Organization: European Schoolnet - Insafe
Title: Generation Z: Are children conditioned to accept terms and conditions?
Description:
According to recent estimates, one in three internet users are children below the age of 18, with an increasing proportion living in the Global South. Members of the so-called “Generation Z” – born after the mid1990s – can spend up to nine hours a day sharing photos, consuming “content” and talking to friends online. The technical affordances of the internet have made it possible for digital platforms to collect and monetise large amounts of personal information from children. While young social media users will typically consider themselves as proficient, the Growing Up Digital report* published by the UK Children’s Commissioner in January 2017 found that children sign up for terms and conditions they do not understand.
(*http://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/Growing%20Up%20Digital%20Taskforce%20Report%20January%202017_0.pdf.)
In this IGF session, we will discuss in how far children and young people understand the Terms and Conditions they agree upon when being online, downloading an app or creating an account on social media platforms. Based on this, we will start from an analysis of existing regulations and tensions, looking at key issues at stake to see what can be done to ameliorate the current situation in order to more comprehensively address the need to involve multiple stakeholders when promoting and ensuring digital rights of young people in the more global context, as a precondition for a more inclusive and sustainable online environment.
More specifically, the following perspectives will be represented during this session:
• Young people: Outlining the day-to-day challenges when being online and participating in social networks and downloading new applications. Calling for the need to make Terms and Conditions more accessible (e.g. easy language, short and to the point, highlighting key information accordingly).
• Industry: Presenting improvements that have been done so far in order to make Terms and Conditions more user friendly. Sharing, awareness raising efforts that have been put in place to give further support to users e.g.
safety checks, while outlining what is planned for the future based on outcomes presented in the Growing Up Digital report.
• Legislators/regulators: Ensuring that consumer rights are protected and align with a more global set of data protection standards.
• Education / online safety stakeholders: Outlining the importance of supporting young people in the digital age, emphasising on the necessity of including the subject of digital citizenship respective online safety in the curriculum.
In terms of format, panelists will first lay down the core principles and expectations they have in regards to online platform/services Terms and Conditions. Subsequently, participants will break out in parallel groups in order to discuss a number of specific cases, focusing in particular on how social media platform can (and should) communicate on data collection practices and purposes in an intelligible and transparent manner. In terms of outcomes, this will help to more clearly delineate the various multiple stakeholder views and concerns at stake, while identifying and instigating opportunities and best practices solutions in trying to reconcile these often diverging perspectives.
Organization: South School on Internet Governance - SSIG
Title: SSIG book "Internet Governance in the Americas"
Description:
By the time of its 10th anniversary in 2018, the South School on Internet Governance will publish the book "Internet Governance in the Americas"
The book will be edited by Dr. Luca Belli from the Getulio Vargas Foundation and by Dr. Olga Cavalli, Academic Director of the South School on Internet Governance.
It will cover different issues of interst related with Internet Governance with a focus in the Americas, and based on the dialogues held in the SSIG during its ten years of history.
Authors of the book are prestigious experts from the region. Some of them will join us during this session, they are:
Agustin Garzon, Argentina
Beatriz Lopez, Brazil
Belisario Contreras, Colombia
Benedicto Fonseca, Brazil
Bruno Ramos, Brazil
Carlos Alvarez, Colombia
Caterine Garcia, Peru / Netherlands
Christoph Steck, España
Claudio Lopez, Brazil
Claudio Lucena, Brazil
Edison Lanza, Uruguay
Eduardo Molina, Quiroga Argentina
Gonzalo Navarro, Chile
Horacio Azzolin, Argentina
Humberto Carrasco, Chile
Jorge Vega Iracelay, Argentina
Julio Cesar Vega Gomez, México
Lacier Dias, Brazil
Larry Strickling, USA
Marcos Salt, Argentina
Margarita Valdés, Chile
Maryleana Mendez, Costa Rica
Oscar Messano, Argentina
Oscar Robles, Mexico
Thiago Tavares, Brazil
Pablo Rodriguez, Puerto Rico
Vanda Scartezzini, Brazil
Vanessa Fusco, Brazil
Luca Belli, Brazil / Italy
Demi Getschko, Brazil
Peter Knight, Brazil
Danilo Doneda, Brazil
Eduardo Magrani, Brazil
This session will also invite the Internet community to be informed about the location of the SSIG 2018, the call for applications and other important announcements in this regard.
All SSIG fellows are welcome to join us in this session and share stories and experiences from the South School on Internet Governance.
Organization: Medienstadt Leipzig e.V.
Title: Founding meeting of a Dynamic Coalition on Schools of Internet Governance
Description:
During the IGF in Guadalajara organisers of various Schools on Internet Governance (SIG) agreed to form a Dynamic Coalition on Internet Governance.
SIG enjoy the confidence of many Internet Governance institutions as the source for a high quality programmes about Internet Governance. So far the collaboration among the various SIGs is informal. SIG’s inspired each other and benefit from the lessons learned by others.
After ten years of experiences the informal collaboration should continue more focused by establishing a flexible structure which would allow more synergies among the SIGs. A Dynamic Coalition SIG seems like a feasible format in this regard.
The DC-SIG should serve as a platform to exchange experiences and good practices and to coordinate, where necessary, activities (inter alia, time tables and outreach activities). The DC-SIG should have a “Collaboration team” and a focal point for administrative matters. The Collaboration team should be composed by one representative from each regional / national SIG.
As a basis for this meeting we will set up a basic infrastructure (mailing list, web space) and a draft a work plan, mission statement and a proposal how to structure the DC.
Organization: ICANNWiki
Title: ICANNWiki Edit-a-thon
Description:
The ICANNWiki Edit-a-thon is an opportunity for experts in the field of Internet governance to come together and create accessible, creative commons content in their field of expertise or specific interests. This content will be published on ICANNWiki as is immediately available worldwide. There will be a specific focus on creating translated or localized content. Currently languages available include Arabic, Chinese, English, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swahili. We will also provide a platform for additional languages upon request.
Organization: IGF LAC SPACE
Title: IGF LAC SPACE
Description:
A meeting to gather LAC Community members before the IGF starts in order to know each other and share attendant's involvement in IGF sessions.
This will be the second edition of this meeting since we have a previous one during IGF 2016 in Guadalajara with an attendance of around 50 people.
https://igf2016.sched.com/event/8hs8/igf-lac-space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaKfh7kuysw
Organization: IEEE
Title: Working Toward Universal Access: Educate, Engage and Empower
Description:
The potential for economic, civil and societal benefit that the internet can bring to communities around the world is indisputable. We can see the positive impact of the internet on world citizens when they gain online and mobile access to information, community and services, and more so when they are empowered by access to innovate as they work toward opportunities and solutions for themselves and their communities. But how to realize universal internet access to enable these benefits still remains a challenge. Addressing these challenges takes unprecedented transparent collaboration and coordination across stakeholders, disciplines, industry sectors and technical domains, and across geographic and political borders, cultures and economies.
This working session will bring together several global working groups working in the space of universal access—including those working on digital literacy, public access and community networks, innovative and alternative business models, finance and investment, evidenced-based research and digital equality so that IGF participants can learn about the work of these groups and the progress they are making. More importantly, participants will directly engage with and join the groups where they can contribute their ideas and help inform the work of these groups, pose questions and collaborate on answers. They can then take their findings, new information and concepts with them into their communities, work places, schools, etc., to help progress programs and initiatives; and they can use what they learned at the Day Zero event throughout their participation in the overall IGF program sessions.
Organization: Internet Society
Title: Collaborative Leadership Exchange (CLX) on 'Shaping the Digital Future'
Description:
The ‘Collaborative Leadership Exchange (CLX) on Shaping the Digital Future’ is a one-day session designed to contribute to building and fostering communities of engagement and action, and create a multiplier effect on the multistakeholder participation theme throughout the IGF week, and beyond. All IGF participants are welcome to attend. The Collaborative Leadership Exchange builds on a successful model first launched at the 2012 Global INET and then replicated at IGF meetings in Bali (2013), Istanbul (2014), João Pessoa (2015), and Guadalajara (2016). The session will take the format of an unconference, with equal parts of peer-to-peer style learning and engagement, networking and relationship building, interactive discussions and promotion of increased collaboration across the Internet ecosystem. The session will be supported and attended by partners such as DotAsia, Youth@IGF, IEEE, APC and others.
NOTE: Pre-registration is required for this event as there is limited seating capacity available.
Interested persons can register for the event here: http://bit.ly/2gPomva
Sunday, 17 December 2017
Centre International de Conférences Genève, Salle 4
Convened by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), Centre for Communications Governance at National Law University Delhi (CCG), Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Derechos Digitales, Citizen Lab, Global Partners Digital (GPD), Internet Society (ISOC), UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), and Privacy International
Download APC's briefing document on cybersecurity and human rights.
09:00-09:15 Registration and welcome: Deborah Brown (APC)
09:15-10:15 Framing: What do we mean by a rights-based approach to cybersecurity? Is such an approach a pipe-dream, or an essential means to a secure and trusted internet?
Panelists: Chinmayi Arun (CCG), Kathy Brown (ISOC), Marietje Schaake (European Parliament), Francisco Vera Hott (Privacy International)
Moderator: Peggy Hicks (OHCHR)
10:15-11:45 Year in review: Overview of current initiatives in cybersecurity and stability.
A panel will provide basic outlines of current initiatives including the following: Group of Governmental Experts (GGE); London process (GCCS); Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC); Microsoft’s “Geneva Convention”, among others. Panellists will be asked to reflect on the extent to which these initiatives are or are not, adopting a “rights-based” approach.
