Regional ccTLD organisations we commit to
gender and geographical diversity when selecting the panellists.
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
AFTLD, APTLD, CENTR, LACTLD
Organization:CENTR
Contact Person: Peter Van Roste
108: Mobile and cloud services for development
Concise Description:
This workshop will focus on:
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1) Policy/legal frameworks that will enable mobile and cloud services for development, such as crossborder data flows and not applying legacy regulation to new online services;
2) Future of mobile and cloud services, including application-centric platforms and opportunities for
youth in developing countries; and
3) Development perspectives on how mobile and cloud services provide an economic development
opportunity and can be used for socially beneficial purposes.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Emerging Issues
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.iccwbo.org/uploadedFiles/BASIS/IGF_2010_ICC_BASIS_Kenya_worskshop_report.pdf
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Moderator
Herbert Heitmann, Executive Vice President External Communications, Royal Dutch Shell (TBC)
Panellists
Kenyan
- Civil Society representative)
Remote Moderator: Heather Shaw, USCIB
Rapporteur: Constance Weise, ICC BASIS
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
The co-sponsorship of this workshop by ICC/BASIS and Kenya's Ministry of Information and
Communication will be consistent with the multi-stakeholder principle, and the workshop will include
representatives from business, governments, the technical community and civil society. Geographic
diversity will be represented. See descriptions of anticipated speakers above.
Organization:International Chamber of Commerce, Paris Secretariat
Contact Person: Constance Weise
122: Putting your Trust in the Clouds: why Trust Matters to the Open Internet
Concise Description:
Cloud Computing is the natural evolution of the continued growth and advancement of the Internet. As
such, the issues currently being discussed within the cloud space are not new, and rather, they are a
continuation of issues related to the Internet at large. However, business customers, users,
governments, and policymakers must gain a “trust” in the security and the free flow of their data across
borders, otherwise the cloud--and thus, the Internet--risks being balkanized through restrictions on
transnational data flows, requirements for data location in specific countries or regions, and other
measures. The workshop will address this problem of trust as it relates to cloud computing.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
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Emerging Issues
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? No
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Patrick Ryan, Policy Counsel Open Internet, Google
Michael Moran, INTERPOL
Eric Osiakwan, Director, African Internet Service Providers Association, Ghana
Identify and invite a speaker from another cloud service provider (e.g., Amazon, IBM, Oracle)
Identify and invite a speaker from a think tank (e.g., EFF, CDT)
Identify and invite an academic (e.g., Oxford Internet Institute, Berkman)
Marc Crandall JD,CIPP, Sr. Manager, Global Compliance, Google, will act as the remote moderator,
consistent with Section VIII of the IGF Programme.
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Google: Long supporters and participants in the Internet governance-related organizations and multistakeholder groups. Regularly participated in IGF workshops organized by others and hosts large
conferences in multiple international environments and fora.
Organization:Google
Contact Person: Sarah Falvey
132: Conflict minerals: Bringing accountability and governance to ICT production. What are
the challenges?
Concise Description:
The issue of the ethical procurement of minerals from conflict-affected and high-risk areas has
received global attention over time, but less public attention has been given to how so-called ‘conflict
minerals’ feed into the information and communications technology manufacturing supply chain.
Recognised as a crisis, some countries have responded, such as the USA, which signed the DoddFrank Act on conflict minerals in 2010 – an act which has direct bearing on the ICT industry. The
issue has been raised by the ITU and OECD, a few ICT manufacturers, and multi-stakeholder groups.
However, the issue has been virtually invisible on the majority of civil society, corporate and
governance agendas and in the mainstream media.
APC aims to raise the profile of conflict-minerals in the production of ICTs, on the public policy
agenda by hosting a multi-stakeholder awareness-raising workshop at the IGF which will:
* encourage deeper understanding of the challenges
* raise awareness of guidelines and legislation that address issues of traceability, accountability and
responsibility in the mineral procurement chain
* highlight existing initiatives that aim to prevent the use of conflict minerals
* propose ways to end the use of conflict minerals in the production of ICTS
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Emerging Issues
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NEJMUPcx8THoStRuak0jpguq4RX_akp7dzRvSoh4eE/edit?hl=en&authkey=CNuw6vcH
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Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
We are currently in discussion with various potential participants, and would aim to have no more than
6 panelists, with representation from as many stakeholder groups as possible.
Civil Society: Arid Lands Information Network (Kenya); KICTANeT (Kenya); Computer Aid (Kenya)
Consumer group: Ethical Consumer
International NGO: Greenpeace International; Enough Project
Intergovernmental: OECD, UNEP
Private sector: Nokia, Hewlett Parkard
Multi-stakeholder coalition: GeSI
Moderator: Alan Finlay, Association For Progressive Communications
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Association for Progressive Communications. We are in discussion with potential co-sponsors.
APC has long term relationships with most of the proposed panelists. Some re APC members, some
partners. Most APC has been working with in the IGF process for the past 5 years, or in other public
policy processes.
Background documents and texts for the workshop would include:
1.OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected
and High-Risk Areas, OECD 2010
2.Global Information Society Watch 2010: Focus on ICTs and environmental sustainability. APC,
Hivos 2010. http://www.giswatch.org/en/2010
3.Enough.org.
The
project
to
end
genocide
and
crimes
against
humanity.
http://www.enoughproject.org/
4.KPMG,
Dodd-Frank
ActConflict
Minerals
(Section
1502).
KPMG,
2011.
http://www.kpmg.com/US/en/IssuesAndInsights/ArticlesPublications/Pages/dodd-frank-conflictminerals.aspx
5.Social and Environmental Responsibility in Metals Supply to the Electronics Industry. GeSI, 2008.
Organization:Association For Progressive Communications
Contact Person: Alan Finlay
139: Green ICTs And Innovation
Concise Description:
In today’s world, environment is considered a fundamental imperative in every human activity, for
both developed and developing economies. For example looking at the African region, tackling
climate change, providing energy to a rapidly growing population, securing dwindling natural
resources and reducing dangerous pollutants will lead to building resilient societies, strengthening
economies and accelerating the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Acknowledging the significant need for a low carbon economy, the Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) industry has shown its leading role in supporting a durable global economic growth
through green innovation.The technologies that exist today are not the answer but enable solutions for
change. ICT causes disruption that often leads to positive improvements in people’s lives and
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economies but where can it play a role to tackle the planet’s most difficult challenges. What ICTs are
affordable for Africa and how can the continent develop its own local technology economies? What
are the answers to technology transfer, mitigation and adaptation issues?
The session “Green ICTs and Innovation” will reflect on these issues, providing an overview of
country experiences, best practices and new technologies that can promote the transition towards a
green economy.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Emerging Issues
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
TBD
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Members of the Dynamic Coalition on Internet and Climate Change
Organization:ITU/United Nations
Contact Person: Preetam Maloor
155: Human rights: a unifying approach for development, freedom, access and diversity?
Concise Description:
From network neutrality to critical internet resources’ policies on law enforcement; from ICT4D to
mobile connectivity; from surveillance, data protection, and privacy to protecting internet access for all;
from freedom of expression and association to protecting human rights defenders and promoting social
movements. Building on previous IGFs and looking ahead new issues continue to emerge. Increasingly,
these issues affect human rights advocates resulting in human rights violations including interference
with freedoms of expression and association, unlawful arrest and detention, harassment and extra-legal
surveillance. At the same time human rights and internet regulatory environments vary widely,
particularly among developed and developing countries, in the global south and for different groups
(women, disabled people, sexual minorities, and indigenous people).
Yet the mechanisms for linking these issues remain largely unexplored. Where do existing human
rights and internet user complaints mechanisms fit? Is there a need for a new human rights mechanism?
If so, how could this be explored? The workshop ask diverse participants to:
• explore internet rights as human rights with a focus on freedom of expression and freedom of
association
• consider existing mechanisms and how these interface with the internet
• consider whether new mechanisms are needed in relation to internet rights
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Emerging Issues
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NEJMUPcx8THoStRuak0jpguq4RX_akp7dzRvSoh4eE/edit?hl=en&authkey=CNuw6vcH
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Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Civil Society: Arvind Ganesan, Human Rights Watch, Women’s Rights Defenders (geographic
diversity to be confirmed)
Multistakeholder coalition: Dynamic Coalition on Internet Rights and Principles
Governments: Sweden, Finland, Brazil (currently invited and to be confirmed)
Private Sector: Jeff Brueggeman AT&T (invited) Peter Hellmonds Nokia Siemens Networks, Google
representative[TBC]
Name of Remote Moderator. Henrik Almstrom, APC, henrik@apc.org
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Association for Progressive Communications [Civil Society]
Government of Brazil [TBC]
Government of Sweden [TBC]
APC has organised 11 workshops in the past 5 years. Reports for all workshops can be found at the
link noted above.
APC has long term relationships with most of the proposed panelists. We are actively exploring other
potential co-sponsors in line with multi-stakeholder principles.
Organization:Association for Progressive Communications
Contact Person: Joy Liddicoat
175: Role of Policy Maker / Regulators in Better Governance of Internet
Concise Description:
The choice of promoting access, openness and innovation to drive Internet and its Governance remains
very much at the affirmation of national government (policy maker / regulator). The Internet as a
global communication system is increasingly driving social and economical activities, the
government’s role in Internet governance and regulations is a subject with heated debate. Self—
governance is a better way forward or we require more intervention from government to flourish
Internet.
What is the status of present understanding, commitment and interest shown by governments with
respect to addressing the Internet Governance issues especially from developing economies end? What
are the most appropriate areas that require immediate consideration from policy makers / regulators in
order to enhance Internet governance? To what extend a vacuum exist between governments and
relevant stakeholders such as private sector and civil society (how to bridge it)? Do we require a Multistakeholder approach to debate on Internet Governance at national level too? Which is better a bottomup policy development or top-bottom policy development approach or there could be some other mode?
What could be the role of IGF in assisting governments?
These all are the main agenda points of the proposed workshop with a theme to gather inputs from
diverse set of participants and panelist.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Emerging Issues
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? No
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
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Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
1. Mohammed El-Bashir,
Section Manager-Numbering,interconnection & Internet Domain. Supreme Council of ICT,
Government of Qatar
2. Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond,
Global Information Highway Limited, United Kingdom.
3. Dr. Sarmad Hussain
Professor and Head, Center for Language Engineering
University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.
4. Mr. Bill Graham
Strategic Global Engagement
Internet Society.
5. Mr. Fouad Bajwa
Internet Governance Cascus
6. Mr. Baher Esmat
Regional Manager Global Partnership, ICANN
Mr. Anupam Agarwal from ISOC Kolkata, India will be remote moderator.
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Naveed Ul Haq
Member Internet Society Pakistan Chapter
Organization:ISOC Pakistan Chapter
Contact Person: Naveed Ul Haq
184: Using the Internet as a Tool for Political Change: Lessons Learned and Way Forward
Concise Description:
This proposed workshop addresses the main theme of the Nairobi IGF, namely, “The Internet as a
Catalyst for Change.” The proposed workshop is aimed at providing an opportunity for panelists and
participants from around the world to share experiences about using the Internet as a tool for political
change. In light of the impact of social media and other Internet tools in recent events in the Middle
East and Africa, there is need to dialog on the lessons learned, and how the Internet is emerging as an
important tool for political change, and not just commerce, communications, and information
exchange.
The proposed workshop will bring together panelists from Nigeria, Tunisia, Egypt and Uganda to
discuss their perspectives on how the Internet has been used by activists to increase citizen
engagement and political change. Discussions will be structured along the following lines:
1. How can Internet tools and resources influence political change?
2. What are the challenges to using Internet tools in effecting political change?
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3. How can the influence of Internet tools on political change be enhanced?
4. What are the key lessons learned in using Internet tools for political change?
5. What does the future hold for the Internet as a tool for political change?
Each of these questions will be discussed in turn by panelists, followed by brief question and answer
sessions, and finally, a wrap up by the moderator.
Although Dr. Touray, the workshop moderator, has not organized an IGF workshop before, he was a
panelist at the 2010 Vilnius IGF.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Emerging Issues
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? No
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Moderator:
Katim S. Touray
Panelists:
1. Berna Ngolobe (Ms), Advocacy Officer, Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)
2. Nnenna Nwakanma (Ms), CEO, Nnenna.org (West Africa)
3. Tarek Cheniti, Consultant and Researcher on Internet and Democracy, Tunisia
4. Wael Abbas, Journalist/Blogger, Egypt
5. Wael Khalil, Activist/Blogger, Egypt
Remote Moderator:
Andrew Mack, AMGlobal Consulting, USA (to-be-confirmed)
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Katim S. Touray, Council Vice Chair, Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa
(FOSSFA)
Organization:Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA)
Contact Person: Katim S. Touray
201: Proprietary Influences in Free and Open Source Software: Lessons to Open and Universal
Internet Standards
Concise Description:
The Motor Vehicles Manufacturers Association in America before World War II shared patended
inventions among its members without a licence fee of any kind the same way cooking recipes have
been shared since the beginning of human culture. In the field of Computers, in the 50's and 60's all the
software produced by the Computer Science academics in collaboration with the Industry were freely
shared. Software was not seen as a commodity and was generally distributed under the principles of
openness and co-operation and source code, the human-readable form of software, was generally
distributed with the software itself, to grant the right of users to use, study, change, and improve its
design through the availability of its source code.
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In the 1970s and early 1980s, the software industry began using technical measures (such as only
distributing binary copies of computer programs) to actually prevent computer users from being able to
study and customize software they had paid for. In 1983, Richard Stallman announced the GNU
project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) was founded two years later the GNU Manifesto was
published. Linus Torvalds released the Linux Kernel as freely modifiable source code in 1991. Much
like Unix, Torvalds' kernel attracted the attention of volunteer programmers. In 1998 Netscape
released its Internet suite as free software. All of this furthered "software freedom for all"
Netscape's act prompted an examination on how to bring free software principles and benefits to the
commercial software industry. They concluded that the Free Softward Foundation's social activism
was not appealing to companies like Netscape, and looked for a way to rebrand the free software
movement to emphasize the business potential of the sharing of source code. The new name they chose
was "open source", and quickly O'Reilly, Linux and others signed on to the rebranding. In 1998 the
Open Source Initiative was founded.
During the course of this history of Free and Open Source there been 'wars' between the Free / Open
Source movements with the Proprietary philosophies as also within the Free / Open Source idealogies.
There were:
1.Browser wars: Describes the actions of Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, Apple Inc., and Opera
continuing to have a rearmament cycle of trying to create the authoritative web browser.
2.Editor war: unix editor users are divided into two big groups. The users of vi and the users of emacs.
3.Desktop wars: KDE and GNOME desktop environments has the same effect.
4.Operating system advocacy: between Net BSD, Open BSD, Free BSD, OS2, Windows and
Macintosh.
5.Software wars: describes a state where software authors and users argue over which software is best
for a purpose and should thus be used by everyone for that task.
6.Format Wars: Of greater releavnce to the theme is the format wars which is competition between
mutually incompatible proprietary formats that compete for the same segments. Format wars have
happened and continue in several segments, for instance in streaming media as wars between AVI,
Quicktime (MOV), Windows Media (WMV), RealMedia (RA), MPEG, DivX or XviD.
While Proprietary Software thrives on differentiation, the Free and Open Source Community finds
itself drawn into a sitation of mutliple flavors. Why do we have a different set of command lines for
RedHat and Ubuntu? Why do Linux Distributions differ in implementation? Why does it require
bridge programming to connect an Ubuntu node to a Red Hat network? What happens if we connect an
Open Solaris Standalone to a Linux network? Why is it difficult to seamlessly import from Eudora and
migrate to Evolution?
Some of the free software is 'free this far and no further' and some open source code releases are
partially closed. Somewhere along the path of the evolution of Free and Open Source, commercial
considerations have caused various players to draw a visible or invisible barricade around their 'own'
software, distribution or release. While this makes it possible for an Open Source enterprise to make
the enterprise commercially viable and profitable, it has also been a cause for interoperability among
what originated in free and open source code.
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Open Source is futher evolving and would gain even greater importance. But attention to drawn to the
'wars' and to what Richard Stallman stated in the GNU Manifesto: "Software sellers want to divide the
users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others."
The principles and practices of Open Source has caused immense progress in Information Technology
as also in other areas. References are drawn here particularly to the differences and gaps, NOT to elicit
a debate on Open Source Software but with a larger purpose of examining the diversity to contemplate
and avoid mutliplicity in the Unified Network of Networks.
How would the World Wide Web remain free of signs in Websites that say "Site optimized for Internet
Explorer" that annoy Tim Berners Lee? How would the Internet Architecture ensure that the Internet
Standards remain free of parellel standards that threaten the Universal opearability of the Internet?
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Emerging Issues
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshopsr
eports2009View&curr=1&wr=64
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshopsr
eports2009View&curr=1&wr=71
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
To invite Tim Berners Lee, World Wide Web Consortium
To invite Richard Matthew Stallman, GNU Project
To invite Mitchell David Kapor, Mozilla Foundation
To invite Nageswara Rao, Sun Microsystems, India
(other names to be furnished after paying attention for Regional and Gender Balance)
Remote Moderator: (tentative) Sivasubramanian M
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Sivasubramanian M
President, Isoc India Chennai
Civil Society
Organization:Isoc India Chennai
Contact Person: Sivasubramanian M
214: A Practical & Pragmatic Look at Making Cloud Successful in Developing World
Concise Description:
During IGF 2010 Workshop 136, a proposal was made to convene a multistakeholder workshop for
African countries interested in cloud computing to address the unique challenges of developing the
understanding and confidence to embrace this technology. While there is no question that the ‘cloud’
represents a major step up in computing (as it enables governments, businesses and individuals to
access super-computing power, analysis of massive amounts of data, and applications much more cost
effectively), African ICT markets are facing a set of unique challenges which can slow the roll-out of
these services. Some of the key barriers in most African countries are a lack of server infrastructure
and data centers, bandwidth, localization and support. In addition to infrastructure reliability issues,
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many African economies have suffered from political instability and the challenge to attract
international companies and to have them utilize local services. However, several submarine cables
over the last two years have restored some confidence in the regions telecommunications infrastructure.
Interestingly, some of these challenges may actually speed up the adoption of cloud services
throughout Africa. While people and businesses in many African countries is are facing tight budgets
and are constrained in their ability to acquire technology due to high costs, the low cost advantage of
cloud computing can help them overcome this handicap. In particular, the synergy between cloud
computing and mobile broadband is very promising. The large scale proliferation of mobile devices
among the people in Africa and the ubiquitous availability of data and apps through cloud computing
offers significant opportunities to overcome the economic divide. Benefits also include faster time to
market, which is drastically reduced.
The GIIC and WITSA will bring together a broad array of stakeholders to discuss these issues and
opportunities. With a focus on practical and pragmatic issues, the workshop will feature users and
providers of cloud services in order to highlight efforts already underway in Africa to use cloud
services as a tool to overcome developmental and economic barriers, and to discuss what further steps
need to be done to ensure that Africa not only catches up to developed countries, but use these
technologies leapfrog past long-standing barriers to growth and prosperity.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Emerging Issues
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=136
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Daniel Weitzner, deputy chief technology officer, White House Office of Science and Technology
Policy (Government)
Dr. Imad Hoballah, Acting Chairman and CEO Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, Lebanon
(Government)
Mr. Jeff Breugemann, Vice President for Public Policy, AT&T (Business)
Representative of Huawei Technologies (Business)
Jimson Olufuye, President, Information Technology Association of Nigeria (Business)
Mr. Waudo Siganga, National Chairman of the Computer Society of Kenya (Business)
Joe Kiragu, Executive Director, Kenyan ccTLD (Technical Community)
Fiona Asonga, Administrator, KIXP (Technical Community)
Robert Guerra, project director, Internet Freedom program, Freedom House (Civil Society)
Joy Liddicoat, Project Co-ordinator Internet Rights are Human Rights, Association for Progressive
Communications (Civil Society)
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Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC); and
World Information Technology and Services Association (WITSA)
***(would like for this to be considered as a feeder workshop)
Organization:GIIC
Contact Person: Daniel O'Neill
277: Making Cloud Computing Work: International Standards As A Catalyst For Innovation?
Concise Description:
This workshop will focus on:
How can Cloud Computing accelerate innovation and regional development?
Which role plays interoperability in this process?
international standardization bodies secure interoperability and openness or are other players required?
The workshop will provide an opportunity for cross-sectoral dialogue to share experience in dealing
with interoperability issues and trying to dig out a cloud-based technological framework that possibly
will be able to foster innovation. Therefore panelists will exchange results and findings of studies and
field trials whether and under what conditions cloud computing can be a significant factor for
businesses and for economic and social development in general. The session will discuss various
aspects of framework conditions required to spread cloud services in order to harness their potential
with a focus on interoperability and standards. Cloud computing and the internet make innovation
processes more efficient, support esp. SMEs as well as startups, and might contribute to a country’s
economic and social development. By that, the workshop addresses IGF’s overall theme 2011
“Internet as a catalyst for innovation”. The interactive discussion will allow participants all over the
world to take part actively in the workshop and to submit questions or comments.
The dialogue aims at identifying the key regulatory drivers, the most influential standardization
initiatives and the policy implications for a widespread acceptance and secure use of cloud
technologies. Policy issues to be addressed include what is needed to ensuring
-to-use programming tools),
As a working hypothesis it is assumed that open standards will be essential for a cloud computing
environment that is open to the widest possible range of commercial and non-commercial content,
applications and service, which are the breeding ground of a booming economy – in developed as well
as in developing countries.
We want to take forward those discussions which are now going on at national level and address crossborder effects of national policies. The goal is to identify what is needed to build an ecosystem with
worldwide equal access to computing and programming resources, so everyone can use this
technology to establish his own business or institution. The Panelists will discuss cloud standardization
initiatives which could drive a new wave of opportunity for developers, integrators and users.
Furthermore an additional benefit could be to shape the way to an international standardization
roadmap.
This workshop will help participating stakeholders to understand each others' needs and perspectives
better. The workshop is also intended as a matching process to team up and act together in order to
leverage the potentials of cloud computing. It can be a platform to harmonize different viewpoints in
regard to international standardization bodies and industrial associations.