Panellists: Mehwish Ansari (ARTICLE 19), Madeline Carr (Cardiff University); Lea Kaspar (GPD), Kaja Ciglic (Microsoft); Markus Kummer (IGF Best Practice Forum on Cybersecurity), and Chrystiane Roy (Government of Canada)
Moderator: Irene Poetranto (Citizen Lab)
11:45-12:15 Tea/coffee break
12:15-13:15 Deep dive on cybersecurity and human rights issues: What are the obvious risks and challenges? How do policy and norms impact on the human rights and security of people? What are the ‘not-so-obvious’ issues at stake? Who controls the mainstream cybersecurity narrative? Does this need to be challenged, and if so, how?
Panellists: Maarten van Horenbeeck (Technical community); Maryant Fernández (European Digital Rights Initiative); Maria Paz Canales (Derechos Digitales); Luis Fernando García (Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales)
Moderator: Lucie Krahulcova (AccessNow)
13:15-14:00 Closing remarks from event convenors outlining possible approaches towards consolidating a rights-based and inclusive approach to cybersecurity.
Speakers: Sunil Abraham (Centre for Internet and Society) and Matthew Shears (GPD)
Moderator: Anriette Esterhuysen (APC)
Organization: GigaNet
Title: The 12th Annual Symposium of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network
Description:
GigaNet is an international association of academic researchers founded in 2006 to support multidisciplinary research on Internet governance. Its membership includes researchers from all over the world who are contributing to local, regional and international debates on Internet Governance. The theme of this year’s Symposium is "INTERNET GOVERNANCE IN A TIME OF GLOBAL REORDERING."
Symposium Schedule
9:00 – 9:10 Welcome
Marianne Franklin, Giganet Steering Committee Chair, and Milton Mueller, Program Committee Chair
9:10 – 9:30 Digital Trade
Jeremy Malcolm: Contested Meanings of Inclusiveness, Accountability and Transparency in Trade Policymaking
9:35 – 10:20 The ICANN regime
Undra Baasanjav: International Domain Names (IDNs) and Language Rights
Aaron van Klyton, Soomaree and Arrieta Paredes: The multistakeholder model of Internet governance, ICANN, and the business sector: Practices of hegemonic power
10:20 – 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 – 11:35 The ICANN regime (continued)
Jan Aarte Scholte: Complex Hegemony: The IANA Transition in Global Internet Governance
Mark Datysgeld : Understanding the role of States in Global Internet Governance: ICANN as a case study
11:40 – 12:30 Governance of personal data
René Mahieu, Hadi Asgahri and Michel van Eeten: MAPPED: Creating an evidence base for assessing the effectiveness of the right of access for transparency and user control
Amanda Nunes Lopes Espiñeira Lemos and Lahis Pasquali Kurtz: Sovereignty over personal data in Brazil
Poster session:
2:00 – 2:45 Sovereignty in cyberspace
Stéphane Couture and Sophie Toupin: What Does the Concept of “Sovereignty” Mean in Digital, Network and Technological Sovereignty?
Sara Solmone: Fulfilling freedom of expression online: The problem of access-based jurisdictional approach in Internet-related cases
2:50 – 4:00 Governance by private actors
Kseniia Ermoshina and Francesca Musiani: Standardizing by running code: The Signal protocol
Louise Marie Hurel and Luisa Lobato: Unpacking Cybernorms: Private companies as norms entrepreneurs
Natasha Tusikov: Internet Firms as Global Regulators
4:00 – 5:15 National regimes
Fabricio Solagna and Diego R. Canabarro: The participation of nongovernmental stakeholders in Internet governance in Brazil: An assessment of CGI.br’s elections
Yik Chan Chin and Changfeng Chen: Internet Governance in China: Exploration of Power Relationship
Gianluigi Negro: The Global Construction of the Chinese Internet, 1994 – 2014
5:10 – 6:00 GigaNet business meeting
The Track aims to help participants attending the IGF annual meeting for the first time, to understanding the IGF processes and to foster the integration of all new-coming stakeholders into the IGF community.
Its focus is to make the meeting participant's first IGF experience as productive and welcoming as possible. In addition, the Track will especially focus on engaging youth in the discussions that reflect their role in the IGF process.
Session Structure:
Organization: International Secure Electronic Transactions Organisation - OISTE
Title: The challenges of Digital Identity Management in the era of Internet of Things (IoT)
Description:
The Internet of Things opens new challenges for persons, companies, organisations and governments. What solutions are being proposed to ensure that objects that interact with each other will not be maliciously manipulated? What are the conditions to create a secure ecosystem where objects identify and authentify each other? What is the role played by the individual consumer? At what point on the production and distribution chanel operate companies offering cybersecurity solutions? What is the role played by governments? What are the responsibilities of the state vis a vis their citizens' security concerns? Do we need some kind of regulation? Do we need agreed international technical standards and protocols to create a secure technical environment?
Organization: Asia Pacific School on Internet Governance (APSIG)
Title: Second Meeting of All Schools of Internet Governance (All SIG Meeting)
Description:National and regional schools of Internet governance in Asia Pacific meet to
update on their activities and discuss on common issues. We also welcome
schools of Internet governance of other continents.
Organization: Center for International Media Assistance & International Media Support (IMS)
Title: The battle for freedom of expression online: Where are the journalists?
Description:
Online surveillance, phishing, content blocking, and the right to be forgotten are all familiar territory for many journalists as they uncover corruption, report on human rights abuses, and other politically charged topics. Their rights to freedom of expression and privacy are challenged and repressed on a near-daily basis as the internet continues to shape and define the environment in which all media operate. But despite the profound implications of internet governance on the news media and the ability of journalists to exercise their rights, journalists and news media are largely absent from the world of internet governance.
The general absence of the media is problematic because some of the most-discussed issues at forums like IGF have direct effects on how journalists and news media outlets operate, including for example the “right to be forgotten”, intermediary liability, and internet shutdowns — all issues with potential negative impact on press freedom as well as ultimately, citizens’ right to access to information. In order to enhance the credibility and legitimacy of the multi-stakeholder Internet governance model, it is critical that media – in particular those from the Global South who are often disproportionately affected by efforts to limit free speech – get involved in internet governance.
At this roundtable we will define key priorities of the global media development community in getting more systematically involved in Internet governance. This includes collaboratively designing priorities and ensuring that journalists from the Global South are able to contextualise the impact of global internet governance discussions.
Journalists and the media sector need to be more involved in shaping the digital future of our global media ecosystem. This roundtable will address how to make the multistakeholder Internet governance model more robust by incorporating journalists and the media sector more broadly in the discussions. This includes both how to improve journalistic coverage of global Internet governance decisions, as well as make sure that the media are represented as active stakeholders in the governance processes at forums like IGF, IETF, ICANN, ITU, and IEEE. This panel will follow a consultative process being organized by CIMA, IMS, and GFMD throughout 2017 to define key priorities of the global media development community in getting more systematically involved in internet governance. Input at this roundtable will shape future interventions at Internet governance bodies to make sure that the policies and standards will foster vibrant and open media ecosystems.
Organization: Give1Project
Title: Internet Shutdowns in Gambia
Description:
Discussing about internet shutdowns in Gambia. This event will discuss about internet shutdown during elections citing The Gambia as an exampe
Organization: International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Business Action to Support the Information Society (BASIS)
Title: Leveraging business expertise to foster an enabling environment for the digital economy
Description:
Private sector activity and investment in information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure, content and services is critically important to spreading meaningful access to ICT and leveraging technology for societal benefit and developing solutions to address the many areas of development articulated by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other needs raised by local communities.
Businesses in developed and developing countries contribute expertise and experience to support the digital economy in multiple ways through capacity building, education initiatives, promoting innovation, public-private research and development partnerships, or improving understanding about how ICT works in practice. However, in order to reap the benefits ICT and private sector activity have to offer, policy-makers must create legal and regulatory frameworks encourage investment and support innovation.
This event will convene business leaders and government representatives familiar and new to the IGF for an interactive discussion on the efforts needed to ensure and an enabling policy environment for the digital economy.
Businesses large and small will be invited to participate and share their expertise and experience on the social, technical, economic and governance factors that contribute to leveraging ICT for societal benefit in developed and developing countries. Robust exchanges between diverse business and governmental experts with case examples will provide, participants with a greater understanding of the mutually reinforcing role businesses and governments can play in collaboration with other relevant stakeholders, to ensure the benefits of ICT are widespread and empowering for citizens.
Thus, panelists and participants are invited to share their experience, lessons learnt and challenges (to be) addressed when leading / collaborating on projects aimed to leverage ICT for sustainable development.Chair:
Ms Ellen Blackler (The Walt Disney Company, USA)
Panelists
Mr Omar Mansoor Ansari (TechNation, Afghanistan)
Mr Bobby Bedi (Kaleidoscope Entertainment, India)
Ms Ankhi Das (Facebook, India)
Mr Hossam Elgamal (Information and Decision Support Centre, Egypt)
Mr Jivan Gjorgjinski (Macedonia)
Ms Dominique Lazanski (GSMA, UK)
Mr Juuso Moisander (Ministry of External Affairs, Finland)
Mr Robert L. Strayer (USA)
Discussants:
Ms Jennifer Chung (DotAsia, Hong Kong)
Mr Charles Bradley (GPD, UK)
Moderator:
Ms Carolyn Nguyen (Microsoft, USA)
Organization: Global Internet Policy Observatory
Title: The GIPO Observatory Tool and what´s next for policy observatories
Description:
The Global Internet Policy Observatory and Observatory Tool were initiated in 2012 by the European Commission in an effort to overcome the fragmentation of information and to enable more informed policy making, especially for those who face difficulties with accessing the information. The GIPO Observatory Tool is available for usage since this year and the most recent example of its incorporation is EuroDig website.
This workshop is aimed to built on and further develop discussions initiated during previous GIPO´s and 2 previous IGF observatories´ workshops on the landscape of the mapping initiatives and observatories, as well as their sustainability in the future.