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To maximize the outreach of the workshop, all relevant information, outcomes and obtained
knowledge will be disseminated to experts, standardization professionals and administrators at
international level via a blog, which could be the startup for ongoing exchange.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Emerging Issues
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? No
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
1 - Hans-Joachim Otto (German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology - Parliamentary State
Secretary) [tbc]
2 - Daniele Catteddu (ENISA - CISM, CISA, Expert in Security and Resilience of Communication
Networks)
3 - Dimitri Ypsilanti (OECD - Head of Information, Communications and Consumer Policy Division)
4 - Monique Morrow (ITU Focus Group Cloud Computing – Vice-Chairman; Cisco Systems)
5 - Michael Abrahamsson, (EuroCloud Sweden – Chairman)
6 - representative of an NGO
Remote moderator: tbd
Rapporteur: Dr. Rainer Bernnat, Booz & Company
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Hubert Schöttner, German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (government)
Jennifer Welp, German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (government)
Matthias Kuom, Project Management Agency within the German Aerospace Center (science)
Organization:Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Germany
Contact Person: Hubert Schöttner
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3. Managing Critical Internet Resource
18: Policy Issues Affecting cctlds in Africa
Concise Description:
African Top Level Domains Organization (AFTLD) acts as a focal point for all the African TLDs
Managers, to discuss matters of policy that affect ccTLDs globally.
To improve the abilities of African ccTLD organizations to maintain business continuity the Workshop
will focus on to the process of developing and enhancing management of Internet infrastructure and
services in Africa by discussing policy issues affecting ccTLDs in Africa.
The Policy Workshop will assess the current situation of ccTLDs in Africa in the light of the Pailles
Declaration made during the ccTLD stakeholder meeting in Mauritius in March 2009. AfTLD’s five
year strategic plan will be unveiled and discussed by policy makers and other ccTLD stakeholders on
the African Continent.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Managing Critical Internet Resources
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2010Vie
w&wspid=63
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Joe Kiragu: AfTLD
Anne-Rachel Inne: ICANN
Muruiki Mureithi: KICTANet/EA-IGF
Vika Mpisane: AfTLD
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
African Top Level Domains Organization (AfTLD)
East Africa Internet Governance Forum (EA-IGF)
Organization:African Top Level Domains Organization
Contact Person: Joe Kiragu
70 : On The Outside, Looking in: Real-World Solutions to Effective Participation in ICANN,
IGF and ITU
Concise Description:
Description:
It is neither easy nor simple to follow or effectively participate in the organizations that manage the
Internet’s resources. This session will look at what the barriers are, what efforts are being made to
remove them, and how everyone from civil society to governments to business, in both developed and
developing countries, can improve their participation in key Internet organizations.
Approach:
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A recent in-depth review was carried out into ICANN’s accountability and transparency (ATRT). The
review team extensively reviewed the barriers to those wishing to understand the workings of the
organization.
The session will start with a rundown of the conclusions and recommendations reached in that review,
which will then be used to identify common themes and issues with other organizations and for
different groups.
A wide range of views from business, government and civil society from both developed and
developing countries will be elicited, with extensive participation and interaction encouraged from
attendees.
Issues to be tackled include:
• How to find information and follow current topics
• What barriers exist, and how to get around them
• Cultural, financial and societal biases, and how to tackle them
• Making the most of the systems currently in place
• Being an advocate for improvement
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Managing Critical Internet Resources
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=112
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
We will present a panel with stakeholder and geographic diversity and gender balance. We will
approach the Chair and some members of the ATRT, and other key stakeholders. We will update the
speakers list when we have confirmed acceptances.
Moderator: Kieren McCarthy, CEO of .Nxt and former general manager of public participation for
ICANN
Remote moderator: Emily Taylor, .Nxt and MAG member
Chris Disspain, ICANN Board Member, auDA CEO, MAG Member
Brian Cute, CEO Public Interest Registry, Chair Accountability and Transparency Review Team
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Kieren McCarthy, .Nxt. Emily Taylor, .Nxt and MAG member.
NTIA Chris Disspain, ICANN Board Member, auDA CEO, MAG Member
Brian Cute, CEO Public Interest Registry, Chair Accountability and Transparency Review Team
Organization:.Nxt
Contact Person: Kieren McCarthy
69 : IDNs and New gTLDs: Why Local Languages Are the Answer to a Truly Global Internet
Concise Description:
Description:
Top-level domains in different languages have only just begun to tap into the global demand for access
to and communication over the Internet. IDNs and new gTLDs may be the single most effective entry
point into the global Internet infrastructure for the non-English speaking world. This session will talk
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to those at the forefront of this extraordinary expansion and review where we are, what we have
learned, and where we are going.
Approach:
There is a wealth of new information about non-English domain extensions, including: the initial
results and impact of IDNs in countries as diverse as Russia, Israel and Saudi Arabia; plans to provide
hundreds of new non-English top-level domains in the next year; and studies of the nascent IDN
market and what they can tell us about use and demand.
Issues to be tackled include:
• Metrics of multilingualism online, and what’s wrong with them
• Experiences and lessons of IDN operators one year in
• The impact of IDN.IDN Internet addresses globally
• The challenges still remaining for the non-Latin world
• Future opportunities and changes
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Managing Critical Internet Resources
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=112
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Moderator: Emily Taylor, .Nxt and MAG member
Remote moderator: Kieren McCarthy, .Nxt
Ram Mohan, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Afilias
Patrick Kane, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Naming Services, VeriSign
UNESCO
Representative of Russian registrar (invited) to speak about the launch and user experiences of .рф
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Emily Taylor, .Nxt and MAG member. Kieren McCarthy, .Nxt.
Ram Mohan, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Afilias
Patrick Kane, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Naming Services, VeriSign
UNESCO
Representative of Russian registrar (invited) to speak about the launch and user experiences of .рф
Organization:.Nxt
Contact Person: Emily Taylor
25: Internationalized Domain Names “IDN”: Implementations, Experiences and Challenges
Concise Description:
In October 2009, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved the
creation of internationalized country code top-level domains (IDN ccTLDs) in the Internet that use the
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IDNA standard for native language scripts. In May 2010 the first IDN ccTLD were delegated in the
Internet DNS root.
For the First Time in Internet History, Internet users are now able to browse and use the internet
domain name system “DNS” in their native languages, having a multilingual DNS will have an
economic, social and linguistic effects on the global internet users access to the internet specially the
developing countries. IDNs are expected to facilitate easily internet access to a more wider population
and encourage more local content development .
The workshop objective is to present the current status of IDN implementations, sharing the best
practices and experiences of IDN Top Level Domains Operators and identifying the key challenges
facing IDN adoption. The speakers will exchange their experiences in implementing and Operating
IDN ccTLDs, show best practices and outline the challenges that might prevent the successful
adoptions of IDNs.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Managing Critical Internet Resources
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? No
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Ram Mohan is Executive Vice President, & Chief Technology Officer of Afilias
Baher Esmat, ICANN Middle East Region Manager
Mohamed El Bashir, Manager of Numbering, Internet and Interconnection ictQATAR( Qatar IDN
ccTLD Operator )
Mohammad Al Zarooni, Director, .AE Domain Name Administration
Jian Zhang, General Manager, ApTLD
Irina Danelia, Coordination Center for TLD RU
Xiaodong Lee, Chief Technology Officer , China Internet Network Information Center “CNNIC”
Mina Nagi Takla, ictQATAR ( Remote Participation and Social Media moderator ).
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
ictQATAR “ The Supreme Council of Information & Communication Technologies, State of Qatar”,
Qatar’s IDN ccTLD Registry .
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers “ICANN”
Organization:: ictQATAR “ The Supreme Council of Information & Communication Technologies,
State of Qatar”
Contact Person: Mohamed El Bashir
135: 'Strengthening Cctld's in East Africa'- Interrogating the Research Findings
Concise Description:
This workshop aims at interrogating the final research findings of the KICTANet/KeNIC research
project titled 'Strengthening ccTLD's in East Africa 'for GLOCOM with the support of International
Development and Research Centre (IDRC) .
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The research objective was to establish operational and governance of ccTLD's ,organizational
structures, competition and impact of price on uptake and regulatory framework in the East African
region.
The focus was on the strategic evaluation of the evolution, management positioning and contribution
of ccTLD's as a critical component of the internet infrastructure in East Africa.
The discussions will revolve around issues affecting ccTLD's including;
Internet Resource Identification
Access to broad band
Cyber crime
Local content development and;
Consumer protection and policy regulatory environment
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Managing Critical Internet Resources
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? No
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Keisuke Kamimura, Senior research fellow and associate professor at the Centre for Global
Communications (GLOCOM), International University of Japan
Anne-Rachel Inne, Manager Africa Regional Relations, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN)
Paul Museeh, Technical Manager, Kenya Network Information Centre (KeNIC)
Eng. Abibu Rashid Ntahigiye, Manager, Tanzania Network Information Centre (TzNIC) dot Tz
ccTLD/ Director, African Top Level Domains Organization (AfTLD)
Remote Moderator: Muriuki Mureithi
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
David Wambua – Ag. CEO, Kenya Network Information Centre (KeNIC)
Organization:Kenya Network Information Centre (KeNIC)
Contact Person: Mr. David Wambua
165: Understanding IPv6 Deployment and Transition
Concise Description:
This workshop will bring together different perspectives (government, industry, technical coordinators
and users) to shed light on and discuss the inevitable challenge of embracing the IPv6 era.
Specific topics of discussion will include:
- IPv6: What's Next?
- The nature and status of the transition process
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- Co-existence: managing IPv4 and IPv6 in your network
- Transition technologies
- Effective strategies for IPv6 capacity building
- Remaining obstructions to IPv6 deployment
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Managing Critical Internet Resources
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2010Vie
w&wspid=87
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Geoff Huston, APNIC
Fred Baker, Cisco
Mohammed Al Khamis, ITU IPv6 Group Chair
IPv6 TaskForce representative
Consumer group representative
PACNOG representative (remote participant)
Remote moderator: Susan Hamlin, ARIN
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Number Resource Organization (representing the five Regional Internet Registries)
Organization:NRO
Contact Person: Chris Buckridge
168: Internet Resource Certification: What Is It, And How Does It Work?
Concise Description:
Cyber-security is a major concern of all Internet users. The need for greater security in the domain
name system is being addressed via DNSSEC; now the Internet community is deploying Internet
resource certification, or RPKI, as one strategy to address security concerns in the routing system.
This workshop will discuss:
- How Internet number resource certification builds on the existing system of Internet number resource
registration
- How resource certification can be used to help secure the routing system
- Feedback and achievements so far
- Effects of this important development for Internet number resource holders, Internet users, and the
routing system.
- Community concerns raised throughout the development of the system
To assist participants more actively during the workshop, the organizers will publish a short guide to
the issues under discussion on the NRO website a few weeks prior to the workshop.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Managing Critical Internet Resources
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
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If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2010Vie
w&wspid=88
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Geoff Huston, APNIC
Arturo Servin, LACNIC
IETF participant (name TBC)
Cisco representative (name TBC)
US Department of Homeland Security representative
Anne Rachel Inne, ICANN
Milton Mueller, IGP
Remote moderator: Susan Hamlin, ARIN
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Number Resource Organization (representing the five Regional Internet Registries)
Organization:NRO
Contact Person: Chris Buckridge
180: Mitigating Domain Name System Cyberattacks
Concise Description:
Cyberattacks have been increasing both in number and ferocity. Top-level domains are particularly at
risk because of the breadth of the consequences when failures or service degradations occur. When a
country code top-level domain is attacked, both its economy and its citizens are at risk. A failure or
degradation of the country's domain name system has a direct impact on all Internet services both
within the country and those outside who have a name that is registered within the country.
SSAC has published several reports with many recommendations for improving the quality of domain
name system services. In this session we propose to target senior government officials with the
collection of issues and, in some cases, recommended solutions for the issues. We will include a look
at the threat landscape to explain why the issues are important to consider.
Here is a list of relevant documents published by SSAC:
[SAC041]: Recommendation to prohibit use of redirection and
synthesized responses by new TLDs (10 June 2009)
[SAC038]: Registrar Abuse Contacts (26 February 2009)
[SAC032]: Preliminary Report on DNS Response Modification (20 June
2008)
[SAC031]: SSAC Review of the After Action Report for the gTLD
Registry Failover Exercise conducted 24-25 January 2008 (23 April
2008)
[SAC015]: Why Top Level Domains Should Not Use Wildcard Resource
Records
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[SAC008]: DNS Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks
[SAC005]: DNS Infrastructure Recommendation (1 November 2003)
[SAC004]: Securing The Edge (17 October 2002)
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Managing Critical Internet Resources
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=141
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
These are suggested panelists, selected from among SSACs members.
Final panelists are not required to be SSAC members.
Alain Aina, AfriNIC
James Galvin, Afilias; Chair/Moderator
Sarmad Hussain, Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing, Pakistan
Rodney Joffee, Neustar
Danny McPherson, VeriSign
Bruce Tonkin, Melbourne IT
Paul Vixie, ISC
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
James Galvin, Director Strategic Relationship and Technical Standards, Afilias
Vice Chair ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC)
Organization:ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC)
Contact Person: James Galvin
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4. Security, Openness and Privacy
441. Framework for International Cooperation on Child Online Protection ( the Newly
submitted workshop)
Concise Description
The Internet has now been in existence for several decades and provided a wide range of benefits to
individuals, states and the global community as a whole. However, as its use grows, so do the risks it
presents to children and young people, who are more vulnerable to ill-intentioned third parties. Many
children and young people already spend large amounts of time in the online environment, and not as
mere passive observes but as active participants. Children interact with others, plan activities, play
games, shop and consume, and contribute content all online. All this interactivity creates many
opportunities for children to fall victim to a variety of online threats, which can come from anywhere
in the world at anytime.
The legal, technical and institutional challenges emerging in cyberspace related to the protection of
children are global and far-reaching. And they can only be addressed within a framework of
international cooperation and through a coherent strategy which accounts for the role of different
stakeholders and existing initiatives. Representatives from different stakeholder groups, including UN
agencies, will be invited as a panel for this workshop and they will share their efforts and experiences
of working on the framework of international cooperation on child online protection with participants.
The workshop aims to address the issues of the international cooperation on child online protection
and collect the better options to ensure a collaborative approach to maximize and synergize efforts to
create safer Internet environment for children.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall
under? Security openness and privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite: (Currently inviting
panelist but) 3 expert panels from each organizer (ITU, UNICEF, and UNODC) so total 9 Panels (+
moderator)
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Organizers:
ITU (JeoungHee Kim, legal and policy Analyst, Corporate Strategy Division)
UNICEF (Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda, Youth Section, Communication)
UNODC (Gillian Murray, Chief, Conference Support Section, Focal Point for Cybercrime, Organized
Crime and Illicit Trafficking Branch, Division for Treaty Affairs)
2: Digital Citizenship - a charter of children's and young people's rights in the online world
Concise Description:
The internet is a social space in which families with children are one of the key and not the least
important constituency of users.
A number of excellent "cyber charters" have emerged in recent years. They seek to embody a
comprehensive framework of rights and guarantees whilst at the same time laying a foundation for
good online citizenship.
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But few seem to recognize that families, children and young people are now also a constant presence
on the internet. On the contrary the underlying assumption appears to be that every single internet user
is a literate adult of at least average intelligence.
How do we construct a framework of rights which preserves all the highly valued freedoms of the
internet for the adult world but at the same time provides an appropriate and proportionate response to
the needs of younger users? And how do young people themselves view this debate?
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=37
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Remote moderator: Marie Bach Drivsholm, Save the Children, Denmark
John Carr, Executive Board eNACSO, Denmark
Anjan Bose, ECPAT International, Bangkok
Janice Richardson, INSAFE, Belgium
Kenyan Youth Organization
Data Protection Registrar
Member of European Parliament or European Commission
An ISP or Mobile Phone Company
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
European NGO Alliance for Child Safety Online. eNACSO works closely with children's
organizations across Europe and in other parts of the world. We also engage in several policy making
forums with Government and industry both globally and at a European level.
Organization:European NGO Alliance for Child Safety Online
Contact Person: Morthen Jahnsen
Workshop Proposals 2011
20: Charter of Human Rights and Principles For the Internet
Concise Description:
The Internet Rights and Principles Dynamic Coalition has been working to create a Charter of Human
Rights and Principles for the Internet since 2006. The Charter explains how existing human rights
apply to the Internet environment for the past five years.
At the 2010 IGF in Vilnius, Version 1.0 of the Charter was launched to a fantastic reception. Starting
from this event the IRP Coalition have been (and will continue) to develop the Charter; using extensive
consultation and outreach activities to build up a Charter which is authoritative and widely supported.
The Coalition is also building up a second section to the Charter which lists all supportive
documentation (including International, regional and national law and regulation, and standards set by
civil society and other relevant institutions) and explains the roles that different actors and stakeholders
should play in order to uphold these rights and principles.
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The Coalition has also created a shorter campaigning document which distils the Charter into 10 clear
core principles. The “10 Internet Rights and Principles” was launched in March 2011 with support
from the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, and had thus far been translated into 20
languages with more on the day.
The final Charter will be launched at the 2011 IGF in Kenya! This is an occasion to celebrate the
achievements of so many diverse stakeholders and to discuss how the Charter can be incorporated into
internet governance.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://dcexpression.wordpress.com/2010/11/
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
(All yet to be approached)
Frank La Rue (UN Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression)
Dunja Mijatovic (OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media)
Parminder Jeet Singh (It for Change)
Wolfgang Benedek (University of Graz)
Max Senges (Google)
Carlos Alfonso Pereira de Souza - Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Brazil
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Dixie Hawtin (Internet Rights and Principles Dynamic Coalition, and Global Partners and Associates)
Organization:Global Partners & Associates
Contact Person: Dixie Hawtin
62: Guideline of OKE (Open Knowledge Environment) in the Developing Countries
Concise Description:
To review the previous 3-year discussion on the OKE--Open Knowledge Environment in bridging
digital divide in the different aspects and angles, such as political, technological, cultural, etc., to
develop the consensus on the OKE issue. To brought forth the Guideline of OKE in the Developing
Countries. The discussion of the workshop will be focused on the following
China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) will work together with ISC, TGDC
CODATA/ICSU, GAID e-SDDC, with the contribution of the experts from Europe, Africa, Asia, and
the Guideline of OKE will continue and moving forward, paving the way to achieve the Millennium
Development Goals.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
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Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=18
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
On-site:
William J. Drake
Senior associate of the Centre for International Governance at the Graduate Institute of International
and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.
Mr. Gao Xinmin
Vice President of Internet Society of China (ISC), Member of the Advisory Committee for the State
Informatization, P. R. China.
Dr. Liu Chuang (Female)
Professor of Institute of Geography and Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Science,
Dr. TAO, Xiaofeng
Professor of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Ana Cristina Amoroso Neves (Female)
Head of International Affairs at UMIC-Knowledge Society Agency in Portugal (PT)
Daisy Sele (Female)
Director of Nation Research Foundation, South Africa
Remote moderator:
Dr. Iwata
Tokyo University, Japan
Dr. Paul Ulhir
American Academy of Sciences, USA
WANG Hui
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China
GUO Huadong
China Academy of Sciences, China
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Task Group of Preservation of and Open Access to Scientific Data in Developing Countries,
Committee on Data for Science of Technology, International Council for Sciences
（TGDC/CODATA/ICSU）
Internet Society of China (ISC)
Global Alliance for Access to and Application of Scientific Data in Developing Counties (GAID eSDDC)
Organization:CHINA ASSOCIATION FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (CAST)
Contact Person: MA Jing
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75: Putting users first: how can privacy be protected in today’s complex mobile ecosystem?
Concise Description:
Format
•Moderator introduces key issues and panellists
•Panel discussion
•Q&A session (including remote participation)
Traditional approaches to ‘online privacy’ are often based on ‘compliance’ with a patchwork of local
laws (where they exist). However, as new mobile services, applications and data flows become
increasingly global, geo-graphically-bound laws appear unable to keep pace. Self-regulation has an
important role to play in ensuring that mobile users’ privacy is treated consistently irrespective of the
location of companies, the technologies and business models involved. A key challenge for industry is
(a) to identify mobile-friendly ways of helping users make informed decisions about their information
and privacy; and (b) to ensure user privacy is respected and protected by those designing and building
the services and applications of tomorrow.
The aim of this proposed workshop is to foster a constructive conversation around three key issues:
1.Are privacy challenges on the mobile platform different to the fixed-pc environment? [Particularly in
the context of:
a.Location privacy
b.Behavioural Advertising
c.Applications and related services]
2.To what extent is mobile users’ privacy protected across technological and legal boundaries?
3.What are different stakeholders doing, what can they do and what should they be doing to address
these challenges?
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? No
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
The GSMA is working to address these privacy related challenges and is also committed to helping
establish and shape a culture of privacy that respects and protects the privacy of users across the
mobile ecosystem. Its work is coordinated through the GSMA Mobile Privacy Initiative. Through this
Initiative the GSMA has been working closely with Industry stakeholders, Regulators, Governments
and NGOs globally. For this workshop, we would propose to invite a panel of 7-8 participants
(including the moderator) which could represent the following stakeholder categories:
•Two/three Industry Stakeholders: e.g. a Representative from GSMA (Natasha Jackson/Pat Walshe)
plus:
-One operator from a developing country (e.g. Mr Cuthbert Chidoori – ETISALAT or Mr Narender
Gupta – Bharti, India)
-One rep from the online software industry e.g. Alex Fowler, Group Privacy Officer, Mozilla
•Two Regulatory stakeholders: e.g.
-Mr Allan Chiang, Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner
-Jennifer Stoddart, Privacy Commissioner of Canada / and active member of OECD cross border
enforcement
-Ove Skåra, Norwegian Data Protection Inspectorate
-Jacqueline Peschard Mariscal, Mexico's Privacy (IFAI) Commissioner
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•Two Civil Society/ NGO representatives: e.g.
-A rep from The Centre for Internet and Society (India) e.g. Sunil Abraham, executive director,
Malavika Jayaram
-A rep from the Australian Privacy Foundation e.g Dr Dan Svantesson – Vice Chair
-A rep from “The Public Voice” (Global Coalition of Privacy organisation – we are reaching out for an
African representative)
•Panel Moderator: Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) e.g. Mr Justin Brookman
Remote moderator: Yiannis Theodorou, Regulatory Policy Manager, GSMA
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
•Natasha Jackson: Head of Content, GSMA and Board member of the Family Online Safety Institute
(FOSI)
•Pat Walshe: Director of Privacy, GSMA, Member British Computer Society, International
Association of Privacy Professionals
The GSMA and its members actively participated in previous IGF workshops. GSMA has proven
expertise and capacity to organise multi-stakeholder workshops and conferences – including the
Mobile World Congress, Mobile Asia Congress, Government Mobile Forum every year, attended by
tens of thousands of delegates and also organised a roundtable on mobile privacy at the 32nd
International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners held in Israel in October 2010.
The GSMA represents the interests of the worldwide mobile communications industry. Spanning 219
countries, the GSMA unites nearly 800 of the world's mobile operators, as well as more than 200
companies in the broader mobile ecosystem, including handset makers, software companies,
equipment providers, Internet companies, and media and entertainment organisations.