Participants: policy observatories, mapping initiatives, NRIs, civic societies
Organization: MISSIONS PUBLIQUES - Savoir Devenir
Title: Towards a global citizens debate on the digital future: involving "day-to-day"citizens from all over the planet
Description:
The global discussion on the Internet and its future has reached a certain inertia after a decade of decision-shaping forums (IGF, WSIS, NetMundial, ICANN,…). New issues are emerging that modify the rules and potentially change the routines: fake news, propaganda, algorithm regulation, … In all these debates, difficulty to reach out to the public at large and yet there is a maturation of the public, concerned over massive surveillance, big data exploitation, privacy infringements, robotization of jobs… Citizens are ready to understand complex issues, to contribute to the vision for the future and to offer their prospective to stakeholders. So there is timeliness and urgency in reaching out to day to day citizens voices and to bring up their perspective from the bottom up.
The purpose of this event is an exploration of the interest to associate at large scale in a “collective intelligence” procedure day-to-day citizens from 100+ different countries. The proposed planetary debate will produce the results of an informed public opinion on the key choices at the root of our digital future : Fragementation vs unicity, neutrality, regulation, capacity, access, security, literacy, harrassment … without framing them a priori.
Organization: Commercial Law Development Program
Title: Pre-Conference Seminar for CLDP Supported Participants
Description:
Orientation seminar/briefing on relevant issues and on the functions and activities of the IGF, designed specifically for participants being supported by the Commercial Law Development Program.
Organization: Algorithm Watch
Title: Data donation: auditing socially relevant algorithms
Description:
Do we live in different worlds, when we search for political topics online? Germany had a general election in autumn 2017 and facts and figures about digital dissemination of knowledge – or disinformation- and potential manipulation mechanisms that may affect individuals therein are scarce. This is in contrast to those spheres in our well-established newspaper and magazine landscape. Algorithm Watch has set up the "Datenspende Bundestagswahl 2017” a project aiming to provide both for facts and figures – as well as for tools for anyone also wanting to produce their own analysis. Moreover, the harvested data is also public and can be analyzed by anyone. The project was funded by a consortium of German media authorities and is supported by SpiegelOnline as our media partner. (datenspende.algorithmwatch.org)
The project is a proof-of-concept showing that society is actually able to audit socially relevant algorithms by combining the efforts of individuals - both as data donors and data analysts. This principle might be transferrable to audit other social networks.
Organization: UNESCO
Title: Towards Meaningful Multistakeholder Mechanisms in Internet Governance
Topic summary
With support of ICANN and ISOC, UNESCO is launching the new publication “What if we all governed the Internet: Advancing multistakeholder participation in Internet governance” as the 11th edition within the UNESCO Internet Freedom series. It was commissioned to achieve better understanding the ways in which multi-stakeholder participation mechanisms have evolved since the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) more than ten years ago. Serving as an authoritative and influential knowledge resource for the range of stakeholders, the publication will help raise awareness and promote multi-stakeholder practice in internet governance around the world.
The session will welcome diverse actors and stakeholders that have been and remain involved in multi-stakeholder processes to compare and analyze their experiences as cited in the report. The session will aim to find some common ground to develop indicators and recommendations to support multi-stakeholder processes in the future, both at the IGF and beyond.
The session will be an interactive discussion built on a brief introduction of the research at the beginning and short remarks from panellists. The majority of the time will be dedicated to the Q and A with the audience and participants.
The session will also see the launching of the Portuguese and Spanish versions of UNESCO’s publication Keystones to foster inclusive Knowledge Societies with the participation of Brazilian Ambassador Benedicto Fonseca.
Joint Moderators (5’): Mr. Guy Berger, UNESCO Director for Freedom of Expression and Media Development and Ms Xianhong Hu, UNESCO Internet Specialist
Welcome remarks:
5’’ Mr. Frank La Rue, UNESCO ADG for Communication and information
5’ Ms. Constance Bommelaer de Leusse, ISOC
5’ Mr. Chris Disspain, ICANN
Presentation (10’) Ms. Anri van der Spuy, the UNESCO commissioned author of the research
Speakers:
5’ Prof Kyung Sin (KS) Park, Korea University Law School
5’ Ms. Jac SM Kee, APC
5’ Mr. Benedicto Fonseca, Brazilian Ambassador for Internet issues
5’ Ms. Grace Githaiga, Kenya ICT Action Network
10’ Book Launch of Portuguese and Spanish versions of "Keystones to foster inclusive Knowledge Societies" by Mr Guy Berger and Mr Benedicto Fonseca
60’ Discussion
Rapporteur: Ms. Xianhong Hu, UNESCO
Remote moderator: Mr Guilherme Canela, UNESCO
Notes and photos: Mr. Zhaocan Li, UNESCO
Organization: Youth for Rights (Y4R)
Title: Youth for Rights
Description:
Internet is an important and ubiquitous social, economic, political, cultural, educational, and communication platform for societies worldwide. Legal, political, and social issues are increasingly being decided in internet policy discussions. These discussions and policy decisions have a major impact on young people, and are often made without their involvement or consideration despite being the largest demographic of internet users.
The Youth for Rights is a initiative for young people to learn about the many digital rights issues impacting them. Attendees will participate in an 8 hours workshop, walking through policy, advocacy, movement building, and technological discussions led by trainers/experts from digital rights community. Participants will be able to learn and engage on issues of: open source technology and development, data protection and privacy, network discrimination and connectivity, digital security, diversity and digital inclusion, human rights, trade and business, and more.
The objectives and goal for the Youth for Rights is to:
- Improve young people’s understanding of internet policy impact on youth.
- Help develop practical advocacy skills for youth for engagement in digital rights and policy discussions.
- Provide a platform for young people to raise and discuss digital rights that affect them.
- To provide a greater sense and knowledge on digital rights issues to the youth.
- To enable the capacity and capability of younger generation on mapping the digital rights issues and solution in their respective communities.
Organization: Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA)
Title: Reflections from the Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa
Description:
We will share insights and learning and emerging from discussions from the September 2017 Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica) - an annual gathering which convenes multi-stakeholders from across the continent to discuss current trends impacting internet freedom. For the first time, we will have hosted the Forum outside of East Africa where we have a history of setting the agenda for suggesting actions towards overcoming the challenges and leveraging opportunities to advance internet freedom in Africa. This year, we aim to have a Southern Africa perspective following the hosting of the Forum in Johannesburg, South Africa. As such, we are co-hosting the Forum alongside the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), a long-time collaborator of CIPESA. The FIFAfrica will explore discussion on topics including litigation for digital rights, digital security, the economic impacts of internet shutdown, violence online, fake news and more from an African perspective.
Thus, we seek to share bite-sized highlights from FIFAfrica with the audience in Geneva to have a greater sense of the dynamics that internet users are facing in the continent. This will be coupled with dissemination of indepth reports on the State of Internet Freedom 2017 of various countries including South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, DR Congo and Tanzania.
Organization: Microsoft
Title: The Need for a Digital Geneva Convention in Times of Cyber(In)Security
Description:
Sophisticated cyber attacks, increasingly carried out by nation states or their proxies, are on the rise. While there has been significant discussion at the international level about appropriate norms of behavior in cyberspace, progress has been mixed. Microsoft and other private sector actors have called for a "Digital Geneva Convention" to help address these challenges.
This event is intended to explore the ideas underlying a "Digital Geneva Convention" in more detail, clarify the key concepts and bring in multi-stakeholder perspectives on how to move the debate on cybersecurity norms of behavior forward.
Organization: TechWomen and ICT Strategies
Title: Day Zero: Creating a World of Inclusion in social and economic opportunities for Women from developing countries
Description:
Women’s economic empowerment is increasingly recognized as vital to improving individual and family lives, but also to contributing to the economic growth of countries – whatever their size. There is a Chinese proverb that “Women hold up half the sky”. While this a reality in terms of population distribution, it is not yet a reality in terms of social and economic opportunity. This Day Zero session will be focusing on building more awareness across a diverse geography about projects that are focused on economic empowerment of women and girls. Numerous projects are underway that are focused on STEM initiatives, and on creating digital skills for girls, as they progress through school. Yet, this is not a full solution, as many of the jobs that could be self-developed, or may be emerging from the digitization of all work require that women of all ages interested in meaningful and paid work, have digital skills, basic literacy, access to technology and the Online/Internet services are yet to be fully developed. While supporting building digital skills at all levels for girls and women, this Day Zero event is focused on the practical realities: Creating a path to employment for women, wherever they are in the world, and regardless of their level of digital skills so they can contribute to their own economic security, their families, their villages, and their countries economic and social development.
Drawing from experiences of Tech Nation’s TechWomen in Afghanistan, and organizations now working in Nigeria, South Africa, Pakistan, and joined by invited experts from the World Bank, UNCTAD, CSTD’s Gender Advisory Committee, Alliance for Affordable Internet, My Digital Bridges - Namibia and other successful women entrepreneurial initiatives are invited to a working roundtable. Each presenter will have a five-minute slot and are invited to provide a one to two-page summary of their initiatives. Outreach is underway to different and newcomers to the IGF as contributors, such as Goldman Sachs, Walmart, Starbucks. Mastercard Foundation and others who do not normally attend the IGF but have a strong interest in women empowerment.
After an initial round of 5-minute lightning talks, the group will be sub divided into small working groups to draft an shared agenda for action for 2018, to be presented again at Day Zero IGF2018.
So many of the countries that we are focused on are very “young” with more than 40+% under that age of 30 – the digitalized world is the world that they have to succeed in. Yet, we have to also recognize that "digitization" is affecting many jobs – those of health care givers, farmers, … these areas can be opportunities for women to gain skills and move into a work force, that was previously closed to them. But to make that step forward, in many countries, changes are essential in many areas: they need legal acknowledgement of their rights, they need education in literacy, in digital skills, and in encouragement to find their role in a working environment. And they need basic and affordable access to the online world, affordable devices
We are inviting a number of entities that are engaged in community action activities that lead to women employment – whether in agriculture, community service, healthcare, government services, tech world… to discuss what the critical success factors are to encourage catalyzing that as we focus on bringing the next 1.5 billion online are at least 50% women. The output of the Day Zero event will be taken back into the participating organizations at the national levels to help catalyze further engagement, and plans are to provide a report on Day Zero in 2018 from the activities that occur as a result of this interaction at 2017.