Organization:GSM Association
Contact Person: Yiannis Theodorou, Regulatory Policy Manager, GSMA
77: Exporting the Internet: Human Rights and Technology
Concise Description:
The proposed workshop will bring together stakeholders from academia, civil society, government and
corporate representatives to discuss how internet technology is exported. Although the internet is a
global phenomenon, much of the underlying technological infrastructure and associated services are
export products. While it has become common knowledge that surveillance and censorship
technologies are often exported, the extent to which this is taking place has only recently become
apparent with public reports on censorship and surveillance technologies by NokiaSiemens being used
in Iran, by Ericsson in Belarus, by SmartFilter in Tunisia and by Narus in Egypt all suggesting
substantial human rights concerns.
In response to these concerns the Global Network Initiative in the U.S. has taken the lead in providing
a self-regulatory framework to respond to these concerns. In Europe the European Parliament and
several European governments have expressed a desire to regulate these technologies. This workshop
will discuss both what we know about the export of the internet and more pertinently what can be done
about it. The issues discussed will include presentations on the extent and scope of technology export,
ethical and human rights dimensions of technology export and possible (self-)regulatory responses.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
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Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/2010/contributions/FoE_DC_Report_Sharm_Dec09.doc
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Jillian York, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Lionel de Veer, Dutch Ambassador for Human Rights
Ben Wagner, European University Institute & Dynamic Coalition on Freedom of Expression and
Freedom of the Media
Karen Reilly, The Tor Project
Rebecca MacKinnon, New America Foundation & Global Voices
Dr Helena Carrapiço & Ben Farrand, University of Coimbra
Dr Andrea Cairola, NEXA Center for Internet & Society
N.N., UNESCO
N.N., Global Network Initiative
Remote Moderator: Angela Daly, European University Institute
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Ben Wagner, European University Institute & Dynamic Coalition on Freedom of Expression and
Freedom of the Media
Monique Doppert, Hivos
Karen Reilly, The Tor Project
Dr Helena Carrapiço & Ben Farrand, University of Coimbra
Organization:European University Institute & Dynamic Coalition on Freedom of Expression and
Freedom of the Media
Contact Person: Ben Wagner
85: Free flow of information and social networks: a role for democracy and social participation
Concise Description:
The workshop will discuss the important role of social networks in promoting democracy and social
participation, and explore how to strengthen this role by fostering free flow of information on Internet.
The emergence of new technologies has formed a new arena for public debate. In recent social
movements, social networks have become mass communication tools and vehicles for mobilization.
Social appropriation of the Internet is becoming a significant part of democratization processes.
Websites such as Facebook and Twitter are being widely used by activists and citizens to relay
information that is not always accessible through traditional Media, and to also bypass censorship.
Strengthening the link between the Internet and social participation is an essential condition to ensure
the vitality of democracy. The phenomenon presents a new and innovative way to allocate talent, unite
aspirations, spur immediate and mass mobilization, and effect change on a grand scale. In light of
recent events, it is clear that bloggers are beginning to play an essential role in today's democratic
processes, and are often at the forefront of shifting political trends.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
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Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2010Vie
w&wspid=81
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Prof Ang Peng Hwa, Chairman of the Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC),
Singapore
Mr. Slim Amamou, Secretary of State for Sport and Youth, Tunis.
Representative from the Council of Europe
Representative from Facebook
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
UNESCO IG
Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC), Civil Society
Council of Europe IG
Article 19, Civil Society
Facebook, Private Sector
Organization:UNESCO
Contact Person: Xianhong Hu
105: Strengthening the Protection of Cross-Border Internet Personal Data
Concise Description:
The Council of Europe celebrates this year the 30th Anniversary of its Data Protection Convention
(Convention 108) which has served as the backbone of international law in over 40 European countries
and has influenced policy and legislation far beyond Europe’s shores. Opened to signature to nonEuropean countries, Convention 108 is one of the possible responses to the need for global standards
in the field of data protection which will address unexplored challenges and potential new risks for the
protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms.
With increased use of internet, new data protection challenges arise which have to be addressed,
notably in the framework of the modernisation of Convention 108.
The workshop will discuss how to complement Convention 108’s protection scheme in order to better
satisfy the legitimate expectations of individuals and concerned professionals. Key questions addressed
will include : the need for new principles such as the ones relating to proportionality, to data
minimisation and to privacy by design. Should the notion of “transborder data flows” be reviewed in
light of the instantaneous nature of internet cross-border data flows? What about agreeing on
internationally minimum rules to ensure cross-border privacy? How to reconcile data protection and
freedom of expression in the context of new media?
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/2010-igf-vilnius/transcripts/646-1
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Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Vice-Chair of the Consultative Committee of Convention 108 / Civil society representative / Private
Sector representative (ICC ?)/ Government representative (non-European State)/ data protection
authority's representative / Youth representative
Remote moderator (Lee Hibbard, tbc)
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Council of Europe (see contact person mentioned below)
Organization:Council of Europe
Contact Person: Sophie Kwasny
110: Open Data: Challenges and Solutions
Concise Description:
Open Data brings together the campaigns on Right to Information, Freedom of Information (FOI),
open Public Sector Information (PSI), demands for open technology-driven government modernisation,
and many other such campaigns from a range of different groups. It gained mainstream visibility in
2009 as several countries like UK, USA, Canada and New Zealand opened up public information and
refers to the increasing availability of datasets online from governments, agencies, NGOs, companies,
crowd-sourcing initiatives and other groups that can be used to discover, remix and present
information .
Proponents argue that Open Data promises great economic value, efficiency and transparency through
interoperability. New products and companies are increasingly re-using open data; for example,
“Google Translate uses the enormous volume of European Union documents that appear in all
European languages to train the translating algorithms, thus improving its quality of service.”
Open Data can also help individuals make better decisions in life and enable them to be more active in
society. To take an example, services like ‘mapumental’ in the UK and ‘mapnificent’ in Germany
allow individuals to find places they can live, given a certain commute time to the work place, prices
of housing, and how beautiful an area is .
Advocates of open data argue that restrictions are against communal good and that data should be
made available without restriction or fee. In addition, it is argued that the data should be re-usable
without requiring further permission, though the types of re-use (such as the creation of derivative
works) may be controlled by license . However, the Open Data movement has also brought to the fore
issues of security and privacy. Are there threats involved to national security? Should data be screened
before being made open to public? Should some data be censored for the sake of security and privacy?
What kind of data? What about the use of Open Data by stakeholders at the grassroots? What
challenges do they face? What is the impact of Open Data in different contexts, for different
stakeholders? What are the issues related to the curation, access and archiving of Open Data? How are
social technologies used for Open Data and what are the challenges in it? Is there a threat to Open Data
as ‘Grey literature’? How to address this concern? Etc.
With the above concerns in mind, the workshop on “Open Data: Challenges and Solutions” is
proposed to bring together government representatives, policymakers, researchers, NGOs, INGOs,
grassroots stakeholders, technology solution providers, security experts, solution providers, industry
and academia etc. to deliberate upon the key challenges faced by them in dealing with Open Data, to
brainstorm upon possible and advanced solutions, and to share best practices.
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Objectives/Goals
The objectives of the conference are:
1. Deliberate upon the key challenges faced by stakeholders from across the world in dealing with
Open Data and arrive at solutions to handle these challenges, especially at the grassroots level.
3. Discuss the global and local impact that Open Data has on different stakeholders and different
contexts. This will have future research and policy implications.
4. Provide a platform to share best practices and learning in Open Data models from all across the
world.
5. Address issues of security vis-à-vis Open Data.
6. Address issues of privacy vis-à-vis Open Data.
Key themes for round-table discussion:
• Address policies that open up data within and outside national borders: Challenges and Solutions.
• Open Data and new business opportunities: Sharing of Case Studies and Best Practices
• Impact of Open Data in different contexts and on different stakeholders: A grassroots approach.
• Models of Open Data operational in different parts of the world: Sharing of best practices and
learning.
• Open Data in the developing countries: Challenges in Technology, Applications, Security and
Privacy.
• Open Data, Grey literature and Use Cases for Social Technologies
• Critical Roles of curation, access and archiving of Open Data
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposa
ls2009View&wspid=150,
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposa
ls2009View&wspid=151
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
1. Michael Roberts, Regional Director, Bellanet, mroberts@bellanet.org
2.
Brendan
Doyle,
Leader,
International
Relations,
CTIC
Foundation,
brendan.doyle@fundacionctic.org
3. Anil K Sinha, Vice Chairman, Bihar State Disaster Management Authority,
info@geospatialworldforum.org
4. R Chandrashekhar, Secretary, Department of Telecom, Ministry of Communication & IT, Govt of
India, secy-dot@nic.in
5. Jim Clarke, Coordinator, Building International Cooperation for Trustworthy ICT: Security, Privacy
and Trust in Global Networks & Services (BIC), jclarke@tssg.org
6. Neeraj Suri, TUD Chair Professor (Dependable Embedded Systems & Software), TU Darmstadt,
suri@cs.tu-darmstadt.de
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Centre for Science Development and Media Studies (CSDMS)
The organisation has executed projects, nationally and internationally, for ministries like Department
of Science and Technology, Department of Information Technology, Govt. of India, etc. and for
internationally acclaimed funders like World Health Organisation (WHO), Media Lab Asia, United
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Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organisation (UNESCO), Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), International
Development Research Centre (IDRC), etc. All the projects have been completed to the ultimate
satisfaction of the funders.
Organization:Centre for Science Development and Media Studies (CSDMS)
Contact Person: Ravi Gupta
111: Young people and their safeguards in an increasingly connected world
Concise Description:
The Internet and mobile technologies have made great inroads in the life of young people and Africa is
no exception. The continent presents unique characteristics in terms of the understanding of these
technologies, their deployment and the interventions (or the lack of) for making the online
environment safe for children. Also the social norms, existing practices influence the uptake of these
technologies and applications. Besides, the appeal of online platform being universal the trends and
patterns of the online experience of children and young people in Africa bears remarkable resemblance
with rest of the world.
Children and young people who have been actively involved in activities conducted in Africa focusing
on their empowerment, education and development of codes of conduct and awareness raising
initiatives for the private sector, will participate in the workshop enabling a direct access to testimonies
and share of experiences and also to the issues they face every day while using the Internet
(cyberbulling, privacy issues, exposure to inappropriate content (hateful, violent, discriminatory,
pornographic, etc.), explicit or suggestive self-exposure, etc. The forum will also draw from the
experience of a typical child both from the African continent and from other regions and allow us to
explore how they witness the digital revolution around them to guide us in developing suitable
measures for them.
The workshop aims to collect recommendations for the duty bearers coming directly from these young
people in order to reach policy makers for developing appropriate protecting mechanisms while
providing the channels to them for self expression, creativity and positive use of the Internet and
guiding them towards becoming better digital citizens of the future. Additionally, it will examine the
current set of strategies that exist within the ICT policies that can be enhanced for strengthening the
protection of children.
The participation of expert representing the western countries is also expected to raise very interesting
points marking the striking resemblance and contrasts with the experience of children in the those
regions and the interventions that had been developed in that context.
Findings from a research paper that is expected to be commissioned soon, outlining the situation of
children in Africa in terms of their protection in the online environment, analyzing the growth of ICTs
and its social dimensions is also expected to be presented at the workshop.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshopsr
eports2009View&curr=1&wr=35
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Larry Magid , Independent expert on child online protection
Kathleen Speake , Executive Director, ECPAT International
Melanie Gnandi (Regional Coordinator Africa, ECPAT International) Remote moderator
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Children and young people ( To be selected)
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
ECPAT International (Anjan Bose)
ITU (JeoungHee Kim, legal and policy Analyst)
UNICEF ( Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda, Youth Section, Communication)
Organization:ECPAT International
Contact Person: Anjan Bose
115: Cybercrime Strategies
Concise Description:
While many countries are adopting policies and strategies on cyber- or information security, only few
are developing specific strategies on cybercrime.
This workshop is therefore aimed at providing answers to the following questions:
- What are the issues to be addressed by cybercrime vs. cyber-security strategies? What are differences
and where do they intersect?
- Based on experience and good practices available: What are/should be the objectives and elements of
cybercrime strategies? What steps could be taken towards the preparation of cybercrime strategies?
- Which are the stakeholders involved in/responsible for implementation of cybercrime strategies?
Who is responsible for the management/coordination of cybercrime stratgegies? What role for relevant
public and private sector institutions the implementation of such strategies?
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=23
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Representatives of institutions from countries of different regions with experience in cybercrime and
cybersecurity strategies. Details to be confirmed.
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
The Council of Europe is the organiser of this workshop. The Council of Europe is cooperation with a
large number of public and private sector stakeholders worldwide.
Organization:Council of Europe
Contact Person: Alexander Seger
116: Cloud governance
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Concise Description:
Cloud computing has emerged as a key trend in the Internet world. The ability to provide virtualised
infrastructures, processing functions and/or applications "on the fly", to scale them according to the
need and to allow organisations to outsource IT functions to a third party can greatly enhance
efficiency, effectiveness and economy of their operations.
On the other hand, the concentration of data – often of a very sensitive nature – and processing
functions to third parties, often clustered in specific countries, raises a number of concerns which need
to be duly addressed to develop the necessary trust in this technology. In the absence of clear "rules of
the road", cloud computing will hardly deliver the benefits it promises.
Such concerns are different in their nature and in the specific stakeholders they tend to impact.
Businesses can fear that outsourcing key operational IT functions to third parties could pose a
significant risk and could therefore want appropriate guarantees, either in the form of Service Level
Agreements, insurance contracts or others, before "going in the cloud"; citizens would want to ensure
that their personal data correctly handled; consumers would want to make sure that their rights are
recognised and enforced no matter where a particular transaction "in the cloud" takes place.
Most of these issues have a very relevant public policy dimension, for example understanding what is
the "correct" juridisction and legal system that should apply; how to ensure cross-border enforcement
of judicial decisions; how to guarantee a level-playing field for industries that either use or produce
cloud-based services in different parts of the world.
Purely private- or public-led approaches would be neither appropriate nor effective. It is necessary to
facilitate multi-stakeholder and inclusive discussions and "out of the box" approaches towards a
governance structure that would best tackle these challenges. For example, self- or co-regulatory
solutions, partially based on "ethical standards" agreed via public-private dialogue, could contribute in
this direction.
This workshop would be an occasion to compare different "visions" of what should be the ideal
governance structure for cloud computing services; whether it would in any particular way differ from
the general approach to Internet governance; and try to identify common grounds on which a globally
coordinated approach could be pursued.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=28.
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
– Katarzyna Szymielewicz (human rights lawyer and activist, co –founder and executive director,
Panoptykon Foundation– the only Polish NGO working on surveillance society issues, a member of
European Digital Rights Initiative, Warsaw, Poland); and/or
– Cezary Mazurek (Head of the Network Services Department at Poznan Supercomputing and
Networking Center); and/or
– Joanna Kulesza (Assistant Professor, Uniwersytet Lodzki - University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland;
Membership Committee Chair with the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) and
serves as an external expert to the Council of Europe Ad hoc Advisory Group on Cross-border Internet
(MC-S-CI) (2010));
– Panelist from the European Parliament and/or the European Commission
– Panelist from the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
– Panelist from the European Consumers’ Organisation (BEUC)
The organisers of this workshop are actively consulting with non-EU stakeholders to identify other
panelists. The advice of the IGF Secretariat and/or of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group, on the
basis of other proposals submitted, would be appreciated.
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The European Commission and/or the European Parliament will provide a remote moderator.
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
European Commission
European Parliament
Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
European Consumers’ Organisation (BEUC)
Organization:European Commission
Contact Person: Andrea Glorioso
118: Global Principles for the Stability and Resilience of the Internet
Concise Description:
The Internet has become a key instrument for social, political and economic activities in developed
countries and, as broadband penetration increases, will arguably become so also in developing ones.
This implies a strong dependency on both the basic infrastructure of the Internet and on the services
that use it. It is therefore vital that the resilience and stability of this global network and networks is
ensured.
This is a task that no single stakeholder group – industry, public authorities, civil society, the technical
and academic communities – can hope to succesfully achieve by itself. On the contrary, a multistakeholder approach, based on a clear demarcation and division of roles and responsibilities, must be
sought.
Furthermore, as the Internet is a global network, no single country or region of the world can hope to
guarantee the stability and resilience of "its own" Internet. Past and recent events demostrated that
Internet disruptions – whatever their source – in one part of the world can easily produce negative
effects in others.
On the other hand, the emergence of increasingly more sophisticated threats can easily lead public
authorities, industry or other stakeholders to push for national and possibly uncoordinated approaches.
While every sovereign State has the right to safeguard national security and the well-being of its
citizens, including via national approaches to ensuring the resilience and stability of the Internet, an
uncoordinated approach could in the long-run be harmful to national interests themselves, for example
by depriving citizens, economic actors and public authorities of the benefits that a true global,
interoperable Internet can bring.
"Hard law" approaches to this coordination problem, for example via treaties or similar insturments of
international law, have been suggested and even implemented for some specific areas (e.g. the Council
of Europe Budapest Convention on Cybercrime). However, an approach solely based on "hard law"
may have inherent difficulties in coping with the urgency and the fast-moving nature of the challenges
we are facing. Furthermore, it is necessary to analyse whether, in a multi-stakeholder environment,
States should be the only actors "obliged" and therefore held potentially responsible for disruptions to
the stability and resilience of the Internet; or whether an international regime of risk management and
allocation of responsibilities/liabilities, similar to already existing contractual ones, could provide
benefits.
A "principles-based" approach – i.e. devising global principles and guidelines that all stakeholders
around the world could use as a reference in developing their own approaches to the matter – could
bear fruits more efficiently and effectively. The mechanisms and processes to "translate" these
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principles into "action" should also be discussed, including on the basis of the role of principles in
international law.
In the course of 2009 and 2010 the European Commission, in the context of its action plan on Critical
Information Infrastructures Protection, worked with experts from EU Member States to develop draft
principles and guidelines for the resilience and stability of the Internet. This workshop would be an
occasion to present such principles and discuss with multiple stakeholders from across the globe their
strong and weak points; compare them with other existing principles which aim, directly or indirectly,
at strengthening the resilience and stability of the Internet; explore how "old" and "new" media could
complement each other to achieve this goal; and serve as a basis for the development of global
principles.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=28.
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
– Joanna Kulesza (Assistant Professor, Uniwersytet Lodzki - University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland;
Membership Committee Chair with the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) and
serves as an external expert to the Council of Europe Ad hoc Advisory Group on Cross-border Internet
(MC-S-CI) (2010)); and/or
– Cezary Mazurek (Head of the Network Services Department at Poznan Supercomputing and
Networking Center)
– Panelist from the European Parliament and/or the European Commission
– Panelist from the British Broadcasting Corporation
– Panelist from the European Consumers’ Organisation (BEUC)
– Panelist from the Internet Society
The organisers of this workshop are actively consulting with non-EU stakeholders to identify other
panelists. The advice of the IGF Secretariat and/or of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group, on the
basis of other proposals submitted, would be appreciated.
The European Commission and/or the European Parliament will provide a remote moderator.
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
European Commission
European Parliament
British Broadcasting Corporation
European Consumers’ Organisation (BEUC)
Organization:European Commission
Contact Person: Andrea Glorioso
123: Public Sector Information Online: Towards A Global Policy Framework
Workshop objective:
The aim of the workshop is to develop and address the conclusions reached at the IGF5 Workshop 120:
Public Sector Information Online: democratic, social and economic potentials. The IGF5 workshop
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built upon the debate first started at the IGF3 Best Practice Forum 69: Enhanced Internet-Enabled
Access and Use of Public Sector Information, that was organised by the OECD.
Relevance:
Many of the components that underpin the Internet are common with those of a public sector
information policy framework, for example, access, transparency, privacy to name but a few. Indeed
UN Member States policies and regulation related to the Internet form part of the overall public sector
information content. By opening up the information produced and held by public sector organisations
via the Internet provides a rich content that is valuable to Civil Society from the local, through to the
national and global levels in the local languages. The European Union Digital Agenda provides an
example as to how public sector information complements the key issues related to the Internet.
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital-agenda/index_en.htm
Workshop Description:
There is a growing awareness around the world that making better use of public sector information
brings advantages both to the public sector itself and Civil Society. Over 60 UN Member States around
the world have now adopted and are actively engaged in implementing public sector information
policy frameworks that were first developed by economic regions such as the European Union and the
OECD. Over the past 12 months there has been an acceleration of developments and interests led by
Civil Society encouraging Governments to open up public sector information for democratic, noncommercial and commercial purposes. As this momentum has grown there are growing calls for a
global public sector information framework as was raised by the participants at the IGF5 Workshop
120.
The workshop would address via open interactive debate the approaches that could lead to the
formulation of a global public sector information policy framework for consideration and adoption by
the United Nations Member States.
Policies: access, accessibility, openness, transparency and improved accountability. Promotion of
digital content: innovation through private sector and civil society initiatives.
Policy implications: The development of Open Government Licences that are both human and
machine readable and executable and as the numbers grow the harmonisation of these licences to
stimulate cross border information services. Data discovery services platforms such as data.gov. Data
sharing both within the public sector and with Civil Society. Privacy. Intellectual Property Rights.
Linguistic diversity, Sustainability. E-Government. Linked data.
Workshop format: Short interventions by panel members on specific preset questions to act as a
catalyst to debate with the attending and remote participants.
Background paper: A background paper has been drafted and will be finalised if and when the
workshop has been approved.
Publicity plan: A publicity plan has been developed to promote remote participation in the workshop
should it be selected and this will be managed by Ms Mary GIANOLI based in the UK. The publicity
plan includes linkages to other complementary workshops and events that will be presented in IGF6.
Remote Participation: The UK National Archives – Office of Public Sector Information has confirmed
that the personnel involved in the public sector information policy, implementation and regulation will
participate in the workshop remotely.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/default.htm
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Consultations have been initiated with public sector information stakeholder experts in Europe and
OECD Member States to encourage similar remote participation in the workshop to that of the UK
National Archives.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=120
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Confirmation has been received from the following representatives:
Mr. Jorge CANCIO MELIÁ, Spain – Public Sector. Advisor at the Directorate for Information Society
Services, Spain
Mr. Christopher CORBIN, United Kingdom, An independent researcher on Information Society policy
with a focus on public sector information and geographic information. (Panel Chair)
Ms. Professor Anne FITZGERALD, Queensland University of Technology, The Australian auPSI
information platform ( http://www.aupsi.org/ )
Ms. Waltraut RITTER, Hong Kong – Private Sector. Research Director, Asia Pacific Intellectual
Capital Centre, Hong Kong < http://www.apicc.asia >
Mr. Antonio SARAVIA, Spain – Public Sector. The APORTA project, Spain ( http://www.aporta.es )
Mr. Parminder JEET SINGH, India – NGO. IT for Change, India < http://itforchange.net >
The biographic details of the above panel members and chair maybe found on the IGF5 workshop web
pages.
Remote Moderator: Ms.
https://www.accessnow.org/
Keisha
TAYLOR.
Policy
Fellow
at
Access
Now
-
The above panel will be supplemented by yet to be confirmed stakeholders from the public sector, the
private sector and civil society within Africa and Asia.
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Christopher Corbin, UK, Independent Information Society
Jorge Cancio Meliá, Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade
All the panel members, the remote moderator and chair are actively engaged on a day to day basis in
implementing various aspect of the public sector information policy framework across the world.
Organization:Retired sole trader
Contact Person: Christopher Corbin
124: Blocking content: issues, principles and paths forward
Concise Description:
Policymakers around the globe are trying to identify appropriate policy solutions to address the
challenge of illegal online activities, undesirable content and a range of other perceived problems.
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Some proposals to deal with “rogue websites” would require ISPs to block DNS resolution to sites
containing illegal material. These types of approaches, while they may provide short-term relief, are
generally not effective and would have significant implications for the global DNS, for the
implementation of DNSSEC, and the overall functioning and evolution of the Internet.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.isoc.org/pubpolpillar/docs/20101007_igf-workshop.pdf
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Moderator: TBD
Remote Moderator: ISOC IGF Ambasador, TBD
Panelsists:
• Ben Akoh, IISD [Civil Society]
• Patrik Fältström, CISCO (ICANN SSAC, security and stability expert)
• Lars-Johan Liman, Autonomica/NetNod [I-root operator, DNS expert]
• Andrei Robachevsky, ISOC [Technical community]
• Leonid Todorov, cctld.ru [ccTLD Registry]
• Maxim Weinstein, StopBadware.com [reputation services]
• TBD, KENIC [ccTLD Registry]
• TBD, Verisign [gTLD Registry]
• TBD, Comcast [Broadband ISP, Business]
• TBD, [Law Enforcement Agency]
• TBD, Business, IRP holders [Business]
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
• Andrei Robachevsky, Technology Program Manager, ISOC [Internet Technical Community]
• Valeria Betancourt, Manager, Communication and Information Policy Programme, APC [Civil
Society]
Organization:ISOC, www.isoc.org
Contact Person: Andrei Robachevsky
130: Protecting the Most Vulnerable Users In Society: The Roles of Different Actors in Helping
the New User Survive in an On-Line World
Concise Description:
Increased efforts around the world to address the digital divide have lead to an influx of new and
vulnerable users on the Internet. This workshop will discuss the concerns of new and inexperienced
internet users regarding using the internet. The audience and panel will be encouraged to explore how
vulnerable users can be protected, who has a responsibility to deliver this protection and what methods
are most effective in building trust and keeping people safe.
The discussion will be informed by research into users and non-users perceptions of risk and how they
respond to attempted criminal attacks and by evidence-based scenario work carried out in the UK. It
will aim to answer the following questions:
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• Are new Internet users more vulnerable than experienced users? Are they more likely to have a bad
experience online? What are areas of concern for them? Do bad experiences (or the fear of them) make
them more reluctant to go on-line?
• Who has a duty of care to new Internet users and what does this mean?
• What kind of education/training do people need to help them make informed decisions eg on privacy
settings, protecting their data and accessing information? How do you inform without scaring the new
user off?
• What work/strategies are there in different countries to help support new users and tackle online
crime: rapid response to criminal activity, awareness programmes, initiatives to educate, build skills
and train, user support networks?
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=112
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=114
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Liesyl Franz, TechAmerica to Moderate
Martha Lane Fox, Raceonline 2012
Dr Vicki Nash, Oxford Internet Institute
Olga Cavalli,
Alice Munuya, CCK
Manal Ismail, National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) of Egypt
Youth delegation from UK & East Africa
Remote Moderator - Kieren McCarthy
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Nominet (Industry) on behalf of the UK-IGF. We also want to bring in co-organisers from other
countries.
Organization:Nominet
Contact Person: Laura Hutchison
153: Aspects of Identity
Concise Description:
This proposal is for a workshop covering the balance between privacy and security for online identity.
It addresses various debate points that are critical to the success of the Internet as so many aspects rely
on the effective registration and authentication of individuals using digital identities.
It uses a round table or panel debate to solicit discussion on 5 sets of questions:
Citizens Rights & Control of Personal Data:
Minimising Access & Protecting Privacy:
Registration Authorities & ID Assurance:
Rights & Responsibilities of ID Providers:
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Security v. Privacy, The Balancing Act
The workshop as a round table was presented at InfoSec 2011 where a UK input was saught. It is being
presented as a panel discussion at EuroDIG 2011 in Belgrade in May to solicit an European
perspective and the intention is to present it at IGF to seek an international perspective. The results and
conclusions from the debates will then be published as a report and made freely available.
Detail
The BCS, the Chartered Institution for IT has consulted its 70,000 professional members worldwide to
determine what they consider to be the most important IT related issues facing organisation in
delivering savings, stimulating innovation and enabling e-commerce over the Internet. One of the key
issues is Identity Assurance.
Trusted reliable identities are needed for the safety and security of citizens and underpin many
transactions, particularly where money changes hands or valuable service and entitlements are
provided to citizens meeting defined nationality, age, or other status tests.
There are intrinsic risks associated with the creation of identity data, maintaining its integrity, security
and non-repudiation that demand the highest standards of governance. Is it essential that governments
lead the way in providing and using identity assurance that is trusted by its citizens and international
partners and is fit for a wide range of purposes? If not who should? Governments need to be able to:
identify their nationals; collect taxes and deliver a wide range of services efficiently without fraud;
warrant transactions and contracts within government and with its suppliers nationally and across
borders; and ensure that the global internet is a safe and trusted place to do business.
The workshops will explore the key underpinnings of identity assurance principles, rights and
responsibilities, including information rights and privacy, in an interactive format. The key points for
discussion will be:
1. Citizens Rights & Control of Personal Data:
• When we identify someone, we sometimes want to establish that they are a unique biological being
as recorded on their birth certificate and sometimes that they are the same “persona” who did
something at a different time. - What are the implications of this for the successful running of a multilevel Identity Assurance scheme?
• How can an individual control access to their biographic data (and biometric data) after enrolment in
an identity scheme?
• What responsibilities should the citizen (identity subject) accept to ensure the Identity Assurance
information held by the provider remains accurate and “current”?
2. Minimising Access & Protecting Privacy:
• How do organisations balance ‘need-to-know’ against ‘need-to-share’ to protect clients’ privacy?
• How do organisations establish a culture of privacy, to ensure that clients’ privacy needs are properly
addressed from initial system proposals through to end of life decommissioning?
• How can the conceptually-difficult and mathematically-abstruse ideas of advanced privacy enhancing
technologies be made accessible to the general public and business decision makers?
3. Registration Authorities & ID Assurance:
• What is a root identity, what attributes make it up?
• Should biometrics be used as part of an identity, if not what else would offer an immutable link
between the person and the identity?
• Who should have the authority to register a root identity and perform the level of background checks
needed to establish identity beyond reasonable doubt?
4. Rights & Responsibilities of ID Providers:
• The whole concept of Identity Assurance is a bit “big brother” so how do you go about ensuring that
Jack and Jill Doe “Trust” the process? For example, how do we ensure that raw seed information that
feeds into the registration process and thus through to the Information Provider AND the Attribute
Provider is both accurate and pertains to the specific individual (or persona)?
• How can we ensure that an individual (or persona) is who they say they are when they request a
service, and if something goes wrong will there be a speedy restitution and redress process?
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• Will it be up to the individual to ensure that any information held by an Identity Provider is up to date
and accurate (a responsibility), or is an individual’s “right” that the information is correct in the first
place? Is it a case of ignorance is no defence!
5. Security v. Privacy, The Balancing Act:
• What principles need to be in place to ensure an individual’s right to freedom of opinion and
expression (and why)?
• In the context of Information assurance what are legitimate National Security Interests (and why)?
• What safeguards should be in place to ensure that personal privacy is protected whilst not
compromising national security?
An overall presentation on the topic will be given by a panel of five people. For each key point of
discussion one member will then lead a table of 10 or so participants covering the three major
discussion points under each heading above, or the members will form a panel for a discussion lasting
30-45 minutes. The whole interactive seminar will then be fed back to all delegates and recorded for
later dissemination in the final 30 minutes. These workshops are being run at a UK, a European and a
UN event to collect national and international views. These will then be collated and fed back to all
participants and at a European event to be held in the UK and a report published for the IGF.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? No
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Dr. Louise Bennett, BCS, EURIM
Ian Fish, BCS
Andy Smith, BCS, EURIM
Peter Wenham, BCS
Roger Dean, BCS, EEMA
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Dr. Louise Bennett, Chair BCS Security Forum of Expertise (SCoE)
Andy Smith, Member BCS SCoE, Member EURIM
Roger Dean, Member BCS SCoE, Director EEMA
BCS - www.bcs.org
EEMA - www.eema.org
EURIM - www.eurim.org.uk
Organization:British Computer Society
Contact Person: Andy Smith
160: Global Trends to Watch: The Erosion of Privacy and Anonymity and The Need of
Transparency of Government Access Requests
Concise Description:
At a time when individuals regularly turn to search engines, social networks and other Internet
intermediaries to find information online, record their emotions on microblogs, share personal data
with friends, store private and sensitive information such as email, use their mobile devices to connect
and interact on the Internet, and save vast amounts of their information to the virtual “cloud,” digital
privacy is of paramount importance. Yet research by social scientists has found that few Internet users
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fully understand how much information they are revealing about themselves and the potential impact
this disclosure can have.
In addition, government agencies throughout the world are pushing for laws that force these online
third party providers to collect and store more personal information that they need for the purposes of
their business. Citizens groups and civil society organizations find these controversial laws invasive
and overbroad, and some countries’ courts have struck down data retention laws unconstitutional.
Date retention legal obligations to log users’ Internet use are usually paired with provisions that allow
the government to obtain those records, ultimately expanding governments’ ability to surveil their
citizens. There are few centralized data sources that provide transparency on the number of
government data requests.
Many online service providers follow the best practice of notifying users of a government request for
information, thereby allowing users to effectuate their due process rights and contest any legal process.
However, other service providers do not notify the users and some government requests for user
information attempt to forbid notification. Without notification, due process protections for the
information can become illusory.
Moreover, several government initiatives are investing in security research to analyze the wealth
amount of information they are collecting though the Internet. For example, the European Union has
launched the advanced profiling and automated threat detection research, named INDECT
(www.indect-project.eu/). In the US, the CIA’s Open Source Center (https://www.opensource.gov)
bills itself as the “US Government's premier provider of foreign open source intelligence” and is
monitoring, collecting and storing information from publicly accessible Internet sources such as blogs,
chat rooms, and social networking sites.
A growing number of businesses have been built on modern surveillance technologies, seeking to
predict and prevent not only crimes but also identify alleged future security risks. These technologies
raise serious privacy and freedom of association concerns because the technology may bring the
unnecessary and chilling government scrutiny on citizens engaged in legitimate opposition to
government polices. Some government officials and law enforcement agencies have expressed strong
opposition to allowing online anonymity. Throughout history, anonymous and pseudonymous
expression has enhanced freedom of expression and public participation by allowing individuals to
express unpopular or controversial opinions without fear of retaliation.
Across the globe there have been numerous individuals whose lives have been endangered by
information that has been collected through their use of technology. In the Middle East digital
surveillance has endangered online activists. Internet service providers have cooperated with the South
Korean government since 2003 to develop real-name systems for their users, seeking to eliminate the
ability to speak anonymously. A Chinese journalist was jailed after his Internet service provider
supplied the Chinese government with an email message he had sent to a pro-democracy group in the
United States about the Tiananmen Square massacre. The list goes on and on.
The panel will offer a snapshot of current existing and proposed regulatory frameworks and aims to
surface the potential risks, global trends, best and worst practices, details about the Cybercrime
Convention, the mutual legal assistance treaties of gathering and exchanging information among
countries, and the lack of transparency of governments’ access requests.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
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If so, please provide the link to the report:
https://www.eff.org/files/future-privacy.pdf
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Vint Cerf Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google (confirmed)
Cindy Cohn, Legal Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation (U.S.) (confirmed)
Birgitta Jonsdottir, Member of the Icelandic Parliament (invited)
Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Digital Agenda, European Union (invited) (confirmation
subject of workshop approval)
Alexander Serger, Head of Economic Crime Division, Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal
Affairs, Council of Europe (confirmed)
Katarzyna Szymielewicz, Panoptykon Foundation, European Digital Rights (Poland-Europe) (invited)
Sami Ben Gharbia, Director Global Voices Advocacy, Tunisia
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Panoptykon Foundation ~ European Digital Rights (Poland/EUROPE)
Electronic Frontier Foundation (USA/International)
Google
UNESCO
Organization:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Contact Person: Katitza Rodriguez
166: Enhancing Understanding: Facilitating Internet Governance Through Openness and
Transparency
Concise Description:
This is a follow up to the "Enhancing Transparency in Internet Governance" workshop at IGF 2010
[http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2010Vie
w&wspid=88], and further explores the issues identified in that workshop. Specifically, it will discuss
practical strategies for developing a common understanding of the concepts of Internet governance and
the need to ensure effective understanding between different stakeholder groups.
To help attendees participate more actively during the workshop, the organizers will publish a short
guide to the issues under discussion on the NRO website prior a few weeks prior to the workshop.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2010Vie
w&wspid=88
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Paul Rendek, RIPE NCC
Maria Häll, Swedish Government
European Parliamentarian (name TBC)
Brazilian Government participant
Bernadette Lewis, Caribbean Telecommunications Union
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Valeria Betancourt, APC
Jermyn Brooks, Global Network Initiative
Bill Graham, ISOC
Asia Pacific government to report on AP regional IGF
Remote moderator: Susan Hamlin, ARIN
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Number Resource Organization (representing the five Regional Internet Registries)
Government of Sweden
Organization:NRO
Contact Person: Chris Buckridge
176: What is the role of the media in ensuring the Internet is a resilient and stable platform ?
Concise Description:
(provisional proposal - further inputs are expected by members)
“The internet” describes both the means and the end
The means = the physical infrastructure of the internet (the pipes)
The end = the services, content, and applications delivered via the internet (the poetry)
When we talk about the resilience and stability of the internet, this can mean:
The technical resilience & stability of the infrastructure
The resilience & stability of what the internet actually delivers (i.e. to consumers, citizens, public
policy goals)
Mass-communication networks in the past illustrate this point
Television delivers what public policy wants it to achieve (impartial news, plurality, etc) and meets
consumer demand (entertainment, etc)
BUT: TV infrastructure can be disabled, jammed, restricted, etc
TV content can be blocked, censored, biased, etc
Historically, the traditional media has sometimes considered itself in competition with the internet,
fighting for attention and resources. In recent years, traditional media has become an ambassador for
the internet, a pioneer of innovation and new services, and a driver of consumer demand for quality
content. This workshop seeks to explore the relationship between traditional media organisations,
identifying the common ground and asking: What is the role of the media in safeguarding the
resilience and stability of the internet?
This would broadly consider two aspects:
1. How can the media help highlight challenges/threats to the physical infrastructure?
E.g. in non-
2. How can the media help deliver a resilient and stable internet citizen-consumer outcome?
resilient, stable, creative, innovative, accurate, etc)
• E.g. What is the role of the media in providing this outcome?
• E.g. Can media organisations help set a gold standard for quality and incentivise plurality?
driving economic growth, enabling democratic participation, etc)
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• What is the role of media organisations in delivering this outcome?
• What lessons have we learned from legacy communications networks that can apply to the internet?
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=182
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
– Panelist from the British Broadcasting Corporation
– Panelists from the Council of Europe
- Parminder Jeet Singh from IT for Change Net
- Panelist from the European Parliament
- Panelist from APC Association for progressive
communication
– Panelist from the World Broadcasting Union (WBU)
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
World Broadcasting Union (WBU) (media organization)
in cooperation with
APC (Civil society organization)
British Broadcasting Corporation (business partner)
Council of Europe (intergovernmental organization)
IT for Change Net(Civil Society organization)
Organization:WBU-BBC
Contact Person: giacomo mazzone
193: Addressing some unintended consequences of participation in the digital environment
Concise Description:
UNESCO, along with partners drawn from academia, civil society, private sector and regulatory
bodies, is seeking to hold a session that examines the interplay between participation on the internet
and the unintended uses of personal information appropriated by others. Users of the Internet
inadvertently “share” a significant amount of personal information, this may have unforeseen and
unintended effects. This information may harm the user, violate laws in the user’s jurisdiction or other
jurisdictions and violate norms. There are also differing norms about acceptable information across
cultural and generational demographics. What could constitute appropriate responses, based on ethical
principles, for the various participants in the Internet eco-system to address these challenges?
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2010Vie
w&wspid=81
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http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2010Vie
w&wspid=82
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Preparation of the event is still on the way and the final composition of the panels to be confirmed.
• Electronic Privacy Information Center
• Council of Europe
• Open Handset Alliance
• Cato Institute
• Economic Commission for Africa
Remote Moderator - Mr Paul Hector, UNESCO
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
The United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO)
Organization:UNESCO
Contact Person: Paul Hector
194: Social Media – Legal Policy Related Aspects and Its Impact On Internet Governance
Concise Description:
This workshop shall look at the various legal policy and regulatory aspects concerning social media
and its extensive development across the world and also the legal regulatory and policy aspects
connected therewith. The proposed workshop would also help analyze how the electronic governance
and governments across the world are using social media for the purposes of reaching out to their
citizens and netizens.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? No
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Representatives of Social Media Companies
Representative of Facebook
Representative of Twitter
Representative of UNESCO
Representatives of National Governments
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
MOBILE LAW ASSOCIATION - NO AFFILIATION
Organization:MOBILE LAW ASSOCIATION
Contact Person: SHEFFALI DUGGAL
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195: Protecting Children Online and Its Relevance to Internet Governance
Concise Description:
The proposed workshop shall examine various legal policy and regulatory issues pertaining to
protecting children online especially given the huge advent of mobile internet and social media and
will further explore the various themes as to how children safety is a part of cyber security and hence
part of the overall internet governance agenda and program while moving forward. The proposed
workshop should also look at various strategies adopted by different nations across the world in this
regard and the emerging trends in this regard.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? No
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Representatives of National Governments
Representatives of Social Media Companies
Representative of UNESCO
Representatives of NGOs
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
MOBILE LAW ASSOCIATION - NO AFFILIATION
Organization: MOBILE LAW ASSOCIATION
Contact Person: Sheffali Duggal
– Connected Legal, Policy
And Regulatory Aspects
Concise Description:
Today one of the biggest challenge facing internet is cyber war, cyber terrorism and attack on cyber
security. Thus the protection and preservation of cyber security on the internet is of crucial
significance not only for the preservation of the internet but also for ensuring the further growth and
development of the internet. However cyber crimes and cyber terrorism are posing very serious
challenges. How are countries across the world trying to deal with these challenges of cyber war, cyber
terrorism and cyber security and further how the said approaches have a direct connection with the
internet governance , these are the proposed aspects which will sought to be covered by the proposed
workshop.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? No
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
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Representatives of National Governments
Representatives of Social Media Companies
Representative of UNESCO
Representatives of NGOs
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
INDIAN PRIVACY FOUNDATION - NO AFFILIATION
Organization:INDIAN PRIVACY FOUNDATION
Contact Person: Pavan Duggal
202: Cybersecurity: Safeguarding the Global Internet and Emerging Issues/Opportunities for
Developing Countries
Concise Description:
Effective cybersecurity requires effective transnational and global cooperation, as well as true multistakeholder engagement from governments, industry and citizens. This workshop will focus on three
key issues of cybersecurity and the emerging issues/opportunities for developing countries: 1)
legal/policy framework for public-private partnerships on cybersecurity; 2) perspectives on network
survivability and cybersecurity; 3) perspectives on security threats and responses in developing
countries, including capacity building efforts. In the course of the session, panelists and participants
will share experiences and explore how they can develop and enhance national frameworks, law
enforcement capacity and cross border cooperation, protecting individual users, and CSIRT/CERT
capacity/operations. The discussion will also focus on the impact of local cybersecurity threats on the
global interconnection ecosystem, the emerging role of developing countries in global efforts, and the
tools available to support improved multi-stakeholder engagement on cybersecurity. AfriNIC will
publish a short guide to the issues to be discussed during this session on its website a few weeks prior
to the IGF, and the issues will be included on the AfriNIC June meeting. TechAmerica will organize a
cybersecurity workshop at the IGF-USA in July.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://igf.wgig.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2010View
&wspid=112
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
- Mr. Ashok Radhakissoon, AfriNIC (Technical Community)
- Mr. Jimson Olufuye, President, Information Technology Association of Nigeria (Business) –
confirmed for proposal
- Ms. Yurie Ito, Japan Computer Emergency Response Team (JPCERT) and Asia Pacific Computer
Emergency Response Team (APCERT); (Technical Community; government)
- Mr. Danny McPherson, Chief Security Officer, VeriSign (Technical Community; business)
- Mr. Greg Nojeim, Center for Democracy and Technology (Civil Society)
- Rep., Belgian Cybercrime Centre of Excellence for Training, Research and Education (Technical
Community; government)
- Mr. Robert Flaim, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (Government)
- Ms. Sabeena Oberoi; Department of Broadband, Communications, and the Digital Economy;
Government of Australia (Government)
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Remote Moderator: Mr. Anders Halvorsen, World Information Technology and Services Alliance
(WITSA)
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Ms. Liesyl Franz, Vice President, TechAmerica (Business)
Mr. Adiel Akplogan, President, AfriNIC (Technical Community)
Organization:TechAmerica and AfriNIC
Contact Person: Liesyl Franz
205: Freedom of Expression on the Net: Current Threats to the Internet’s Architecture That
Undermine Citizens’ Rights and the Free Flow of Information
Concise Description:
Citizens’ right to seek, receive and impart information is enshrined in both the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Likewise, the Tunis
Agenda addresses these rights in the context of the Information Society, reaffirming in item 42 the
“commitment to the freedom to seek, receive, impart and use information, in particular, for the creation,
accumulation and dissemination of knowledge.”