Organization: E.I. Research
Title: Women and LGBTQI in the IGF #IGFem #IGFLGBTQI
Description:
Reuniting the women and LGBTQI who participate in several of the IGF spaces (NRIs, intersessionals etc.) to exchange knowledge, network and create collaboration projects to strengthen the IGF.
Specific objectives:
-Create an official space in the agenda for the women and LGBTQI attending the multiple IGF spaces in the global IGF.
-Enable the exchange of knowledge, information and experiences about the nature of IGF and why it is important for gender issues.
-Networking space.
-Providing information about the activities, projects and investigations on gender issues in the multiple spaces of IGF.
DISRUPTIVE DIGITAL LITERACIES IN THE ERA OF DATA GOVERNANCE:
ADDRESSING ‘GENERATION Z’, WITH AND BEYOND EDUCATION
Pre-Event by the Council of Europe in association with Savoir*Devenir
CICG Geneva - Centre International de Conférences, Rue de Varembé 17, Geneva
17 December 2017, 14:00-17:00, Salle 4
Rationale
This event examines the future of digital literacies and education with regard to data flows and their impact. At the forefront are Artificial Intelligence, Learning Analytics and the Internet of Things which makes data governance of critical importance for many actors and sectors in society (labour, health, safety, etc.) as well as for the self-determination of future generations including ‘Milennials’ and the even younger ‘Generation Z’. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is setting the pace for the dynamic exercise and implementation of individual management of personal data, with the right to privacy, to data portability, etc.
Data governance cannot put the burden only on individual responsibility, it should be shared with governments, institutions and structures. So how do we manage the disruption caused by data flows? What digital literacy do we want? What education do we need to prepare the next generation of learners, workers and citizens? What policies for policy-makers and public sector professionals? How can the private sector and civil society contribute, support and benefit?
Draft Agenda
Opening remarks by Divina Frau-Meigs, Professeur Sorbonne Nouvelle, Présidente Savoir*Devenir
Opening Statements by Frank La Rue, Assistant Director-General Communication and Information, UNESCO & Villano Qiriazi, Head of Education Policy Division, Council of Europe
Tour de table on insights, lessons learned and perspectives:
I. HARNESSING BIG DATA FOR EDUCATION: E-STRATEGIES FOR ALL
Moderated by Jasmina Byrne, Senior research, UNICEF Innocenti
Key questions to be addressed: How much control over data? What data portability? Critical Thinking vs Magic Thinking? What platform and media responsibility?
Open discussion with input from:
Carl Gahnberg, Global public Policy, ISOC
Pascale Serrier, Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés, CNIL (TBC)
Jelena Mocevic, European Heritage Days
Respondent: Ruxa Pandea, No Hate Speech and Cooperation, Council of Europe
II. ENABLING YOUNG PEOPLE (‘GEN Z’) IN FORMAL AND INFORMAL EDUCATION: COMPETENCES
Moderated by Villano Qiriazi, Head of Education Policy Division, Council of Europe
Key questions to be addressed: How are young people prepared? Preparedness for e-citizenship?
Open discussion with input from:
Larry Magid, Founder Connect Safely and CBS
Elisabeth Milovidov, Consultant and Coach on Digital Parenting
Janice Richardson, Senior consultant on children’s rights, education and awareness (Insight)
Stephen Wyber, Policy and Research Officer, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
Sophie Valais, Analyst, European Audiovisual Observatory
Respondent: Anca Sandescu, Human rights education and minority rights, trainer on hate speech related issues
III. SKILLS FOR CITIZENS AND WORKING ADULTS: DIGITAL LIFELONG TRAINING AND BEYOND
Co-moderated by Janice Richardson, Senior consultant on children’s rights, education and awareness (Insight) & Elisabeth Milovidov, Consultant and Coach on Digital Parenting
Key questions to be addressed: How are citizens skilled and how are these skills updated? What needs, values and competences should be included? How is their agency solicited? How is the capacity to interact/contribute? What level of citizen control/ownership is available to them? How can governments and private sector enable and be enabled?
Open discussion with input from:
Marilia Maciel, Digital Policy Senior Researcher, DiploFoundation
Mathieu Muselet, Open Badge, la Ligue de l’enseignement
Yves Mathieu, co-founder, Missions Publiques
Respondent: Menno Ettema, No Hate Speech and Cooperation, Council of Europe
IV. MAPPING DISRUPTIVE DIGITAL LITERACIES - TOWARDS GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CONSULTATION AND DIALOGUE
Closing remarks: Divina Frau Meigs, Professeur, Sorbonne Nouvelle, President Savoir*Devenir.
Organization: Center For Law and Technology
Title: " Teaching Philsophy in Digital Age"
Description:
The researcher has present his syllabus made last year which he has teaching in the undergraduate level. However, this is first hand experience sharing of their experiences(among 100 students, 3 section and 144 hours of teaching) of the course. The subject name is "Philosophy and Logical Thoughts" while the readings from different chapter from various books; Thinking in a digital age, Thinking differently, The fourth digital revolution etc.
The researcher will share the experiences of syllabus making process and the student's perception while teaching and the relevance of Information Communication and Technology education in the teaching of Philosophy.
Organization: ICANN
Title: How Digital activists are shaping the evolution of the Internet: the voice of civil society in ICANN
Description:
This panel session will explore the role and voice in Internet Governance, particularly in ICANN, of civil society, spanning the non-profit and non-commercial sectors, academia and end-users.
ICANN's Mission and Core Values require the organisation to reflect the broad geographic and cultural diversity of the Internet at all levels of policy development, and that ICANN's decision-making and the bottom-up, multistakeholder policy development processes are for the benefit of the Internet community as a whole. Civil society plays a key, integral role in ICANN, right in the middle of initiating and negotiating policy, and making decisions jointly by consensus with all other stakeholder groups involved.
Civil society participants at ICANN have helped shape policies on a broad range of domain name topics, notably for improved transparency, privacy and freedom of expression. This was evident in the recent transition process for the stewardship of the IANA functions from the US Government to the global multi-stakeholder community, where it was resolved that the ICANN Bylaws be clarified to add a specific commitment to respect human rights.
Panel discussion
We believe civil society actors have played and important and influential role in ICANN, representing the interests of individuals, academics and non-commercial users. Panellists will introduce how civil society participates and contributes to ICANN, civil society's successes, and critically examine how the voice and knowledge of global civil society can be strengthened; what more can be done to further ICANN's mission and core values, particularly ensuring continued and expanded geographic and cultural diversity. There will be discussion about lessons civil society actors can learn from participation in ICANN to promote participation and contributions to other Internet governance processes.
Roundtable Speakers (provisional):
- Lousewies van der Laan, ICANN Board (Chair of the session)
- Sarah Kiden, African Regional At-Large Organization (AFRALO)
- Alan Greenberg, Chair At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC)
- Satish Babu, Asian, Australasian and Pacific Islands Regional At-Large Organization (APRALO)
- Niels ten Oever, University of Amsterdam
- Farzaneh Badii, Chair Non Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG) ICANN
- Ayden Férdeline, ICANN Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council and NCSG
- Joan Kerr, Chair Not For Profit Operational Concerns Constituency (NPOC) ICANN (TBC)
- Tatiana Tropina, ICANN Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council and NCSG
- Grace Mutung'u, Berkman Klein Center and KICTANet
- Jean-Jacques Sahel, VP Stakeholder Engagement & Managing Director - Europe
- Adam Peake, ICANN Civil Society Engagement
As the digital ecosystem grows increasingly large and complex, there is a critical need to identify and align on the key factors shaping its evolution with the broader digital community. This session will seek to introduce the Forum’s platform approach and share opportunities for engaging with the work of the Forum in a variety of initiatives, seek input and feedback from the IGF community, and raise awareness on the importance of multi-stakeholder collaboration.
Key questions to be addressed include:
Organization: Derechos Digitales
Title: Latin America in a Glimpse 2017: Gender, Politics and the Internet
Description:
On this event, women working in the intersection between gender politics and the internet will get together with other interested actors, from inside and outside the region, to discuss the main challenges that Latin America is facing regarding women rights in the internet. Issues like discrimination, gender violence online, online harrasment, social media's moderation policies, local legislations and how to create safe spaces on the internet will be adressed.
On this event we will also present the 4th edition of Latin America in a Glimpse report, focused on gender-related tech projects developed in the region during 2017.
This event is a partnership between Derechos Digitales and APC, with collaborations from different Latin American organizations.
Unpacking the Global Conference on CyberSpace 2017 - Charting a forward course
Description:
The fifth iteration of the Global Conference on CyberSpace, the GCCS 2017 took place on November 23 and 24 in New Delhi, India. As perhaps the largest global conference on cybersecurity, it attracted varied participation across stakeholder groups. However, while there tends to be significant momentum leading up to an event like the GCCS, this often dissipates after the event, and potential learnings, synergies and opportunities for impact might be lost.
This pre-event hopes to engage persons who are interested in the London process and the themes of GCCS 2017, and through this capture the substantive outcomes of the Conference by unpacking the GCCS 2017 Chair's Statement. Following this, we hope to provide space for collaborative efforts to further the goals of the GCCS 2017.
Schedule:
15.00 - 15.15:
Welcome and outlining purpose of the session.
Brief outline of the London process and the GCCS.
15.15 - 16.15:
Panel Discussion: Unpacking the Chair’s Statement from GCCS 2017. Recap of the Conference and its outcomes.
Discussants:
Lea Kaspar, Global Partners Digital
Marilia Maciel, Diplo Foundation
Olaf Kolkman, ISOC
Chinmayi Arun, Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi
Moderator: Daniela Schnidrig, Global Partners Digital
Structure for the session:
Intro by moderator (5 minutes)
Discussants interventions and remarks (20 minutes)
Q&A (20 minutes)
Final remarks by discussants (10)
Summary by moderator (5 minutes)
Key questions:
Reflections and analysis of conference and its outcomes.