In spite of the fact that freedom of expression relies on the free flow of information. a number of
current proposals in national and regional venues would interfere with the Internet’s end-to-end
architecture and undermine citizens’ rights of freedom of expression and privacy. To address perceived
widespread IP infringement and the transmission of other illegal information (such as images of child
exploitation, hate speech and copyright infringement), several governments are proposing
requirements on Internet intermediaries to filter, block or remove online content, to deactivate Internet
users’ accounts and to hand over their subscribers’ information, and more recently, to seize or block
access to domains, to prevent Internet users around the world from accessing content posted on those
websites. These have all proved highly controversial because of their detrimental impact on citizens’
freedom of expression and access to knowledge, and the damage that they would do to the Internet’s
global architecture.
In the U.S., recent discussion has focused on the seizure of website domains under existing laws, and
the proposal for DNS services to not respond accurately to requests for particular websites under the
2010 draft Combatting Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA). In the UK, the Digital
Economy Act’s website blocking provisions have recently been challenged in court. The European
Court of Justice recently ruled that an injunction issued to an ISP to undertake filtering for potential
copyright infringement was not proportional and violated fundamental human rights. And the
European Commission is currently holding a consultation on how to balance citizens’ right to privacy
and personal data, with IP rightsholders’ need to obtain information for enforcement of their private
rights. In Latin America, Brazil is holding a public consultation to establish ISPs liability in balance
with internet user’s rights, Chile has also made some progresses, but, as a whole, a proper approach to
deal with this topic is still undefined in the region.
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These developments, and other efforts to have Internet intermediaries police content on their networks
and platforms, pose serious threats to citizens’ rights of privacy and freedom of expression and will
cause significant collateral damage to key elements of internet architecture that help facilitate free
expression, such as openness, universality and interconnectedness of networks. This leads us to the
question: in this context, is the global free flow of information in a borderless Internet really
sustainable?
Intervening in the Internet architecture to block access to particular content will have a lasting negative
impact on access to knowledge and freedom of expression, and will infringe essential principles for
good Internet governance. In order to address this issue and, highlight the technical and public policy
concerns with these proposals for national and international policymakers and global civil society, this
workshop will gather speakers with different views on the topic, representing all affected stakeholder
groups: representatives from governments, the content industry, the technical community, academia
and civil society representatives from both developed and developing countries. Active moderation
will foster debate amongst those in Kenya, and encourage remote interventions.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2010Vie
w&wspid=66
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
• Jan Malinowski, Head of the Media and Information Society Division at the Council of Europe
• Laura DeNardis, Executive Director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School
• Kathy Kleiman, Director of Policy, .ORG, The Public Interest Registry (to be confirmed)
• Pedro Less, Senior Policy Counsel at Google Latin America
• Kurt Opsahl, Senior Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) – to be determined
• Joana Varon Ferraz, project manager of A2KBrazil at Center for Technology and Society at Getulio
Vargas Foundation (CTS/FGV).
• A representative from European Digital Rights (Europe)
• A representative from the European Commission (EU)
Remote Moderator: Marília Maciel, researcher from the Brazilian Observatory of Digital Policies at
Center for Technology and Society at Getulio Vargas Foundation (CTS/FGV).
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Kurt Opsahl, Senior Staff Attorney
Center for Technology and Society at Getulio Vargas Foundation (CTS/FGV)
Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza, Marilia Maciel and Joana Varon Ferraz
Organization:Center for Technology and Society at Getulio Vargas Foundation (CTS/FGV)
Contact Person: Joana Varon Ferraz
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212: Privacy and security in an open/realtime/linked data world
Concise Description:
Open, real-time, and linked data generated, gathered, and organized online are proving vital to
understanding local communities and the world we live in, ensuring more informed decisions are made
at all levels of society. While online data is proving immensely useful, the dramatically increasing
trend towards moving data online -- whether knowingly, carelessly, or without consent -- has led to
unprecedented challenges to user privacy and security. At this juncture, Internet Governance is needed
to clarify and codify the rights and responsibilities of various actors as regards online data.
This workshop will feature short presentations from representatives of civil society, government,
academia, and corporations, which will facilitate discussion about theses issues amongst the panelists,
the audience, and international remote participants, including members of Access’ network (now in
184 countries).
Topics for discussion include:
• How open/realtime/linked online data can aid development
• The use of crowd-sourced, geolocation, and mobile data
• Existing and emerging privacy and security threats of and to online data and ways to mitigate these
risks
• How various stakeholders can assist the public in protecting their data and rights online
• Maintaining the balance between privacy, security, inclusivity, transparency, and accountability in
legislation, regulation, and terms of service.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/content/article/102-transcripts2010/724-120
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Patrick Meier or Erik Hersman (Ushahidi) – Confirmed
Tim Davies (Director, Practical Participation) -- Confirmed
Brett Solomon (Executive Director, Access) -- Confirmed
Robert
Kirkpatrick (Director, UN Global Pulse) -- Confirmed
Anahi Ayala Iacucci (Media Innovation Advisor Africa Region, Internews) -- Confirmed
Lee Hibbard (Coordinator for Internet Governance & Information Society, Council of Europe) –
Confirmed
Bob Boorstin (Director Public Policy, Google) – Confirmation Pending
Slim Amamou (Tunisian Secretary of State for Sport and Youth & Digital Activist) – Confirmation
Pending
Sir Tim Berners-Lee (Inventor, World Wide Web) – Confirmation Pending
Keisha Taylor has agreed to serve as the remote moderator for this workshop.
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Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Jochai Ben-Avie (civil society)
Christopher Corbin (independent information society)
Keisha Taylor (academic researcher)
Organization:Access
Contact Person: Jochai Ben-Avie
219: Privacy, Security, and Access to Rights: A Technical and Policy Analyses
Concise Description:
Privacy and security are often presented as zero-sum outcomes with respect to issues affecting Internet
governance. This dichotomous treatment often results in policy outcomes that directly limit access and
rights. The meanings of privacy and security, however, are not used uniformly and often vary with the
regards to the issue at hand (i.e. financial crimes, copyright enforcement) as well as cultural and
political context.
This workshop aims to explore the nuances in the relationship between privacy and security through a
series of technical demonstrations alongside policy analyses from different regions to determine how
rights and access can be best protected.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Invited Panelists:
Karen Reilly, Tor Project (United States)
Stephen Murdoch, Cambridge Security Research Group (United Kingdom)
Fred Langford, Internet Watch Foundation (United Kingdom)
Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza, Centro de Technologica e Socieda (Brazil)
Rafik Dammak, University of Tokyo (Middle East/North Africa)
To be determined, Privasia Project, Privacy International/Bytes 4 All (Pakistan)
Remote Moderator:
Cameran Ashraf, University of California, Los Angeles
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Kim Pham, Expression Technologies, Civil Society
Karen Reilly, Tor Project, Technical/Civil Society
Organization:Expression Technologies
Contact Person: Kim Pham
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231: Challenges and Best Practices for Internet Regulation in Africa and Latin America
Concise Description:
We have reached a point in which regulating some aspects of Internet seams to be inevitable, either for
establish user's rights (such as access, privacy, net neutrality, etc) or to make clear the rights and
obligations of ISPs, so they are safe to innovate. Nonetheless, reaching a balanced legal framework
able to maintain Internet as an open and innovative environment is a huge challenge.
While Europe has been doing efforts for regional coordination on Internet Regulation, through
EuroDIG and Council of Europe and the USA has been trying to implement it's legal standards through
trade and plurilateral agreements, Latin America and African countries have been poorly dealing with
the topic through regional perspective. As a result, due to the cross-boundaries nature of Internet,
developed countries' agenda and standards tend to be exported to developing countries. Some of this
standards tend to become a real element of censorship, through the establishment of severe
intermediary liability, as a threat to both innovation and privacy. A clear example is how the
Convention on Cybercrimes from the Council of Europe has become an instrument of pressure even
for countries that are not signatories.
Measures implementing intermediary liabilities, patterns for net neutrality, or even establishing
procedures for taking down websites, if not properly debated, are all prone to be exported. These
topics are strategic for the multi-stakeholder community of Latin America and Africa, but without our
own Agenda, the resistance for importing these standards and regulatory initiatives is week.
Therefore, this workshop has the goal to rethink the need for a regional, south-south articulation on
Internet regulation, initially focused on intermediaries liability, privacy and innovation on the web.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=126
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Raul Echeberria (LACNIC) or Oscar Mesano (ECOMLAC / LACNIC)
Eduardo Bertoni (Libertad de expresion Argentina y Latam),
Pedro Less, Senior Policy Counsel at Google Latin America
Marilia Maciel, researcher at Center for Technology and Society (CTS/FGV), Brazil
Mwende (Diplo/ Comunication Commission of Quenia)
Representative from South Africa governement
Joana Varon Ferraz, researcher from the Brazilian Observatory of Digital Policies at Center for
Technology and Society at Getulio Vargas Foundation (CTS/FGV).
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Center for Technology and Society at Getulio Vargas Foundation (CTS/FGV)
Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza, Marilia Maciel and Joana Varon Ferraz
Google Latin America
Pedro Less, Senior Policy Counsel
Organization:Center for Technology and Society at Getulio Vargas Foundation (CTS/FGV)
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Contact Person: Marilia Maciel
438 : The business of human rights: corporate responsibility and ICTs
Concise Description:
ICTs are becoming increasingly central to commerce, economic development, expression, civic
participation, and personal identity. ICTs can empower users to speak, organize around issues of
common concern, and access the world’s information. However, the technology companies that
provide the conduits and platforms for user activity can find themselves under pressure to take actions
that restrict the freedom of expression and privacy rights of their users. Governments may ask
companies to cut off Internet access, take down content, or turn over information about users –
sometimes according to law and in pursuit of legitimate aims, but in some contexts, such governmental
actions may conflict with the human rights of users. Such instances raise questions around what
responsibility companies have to their users when they are asked to assist in actions that may
undermine free expression, privacy, and other human rights. These questions are especially salient in
the ICT sector, where the platforms for user expression are often operated by private companies.
The UN Special Representative on business and human rights John Ruggie has published the Protect,
Respect and Remedy Framework to help a range of stakeholders navigate these emerging issues. The
framework provides guidance for companies regarding their responsibilities with respect to human
rights.
The Global Network Initiative (GNI) provides a principled approach and action framework for ICT
companies and civil society struggling with these complex issues. GNI is an effort to apply and refine
the Protect, Respect, and Remedy framework for the ICT sector and to engage a diverse range of actors,
including civil society organizations, investors and academics in developing collaborative
interventions and solutions. The GNI provides a set of Principles and Implementation Guidelines for
companies in the ICT sector to guide responsible decision making when facing requests or demands
from governments that may conflict with the internationally recognized rights of their users.
At this workshop participants will discuss:
• the impact and implications of public discourse taking place on private networks
• how human rights risks may arise in the provision of ICT products and services
• strategies some ICT companies have adopted to promote the free flow of information, protect privacy,
and minimize possible risk to human rights of their users
• the value of a multi-stakeholder approach to finding solutions to these challenges
• more about the work of GNI
The GNI is a multi-stakeholder group of companies, civil society organizations, investors and
academics, who work together to protect and advance freedom of expression and privacy in the ICT
sector.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security, Openness and Privacy
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? No
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
The workshop will be organized in a roundtable format in order to increase the involvement of the
participants. Select panelists will give brief initial remarks to help frame the session, followed by open
discussion. Active moderation will ensure that the discussions are dynamic.
We will also invite specific people to speak informally from their perspective.
Moderator:
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Mr. Colin Maclay, Managing Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
(academic)
Panelists:
Ms. Susan Morgan, Global Network Initiative (multi-stakeholder)
Ms. Christine Bader, Adviser to the UN Special Rapporteur on business and human rights John Ruggie
(academic) (invited)
Mr. Danny O’Brien, Committee to Protect Journalists (civil society) (invited)
Mr. Pedro Less Andrade, Senior Policy Counsel, Google Latin America (invited)
Other invited informal speakers:
Mr. Brett Solomon, Access (civil society) (invited)
Ms. Cynthia Wong, Center for Democracy & Technology (civil society)
Mr. Eduardo Bertoni, CELE (academic) (invited)
Ms. Amira Al Hussaini, Regional Editor for MENA, Global Voices (civil society) (invited)
Name of Remote Moderator.
Ms. Erica Newland, Center for Democracy & Technology
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Ms. Susan Morgan, Executive Director, Global Network Initiative (multi-stakeholder)
The GNI is a multi-stakeholder group of companies, civil society organizations, investors and
academics, who work together to protect and advance freedom of expression and privacy in the ICT
sector. www.globalnetworkinitiative.org
Organization: Global Network Initiative
Contact Person: Susan Morgan
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5. Access and Diversity
12 : Connectivity and Access in Sub-Saharah Africa - Status, Challenges and Opportunities
Concise Description
The IGF this year takes place in a location where the Digital Divide has been most prominent.
However, interesting changes are prevalent in the area of connectivity and access in the Sub-Saharan
region, for example, the massive uptake of mobile phone technology, the developments with
submarine cable systems, the investments in terrestrial fiber networks. Despite these developments, the
uptake of Internet usage is still low compared to other parts of the world.
This workshop seeks to paint a current picture of connectivity and access in Sub-Saharan Africa with
perspectives from various countries – Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Botswana, Rwanda, Ghana, to
name
a
few.
The presentations are intended to stimulate debate and discussion on issues pertaining to
communication lines, mobile technology for Internet connectivity, access rates, content issues, and
other related issues.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? No
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Dr Paulos Nyirenda – Malawi SDNP, NIC.mw, .mw CCTLD
Mr Neo Nwako - Abari Communications, Botswana
Mr Steven Song – Village Telco, South Africa
Mr Michuki Mwangi – ISOC, Kenya
Nigeria/Ghana - TBC
Rwanda/Uganda - TBC
AU/NEPAD - TBC
Remote Moderation - ICT Association of Malawi
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Ulemu Nyasulu, Tutor, DiploFoundation:
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Towela Nyirenda-Jere, e-Africa Programme, NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency, South
Africa
Organization:Ulemu Nyasulu, Tutor for Diplo Foundation / NEPAD
Contact Person: Ulemu Nyasulu / Towera Jere
64: Interconnecting Africa: Opportunities and Obstacles along the way
Concise Description:
This workshop will give a deep analysis on the major Obstacles Africa as a region has and still is
facing to become Interconnected, means of overcoming them and how take action as a multistakeholder community. It will also provide a better understanding of the Benefits and Opportunities of
Interconnecting.
Discussions at the African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) meeting held in August 2010 in
Nairobi, Kenya indicated that a lack of clear and supportive policies and regulations related to crossborder interconnection is hampering the growth of the networks on the continent and contributing to
higher costs. This workshop seeks to create awareness amongst stakeholders of the issues, highlight
the challenges through case studies, and propose an enabling policy and regulatory framework.
To assist participants more actively during the workshop, AfriNIC will publish a short guide to the
issues under discussion on the AfriNIC website prior a few weeks prior to the workshop.
AfriNIC has also dedicated an hour on its meeting agenda in June, to raise the issue within the African
community.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposa
ls2010View&wspid=148
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposa
ls2010View&wspid=146
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Nishal Goburdhan (AfriNIC) – confirmed for proposal
Alain Aina (AfriNIC)– confirmed for proposal
Michuki Mwangi (ISOC)– confirmed for proposal
Chris Morris (ISOC)– confirmed for proposal
Bill Woodcock (Packet Clearing House) –invited
Regulator and Teleco (Mauritius, Kenya, South AFrica, Ghana & Egypt) –invited
Cross boarder Cable Company (submarine / terrestrial)–invitation pending contact onformation
Google, Facebook & akamai (Content providers)–invitation pending contact information
Dr. Nii Quaynor (Chairman and CEO of Network Computer Systems)(remote moderator)– confirmed
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
AfriNIC
ISOC
Organization:AfriNIC
Contact Person: Hisham Ibrahim
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67: E-participation Principles
Concise Description:
The workshop will consist of a roundtable discussion, in order to ensure maximum interaction among
participants. The issues will be framed as questions, in order to foster a more focused debate and to
reach more concrete outcomes.
Building up on the positive experience of remote participation during IGF meetings, the workshop will
explore two main topics:
a) The ways to strengthen online interaction among the members of the IGF community, in order to
generate a continuous all-year debate, as proposed during the discussions that took place in CSTD WG
on IGF improvement;
b) A strategy to raise awareness and foster the use of online channels for participation in other global
meetings, with focus on the inclusion of developing countries in international policy-shaping.
The workshop will count on speakers from all stakeholder groups, not only because the diversity of
views leads to creative and out-of-the-box suggestions, but also because improving e-/remote
participation should be seen as a collective responsibility of all the members of the community.
The round table discussion will have two parts, focussing on answering the following questions:
Part 1: Principles and global strategies:
What are the strategies to foster the use of channels for e-/remote participation by developing countries,
least developed countries and remote areas?
How can we formulate a strategy to raise awareness and foster the use of online channels for
participation in other global meetings, with focus on the inclusion of developing countries in
international policy-shaping?
Can a set of principles and good practices be formulated to ensure the effective impact of e-/remote
participants on policy-shaping process?
Part 2: Best practices and developing practices:
How can the IGF community make use of online channels of communication more efficiently to
remain in contact and make the IGF a process that develops throughout the year?
How can we carry out at least one of the IGF open consultations entirely online?
How can we foster the participation of remote speakers and speakers from hubs in workshops?
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=126
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
(list to be reduced and refined)
Representative from the Disability DC, or Mr. Todic (UN disability committee) (Serbia?)
Marilia Maciel (moderator), Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil
Anju Mangal, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) Fiji, Pacific region
Nnenna Nwakanma, FOSSFA or Towela Jere UNPAD, Africa (or other African representative)
Name to be confirmed: CSTD, gov representative, Portugal
Jeremy Malcolm, IGC, Consumer's International, Malasia/Australia
Roland Perry, tech community, Australia
Roberto Villarreal, DESA (Mexico)
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Representative from Rio +20
Jovan Kurbalija, DiploFoundation e-participation and e-diplomacy initiatives
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Virginia Paque
DiploFoundation (diverse in gender, region and stakeholder groups)
Remote Participation Working Group (diverse in gender, region and stakeholder groups)
Organization:DiploFoundation
Contact Person: Virginia Paque
73: FOSS as an Instrument for Accessible Development
Concise Description:
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has been used as an enabler for robust and cost-effective
access to Internet services in the past. In addition, FOSS also provides significant potential for
accessible computing from the points of view of the differentially-abled and language-excluded
communities. Recent experience from the south Indian province of Kerala (population: 33 million)
demonstrates the strength of FOSS in these roles.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? No
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Mr. Satish Babu (Moderator)
Dr. KR Srivathsan, Pro Vice Chancellor, IGNOU, Delhi
Dr. Venkatesh Chopella, IIIT, Hyderabad, India
Ms. Nirmitha Narasimhan, CIS, Bangalore, India
Mr. Juan Carols Gentile, Hipatia, Europe
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Satish Babu
* Director, International Centre for Free and Open Source Software, Govt. of Kerala, India
* Member, Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility & Disability of IGF
* Member, BASIS, IGF/ICC
* Vice President, Computer Society of India
* Asia-Pacific Co-ordinator, GUOC, IEEE Computer Society
Organization:International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (IC-FOSS)
Contact Person: Satish Babu
76: The challenges to access from a youth and global perspective
Concise Description:
This workshop will seek to engage young people from the UK and Kenya in a discussion on the
challenges users face in accessing the internet.
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The workshop will support the opinions and experience of youth as well as the geographical diversity
of the proposed panelists. The workshop will consider physical barriers to access, as well as the
cultural barriers to access, with the youth participants engaging in a discussion/presentation on a case
study from their own area of expertise/location/perspective.
The final content of the workshop will be drafted in close consultation with Childnet’s Youth IGF
Project Members 2011, who will convene in June 2011 to discuss what they foresee the challenges to
access are. This discussion will provide a basis for the workshop, and a paper outlining their thoughts
and their findings would be shared prior to the session.
Based on the Youth IGF Project 2010 findings, it is envisaged that discussions to take place in June
2011 will build on the statement of beliefs agreed by the Youth IGF Project Members 2010 which
called for access for all: http://childnet.com/downloads/YIGF-2010-statement-of-beliefs.pdf
The proposed session structure is outline below:
1. Background and introductions. (15 minutes)
2. Three international case studies from youth participants presenting their experiences and how they
experiences challenges as to how they access the internet. (45 minutes)
It should be noted that one of the case studies is likely to be taken via remote participation.
3. Questions from the floor. (15 minutes)
4. Discussion stemming from the statements of beliefs put forward by the youth delegates, seeking to
outline how the problems of access differ for users globally and what solutions could be suggested. (40
minutes)
These are likely to be similar to the following statements taken from the 2010 statement of beliefs
- We believe that the internet is a utility and should be freely available to everyone whether they are
rich or poor and regardless of their location, disability, background of culture
- We believe that all users are equal and should have access to the wealth of information online
- We believe that the more open the internet is, the greater the benefit will be to all users
- We believe that openness, access, diversity, security and privacy are interlinked themes. We
recognize that openness poses different challenges for different user groups. We believe that a balance
must be achieved between openness and security and privacy and access
- We believe that addressing fairer access for all must be a foundational priority for the IGF. This is
our central call to action, and our other proposals stem from this.
5. Conclusions and calls to action looking ahead. (20 minutes)
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshopsr
eports2009View&curr=1&wr=33
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
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UK youth panelists – names still to be confirmed, but expected to comprise 8 young people from
across the UK
Kenyan youth panelists
Other international youth panelists to be confirmed
Will Gardner, CEO Childnet International
Other International panelists from industry, third sector and governments
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Lucinda Fell. Lucinda has worked in this area championing the voice and inclusion of the voice of
youth at the IGF since 2009.
Childnet are currently engaging with various organizations in preparation for coordinating this session.
Organization:Childnet International
Contact Person: Lucinda Fell
87: Citizen empowerment through the social use of ICTs
Concise Description:
We are living a historic moment like no other, in which the ownership of the technology goes beyond
the elimination of digital divide, is undoubtedly the key to eliminating inherited social gaps that have
to do with social development, participation, employment, education, health ... in short to human
development. Today, ICTs are key to empowering citizens, ie, increase the capabilities, opportunities
and rights of people and lobby for improved quality of life within their environment.
In the moment you access to Technologie and reach a minimal technological appropriation, citizens are
taking responsibility to contribute and participate actively in decisions about everything around us and
this is creating political, social, economic, promoting diversity and customization within globalization.
We are facing a maelstrom of social and human development of its own citizens, a responsible and
informed citizenship, empowered by ICT, able to decide and move forward. Now we have to give it
the prominence it deserves in a forum like this and help generate social virtuous circle of innovation
based on the power of an empowered citizenship through ICTs, regardless where in the world, age,
sex , social status, skills with technology ... citizens are owners at the time to forge their destiny.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? No
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Moderator: Oscar Espiritusanto (periodismo ciudadano)
Fernando Bothelo.- Literacy Bridge
Lina Ben Mhenni.- Blogger, Tunissian Girl
Jose Gomez Marquez.- Director for the Innovations in International Health initiative at MIT
Sugata Mitra.- Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and
Language Sciences en la Universidad de Newcastle
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Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Fundación Cibervoluntarios / Cybervolunteers Foundation:
Affilation to:
IGF Spain
World Summit on the Information Society (2003-2005)
WSIS Forum (2011)
Eurodig
CEV (Centre European Volunteers)
Digital World Forum (Nigeria 2006, Paris-Brasil 2008, Bruselas 2009)
Participation same event:
- Euroforum (Spain 2005)
- Summit of Local Authorities (Spain 2005)
- Forum TIC21 (France 2006, Belgium 2007)
- Digital World Forum (Nigeria 2006, Brazil 2008, Belgium 2009)
- Digital Cities (Spain 2006 Costa Rica 2008, Mexico 2009)
- Civil Society Forum (Italy 2006)
- NTEN Conference (USA 2007)
- Ibero Ministerial Summit eLAC (El Salvador 2008; Perú 2010)
- III and IV Ibero-American Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals of New Technologies (El
Salvador 2008, Portugal 2009)
- ERCIM (Hungary 2009)
- e-Conscious Senior e-Citizen (Turkey 2009)
- European Congress on Communication and Volunteering (Spain 2010)
- III Meeting of the Expert Group on the Implementation of the Council Recommendation on the
Mobility of Young Volunteers across the EU (France 2010)
- ePractice Communities (Belgium 2010)
Organization:Fundación Cibervoluntarios/ Cybervolunteers Foundation
Contact Person: Yolanda Rueda
88: The Internet as the Universal Service
Concise Description:
The aim of this workshop is to discuss the following aspects of “The Internet as the Universal
Service“ topic:
• The operators‘ approach;
• Legal environment;
• Regulation;
• Technical base (technical solutions);
• Benefits to the society;
• Influence to the development of the Internet and informational services;
• Service quality requirements;
• Geographical location of the access, territorial allocation;
• Detection methods of obstructions of the Internet access/usage - the way in which disruptions that
compromise or hamper access/usage of the Internet can be detected;
• Counter-measures of negative effects limitation - which kind of counter-measures can be put in place
to limit negative effects disruptions that compromise or hamper access/usage of the Internet.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
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Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2010Vie
w&wspid=77
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
• European Commission, Directorate-General Information Society and Media
• Mr. Juha-Pekka Weckström, Managing Director at TeliaSonera Finland
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Lithuania
Organization:Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Lithuania
Contact Person: Ms. Inga Jankauskaite, Head of International Relations and Protocol Division,
Ministry of Transport and Communications
90: E-learning: an innovating educational tool for global awareness and citizenship
Concise Description:
Based on a real case study (Online Training Course on Global Education of the NSC), this good
practice session aims at providing a good example of the internet possibilities for people to:
. have access to information and education
. provide an innovative basis for development in southern countries
. develop citizenship conscience for better use of their right to freedom of expression through digital
tool.
Furthermore the good practice session should also highlight the mutual learning aspect between
participants (and also with course tutors) based on the complementarity of participants’ profile and
cultural background (Geographical balance for 2009-2010: respondents come from 37 different
countries, most coming from Europe (28), followed by Africa (22). Fewer come from Asia (6), Latin
America (3), North America (1) and Oceania (1). Only 8 respondents had English as their mother
tongue)
Some other aspects to explore during the session:
. How to safeguard an easy access to this tool, tackling main obstacles of e-learning technicalities;
. How to facilitate access to e-learning through adequate funding;
. How can we use internet for Global Education and build up from a study case to elaborate a guide of
good practices;
. Internet as an interactive tool accessible for NSC partners for the follow up of NSC activities.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
. One online training course trainer and course programmer (TNU);
. e-course participants (for critical participation) namely southern participants;
. experts in the field of online Education and Youth participation, capacity building and development;
(names to be confirmed)
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. a member of the NSC secretariat
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
North-South Centre of the Council of Europe will organise this good practice session, together with the
Council of Europe team.
The North-South Centre’s status in the Council of Europe, an intergovernmental organisation, is
unique: it is run on the basis of a "quadrilogue" approach, a term coined to mean the combination of
four level of partnership within NSC working strategy, involving governments, parliaments, local and
regional authorities and NGOs.
This system helps build bridges between players with different approaches, viewpoints and priorities,
generating constructive synergies.
All the partners in this "quadrilogue" process take part in running the North-South Centre as members
of its decision-making bodies.
For the past 20 years, the North-South Centre has been developing a strong relation with a wide range
of international and non-governmental organizations such as the African Union, the Aga Khan
Network for Development, the Anna Lindh Foundation, the Arab League, BUILD, CONCORD, the
European Union, the European Youth Forum, the Organisation of American States, the OSCE, the UN
Alliance of Civilizations, the Wergeland Centre among others institutions.
The NSC has a large experience as an organizer of different activities such as the Lisbon Forum, the
North-South Prize, the University on Youth and Development or National/Regional seminars on
Global Education.
Organization:North-South centre
Contact Person: Emília Soares
91: M-government for Effective and Inclusive Public Services
Concise Description:
Mobile access to the Internet is on the rise in both developed and developing countries. In OECD
countries, "smartphones" and tablet PCs are opening up new ways of access to government services.
But even lower-cost devices in developing countries are no barrier - provided that electronic
government services are designed with multiple access channels in mind. Mobile government is an
important area to consider not only because it allows for better and more efficient provision of public
services. It also provides opportunities for greater inclusion through ICTs and can contribute to wider
economic and social progress, e.g. in the context of the MDGs.
The OECD will present m-government research undertaken jointly with the ITU and UNDESA.
Participants will discuss main findings in light of related Internet governance issues, e.g. provision of
electronic services, access and infrastructure, privacy. Desired outputs include proposals on how
governments and citizens can jointly leverage and innovate in the mobile Internet eco-system.
Discussions will refer to the roles of new value chain participants and stakeholders in public services
provision, e.g. telecommunications operators, 3rd party application developers and mobile content
platforms.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.oecd.org/document/16/0,3746,en_2649_34223_45053008_1_1_1_1,00.html
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Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
To be confirmed. As with past IGF workshops co-organised by the OECD, speakers will represent
academia, civil society and industry, government officials from OECD countries and developing
countries.
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
OECD plus tbc from ITU, UNDESA (International Organisation); developing country government;
civil society (e.g. IISD).
Organization:OECD
Contact Person: Arthur Mickoleit
92: Challenging Myths about Young People and the Internet
Concise Description:
This workshop explores common claims about the impact of the Internet on children and young people
& invites participants to explore the evidence base for each. It will identify where policy initiatives are
based on misconceptions about young people and the Internet; and will look at areas where current
evidence is lacking.
The workshop will draw upon a discussion paper outlining ‘myths’ that young participants in past
IGFs, and partner organisations, have identified. Invited panelists will start discussion, but
considerable time will be given to facilitated dialogue between workshop participants. The workshop
will support evidence based policy making by sharing learning from studies of young people’s contact
with the Internet.
Myths to be addressed with be identified through consultation with workshop stakeholders upon
workshop acceptance, but will take as a starting point those put forward by danah boyd: Myths #1: The
digital is separate from the “real” world; #2: Social media makes kids deceptive; #3: Social media is
addictive; #4: Kids don’t care about privacy; #5: The Internet is a dangerous, dangerous place; #6:
There’s nothing educational about social media; #7: Kids are digital natives; and #8: The Internet is the
great equalizer. boyd: Favorite myth-making news articles? September 11th 2010
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/igf_2010/youth_core_Internet_values.xhtml
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Gbenga Sesan, Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (Youth Focussed Social Enterprise)
confirmed.
Gitte Stald (IT University of Copenhagen), and Brian O'Neill, Dublin Institute of Technology
(confirmed)
Naveed-ul-Haq, Assistant Director (ICT), Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (confirmed)
Dr danah boyd, Microsoft Research US, currently working on myth busting book (to be invited)
Developing world youth representative from the Youth Coalition on Internet Governance
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Representative of Asia-based youth-focussed NGO
Young members of ChildNet Youth IGF project and Elon Universities
Tim Davies, Director, Practical Participation, UK (small enterprise) (confirmed)
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Tim Davies, Director, Practical Participation, Private SME, member of Dynamic Youth Coalition on
Internet Governance. England. http://www.practicalparticipation.co.uk
Imagining the Internet, Elon University (Academia)
Youth Coalition on Internet Governance, Dynamic Coalition (Civil Society/Diverse membership)
We also have support for the organisation of the workshop from Rebecca Eynon, Fellow, Oxford
Internet Institute, University, UK; Sangeet Bhullar, WISE KIDS, NGO, Wales; Janna Anderson,
Director, Imagining the Internet, Elon, NC, US; Dmitry Epstein, Cornell University, US; Lucinda Fell,
ChildNet International (UK Registered NGO); Cybersecurity Malaysia, NGO; Gbenga Sesan,
Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (Youth Focussed Social Enterprise), and members of
the Youth Coalition on Internet Governance to help us put together a diverse group of workshop
panelists and participants, and to ensure the learning from the workshop is communicated widely and
conversations continued amongst diverse stakeholder groups.
Organization:Practical Participation
Contact Person: Tim Davies
96: Economic Aspects of Local Content Creation and Local Internet Infrastructure
Concise Description:
UNESCO, OECD and ISOC aim to organize a workshop on economic aspects of local content creation
and local infrastructure. The partners involved in the study support the efforts and progress made
within the framework of enhanced cooperation in shaping Internet policy around the principles of
inclusiveness, diversity and openness, and in enhancing the mutual understanding and relations among
all stakeholders, fostering their participation in the policy dialogue process. The Internet has an
enormous potential for economic development, underlining the Internet’s crucial role in enhancing the
free flow of information and ideas throughout the world, which contribute to the progress towards
inclusive Knowledge Societies.
The main objective of the workshop is to present the outcomes of the collaborative efforts to analyze
the relationship between Internet infrastructure, prices for access and the development of local content.
Policy makers are keen to understand these relationships for a number of reasons. Understanding this
relationship could help in demonstrating the economic benefits of expanded infrastructure across
countries, particularly if the amount of local infrastructure or the existence of a local Internet exchange
fosters the development of local content in local languages. The availability of local content could also,
in turn, prove to stimulate demand for Internet services. Finally, the prices of local Internet access
could prove to hinder, or promote the development of local content.
The workshop will examine the findings of the report and discuss key findings and policy implications
focusing on three subthemes:
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• Internet infrastructure and content value chain;
• Trends and determinants of local Internet development;
• Selected case studies.
UNESCO, the OECD and ISOC seek to promote international collaboration, provide a platform for
dialogue and share expertise on this subject among the difference actors involved in the IGF.
The links to the previous reports:
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/flagship-project-activities/unescoand-wsis/internet-governance-forum/5th-igfvilnius/
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/2008-igf-hyderabad/event-reports/72-workshops/377-therole-of-internet-exchange-points-in-creating-internet-capacity-and-bringing-autonomy-to-developingnations
http://www.oecd.org/document/13/0,3746,en_2649_34223_45692045_1_1_1_1,00.html
http://www.oecd.org/document/19/0,3746,en_2649_34223_45864467_1_1_1_1,00.html
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/15/50/45860581.pdf
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/flagship-project-activities/unescoand-wsis/internet-governance-forum/5th-igfvilnius/
;
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/2008-igf-hyderabad/event-reports/72-workshops/377-therole-of-inter
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Remote moderator:
• Mr Jānis Kārkliņš, Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, UNESCO
Other participants:
• Mr Taylor Reynolds, Senior Economist, Information Economy, The Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD)
• Mr Dawit Bekele, Regional Bureau Manager for Africa (tbc), ISOC
• Other panelists participants.
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
• The United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO)
• The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
• The Internet Society (ISOC)
Organization:UNESCO
Contact Person: Kasinskaite-Buddeberg Irmgarda
101: Are We Meeting The Challenges Of Bringing Content and Access To The World?
Concise Description:
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Today, the world has slightly over 2 billion users of the global internet. Content in both English and
other languages is growing, and changes in the devices accessing the internet are bringing internet
access to users in regions and countries at an exponentially rapid pace. access to the global internet has
evolved quickly from desktop and wired to an always-on and always-accessible environment based on
mobile devices. Spectrum is providing a ubiquitous environment for connectivity and interoperabilty.
wired/satellite/wireless is the new accepted challenge for applications and services.
around the world, mobile devices and wireless connectivity coupled with useful and innovative content
and applications are the new drivers for users and therefore for governmental policy makers.
Applications drive traffic demands and we are only beginning to understand their implications.
Developing countries have led the way in such areas as – e-banking, e-health, and e-education.
This workshop will have as discussants individuals with in-the-field experience in mobile
health/remote health delivery, mobile/remote education, mobile finance, international connectivity
providers, IXPs and ISPs serving remote and developing areas, and expert analysis whose studies show
the economic impact.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2010Vie
w&wspid=51
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Vladimir Radunovic, DiploFoundation
Anand Iyer, WellDoc-US
Pankaj Gupta, remote healthcare service delivery using the Internet
Bright Simons, mPedigree (Ghana)
Kristin Peterson, inveneo, USA NGO (will recruit school children)
Russell Southwood, Balancing Act-Africa
Bill Woodcock, Packet Clearing House - US
Electronic Arts… Education Games Developer (TBD) -US
DiploFoundation fellow - rep. of the government of the developing country (TBD)
DiploFoundation will recruit youth among their communities …
Robert Pepper, Cisco - US
Jackie Ruff, Verizon - US
Bhatia Virat, AT&T - India
Chris Steck, Telefonica –SPAIN
Danny Weitzner, USA Government Official
Alberto Mingardi, Instituto Bruno Leoni, NGO Italy
Garland McCoy, Technology Education Institute, NGO USA (Remote Moderator)
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Technology Education Institute NGO
DiploFoundation NGO
Packet Clearing House NGO
Inveneo NGO
Organization:Technology Education Institute
Contact Person: Garland McCoy
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112: Securing the future of Youths through ICT's
Concise Description:
The Workshop will entail disseminating results of a study that was launched in Kampala on November
18th 2011.
The study whose findings are to be disseminated, aimed at assessing the impact of youth-based
initiatives in the East Africa region in order to identify key drivers of success, to generate replicable
lessons and to provide suggestions for future planning and policy formulation to address issues of
youth unemployment.
The study was conceptualized in the context of on-going efforts to address problems and challenges
related to youth unemployment in the East Africa region and participants invited included policy
makers, implementers of unique youth initiatives and other stakeholders from the East African region.
This research undertook a case study of the KiBO model within broader ICT-based youth interventions
in the region, in order to generate lessons and suggestions for future planning and policy formulation
in the area of youth education, employment and empowerment through ICTs
The study was undertaken by Makerere University and was funded by Canada’s International
Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? No
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Infectious Diseases Institute (Uganda) - Dr Andrew Kambugu
American Research Foundation - Mr Joshua Kyallo
Ministry of Youth (Rwanda) - Mr Shemakorera Emmanuel
Presidential Advisor on ICT/Member of the KiBO Advisory Board - Dr Ham Mulira
Remote Moderator : Dr Pwang
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Anatharius Asingwire - Researcher, Makerere University
Denis Muhangi - Researcher, Makerere University
Abraham Kibo - Founders, The KiBo Foundation
Freda Wamala - Management Consultant, the KiBO Foundation
Makerere University has undertaken research on youth related issues for various stakeholders.
The KiBO Foundation is is a social Enterprise that runs an innovative programme where youth are
transforming themselves and their communities by effective application of technology in the
workplace and as entrepreneurs.
Organization:The KiBo Foundation
Contact Person: Freda Wamala
113: Access and Diversity of Broadband Internet Access
Concise Description:
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Access to Internet services concerns human rights and fundamental freedom, as well as the exercise of
democratic citizenship. Access and diversity are not an aim in itself. Access and diversity are
important for democracy and human rights because they ensure the individual’s right to information
and participation in political, social, cultural and economic life.
As computers become more pervasive in the western world, it can be easy to forget that not every
country has equal access to key digital resources and infrastructure. Broadband speed Internet is
almost considered a necessity in many developed countries today, and yet many people in parts of the
developing world do not have any ability to go online at all. The statistics by International
Telecommunication Union shows that in spite of rapid growth of Internet use around the world, the
global Information and Communications Technology (ICT) development has been quite slow, with the
internet users worldwide accounting to just 30.1 percent. With only 30% world population having
access to Internet means around two billions of people are disconnected or with no information service
at all. However, the many important issues at stake – such as preventing or at least reducing the risk of
an excessive fragmentation of the Internet; the structure of opportunities provided by the public
policies within each country; protecting the rights of all the stakeholders, while defining their
responsibilities; public and private initiatives towards IT education and training, investment in science
and technology; the costs of ISP services; and the regulation of telecommunications; safeguarding end
users from crimes and abuses; and finally encouraging every opportunity for further development –
have made it obvious that issues of Internet governance need to be brought into the spotlight and
discussed.
A completely connected world allows for a vast new sphere of possibilities the most prominent being
improvement for humanity is simple: Universal access to information will allow people the
opportunity to make informed decisions.
The proposed Round Table discussion on access and diversity of broadband internet services will bring
together key personnel, researchers, and scientific application researchers in the domain of broadband
internet services from across the globe. The purpose of the discussion is to identify the needs and
opportunities associated with access and diversity of broadband internet services. With a
multidisciplinary approach, the workshop will focus on the actions that the governments should take in
the framework of national development policies, their means of implementation; developing and
strengthening national, regional and international broadband network infrastructure, including delivery
by satellite and other systems; broadening access to orbital resources, global frequency harmonization
and global systems standardization; encouraging public/private partnership; promoting the provision of
global high-speed satellite services for underserved areas such as remote and sparsely populated areas;
thereby facilitating improved access. The workshop shall facilitate and provide a knowledge sharing
platform for an invigorating discussion on the challenges and opportunities the internet access pose for
policy makers and the broader Internet community; taking into account relevant solutions already in
place in developing countries and countries with economies in transition, to provide sustainable
connectivity and access to remote and marginalized areas at national and regional levels.
Goals:
• Identifying workable implementing mechanism to arrest the technical, commercial and policy
obstacles for achieving universal affordable access to infrastructure
• Prioritising the role of Internet governance globally to enable a movement towards a participatory
and inclusive internet
• Identifying the main current obstacles to access to knowledge and content online
• Identifying a way forward to achieve a universal affordable access to broadband internet access
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Key themes for discussion:
• Engage in a comprehensive understanding on the regulatory and policy options to address the
technical, commercial and policy obstacles within the purview of broadband Internet services in a
global context.
• Develop a monitoring mechanism module to address the challenges in Internet and Broadband access.
• Capacity Building of the stakeholders – How?
• Role of Public Private Partnerships in strengthening the delivery of broadband Internet services
• Roles of policymakers and the broader Internet community to access to online knowledge and
content
• Best practices: Country Perspectives? Way forward.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposa
ls2009View&wspid=150
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
• Rebecca Arbogast, Managing Director, Stifel Nicolaus, email: rarbogast@stifel.com
• Dr. Nikitas A. Alexandridis, Professor - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, CoDirector of the High-Performance Computing Lab , Email: nalexandridis@gmail.com
• Naimur Rahman Director, OneWorld South Asia, Email: naimur.rahman@oneworld.net
• Christian Daigneault Chief Technology Officer CSL, email: daigneault@gmail.com
• Mr. Anthony Mugeere Policy Associate Collaboration on International ICT Policy For East and
Southern Africa (CIPESA) Email: anthony@cipesa.org
• Mr. Vincent Waiswa Bagiire Executive Director Collaboration on International ICT Policy For East
and Southern Africa (CIPESA), Email: vincent@cipesa.org
• Mr. Issah Yahaya, Head, Policy Planning Monitoring & Evaluation/Telecom, Ministry of
Communications, Ghana, Email: issah.yahaya@ties.itu.int
• Ms. Eskedar Nega, Programme Officer-ICT Policy and Development, United Nations Economic
Commission for Africa (UNECA), Email: enega@uneca.org
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Centre for Science, Development & Media Studies (CSDMS)
The organisation has executed projects, nationally and internationally, for ministries like Department
of Science and Technology, Department of Information Technology, Govt. of India, etc. and for
internationally acclaimed funders like World Health Organisation (WHO), Media Lab Asia, United
Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organisation (UNESCO), Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), International
Development Research Centre (IDRC), etc. All the projects have been completed to the ultimate
satisfaction of the funders.
Organization:Centre for Science Development and Media Studies (CSDMS)
Contact Person: Ravi Gupta
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126: Internet for Democratic Participation of Vulnerable People in Public Life-Best Practices
Exchange
Concise Description:
In proposing this workshop we refer to the paragraph 13 of the Geneva Declaration of principles:
“…we shall pay particular attention to the special needs of marginalized and vulnerable groups of
society…”. Paragraph 90 (n) of the Tunis Agenda on the Information Society reinforces this statement.
We subscribe to the general theme of the IGF 2011 “Internet as a catalyst of change” and would like to
initiate a discussion on how Internet governance and innovative approaches in this field could make
the Internet more inclusive and participatory taking into account the needs of socially excluded groups
and in particular include into the Building process of Information Society opinions and Initiatives of
the people with migrant background.
The present workshop proposal is the result of the conclusions of the workshop n°109 that was held
during the IGF 2010. One of the conclusion points’ was to continue discussions concerning the use of
ICT by people with migrant background but also to propose concrete actions in cooperation with
different actors.
The Internet could be a catalyst for change; it is also a perfect tool that allows people with a migrant
background to learn more about their citizenship and the citizenship of residence. These people
represent a fragile group due to their particular vulnerability. Using ICTs and the Internet they can then
more easily participate in public life at different levels. Internet can grant them the possibility and the
motivation to fully discover and enjoy their rights of citizens. Accordingly the Internet can be a
catalyst for change that will include and motivate active citizenship and the participation of all in the
Building Process of Information Society.
The purpose of this workshop is to share the best of worldwide existing models of ICT by vulnerable
people (people with migrant background and those socially excluded) for a better integration into the
Building Process of Information Society and more participation in public life. We would also discuss
and emphasize the experience we have gained during the implementation of the presented projects and
models. We would like to present Initiatives instigated by different actors, i.e. private sector, public
sector, civil society, local authorities and politicians for different categories of vulnerable people
(youth, elderly people, active citizens, unemployed, and victims of trafficking).