Reflections on outcome document. How does the 2017 statement build on the 2015 statement?
Civil society engagement in the process
How to best balance free expression, openness and security - what is the Indian perspective?
Roles and responsibilities (paragraph 32 of GCCS 2015 Chair’s Statement) does this reflect the current state of play and the multistakeholder model?
What is the purpose, structure and future of the global knowledge sharing platform? How do we engage with it?
16.15 - 16.45 - Tea/coffee break
16.45 - 17.45:
Discussants:
Lillian Nalwoga, CIPESA
Matthew Shears, Global Partners Digital
Kaja Ciglic, Microsoft
Deborah Brown, APC
Moderator: Smitha Prasad, Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi
Structure for the session:
Intro by moderator (5 minutes)
Discussants interventions and remarks (15 to 20 minutes)
Q&A (20 minutes)
Final remarks by discussants (10)
Summary by moderator (5 minutes)
Key questions:
How do we ensure meaningful participation of all participants in future iterations of the conference?
How do we maximize discourse so that the sessions are more open and facilitate discussion/questions?
How do we ensure that the outcomes are the product of stakeholder consultation - what can we learn from GCCS 2017?
How do we build on prior GCCSs to maximize inclusion and discussion?
How do we ensure continuity over the period between 2017 and 2019?
17.45 - 18.00
Moderators to sum-up panels.
Organization: ECPAT International
Title: Data analysis to enhance global action to identify child victims of sexual abuse and exploitation
Description:
Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) represents a significant global challenge for law enforcement and others. In recent years, increased national and international cooperation between law enforcement and across sectors has advanced efforts to identify children depicted in CSAM, and prevent further revictimisation.
However, gaps in resourcing and cooperation, and the absence of clear indicators to describe victimisation through CSAM may hamper efforts and leave too many children unidentified. These children deserve a digital future, and their online rights must be protected.
To address this, ECPAT International and INTERPOL are cooperating on the European Commission-funded project ‘International Child Sexual Exploitation Database (ICSE) Connectivity and Awareness Raising Enhancements – I-CARE’. An important outcome of I-CARE is analysis of CSAM data internationally registered in the ICSE Database at INTERPOL as a first step towards production of a set of indicators on CSAM, or the Global Imperative Indicator (GII).
This pre-event is designed to:
1. Present the study, including emerging themes and findings so far
2. Engage key stakeholders in discussion about the research
3. Discuss next steps for advocacy surrounding the GII
Speakers:
Marie Laure - Head of Programme, Online Child Sexual Exploitation, ECPAT International
Amy Crocker - GII Project Manager, ECPAT International
Hedwig de Jager - INTERPOL Crimes against Children Unit
Organization: De Natris Consult
Title: Strengthening cooperation within the context of the IGF: Creating a roadmap for 2018
Description:
Strengthening cooperation in cyber security and cyber crime issues within the context of the IGF has been discussed within the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) as a potential Best Practice Forum topic for 2017. From these discussions the option was posed by the MAG to first focus on the topic from several angles at the upcoming IGF in Geneva and to distil recommendations on potential ways forward for the MAG to discuss in 2018. This IGF Day 0 session follows up on this request and invites all concerned organisations to work together on formulating recommendations on the way forward on this topic.
In an ideal world organisations working on solutions involving awareness raising, standard setting, regulation, enforcement, mitigation, ICT product security, etc. inform, cooperate and coordinate (with) each other, thus strengthening each other’s aims, effect and resolve. Unfortunately actual cooperation is not something that comes naturally to organisations (within different silos). This has many reasons, e.g. (perceived) competition, disparate interests, different outlooks, etc. or they simply never meet.
Several organisations involved in the IGF over the past decade have posed the question whether it is possible to work within the IGF context on complex issues surrounding the Internet and its governance, by cooperating in an ongoing fashion towards mutually supported solutions. However, before commonalities and shared interests can be identified, time passes and work has to be put in by all involved. Foremost to build trust. The body of work leading up to this Day 0 session aims at giving this discussion a headstart in 2018.
First by looking at current successful cross-organisation cooperation. By focusing on the reasons why these collaborations are successful and determining which situation(s) and/or organisation(s)allowed for success, lessons can be learned. The results of research carried out, are presented at the session and to the world at large.
It leads up to the goal of this session: to do the groundwork towards joint initiatives to strengthen cooperation within the context of the IGF. Organisations from around the globe are invited to participate and fill in a questionnaire, the answers to which form the basis of the discussion during this session. Organisations are invited to share their views on e.g. cooperation, establishing common goals, interests and challenges, whether the IGF could be a place to continue this debate and if so, what topics need to be discussed, what topic justifies a well-supported pilot, etc. The starting point will be the recommendations participating organisations agreed upon unanimously in workshop #153 ‘Let’s break down silos in cyber security and cyber crime’ (2016), https://www.nligf.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Report-workshop-153-Let27s-break-down-silos.pdf
This session strives to provide a conclusive roadmap on how to continue the topic of strengthened cooperation within the context of the IGF. Its outcomes are reported in the main session on enhanced cooperation at the IGF. The report, including the recommendations, is presented to the MAG in 2018.
Organization: ICANN
Title: The DNS and Emerging Identifiers (including DOA)
Description:
This dynamic and participatory Roundtable will include a number of Experts brought to together to discuss emerging identifier technologies and how these may play a role in the evolution we see taking place in the Internet, not least in the proliferation of the Internet of Things (IOT).
The Session will give participants an opportunity to learn about how these systems work and discuss whether they’re relevant to the identifier System ICANN help coordinate. The Session will also include an overview of Digital Object Architecture (DOA) including the governance of its use, in contrast to that of the DNS.
The Session will be led by David Conrad (the CTO of ICANN) and, as noted, include experts in different Identifier Technologies.
Organization: Coordination of the National Digital Strategy, The Presidency, Mexico
Title: Mexico: Identifying best practices on cybersecurity through cooperation
Description:
During this event, members of the multistakeholder community in Mexico will share the milestones, challenges and opportunities found during the creation of the National Strategy on Cybersecurity, a project built during 2017 through workshops, meetings, public consultations and taking into account contributions sent from several organizations of the local and international community. The project also takes into account the BPF on Cybersecurity outcomes.
Proposer's Name: Ms. Sophie Tomlinson
Proposer's Organization: ICC BASIS
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Timea Suto
Co-Proposer's Organization: ICC BASIS
Co-Organizers:
Ms Reema Nanavaty, Civil Society, Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) India
Ms Towela Nyirenda, Inter-governmental Organization, NEPAD, African Union
Ms Sophie Tomlinson, Private sector, ICC BASIS
Session Format: Other - 90 Min
Format description: The format will be a “Campfire Session”. The goal of a campfire session is to create an open forum in which the attendees generate the majority of the discussion and knowledge sharing. The session will open with speakers/experts interventions. For the remainder of the session, the speakers become facilitators, inviting comments and questions from those around the room and letting the audience dictate the ultimate direction of the conversation. Campfire sessions allow attendees to drive their own learning, listen to multiple perspectives on the same issue, and share experiences with individuals throughout the room.
Proposer:
Country: France
Stakeholder Group: Private Sector
Co-Proposer:
Country: France
Stakeholder Group: Private Sector
Speaker: Ambassador Tobias Feakin, Government of Australia
Speaker: Reema Nanavaty SEWA
Speaker: Souhila Amazouz, African Union NEPAD
Speaker: Kate Doyle, Promundo
Speaker: Asma Ennafer, Orange
Speaker: Will Hudson, Google
Speaker: Joyce Dogniez, ISOC
Content of the Session:
Internet Governance issue:
This workshop will explore the complex relationship between ICT and women’s economic empowerment and evaluate the contingent probing factors which are posing challenges to women being truly empowered by ICT. The goal is to illustrate how different stakeholders contribute to supporting women’s economic empowerment through ICT and survey opportunities and address challenges faced in developed and developing countries.
Session format:
The format will be a “Campfire Session”. The goal of a campfire session is to create an open forum in which the attendees generate the majority of the discussion and knowledge sharing. The session will open with speakers/experts interventions. For the remainder of the session, the speakers become facilitators, inviting comments and questions from those around the room and letting the audience dictate the ultimate direction of the conversation. Campfire sessions allow attendees to drive their own learning, listen to multiple perspectives on the same issue, and share experiences with individuals throughout the room.
The purpose of this workshop is to survey experiences and generate best practices on how stakeholders can tackle gender divides and boost the use of ICT to promote the empowerment of women. The campfire session format will facilitate this goal by enabling knowledge exchanges through an informal learning environment. Participants will be encouraged ahead of time via social media to bring questions, case examples and subject matter theories of their own to share with the group.
Agenda:
Although discussion and participants contributions will ultimately drive the agenda, the following will be used to guide conversation:
• The session will start with a short video of a case study example of how an ICT application can be used to support women’s economic empowerment (for example a mobile application for rural women entrepreneurs in India which has automated the supply chain process, allowing women to sell farm produce within their local communities more efficiently, to reduce travel time and generate more business opportunities). As an ice-breaker to help participants feel engaged and comfortable in the group, the moderator will ask the audience questions about the case study video by asking for a show of hands. The organisers will explore providing paper and pens with questions for the participants so they have time to reflect on answers. (15 minutes)
• Experts representing different stakeholder groups (business, civil society, technical community and government) will be invited to explain how ICT supports women’s empowerment and the role they play in initiatives which seek to empower women through ICT. Speakers will be encouraged to use concrete examples (30 minutes)
• Participants will share ideas on the probing factors which are posing challenges to women being truly empowered by ICT (for example: online abuse, socio-economic and cultural factors, role of family members, education and skills etc.) and suggest economic, social, technical and governance policy considerations. Speakers will become facilitators, inviting responses to comments and questions from those around the room and letting the audience dictate the ultimate direction of the conversation. The moderator will manage the discussion to ensure diverse interventions in person and remotely. (40 minutes).