We also wish to share experiences on how the use of Internet can assist people with a migrant
background and help them cope with a number of difficulties (literacy, digital divide, Internet access in
a number of areas), the dangers and risks (different types of exploitation, online risks and safe Internet,
information on their rights and responsibilities, access to information on legal and administrative
aspects) in order to fully enjoy their Human Rights and be an integrated part of the public life.
The question of inclusive Internet and of the participation of people with a migrant background and
those socially excluded in the global Information society is more and more crucial, due to the recent
events worldwide and various political changes.
The objective is also to launch the discussion as to which steps to undertake next and to try to answer
the following questions:
-Should we carry on sharing and exchanging this type of experience in future?
-How best take into account national or regional priorities?
-What should our next step be in order to solve the question on how to include into the Building
Process of Information Society this type of population worldwide and not only in a number of regions?
-What are the specific issues and questions regarding this type of population and its participation in
public life?
-What can be done for fragile people with a migrant background in order to motivate active citizenship
of this target group?
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
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If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=109
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Mr Henri Malosse- EESC, President of Employers'Group
Ms Luisa Maia Gonçalves- Director of the Department for Criminal Investigation, Surveillance and
Intelligence Immigration and Borders Service/Minister of Interior of Portugal/European Committee on
Migration/Council of Europe expert
Mr 'Gbenga Sesan- Executive Director of Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN)/Microsoft Nigeria
Ms Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro- Group Legal Regulatory Officer, Telecom Fiji Limited
Ms Bianca Schulz- European Consumer Centre,Director,
France/Germany
Mr John Kearns- Chief Executive, Patras,Get Tallaght Working (GTW)/Private sector/Ireland
Ms Fadoua Oualla- Foundation CajaGranada,CajaGranada,Civil Society/Spain
Young people message from the First French Youth IGF simulation meeting, Youth, France
Ms Elvana Thaçi- Remote moderator/Council of Europe Administrator, Media and Information
Society Division
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
TaC-Together against Cybercrime- NGO, Civil Society/Research
Organization:TaC-Together against Cybercrime
Contact Person: Ms Yuliya MORENETS
129: Media in Mutation: What Is The Future of The News and Media Industry In a World Of
Social Networking?
Concise Description:
Sites such as Facebook and YouTube have led to a huge increase in the amount of user generated
content. Social networking and new technologies mean mobile data consumption has exploded. With
700 million Facebook users and 1 billion mobile internet subscribers people can now access Internet
content anytime, anywhere.
How many people rely on blogs and Twitter for their news rather than a newspaper and how far can
we trust the accuracy of what we read on the Internet? This workshop will look at the changes to the
way Internet content is generated and used and what this might mean for the future of traditional media.
The discussion will be informed by recent work that the UK IGF has done on scenario planning and
will explore issues such as:
• Who owns user generated content?
• Freedom of expression
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• Deleting content & the right to be forgotten
• Trust – To what extent do people implicitly trust everything they read online and what are the
implications? What responsibility does this place on the authors of content?
• Will the quantity of information distort our understanding?
• How will people interpret multiple versions of stories/ events etc?
• What are the threats from user-generated content to commit crimes or cause harm to people and
organisations?
• What are the issues for Copyright/IP protection?
• How might user-generated news reporting affect the way the traditional media work? What will this
mean for the future of journalism?
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=112
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=114
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Lord Richard Allan, European Policy Director, Facebook
Anriette Esterhuysen, Association for Progressive Communication
Youth delegation from UK & East Africa
Journalism student from the University of Creative Arts
International journalist, blogger,
Representative from Mobile content sector from a developing country
Copyright/IP protection
Active engagement with Parliamentary representatives
Note: the role of the panel will be to try to develop discussion with the workshop participants.
Remote Moderator - Kieren McCarthy
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Nominet (Industry) on behalf of the UK-IGF. We also want to bring in co-organisers from other
countries.
Organization:Nominet
Contact Person: Laura Hutchison
137: Mainstreaming the Disability Perspective for an Inclusive Society
Concise Description:
This workshop looks at mainstreaming the disability perspective and the future of accessibility. For
society to be truly inclusive of persons with disabilities, steps must be taken in law, policy and practice
to ensure that the disability perspective is mainstreamed. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities (UNCRPD) emphasizes the importance of mainstreaming disability issues as an
integral part of relevant strategies for sustainable development.
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This workshop looks to efforts around the world regarding the future of accessibility: It begins with an
update on activities concerning the UNCRPD and initiatives seeking to close the gaps in
mainstreaming. For example, what are the gaps in Internet governance? How do we maintain
accessibility to information and services when technology and mobile devices are converging to an IP
platform? In North America, what gaps in Internet accessibility are being addressed by the new U.S.
legislation, the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act? What is the perspective of
a South American on web accessibility laws? Looking to India, what are the challenges for persons
with mental disabilities with respect to the Internet? From a global perspective, how does cloud
computing play a role in this strategy for accessibility? Relay Services for Persons with hearing and
speech difficulties have a place in sustainable development and but what will that look like on the
Internet? Accessible Relay services and Broadcasting ( including IPTV) over the internet are being
studied in the new ITU Focus Group on Audiovisual Media Accessibility, led by ITU-T, ITU-R and
EBU. Finally, what are the UN organizations doing to address the future of accessibility and the
disability perspective?
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Panelists include the following:
Gerry Ellis, Consultant in Usability and Accessibility under the name Feel The BenefIT.
Peter Major, Special advisor, Hungarian Mission to the UN, Geneva.
Arun Mehta, President, Bidirectional Access Promotion Society, bapsi.org
Jorge Plano, The Internet Society (ISOC), Argentina Chapter
Arnoud van Wijk, Real-Time Text Taskforce, the Netherlands
Cynthia Waddell, Law, Policy and Technology Consultant, ICDRI
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
members of the Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability (DCAD)
Organization:ITU/United Nations
Contact Person: Preetam Maloor
138: HOW CAN WE REACH THE MEDIA HAVE-NOTS OF THE DEVELOPED
AND DEVELOPING WORLDS?
Concise Description:
Video and Audio media will become the predominant traffic on the Internet in future, and broadcast
services continue to expand in spite of predictions to the contrary. Media ‘access technologies’ will
become ever more necessary and valuable to those who have disabilities and to those not yet literate.
In 2011, ITU-T established a Focus Group on media accessibility, open to all interested parties, to
bring together the requirements and systems across all the different media platforms – Internet, IPTV,
and Broadcasting. The bold aim is to unify access system technologies across the world and across all
media.
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The group will face many challenges to achieving its objectives. One will be to understand the
different priorities of developed and developing nations. The Focus group will also need to hear and
act on the voices of those who will really use the access services, rather than the politicians.
The Session will bring together panellists from across the world and across the different media to help
the dream of the Focus group a reality.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
TBD
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
Organization:ITU/United Nations
Contact Person: Preetam Maloor
144: Human Rights Come First - A Constitutional Moment for Internet Governance
Concise Description:
The 1st phase of the World Summit on the Information Society ended with a declaration of principles
also known as the Geneva Principles. Since then, there have been initiatives to consolidate Internet
governance principles in different parts of the world including Brazil and the European Union. The
Council of Europe is currently working to finalise a set of ten Internet governance principles which are
aimed at providing some guidance for Internet policy-making in 47 Council of Europe member states.
The IRP Dynamic Coalition has put together 10 Rights and Principles and fleshed-out a Charter of
Human Rights and Principles for the Internet. The National Telecommunications and Information
Administration of the U.S. Commerce Department has introduced Internet policy-making principles to
OECD discussions. In the Vilnius IGF Vint Cerf said that we should be interested in an international
proliferation treaty of Internet governance principles.
Internet governance discussions seem to have moved away from questions such as who should govern
the Internet and in which process to questions focusing on the values on the basis of which Internet
should be governed. Is this a constitutional moment for Internet governance? What are the
fundamental values that should inform Internet-related policy-making? What are the values that should
constrain Internet governance arrangements?
The objective of this workshop is to take stock of various initiatives aimed at defining core values of
Internet governance and to promote an understanding of Internet governance based on the protection of
human rights and fundamental freedoms.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
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http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshopsr
eports2009View&curr=1&wr=55
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
TBC
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
TBC
Organization:Council of Europe
Contact Person: Elvana Thaçi
145: Do gentlemen's agreements work for Internet sustainability?
Concise Description:
Risks of disruption to the stable and continuous functioning of the network, technical failures and
interference with Internet infrastructure may challenge the exercise of fundamental rights and
freedoms on the Internet across borders. The private sector takes systematic action to address
vulnerabilities and risks. Computer emergency response teams engage in cross-border cooperation.
Can we call this mission accomplished? Is there a need to acknowledge such cooperation in
international law? What are the most viable options for international action to ensure Internet freedom,
universality, integrity and openness? Common principles and standards emerging from processes
which involve corporations, civil society, lobbies and bureaucrats? International law agreements?
What are the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders?
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshopsr
eports2009View&curr=1&wr=55
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
TBC
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
TBC
Organization:Council of Europe
Contact Person: Elvana Thaçi
147: Use of Latin and Native Languages on the Internet
Concise Description:
This workshop has been organized in the IGF of Sharm el Sheik and in the IGF of Vilnius and we plan
to organize it for the third time in Kenya.
Although some Latin languages like Spanish and Portuguese are spoken by hundreds of million people,
there is not a direct relationship with these figures and the presence of these languages on the Internet.
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Even more challenging is the situation of native languages in the Internet, which are also challenged
even in their national environment.
Although there seem to be many barriers, there are also several projects and examples that show that
from different perspectives, goverment, private sector, NGOs and academy, these difficulties can be
solved and languages can find their way in the Internet.
The workshop will review again the challenges that these languages face in the Internet, both from the
content perspective and also from the IDNs and other diversity innitiatives, and will review also
successful stories of lowering existing barriers for these languages.
A prospective revision through the outcomes of the other two workshops will be done as well.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=27
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Raúl Echeberría, Executive Director, LACNIC (to be confirmed)
Oscar Messano, President LACNIC and President EcomLAC.
Vanessa Fusco Nogueira Simoes, Ministerio de Justicia de Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Guenther Cyranek - UNESCO Regional MERCOSUR and Chile Office Adivisor (to be confirmed)
Nacho Amadoz, Policy and Regulations Manager, Fundacio .cat. (to be confirmed)
Jorge Vega Iracelay, Microsoft Legal and Corporate Affairs Senior Director for Mexico.
Alberto Perez, Deputy Director for International Relations and for RedIRIS.(to be confirmed)
Jesús Jiménez Segura - Instituto Cervantes (to be confirmed)
Jorge Pérez Martínez - Foro de la Gobernanza de Internet en España (to be confirmed)
Ana Olmos - Foro de la Gobernanza de Internet en España (to be confirmed)
Adrián Carballo, South SSIG Institutional Relations Director.
Gorka Orueta, Universidad del País Vasco
Olga Cavalli, Regional Director, South School on Internet Governance - Panel moderator
Remote moderator: Gorka Orueta, Universidad del País Vasco
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Olga Cavalli, Director South School on Internet Governance
Adrián Carballo, Director Institutional Relations South School on Internet Governance
Organization:South School on Internet Governance
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Contact Person: Olga Cavalli
163: Right to Information, Internet Access & Inclusive Development
Concise Description:
Information is power, information leads to empowerment and contributes in broad based development.
If this has real essence in our contemporary societies, especially in underdeveloped and developing
societies, then the ever felt need to address information poverty is all the more a pressing necessity in
the 21st century. Continued information deprivation has kept millions globally out of the development
and growth indices in respective nation states and thereby denied a basic human right to live with
dignity. Continued information stifling and centralized structures at the behest of resourceful agencies,
groups, including public agencies have become source of power and wealth display, display of tilted
knowledge and economic growth in favour of a small percentage of beneficiaries. Withholding
information has determined many a political and governmental structures and now social upheavals in
many countries.
The fact of the matter is – information flow and decentralization is directly proportional to wider and
inclusive development towards a widening cushion to absorb political, social and economic unrest. If
this is so, then how and why Internet as a vehicle of transformation is and ought to play a profound
role to ensure basic right to information for every citizen especially at the bottom of the pyramid. How
Internet can play a crucial role towards egalitarian and inclusive societies while addressing
development and digital divides? What policy and programme support is and ought to be available to
determine the same.
Governments of the day (few) have adopted measures within the larger governance framework towards
informed development and governance processes. The right to information (RTI) is the Queensland
Government's approach in Australia to giving the community greater access to information. The new
legislation-the Right to Information Act 2009 and the Information Privacy Act 2009-replaces the
Freedom of Information Act 1990 effective 1 July 2009. Article 7(3) of the Bhutan Constitution states,
“Bhutanese citizen shall have the right to information”. The Right to Information Bill (RTI), first
drafted in 2002, aims to provide the public of Ghana windows of access to government held
information. The bill has undergone many revisions since then and was finally laid before Parliament
on February 5, 2010. While the Bill makes a fair attempt to grant maximum access to information to
the people of Ghana, certain provisions still calls for revision to ensure the people of Ghana maximum
benefit.
The Right to Information Act 2009 commenced on 1 July 2010 in Tasmania and provides for greater
access to information held by government bodies. The RTI Act in Bangladesh was put into force in
April 2009. The Act makes provisions for ensuring free flow of information and people’s right to
information. The Right to Information Act 2005 in India mandates timely response to citizen requests
for government information. It is an initiative taken by Department of Personnel and Training,
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions to provide a– RTI Portal Gateway to the
citizens for quick search of information on the details of first Appellate Authorities,PIOs etc. amongst
others, besides access to RTI related information / disclosures published on the web by various Public
Authorities under the government of India as well as the State Governments.
In the midst of many an efforts, the adoption of Information Communication Technology (ICT)
especially the Internet is seen to be deployed as a public medium to put public and important
information resources on public domain. However, existing efforts is seen as just a drop in ocean and
in majority of cases are non-policy and non-legal and non-constitutional measures lacking teeth.
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The larger perspective is and could be – how information access to public welfare data and content
becomes a basic and fundamental right and how the role of Internet is twined towards this
transformational change.
PROPOSED WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
1. Understand Information as a basic human right and scope and challenges in realizing the same;
2. Exploring the ways and means towards enabling right to information as a constitutional, legal and
governance measure towards informed and wider participative development process;
3. Gauge the role and scope of Internet in facilitating information led development process in all its
governance and policy perspective;
4. Understand and analyse the policy scope, gaps and hurdles in twining information decentralization
process with Internet led transformational change.
TENTATIVE WORKSHOP THEMES
THEME 1: ‘INFORMATION POVERTY, INFORMATION DECENTRALISATION & INCLUSIVE
GROWTH’
THEME 2: ‘INTERNET
ADAPTABILITY’
ACCESS,
INFORMATION
EMPOWERMENT
&
POLICY
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2010Vie
w&wspid=197
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
PROBABLE PANELISTS
1. Shankar Aggarwal, Additional Secretary, Dept of IT, Government of India
2. Dr. Govind, CEO, National Internet Exchange of India, Dept of IT, Govt. of India
3. Prof. Peng Hwa Ang, Chairman, Asian Media Information and Communication Centre Wee Kim
Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE
4. Mohammad Abdul Haque, Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum
5. Shahzad Ahmad , Co-Founder, Bytes for All , Pakistan
6. Axel Leblois, Executive Director, G3ict - Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs , USA
7. Dr. Basheerhamad Shadrach, Executive Director, Telecentre.org
8. Ricardo Pedraza-Barrios, VeriSign
9. Connie Jean Kendig, Sponsored Programs and Grants Manager, Internet Society (ISOC), USA
10. Tulika Pandey , Director, Dept of IT, Govt. of India
11. Deepak Maheshwari, Director (Corporate Affairs), Microsoft, India
12. Rajnesh Singh, Regional Bureau Manager for Asia, Internet Society
REMOTE MODERATOR: Ms. Chitranganie Mubarak, Senior Program Head, e-Society, ICTA, Sri
Lanka
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
New Delhi based Digital Empowerment Foundation (www.defindia.net) shall be the organizer of the
aforementioned workshop. DEF is affiliated and work closely with Vienna based World Summit
Award. In fact, the annual Manthan Award for Best e-Content for Development organized by DEF is
in consonance and guidance of WSA. DEF’s affiliation to WSA is half a decade now. DEF was
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associated with the two rounds of World Summit of Information Society (WSIS). The Manthan Award
platform is itself a multi-stakeholder group that DEF has promoted since 2003. DEF is affiliated and
associated to India based Mission 2007 platform which is a national platform to promote ICT in every
village in India.
DEF was one of the workshop organizers (Workshop 7: Low Cost Sustainability Access) during IGF
2008 in Hyderabad in India from 3-6 December 2008. In 2009 IGF, DEF & NIXI together organized
Workshop No: 243: `Broadening Mobile Content & Sustainable Access’, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
DEF organized workshop No. 197 on ‘Local Language Content, Access Transformation & Digital
Inclusion’ in Vilnius in Lithuania.
In regard to the proposed workshop theme above, DEF is committed to adhere to multi-stakeholder
principle, geographical diversity and gender balance by adopting key steps. DEF is to adhere that the
aforementioned workshop that DEF would organize has participants from diverse aspects of Internet
governance including technology, service delivery, content, access and affordability of Internet and so
on. The geographical diversity would be met by organizing the workshop with participants from South
Asian countries and Asia Pacific Region especially, at least covering five countries. Equally important
is for DEF is to consider participation of women representatives in the proposed workshop. This will
not only add value to the workshop but also give a crucial input on how gender perspective and aspects
are important in Internet Governance.
CO-ORGANISERS / PARTNERS
Once again DEF is set to organize this important workshop in association with National Internet
Exchange of India (Dept of IT, India). Further, DEF is exploring partners to co-organise this vital
workshop and consultations have been initiated with APC, ISOC and others. DEF is keen to receive
key resource support through this partnership in successful conduct of this workshop.
Organization:Digital Empowerment Foundation
Contact Person: Osama Manzar
185: Do Policymakers Understand The Role Of Libraries In Mobilising The Internet As A
Catalyst For Development, Innovation And Freedom?
Concise Description:
This workshop will discuss the findings of a recent study of perceptions of public libraries by policy
makers in 6 countries in Africa. The study reveals that policy makers still think of libraries in terms of
printed media, and not as spaces for catalysing internet access and use. Yet there is substantial
evidence that innovative and ICT enabled public library services contribute to development. Case
studies will be presented to demonstrate how some developing countries have made use of
ICTs in libraries to mobilise the internet for development. The workshop will be interactive and
engage participants in helping to identify mechanisms that can convince policy makers to recognise the
potential of internet in libraries to strengthen access and diversity.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=156
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Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Moderator: Anriette Esterhuysen, Director, APC (not for profit): Panellists: Richard Atuti, Director
Kenya National Library Service (government), Geoffrey Kimani, Director of Research and Insights,
TNS International (research firm), Rima Kupryte, Director, EIFL (not for profit), Anriette Esterhuysen,
Director, APC (not for profit), Government representative from Latin America or Lithuania/Finland (to
be confirmed)
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
EIFL - http://www.eifl.net (not for profit), APC - www.apc.org (not for profit), Kenya National
Library Board (Government) and TNS International (business), Government of Argentina (to be
confirmed)
Organization:EIFL - Electronic Information for Libraries
Contact Person: Rosalie Lack
188: Transforming Higher Education through Broadband– Maximizing the Opportunities
Concise Description:
Maximizing the value and impact of broadband on education, and in particular higher education, is a
fundamentally important issue for the next generation of any country or region. Broadband access,and
the opportunities for the youth and the next generations, are an essential element of the future of the
information and knowledge society as well as national economic and social development. The recent
landings of undersea cables and investment in fiber and wireless broadband infrastructures position the
East Africa region well to lead in transforming higher education and research institutions through
broadband and fixed and mobile access to the Internet.
This workshop will build on the East Africa ICT & Higher Education Symposium, held 28-29 June
2010 in Kampala, Uganda. That multistakeholder event, the first of its kind, brought together
representatives from five East African governments, universities, industry, non-governmental
organizations and other ICT and educational and research experts. In line with the IGF 2011 theme of
“Internet as a catalyst for change: access, development, freedoms and innovation”, this workshop will
focus on the changes anticipated in higher education, the experiences to date including challenges
faced and opportunities learned. The workshop will also seek to identify and address practical issues
and opportunities universities face as they ready themselves to take full advantage of broadband
connectivity.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=28
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
(Panelists and confirmed speakers, additions, will be added and updated)
Kenyan Ministry for Information and Communication (tbc)
Uganda Martyrs University (UMU) (tbc)
Internet Society (name to be provided)
International business (name to be provided)
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Kenya Education Network Trust (name to be provided)
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
(Note – this section will be updated).
Internet Society (technical community)
Kenya Education Network Trust (KENET) (academia)
Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) (civil society)
Verizon Communications (international business)
Organization:Verizon Communications
Contact Person: Theresa Swinehart
197: Legal Pol
Concise Description:
The fast track process for IDNs has begun in ICANN for the purposes of looking at IDNs. However,
what are the legal and policy aspects pertaining to IDNs across the world? How are the existing
policies addressing the same and how are governments across the world trying to address these issues
– these are some of the aspects that are sought to be covered by the proposed workshop on legal issues
pertaining to IDNs.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? No
If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Representatives of National Governments
Representatives of National Internet Registries
Representative of RIRs
Representatives of academic and linguistic institutions
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
INDIAN PRIVACY FOUNDATION - NO AFFILIATION
Organization:INDIAN PRIVACY FOUNDATION
Contact Person: PAVAN DUGGAL
199: The Future of the Internet and its impact on the world: A Scenarios Summit
Concise Description:
The Future of the Internet and its impact on the world: A Scenarios Summit
Proposed size and duration: 150-300 participants; 3 hours
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In an effort to understand the future of the Internet and its role as a catalyst for change, many
organizations have used scenario planning tools to try to assess possible directions and to prepare for
them. Scenarios planning is a methodology used widely in business and increasingly in the public and
non-profit sectors to allow organizations to anticipate how the future may turn out. It is particularly
useful in an environment of great uncertainty, and has been used to guide decision making by major
groups like the World Economic Forum, and multinational corporations like Shell and Cisco.
Scenario planning is neither guesswork nor statistical analysis. It is a structured process to help
organizations break free from ties to "the official future" to consider other possibilities that they may
confront. The stories that result from this process are intended to reveal plausible courses of events, not
probable ones. Scenarios try to take into account real events, data and trends which may have various
outcomes in their impact. While scenarios are imaginative, they are intended to make people and
organizations aware of possibilities that could have an impact.