• Moderator wrap up and summarize main take a ways (5 minutes)
Relevance of the Session:
This workshop will be directly related to the IGF 2017 theme as it will provide an important discussion on how the ICT ecosystem can support sustainable development (focus drawn to SDG 5) and highlight the ways in which stakeholders can work together to support women’s digital futures and overcome challenges facing women to become truly empowered by ICT.
The issue provides a timely link to Internet governance more broadly as the United Nations 2030 development agenda reflects the growing understanding that ICTs can be powerful instruments for advancing economic and social development through the creation of new types of economic activity, employment opportunities, enhancements in health-care and education and the enrichment of participation and advocacy within society. The WSIS+10 outcome document also recognizes the potential of ICTs as tools for promoting gender equality and Goal 5 of the UN sustainable development goals includes a target to “Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular ICT, to promote the empowerment of women”.The workshop will provide an opportunity for IGF participants to share ideas on how to reach these goals.
Tag 1: Access and Diversity
Tag 2: Empowerment
Tag 3: Gender Issues
Interventions:
Speakers have been chosen to ensure geographic, gender, sector, and stakeholder group diversity. Each speaker will bring a unique perspective and experience to opportunities and challenges faced.
Moderator
- Elizabeth Thomas-Raynaud, ICC BASIS
Speakers
- Souhila Amazouz, African Union
- Kate Doyle, Promundo
- Asma Ennafer, Orange
- Joyce Dogniez, ISOC
- Ambassador Tobias Feakin, Government of Australia
- Reema Nanavaty, SEWA
Online Moderator
- Müge Haseki, University of Pennsylvania
Rapporteur
- Sheetal Kumar, Global Partners Digital
All speakers will be given the opportunity to share short interventions on the topics discussed and will be encouraged to participate in discussion with participants.
Diversity:
Each stakeholder group will be represented (civil society, business, technical community and government) and speakers will represent different geographies and cultures.
Co-organizers and speakers will include representatives from developing countries (for example NEPAD and SEWA). Co-organizers bring the unique perspectives of a trade union for self-employed women workers (SEWA) and an organization that has experience facilitating and coordinating the development of programmes in Africa (NEPAD).
Efforts will be made to introduce new perspectives in the dialogue such as development practitioners which have not been heard in Internet governance discussions (for example Promundo and SEWA).
Gender balance has been encouraged through speaker choices and each speaker will bring unique expertise and experience to the topics discussed. Efforts have been made to ensure that men are represented in this discussion as they have a role to play in women’s economic empowerment.
Special attention will be made throughout the planning of the session to ensure diverse interventions from workshop participants can be facilitated by working closely with the remote moderator in the planning of the session.
Organisers will encourage remote participation by promoting the workshop and subject area on social media in the run up to the IGF and will explore facilitating interventions from remote hubs.
The remote moderator will be a youth participant and organizers will encourage youth participation.
Onsite Moderator: Elizabeth Thomas-Raynaud, ICC BASIS
Online Moderator: Youth Ambassador
Rapporteur: Sheetal Kumar, Global Partners Digital
Online Participation:
The remote moderator will be involved throughout the workshop planning phase in an advisory role. Organizers have identified a youth online moderator for this role to provide a substantive opportunity for an IGF youth participant. The remote moderator will represent the technical community dotAsia and will be invited to assist in bringing youth participants into the discussion.
The Moderator will frequently communicate with the remote moderator thr
...Co-proposers/co-organizers:
During the session, the co-organizers will provide an overview of national subtopics as they have been discussed within Europe, find out where the commonalities lie and where are the differences, and suggest the ways to bridge divergences in approaches.
We will discuss the following questions:
>>Find more information about different national perspectives further below under "Additional Background"
Onsite moderator(s)Tatiana Tropina, EuroDIG cybersecurity Subject Matter Expert Cyber (SME)
Vladimir Radunovic, DiploFoundation
Online moderator
Michael Oghia, YOUthDIG cybersecurity Focal Point
Rapporteur
Nick Wenban-Smith, UK IGF
Connecting with intersessional groups: Best Practice Forum Cybersecurity Our aim is to add a national perspective to the expert discussion in the BPF and not to repeat or duplicate other sessions.
Reference document link
Thematic input from UK: Report from the UK IGF 2017
Thematic input from SEEDIG: One of the six sessions of SEEDIG 2017 annual meeting focused on cybersecurity challenges and opportunities in the region. The most prominent answers to the onsite survey asking, “What are cybersecurity priorities and what should they be?” were:
Other questions discussed included: Is cybersecurity on national agendas? Are there implementable action plans and multistakeholder processes? What is the level of regional cooperation (and why is it low)? Continue reading...
Thematic input from Norway: National and sectorial response centers: The Norwegian Computer Emergency Response Team (NorCERT) in the National Security Authority has the ability to prevent, detect and analyze data related to serious incidents on the Internet. NorCERT works closely with other countries and similar services in international organizations. To improve society’s ability to detect, alert and handle serious ICT incidents, in addition to NorCERT’s overall role, multiple sectoral response teams have recently been established in Norway. This is in conjunction with the strategies aligned in the Cyber Security Strategy for Norway (2012) Continue reading...
ORGANIZERS: Public Citizen, South Centre and TWN
Trade agreements are shaping the rules that would shape our digital future. Recent reports by the UNCTAD demonstrated that a majority of developing countries do not have an adequate legal structure regarding digital trade, Internet governance, or cyber-security. There are many unknowns regarding the technological advances ahead, and therefore the digital economy. Recognizing the uncertainty in the policy-making process, this panel aims to contribute to debates on trade, internet and development, by placing development priorities at center of e-commerce discussions and policymaker’s considerations.
The 11th Ministerial Meeting (MC11) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has just concluded in Buenos Aires without any substantive outcome. E-commerce was one the hottest topic in the Ministerial discussions. The WTO rulemaking has long been promoted as the revolution that developing countries have been waiting for that would promote innovation, provide many opportunities to Micro and Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (MSMEs) and contribute to development. Somehow, there seems to be several missing links in this thinking. ‘What kind of rules’ is not being asked?
Developing countries have been clear that their concerns in this arena include increased access to energy, internet, and other information and communication technologies; closing the digital divide; increased infrastructure for logistics including transportation and postal systems; legal and regulatory frameworks; access to finance; and capacity building in technologies to help them prepare to benefit from e-commerce. But these issues are generally not reflected in the proposals that have been submitted, which are far more likely to result in binding and enforceable rules.
This roundtable will provide an overview of the WTO rulesmaking system, update participants on the MC11, and focus on the development aspects of e-commerce and discuss those questions that haven’t been asked:
• What are the proposed E-commerce rules that is sought to be negotiated in various fora- FTAs and WTO?
• What are the implications of proposed E-Commerce rules for most Developing Countries?
• How ready are developing countries in engaging in trade online? Are small and medium-sized enterprises able to easily surpass all the hurdles of offline business and gain export markets easily via e-commerce?
• What are the implications of these E-Commerce rules on internet governance issues?
• Will there be rules to mandate technology transfer to developing countries in order to bridge the digital divide? Or rules that prohibit such transfer?
• What are the challenges developing countries face regarding e-commerce and more pertinently since the WTO is about cross-border trade, cross-border e-commerce?
• Are new WTO rules somehow going to melt away the development challenges faced in developing countries?
This first-of-its kind round-table discussion features speakers representing trade expertise from both government, intergovernemental organizations, CSOs and industry. The event is intended to provide attendees with multiple perspectives from trade delegates, as well as CSO and industry, focusing on the development aspects of the current digital trade agenda. Thus, this round-table will build a bridge between trade and internet governance worlds. The format will provide an excellent opportunity for active, in-depth discussion and interaction.
Speakers:
This round-table brings together a range of trade delegates, scholars and CSO experts with a genuine expertise and sensitivity for the concerns of the global South, together.
Discussion:
The first part of the panel (around 45 minutes) will be dedicated to an interactive roundtable during which the panelists will be asked to provide concise answers (i.e. less than 5-minutes-long) to the questions asked by the moderator. Furthermore, panelists will have the possibility to reply to their peers' statements. Subsequently, the panelists will engage in an open and dynamic debate, during which the audience will play a key role asking questions, providing inputs and steering the discussion. The attendees and the remote participants will be allowed to ask questions during the workshop, but their participation and inputs will be particularly encouraged during the second part of the session.
Proposer's Name: Mr. Enrico Calandro
Proposer's Organization: Research ICT Africa
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Chenai Chair
Co-Proposer's Organization: Research ICT Africa
Co-Organizers:
Ms., Anri, VAN DER SPUY, Private Sector, Independent Consultant
Session Format: Debate - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: South Africa
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: South Africa
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Wakabi Wairagala (Director at CIPESA)
Speaker: Alexandrine Pirlot de Corbion (Advocacy Officer, Privacy International)
Speaker: Ursula Wynhoven (ITU Representative to the United Nations in New York)
Speaker: Yatanar Htun (Director at Myanmar ICT Development Organisation)
Content of the Session:
Despite the technological advancement and the reduction of the digital divide in many African countries, the increased level of connectedness brings about new challenges for the vulnerable of society. Not only a considerable portion of the population in Africa is still disconnected or is connected to an expensive and poor quality network, but also their rights online such as freedom of expression, privacy and security, might be totally neglected, making them even more vulnerable in the digital space. Therefore, a new divide is emerging between those who are aware of their digital rights (including how they are regulated in their jurisdictions and how to protect themselves against digital rights violation) and those who are unware of what their digital rights are and do not have resources – skills, means and capabilities - to enforce these. We refer to this phenomenon as “digital rights divide”.
The proposed debate is about the “digital rights divide” and discussants are invited to share their views on what digital future is expected for vulnerable people. The focus of the debate is on Africa and research findings from the Beyond access surveys conducted by Research ICT Africa in 2017 in selected African countries will be shared.
Specifically, the debate seeks to answer to the following questions:
1) Who are the vulnerable of society? 2) What is their level of access to ICT? 3) What type of access to they have to ICT? 4) Do they contribute to "shaping their digital future"? How? 5) Are they aware of their digital rights? 6) If so, how do they enforce their rights (or defend themselves) from threats on digital rights violation? 7)Do different stakeholders engage with them and how?
The debate has the following intended agenda:
- Brief introduction on the topic of the debate and on the discussants
- Presentation on vulnerability and digital rights, based on the Research ICT Africa Beyond Access surveys conducted in 2017 in selected Africa countries
- Debate on research findings moderated by an expert on digital rights in Africa;
- Open microphone for online and offline interventions and questions from the public;
- Answers from the discussion;
- Wrap up and take aways.
Relevance of the Session:
The debate is a contribution towards the achievement of the 10th Global Goal for Sustainable Development which aims at “Reducing inequality within and among countries”. In this instance our focus being on digital rights inequality. The debate on the digital future for vulnerable people will tackle cyber policy and regulation that might not be communicated in a relevant way for vulnerable groups of society as these people not only are currently excluded from any debate on digital rights, but also because they might be unaware on how – or not have the resources - to defend themselves from digital rights violation. Therefore, the debate will seek to provide recommendations towards progressively achieving greater equality on digital rights awareness and enforcement. Issues on how to ensure enhanced representation and voice for vulnerable people in decision-making of digital rights in order to deliver more effective, credible, accountable and legitimate cyber-policies will also be discussed.
Tag 1: Digital Rights
Tag 2: Digital Future
Tag 3: Internet Inclusion
Interventions:
The speakers to the panel belong to different stakeholders groups – civil society, academia, technical community, and private sector. In this way, different perspectives on how digital rights enforcement, and fighting against digital rights violation, is addressed by different stakeholders groups. The discussant, based on their experience, will be challenged to discuss issues on digital rights violation within vulnerable groups, and how their expertise can contribute towards bridging the “digital rights divide”.
Diversity:
Diversity is taken into account in the selection of discussants, moderators, and organisers. Gender balance is respected and preference is given to women in the panel. Discussants work in developing countries and belong to different stakeholders groups.
Onsite Moderator: Enrico Calandro
Online Moderator: Anri Van Der Spuy
Rapporteur: Yolanda Mlonzi
Online Participation:
In order to ensure equal offline and online participation, online attendees will have their own interventions and questions queue and microphone, which will rotate equally with the microphone in the room. The moderator of the debate in the room will work closely with the online moderator in order to balance online and offline participation during the debate. The remote moderator, who has been selected based on her expertise in communications, journalism, new media and ICT policy, will be trained on how to engage the online community to participate to the debate and on how to feed the offline debate with online contributions. On the other hand, the moderator in the room will be trained on how to alternate offline contributions and online contributions from the remote public. The moderator of the debate in the room and the online moderator will meet before the debate to organise modalities of interventions of the offline and online public.
Last but not least, in order to engage more and new participants in the session, remote hubs for participation in the session will be organised in the study's target countries - i.e. South Africa, Rwanda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya. The organisers will identify iHubs, Incubators or other ICT centres who will set up remote hubs and invite local participants to remotely participate to the discussion.
Discussion facilitation:
The moderators (offline and online) supported by the workshop organisers, will involve discussants and the public in the debate, and will facilitate the discussion on the topic of the workshop. Specifically, in order to optimise the time and to assure fair participation of both online and offline participants, the debate will unfold in the following way:
1) The moderator will introduce the discussants to the offline and online public and will briefly introduce the topic of the debate: 3 minutes
2) The moderator will then invite a researcher from Research ICT Africa to present findings from the Beyond Access surveys on how vulnerable people use ICT and on their awareness on issues related to digital rights: 10 minutes.
3) Afterwards, the moderator will invite discussants to comment on the research results and to share their own experience on digital rights and vulnerable people: 5 discussants, 5 minutes each = 25 minutes.
4) After all discussants have expressed their opinions, the moderator will invite the offline public and the online public to make interventions or to ask specific questions. A maximum of 3 offline interventions/questions and 3 online interventions/questions will be placed in a queue and will have the microphone: 12 minutes.
5) Questions will be answered, and additional comments will be made by the discussants: 15 minutes.
6) The moderators will open up the microphones to a second round of online and offline interventions/questions: 12 minutes.
7) The debate will end with a final round of answers and additional comments by the discussants: 10 minutes.
8) The moderator will wrap up and close the debate: 3 minutes.
TOTAL: 90 minutes.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/wks2014/index.php/proposal/view_public/118
Jorge Vargas (Head of Strategic Partnerships - LATAM, Wikimedia Foundation)
Elloani Hickok (Co-Director, Centre for Internet & Society)
Suggested Agenda (90 minutes):
a. Introduction to the workshop topic by Anri Van Der Spuy, workshop co-organizer
b. Presentation of the RIA Beyond Access research (indicators on digital rights awareness) by Chenai Chair (5 minutes)
c. Panelist remarks (5 minutes each: 20 minute in total)
d. Open Discussion (35 minutes), facilitated by on-side moderator, including comments and questions from remote participants
e. Closing remarks from panelists (5 minutes each: 20 minutes in total)
f. Wrap-up of the discussion (10 minutes)
...Proposer's Name: Ms. Roxana Radu
Proposer's Organization: Geneva Internet Platform
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Tereza Horejsova
Co-Proposer's Organization: Geneva Internet Platform
Co-Organizers:
Mr,Francois,GREY,Academia,University of Geneva
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: Switzerland
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: Switzerland
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speakers:
Alberto Pace, Head of Storage at CERN
Sophie Huber, Director of the Center for continuing and distance education, UNIGE
Phillippa Biggs, Coordinator, Broadband Commission for Digital Development, ITU
Pierre Mirlesse, Vice president for Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Public Sector business in the EMEA region
Heather Leson, Data Literacy Lead, Policy, Strategy and Knowledge, IFRC
Online moderator: Roxana Radu, Programme Manager, Geneva Internet Platform and DiploFoundation
Content of the Session:
Data is at the core of modern society, from our digital footprint via e-mail and social media, through to big data analytics. Artificial intelligence further increases the power and relevance of data. Cross-border data flows are challenged by policy decisions, in a similar way as the movement of goods, services, and people across borders. Data appears in two major realms. First, data is a tool used to develop better policies on health, trade, migration, and climate, to name just few relevant areas. Second, data is a topic of diplomatic negotiations addressing privacy, security, digital trade, and other important issues.
Data governance and policy requires new skills and techniques. The demand for data policy experts is not being met by supply. While there are training and academic courses for data scientists, there are no courses for data policy specialists.
The workshop will discuss a curriculum that should be used for capacity development, training, and academic activities to improve policy-making. It will build, among others, on DiploFoundation’s experience in Internet governance capacity development and studies on digital capacity development. More specifically, the workshop will be a follow-up to discussions conducted in Geneva during 2017, including a workshop held during WSIS Forum 2017.
The session will focus on policy, legal, human rights, and economic skills and knowledge. The outputs from the discussion will form the basis for a Report on Curriculum for Data Governance and Policy which will be finalised in 2018. This curriculum will offer practical support for addressing the needs of specialists worldwide in the highly relevant field of data governance and policy.
Relevance of the Session:
The session will deal primarily with data, a term that is tackled from several Internet governance angles, including privacy, security, infrastructure, and content policy - to name but a few.
With regards to the main theme, given that data is at the core of modern society and its digital future, dealing with data from different standpoints is crucial to ensure that it is used meaningfully as a tool, and addressed adequately in negotiations on the subject. Capacity development is an important starting point to dealing with data.
Tag 1: Data
Tag 2: Capacity Building
Tag 3: International Geneva
Interventions:
The session will tap into the expertise of the speakers, to tackle data from the technology, economic, and policy perspectives. The speakers will provide viewpoints to open the discussion (5-minute interventions), followed by a moderated discussion with participants.
Diversity:
The session will aim to bring in a diversity of voices and viewpoints. In addition to the confirmed speakers listed above, the organisers will invite other speakers that will bring more diversity to the session (in terms of stakeholder group, region, gender). These include representatives from the African Union, the Swiss National Science Foundation, and academic institutions from different regions.
While the speakers will ensure a diversity of views at the start of the session, for the rest of the session, the moderator will make sure to engage as many participants as possible, thus ensuring that multiple policy perspectives (legal, human rights, economic, etc.) are shared during the discussions.
Onsite Moderator: Katharina Hoene
Online Moderator: Roxana Radu
Rapporteur: Barbara Rosen Jacobson
Online Participation:
Online participation will include monitoring and input of social media feeds by the online moderator. True participation will be ensured for online discussion participants through equal opportunity to intervene using strategies for instant communication between the panel moderator and online participant moderators, to overcome the frequent lag in online input, which can cause online input to be out of sync (too late) with the discussion. Online participants will speak to the room when possible, with a backup for text input with online moderator representation to the room when necessary and appropriate. Online participant input will be respected, i.e., it will not be summarised or edited by the online moderator, but presented on equal footing to onsite participation. Online participants will follow the same rules for timing and rotation of input.
Moderators for online participation are trained for this task, and well-versed in the topic.
Discussion facilitation:
The session will start with a 5-minute intervention from the speakers, followed by a moderated discussion with the participants (onsite and online). They will interact with the speakers on the subject and share their views, experiences, and suggestions.
Mics will be rotated among stakeholder queues to ensure equal opportunity for different stakeholder groups, as well as online and onsite participants.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2016-day-4-room-7-ws-149-finding-ways-to-build-confidence-in-stakeholder-legitimacy
The workshop will start with 5-min introductory remarks from the speakers on building a data governance curriculum. An experienced moderator will then open the floor for an interactive discussion with participants in situ and online. The workshop will enlist the key elements of a future data curriculum.