Scenarios have been used extensively to explore the world’s economic survival, climate change
impacts and other critical uncertainties. The future for the Internet is a classic example of where
scenarios have been and could be used to great effect: its development so far has been rapid and often
unpredictable. So have its impacts, as online access to the Internet and WWW is rapidly altering
societies, economies and politics. One of the world’s most rapidly expanding technological
mechanisms, the Internet, and the vast realm of content and applications it connects is still very young
and emergent in how it is impacting the world’s citizens, businesses and governments. How can those
working on Internet governance best make use of scenario planning for the future of the Internet and
its impact on the world?
The purpose of this session is twofold:
• Present to IGF participants a wide range of scenarios on the future of the world and the future of the
Internet: are Internet scenarios taking into consideration major changes in social, political and
economic systems? Are global scenarios considering how changes in Internet technologies, content
and services will affect economic, social and political development?
• Bring together people from all walks of life who have applied scenario planning methodologies to try
to understand the future of the world and the future of the internet to talk about their experiences: what
questions did they try to address? What approaches did they use? What were the outcomes? Were the
outcomes useful? What could be improved? How can scenario planning be used to improve our
approach to Internet governance and public policy issues related to the Internet?
The session will be structured as follows:
1. Introduction of Scenario processes/Scenario stories
Ten minute overview – speaker/session moderator to be determined.
2. Presentations of three to four major global scenarios:
• Mark Musgrove, CISCO [tbc]: CISCO and the Global Business Network: The Evolving Internet: A
look ahead to 2025
• The Internet Society: Internet Futures scenarios
• The World Economic Forum Digital Ecosystem Scenarios
• Shell Global Scenarios Group: 2011 energy and economics “Signals and Signposts”
3. Moderated round table with discussants from a cross section of sectors and interests in global
change and the Internet/online world.
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Round Table Participants (provisional: not all have been approached at time of deadline):
• Bill Graham (or alternate), Internet Society
• Matt Billot (or alternate), Head, Global Environmental Outlook, United Nations Environment
Programme, Nairobi HQ
• Ben Akoh, on behalf of the West Africa Internet Governance Forum, and IISD
• Marilyn Cade, on behalf of IGF USA
• M.T. Dlamini, M.M. Eloff or J.H.P Eloff, Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and
Applications Conference
• Tapio Levä, Heikki Hämmäinen, or Kalevi Kilkki, Department of Communications and Networking,
TKK Helsinki University of Technology
• Evelyn Rono, Chair, Women’s network, East Africa
• Youth Participant(s)
• Chair, Lebanon Communications Commission
Outcomes from the summit:
Rapporteurs will help to identify key findings/outcomes regarding how scenarios can support
considerations of policy outcomes in Internet Governance
•A short statement on key considerations connecting Internet and Global Futures
•Framework for use of scenarios for national and regional Internet policy and planning processes –
pros and cons from experiences to date
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=49;
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshopsr
eports2009View&curr=1&wr=48
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Mark Musgrove, CISCO : CISCO and the Global Business Network: The Evolving Internet: A look
ahead to 2025 [Affiliation: Private Sector]
Bill Graham (or alternate) The Internet Society: Internet Futures scenarios [Affiliation: Independent
international organization]
The World Economic Forum Digital Ecosystem Scenarios [Affiliation: independent international
organization
Shell Global Scenarios Group [Affiliation: Private Sector]
Matt Billot (or alternate), Head, Global Environmental Outlook, United Nations Environment
Programme, Nairobi HQ [Affiliation: Intergovernmental organization]
Ben Akoh, on behalf of the West Africa Internet Governance Forum, and IISD [Affiliation:
Multistakeholder group and NGO]
Marilyn Cade, on behalf of IGF USA [Affiliation: Multistakeholder group]
M.T. Dlamini, M.M. Eloff or J.H.P Eloff, Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and
Applications Conference [Affiliation: Industry association]
Tapio Levä, Heikki Hämmäinen, or Kalevi Kilkki, Department of Communications and Networking,
TKK Helsinki University of Technology [Affiliation: Academic]
Evelyn Rono, Chair, Women’s network, East Africa [Affiliation: NGO]
Youth Participant(s)
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Chair, Lebanon Communications Commission [Affiliation: Government]
Session moderator and remote moderator tbc
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Internet Society [Affiliation: Independent International organization]
ICT Strategies on behalf of the US IGF [Affiliations: Multistakeholder group and private sectors]
International Institute for Sustainable Development [Affiliation: NGO]
Organization:IISD
Contact Person: Heather Creech
211: The Impact of Regulation: Open Source and Enterprise
Concise Description:
The workshop seeks to elaborate the definition of Open Source and Enterprise, in software, the
regulations on the online content and the impact. It will discuss in length, the following:
- Digital content: impact on the diversity on content production in developing countries?
- Application: What is the difference between Open Source application and Commercial version of
Open Source ?
- Hardware: Open source Middle ware/Hardware , is enterprise ready?
And finally we will explore, if cloud computing is an open Source adjacent?
This lively discussion, is meant to bring into perspective the real picture in the market and broaden the
minds of participants to realize the options available and come up with recommendations on what
needs to be considered to have a fair playing ground, more especially for the developing countries.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?%20chronoformname=Works
hopsreports2009View&curr=1&wr=43
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
1) Samer Azmy- ICT Manager / Solution Integration Consultant and Huawei
2) Yves Miezan Ezo- Manager of Smile Training
3) Nnenna Nwakanma- CEO, Nnenna.org
4) Dr. Katim Touray- ICANN Board Member
5) Evans Ikua- FOSS Certification Manager in the ict@innovation program
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
-Samer Azmy- FOSSFA(Pan-African)
-Yves Miezan- Smile Training Centre(Paris, France)
-Nnenna Nwakanma-Nnenna.org (Cote’ d’ Ivoire)
Organization:FOSSFA
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Contact Person: Samer Azmy
262: Internet Governance across cultures: Asia Pacific Region as a microcosm of the World of
Diversity Regional interests in a global setting
Concise Description:
Asia Pacific is a region of diverse ethnicities of numerous languages, languages that are not
etymologically related unlike the languages in the Europe and Americas. The cultural background, the
cultural diversity of Asia Pacific is also of a wider spectrum than the cultural diversity in the Europe,
Americas and Africa.
What are the special challenges in Internet Governance across Asia Pacific cultures? For instance,
IDNs are desired by the Asia Pacific region more than any other region in the world. How does Asia
Pacific hope to communicate across IDNs?
How does the region collaborate and how does it stay united as a region amidst all this diversity? And
across the regions, each different from the other, each with cultures on its own with so many languages,
so many different needs, How is unity in diversity achieved?
The topic will elicit an unrestrained discussion on ideologies, ethnic diversity, policies, politics,
conflicts and hopes. The idea of this workshop is to ask the Asia Pacific region to think transparently
and aloud in a global forum to identify problem areas and opportunities for the region and also
deliberate upon the theme diversity management in a Global Setting.
Expanded Questions: How does the region further its regional interests while being part of the whole?
How does the region tune its regional priorities to the global agenda? Is it against gloablism to be
concerned about the region? Is it a zero sum game to further regional interests? To what extent is it
appropriate to further regional interests and what comromises does the region make for the good of the
whole world? How would asia pacific region implement its regional Internet priorities while working
towards preserving the unity of the internet?
There are answers to some questions, some questions are asked to provoke thinking with a hope to lead
to solutions to problem areas that are yet to be foreseen, questions that are not yet raised, questions that
one shies away from asking. It is an Asia Pacific topic but the idea behind this topic is to prompt a
thought process about the pursuit of regional interests in tune with a global agenda.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Access and Diversity
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshopsr
eports2009View&curr=1&wr=64
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshopsr
eports2009View&curr=1&wr=71 http://coreinte
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
To invite Prof Hong Xue, ICANN At Large
To invite Katja Rembrandt, Director, Asia Pacific Diversity Foundation
Kumari Selja, Minister, Ministry of Culture, India
To Invite N Ravishankar, Ministry of Information Technology,
Government of India
(other panelists to be identified)
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
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Sivasubramanian M, ISOC India Chennai as an ICANN at Large Structure, to propose for sponsorship
of the ICANN Asia Pacific Regional At Large Organization
Organization:Isoc India Chennai At Large Structure
Contact Person: Sivasubramanian M
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6. Taking Stock and the Way Forward
10: Reflection on the Indian proposal towards an IGF 2.0
Session was changed from Managing Critical Internet Resource to Taking Stock and the Way Forward
Concise Description:
As a participant in the CSTD's Working Group on Improvements to the IGF, the Government of India
recently provided a set of "Proposed Improvements to IGF Outcomes, in Keeping with the UN General
Assembly Mandate". Although there was no consensus around this proposal, the ten suggested
improvements reflect proposals that some other countries and other stakeholder groups have also
previously aired. It is also one of the only relatively comprehensive written proposals on IGF outcomes
to emerge from the Working Group, and therefore provides a convenient starting point for further
discussion.
It was suggested in the proposal that the MAG identify key questions for the IGF to deliberate upon,
that a Working Group for each issue develop background material on it, to be considered by the IGF
through workshops, a roundtable discussion, and possible inter-sessional meetings, and that discussion
at the plenary level would result in an IGF report on each issue that would be transmitted to the CSTD
and other relevant bodies for their action and feedback.
Since it was not possible for the CSTD Working Group to fully discuss these suggestions, this
workshop is intended to provide a space to do so more fully. The workshop will provide an
opportunity for all stakeholders to consider the merits of the proposals as well as their shortcomings,
and consider whether and how to take such proposals forward.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Managing Critical Internet Resources
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=55
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Sivasubramanian M (ISOC India Chennai)
Wolfgang Kleinwachter (University of Aarhus)
Marilia Maciel (Center for Technology and Society - FGV Rio)
Government of India (name TBC)
Government of Brazil (TBC)
EU Commission (name TBC)
Remote moderator: Ginger Paque (TBC)
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus (Civil Society)
Consumers International (Civil Society)
ISOC India Chennai (Internet Technical Community)
Organization:Internet Governance Caucus
Contact Person: Jeremy Malcolm
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134: IGF improvements
Concise Description:
Improvements in the IGF are an ongoing item within the IGF, and have been a topic within the public
consultations and the MAG. The UN CSTD Working group [chartered by ECOSOC resolution 2010/2 ]
is undertaking an examination of proposed improvements, based on a number of public consultations.
A workshop on IGF improvements is useful as one of the workshops during the IGF 2011. We propose
a roundtable workshop format that includes the full range of stakeholders to discuss a broad range of
ideas and provide an opportunity to exchange perspectives on proposed improvements.
Participation in this Roundtable will include representation from the CSTD Working Group members
and other invited participants. Remote participation will be an integral part of this workshop including
real-time transcription, remote participation support and we would designate a remote moderator.
Substantive discussion within this Rroundtable/workshop: should will focus on responses to the CSTD
Working Group Questionnaire and efforts underway. W e envision an interactive discussion to
promote exchange and understanding from a broad range of stakeholders on the range of proposed
improvements.
We understand that other stakeholders are interested in proposing a workshop on IGF improvements as
well, and thus we would be pleased to work with others to organize an effective workshop. Given the
deadline for submitting proposals we are submitting this as a placeholder and look forward to
discussing ways to collaborate with other proposers on this
topic area.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Taking Stock and the Way Forward
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.iccwbo.org/uploadedFiles/BASIS/IGF_2010_ICC_BASIS_Kenya_worskshop_report.pdf
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
To be confirmed
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
To be confirmed
Organization:ICC BASIS
Contact Person: Ayesha Hassan
178: Institutional Choice in Global Internet Governance
Concise Description:
Global Internet governance comprises a highly distributed ecosystem of shared institutional
frameworks. These vary greatly along multiple dimensions, such as their social purposes, creation,
organizational settings, legal forms, strength, scope of issues, domain of actors, decision-making
procedures, functions, transparency and accountability, adaptability to change, and mechanisms for
monitoring, compliance, and conflict resolution. In addition, they vary in terms of the collective action
problems---such as the management of common pool resources and provision of public goods,
avoidance of collective bads, operation of joint facilities, coordination or harmonization of policies, or
the creation and distribution of rights and benefits---to which they respond, each of which may involve
distinctive incentive structures that influence the prospects for cooperation.
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While variations in institutional attributes and collective action problems have had clear and
consequential effects on the functional performance and stakeholder support of governance
frameworks, they have received relatively little focused attention in the IGF and related settings. That
is, discussions of global Internet governance frequently concentrate more on the issues to be managed
than on the structures of the frameworks through which they are managed. This approach makes it
more difficult to functionally rather than just politically assess the relative merits of the approaches
that have been taken and to draw lessons about what has worked well or less well. By extension, it also
complicates the evaluation of the many proposals now surfacing for new or revised governance
arrangements pertaining, inter alia, to enhanced cooperation on global public policies, the IANA
function, cybersecurity, the regulation of crossborder harm, the production of “outcomes” in the IGF,
the governance of the Internet of things, the further specification of human rights on the Internet, the
pursuit of a development agenda, the promotion of networked trade and intellectual property, and so
on.
Accordingly, the purposes of the proposed workshop are threefold:
1. To briefly survey what existing global Internet governance frameworks actually look like in terms of
institutional attributes and collective action problems, so as to identify the set of tools and parameters
we have to work with;
2. To consider the implications of new additions to the tool box, such as multistakeholder frameworks
like ICANN’s Affirmation of Commitments, and the potential scope of their generalizability; and
3. To consider which tools or combinations thereof might be most optimal with respect to proposals
for new or revised governance arrangements for the issues mentioned above.
The workshop would build on the workshop, Institutional Choice in Global Communications
Governance, held at the ITU’s WSIS Forum in Geneva, 17 May 2011. While the May version will be a
little different in panel composition and broader in focus (also covering non-Internet aspects of ICT
global governance), it will provide opportunities to fine-tune the approach and learn from its
experience in a different setting.
To make the discussion as concrete, accessible and engaging as possible, a background document
outlining the above background considerations would be made available and displayed. The
participants can then refer to its elements as needed, rather than methodically walk through them.
To make the discussion as interactive and participatory as possible, the workshop would eschew the
traditional model of serial talking heads giving prepare remarks. In advance of the meeting, the
moderator would propose to the panelists a structured set of questions addressing different dimensions
of the topic, which the group could collaboratively fine-tune as needed. During the workshop, these
would be used to elicit initial responses and back and forth exchanges between the panelists in order to
facilitate comparisons/contrasts between their respective positions. About half-way through the session,
the floor would be opened to bring the other attendees into the conversation.
Based on the organizer’s prior experiences employing this model in various international forums, a) it
may be possible to add another speaker or two to broaden the diversity of voices in the discussion
without resulting in a rushed and cramped conversation, since not all speakers will need to respond to
each comment, and the time allocations per person would be managed to keep things moving along;
and b) the result should be a lively dialogue that clarifies points of consensus and disagreement in a
manner that will facilitate the subsequent reporting of workshop messages/outcomes.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Taking Stock and the Way Forward
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Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=165
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
William J. Drake
International Fellow
Lecturer, Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
University of Zurich
Switzerland [moderator, academic/civil society]
Representative of the Ministry of Information and Communication
Government of Kenya [government]
Fiona Alexander
Associate Administrator (Head of Office) for International Affairs
National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Department of Commerce,
Government of the United States
USA [government]
Anriette Esterhuysen
Executive Director, Association for Progressive Communications
South Africa [civil society]
Markus Kummer
Vice President of Public Policy, The Internet Society
Switzerland [technical community]
Jeanette Hofmann
Research Fellow, The Social Science Research Center Berlin
Germany [academic/civil society]
Hong Xue
Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Internet Policy & Law, Beijing Normal University
China [academic/civil society]
Olga Cavalli
Director, South School on Internet Governance
Argentina [Remote Moderator, academic/civil society]
Others TBD
Remote Moderator TBD
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
University of Zurich, Switzerland [lead; academic]
Government of Kenya [government]
Federal Office of Communication, Government of Switzerland [government]
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Government of Argentina (TBC) [government]
Council of Europe [intergovernmental organization]
Association for Progressive Communications [civil society]
Institute for Internet Policy & Law, Beijing Normal University [academic/civil society]
Faculty of Social Sciences, the University of Buenos Aires [academic]
Others TBD
Organization:Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ University of Zurich
Contact Person: William J. Drake
182: Global Internet related public policies – Is there an Institutional Gap?
Concise Description:
Paragraph 60 of the Tunis Agenda acknowledges that “there are many cross-cutting international
public policy issues that require attention and are not adequately addressed by the current
mechanisms”. To fill this gap, the Agenda provides for the establishment of the Internet Governance
Forum (paragraph 72) and of a process of Enhanced Cooperation (paragraph 69 and 71).
UN General Assembly resolution on “Information and Communications technologies for
Development” (A/RES/65/141), adopted on December 2010, “Further recognizes that the Internet
governance-related outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society, namely the process
towards enhanced cooperation and the convening of the Internet Governance Forum, are to be pursued
by the Secretary-General through two distinct processes, and recognizes that the two processes may be
complementary”.
Currently, there are two important discussions related to the framework of the Internet Governance
regime. The first one is a process for improving the IGF with aim to link it to the broader dialogue on
Internet Governance, as mandated by the UN General Assembly Resolution 65/141. The second is a
discussion on the implementation of Enhanced Cooperation, “to enable governments, on an equal
footing, to carry out their roles and responsibilities, in international public policy issues pertaining to
the Internet”.
Both issues have been discussed separately, usually in different foras, and there have been insufficient
efforts to articulate them. Nevertheless, both topics are deeply connected. For instance: a more
outcome-oriented IGF is essential to supplement and complement any initiative under Enhanced
Cooperation to be put in place in the future.
This artificial compartmentalization creates obstacles to a clear and holistic understanding of the
proposals that have been advanced to improve the IG regime. This workshop aims to articulate these
two different, but related topics and to shed light on the debate about Enhanced Cooperation.
In the face of the proactive role played by India and Brazil on both discussions, civil society
organizations from both countries have joined together to organize this session, with the support and
participation of government representatives.
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The workshop will gather speakers with different views on the topic, representing several stakeholder
groups. Active moderation will ensure a dynamic discussion and encourage interventions from the
attendees.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Taking Stock and the Way Forward
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2
010View&wspid=126
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
3 representatives from governments of developing and developed countries – names TBC
1 representative from business sector or the technical community - names TBC
2 representatives from civil society - names TBC
Remote Moderator: Marília Maciel (CTS/FGV – Brazil)
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Parminder Jeet Singh – IT for Change, India (civil society)
Marília Maciel – Center for Technology and Society of the Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil (civil
society)
Organization:CTS/FGV
Contact Person: Marília Maciel
207: Is the Youth Factor Counting in IG? And Is IG Affecting the Youth?
Concise Description:
Is the youth factor counting in Internet Governance? and Is Internet Governance affecting the Youth?
In the last session of the IGF’s first phase (five year mandate), it became imperative that the
Youth are a stakeholder that have not been as actively involved as they should have in the process. Yet
there has been some active particiaption from a small group of these youth.
This workshop will raise and try to answer the following questions:
1. Has the IGF had any impact on the youth? Are young people affected by the
discussions in these for adults?
2. The growth of the internet is spurred by Innovation; Youth are the key drivers
in this scene, what policies should be in place not to hinder this as a key tool for
economic development in any government?
3. Are the youth, part of any policy creation? Should they be? What has hindered the
Youth and what can be done?
To answer these questions, we shall be aided by panelists drawn from different sectors
and of various ages, elaborating on their experiences and a lively discussion/ Q&A ,from
the audience, that will come up with recommendations on the importance of the Youth
engagement at the IGF, beginning from the National level to the Global level.
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Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Taking Stock and the Way Forward
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/igf_2010/youth_core_Internet_values.xhtml
http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/igf_2010/core_values_of_Internet.xhtml
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Janna Anderson: Director of Imagining the Internet (USA)
Tim Davies: Director, Practical Participation, UK
Gbenga Sesan, Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative (Nigeria)
Pascal Bekono, (Cameroon) has offered to help with reporting and blogging.
Douglas Onyango, I-Network, Uganda
Dmitry Epstein, Research Students (Israel)
Young people from Asia have been invited for the workshop. Young people from Kenya who have
been running the Youth Scenerio Project have also been invited and confirmed participation. Imaging
the Internet Project is a sponsoring organisation and the organisers will be approaching the
Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) to support young participants from East Africa.
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Grace Mutung’u: ICT Consumers Association of Kenya (ICAK) (Kenya)
Nancy Muigei: Insitute for Economic Affairs (Kenya)
Organization:ICT Consumers Association of Kenya (ICAK) (Kenya)
Contact Person: Grace Mutung'u
258: Improving the IGF: How can we get the most out of IGF improvement processes?
Concise Description:
Since the IGF’s inception, the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) has been crucial in collating
feedback on what works and what doesn’t work so well at the IGF and turning the community’s
suggestions for improvements into a continuous program of IGF self-improvement.
In 2010, a new process for IGF improvements was introduced via the creation of the CSTD WG on
improvements to the IGF. Although the WG officially consists only of CSTD member states, in
practice, it has embraced multistakeholder participation, and treated the non-government
representatives to the WG as equal participants to the process.
This workshop will:
• Discuss the two IGF improvement processes, identify the advantages and disadvantages of each
process, and where there is overlap in their work, if any.
• Examine some example improvements the IGF self-improvement process has introduced, and other
potential improvements the CSTD WG can bring in the future.
• Discuss the best processes that can be used in the future to identify and implement improvements to
the IGF.
Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Taking Stock and the Way Forward
Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes
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If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposa
ls2009View&wspid=115
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Nurani Nimpuno, Netnod, Sweden
Constance Bommeler, ISOC, Switzerland
Patrik Fältström, Cisco and/or Theresa Swinehart, Verizon
Heather Dryden, Senior Advisor, International Telecommunications Policy and Coordination,
Telecommunications Policy Branch, Industry Canada
Michael Katundu Assistant Director, Information Technology Communications Commission, Kenya
Prof. Luis Magalhães, President of the Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC), Ministry of Science,
Technology and Higher Education, Portugal
Nandini Kotthapally, Counsellor, Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations in Geneva
Wolfgang Kleinwachter , Professor, Department for Media and Information Sciences, University of
Aarhus
Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder
groups:
Nurani Nimpuno, Netnod (nurani@netnod.se)
Constance Bommelaer, ISOC, (bommelaer@isoc.org)
William Tevie, General Director, National Information Technology Agency (NITA), Ghana
(william.tevie@gmail.com)
Baher Esmat, ICANN (baher.esmat@icann.org )
Organization:Internet Society
Contact Person: Constance Bommelaer
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