Proposer's Name: Ms. valentina pellizzer
Proposer's Organization: Association for Progressive Communication
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Janine Moolman
Co-Proposer's Organization: Association for Progressive Communication
Co-Organizers:
Ms.,Bishakha,DATTA,Civil Society,Point of View
Session Format: Break-out Group Discussions - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: South Africa
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: valentina pellizzer
Speaker: Bishakha Datta
Speaker: Horacio Sívori
Content of the Session:
Surveillance through the collection of population-data has historically functioned as an oppressive tool to control the bodies of women and other marginalised groups, and is closely related to and informed by colonial modes of managing populations underpinned by white supremacist, capitalist and heteropatriarchal ideologies. Today, “big-data,” metadata and the technologies used to collect, store and analyse them are, similarly, by no means neutral, and come with their own biases and resultant exclusions.
The “informatisation” of the body in the digital age is increasingly redefining how we understand “embodiment” and bodily experience. At the level of ICTs and their relationship with public-policy development, both State and powerful non-State actors have come to view the body as data in order to provide services and/or segment and target markets, employing new ways to monitor, assess, analyse, categorise and ultimately manage and control the body. The term “dataveillance,” which combines “data” and “surveillance,” has been used to describe these systematic data-based surveillance practices that involve sorting and aggregating large quantities of data to monitor, track and regulate people and populations.
In this session, participants will discuss and highlight the connection between “big-data,” surveillance and sexuality in the gathering and exploitation of data relating to internet users’ online identities and behaviors. The session will explore the evolution and normalization of surveillance through “big-data” and its relationship with the growing reliance on algorithmic decision-making, particularly at the level of the development and implementation of public policy. Particular emphasis will be placed on how this impacts on especially “at-risk” and marginalised groups such as women and people marginalised on the basis of their sexual orientation and/or gender-identity. Participants will present key issues the internet governance community must consider about the relationship between and impact of power, agency and consent when developing and applying standards and guidelines for the collection and use of internet user data by both State and non-State actors.
Relevance of the Session:
Algorithmic decision-making and data surveillance are often seen as neutral technological tools. However questions of privilege extend to data and the politics of algorithms in several ways - it is a space in which multiple forms of discrimination on the basis of race, religion, class, caste, sexuality, gender and more intersect to exclude, discriminate and further marginalise through lack of inclusion, distortion or hypervisibility in data practices. Being counted in the data is often mandatory for those populations at greater risk of discrimination on account of gender, class or race, since it is enmeshed in platforms to make their voices heard or in mechanisms to access welfare. But concerns around privacy and regulation in data collection and governance also pose a dilemma.
Without adequate and responsive norms and guidelines governing the collection and use of their data, being gendered, raced and classed bodies, necessarily exposes citizens occupying identities and/or presentations outside of the mainstream paradigm (that is: white, privileged, male and heterosexual), and become the subjects of discrimination through technologies otherwise deemed “neutral”.
Tag 1: Big Data
Tag 2: Surveillance
Tag 3: Public Policy
Interventions:
Inputs will be made by the following participants, covering the following issues:
Bishakha Datta - the legal construction of obscenity in the digital realm, and how sexual surveillance applies or is practised, particularly in respect of online content characterised as “obscene.”
Horacio Sívori - the impact of dataveillance and algorithmic decision making on LGBTI struggles in Latin America, with a focus on Brazil .
Jeanette Hoffman - informed consent in data protection.
Ralph Bendrath - perspectives on data protection in the EU.
Katarzyna Szymielewicz - human rights implications on the digitilisation of social policy in Poland.
Diversity:
Speakers have been selected on a range of criteria in order to promote maximum diversity in regional representation and expertise, stakeholder groups, level of profile in the internet governance and human rights communities, and perspectives on an issue of common interest.
Provisionally confirmed speakers represent voices, experiences and perspectives from the Asia Pacific and GRULAC regions.
In addition to their area of expertise, perspectives and profile in policy-making, further speakers will be selected in a manner that intersects the voices of women and sexually marginalized people with the voices of regulators, researchers from varied geographical regions, and activists working on issues concerning of “big-data” and social policy .
Onsite Moderator: valentina pellizzer
Online Moderator: Janine Moolman
Rapporteur: Jac sm Kee
Online Participation:
Throughout the session, the tags #IGF2017 and #genderit will be used to curate and facilitate online discussion and participation from off-site participants through Twitter. APC will also solicit questions ahead of time from those who cannot attend in person by publicizing the workshop on Twitter, and through our Exploratory Research on Sexuality and ICTs (EroTICs) project - a global network of 50 activists, academics, and organizations working at the intersection of sexual and digital rights. We work on sexuality issues including LGBT rights, sex work, sex education, SRHR rights, and gender-based violence, in addition to internet freedom advocates, policy experts, and techies.
A dedicated communications person will be available to facilitate online participation and to increase the visibility of the session and IGF among the networks of the co-organisers. The online moderator will have the online participation session open and will ensure communication with the onsite moderator to make sure online participants are able to make interventions and raise questions. This person will also be working on the live visual aid for the whole session towards setting up the chart that identifies key issues raised.
Discussion facilitation:
The session will start with a five-minute briefing by the moderator which outlines the background and objectives of the workshop introducing the key concepts of big data, sexuality and surveillance. The speakers will provide additional context and specific examples to help setting a common ground for the group’s work.
Participants will then work in small groups to share cases from their regions. Using the examples as case-studies, groups will be invited to identify and reflect on data practices that duly acknowledge the agency and consent of users. Examples may include practices which:
oppose the non-consensual collection of data.
empower women and sexual minorities.
display adequate care in protecting the data, privacy, and anonymity of activists and the communities they engage with.
work to expose and level algorithmic discriminations.
The groups will be invited to report back for a final round of comments and highlights.
The moderator will tie the discussion into each of these sections to ensure the conversation is coherent, informative, and useful. The session dynamic will be 30 minutes for setting the baseline and framing the issues, 20 minutes for group work and 40 minutes for reporting back, highlighting common threads, emerging practices/scenarios and ways forward.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/4098/299
Additional Reference Document Link: http://www.genderit.org/resources/big-data-and-sexual-surveillance
...Proposer's Name: Ms. Jia He
Proposer's Organization: Bytedance
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. William Drake
Co-Proposer's Organization: University of Zurich
Co-Organizers:
Ms., Jia HE, Private Sector, Bytedance
Mr., William J. Drake, Civil Society, University of Zurich
Ms., Xu Zhao, Technical community, China Academy of ICT
Session Format: Panel - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: China
Stakeholder Group: Private Sector
Co-Proposer:
Country: Switzerland
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Urs Gasser
Speaker: Ping Lang
Speaker: William Drake
Speaker: Zhang Hongjiang
Speaker: Irakli Beridze
Speaker: Karen McCabe Karen McCabe
Speaker: Chwee Chua
Content of the Session:
AlphaGo of Google Deepmind beat Li Shishi, autonomous vehicles of Uber and Tesla are testing on the road, Xiao Ming robot of Bytedance wrote sport news in 3 seconds / article……. artificial intelligence (AI) and our lives are getting closer. The breakthroughs in AI will rapidly transform digital society and greatly improve labor productivity, but also will raise a host of new and difficult issues concerning e.g. employment, ethics, the digital divide, privacy, law and regulation. In consequence, there is a growing recognition that all stakeholders will need to engage in a new and difficult dialogue to ensure that AI is implemented in a manner that balances legitimate competing objectives in a manner that leaves society better off.
While engineers may share technical ideas within transnational expert networks, broader public discussions about the social consequences and potential governance of artificial intelligence have tended to be concentrated within linguistic communities and civilizations. However, many of the issues that AI raises are truly global in character, and this will become increasingly evident as AI is incorporated into the functioning of the global Internet. There is therefore a pressing need to establish a distinctively global discourse that is duly informed by the differences between Eastern and Western cultural values, business environments, economic development levels, and political, legal and regulatory systems. For example, to the extent that we need to embed machines into social matrices reflective of human values,, how do we do this in a manner that can be accepted by both Western and Eastern societies? Does artificial intelligence require a minimum layer of common standards and practices that are globally consensus-based? Who would play what roles in which institutional setting in order to promote a measure of consensus? Is it possible to construct an open multistakeholder process for this purpose? Should there be any role for intergovernmental cooperation alongside such an effort? The objective of this workshop would be to begin an exploratory conversation about these and related questions.
Relevance of the Session:
It related to the main theme of IGF 2017: "Shape Your Digital Future!"
It related to the hot topic of 2017: Artificial Intelligence
It related to the governance and ethics issues of AI.
It related to East-West Dialogue
Tag 1: Digital Transformation
Tag 2: Artificial Intelligence
Tag 3: Multistakeholder Cooperation
Interventions:
1. Mr. Urs Gasser, Harvard University will talk about the impact of law and regulations in the development of AI in the West.
2. Mrs. Ping Lang, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences will talk about the impacts of AI on employment and economic growth in the East.
3. Mr. William J. Drake, University of Zurich will discuss options for constructing global multistakeholder dialogue.
4. Mr. Zhang Hongjiang, Bytedance will talk about the social responsibilities and practices of AI companies which have AI produces all around the world.
5. Mr. Irakli BERIDZE, UNICRI will talk about intergovernmental aspects of security and privacy issues in AI.
6. Ms. Karen MCCABE, IEEE will talk about the ethical design of AI systems.
7. Mr. Chwee Chua, IDC will talk about the opportunities and challenges of AI for the digital economy and society Globally.
Diversity:
A. Gender diversity
Panelists: 3 women and 4 men on the panel.
Online Participants: 2 women and 1 men
Organizers: 2 women and 1 man.
Rapporteurs: 1 woman and 1 man.
Onsite moderator: 1 woman.
B. Geographical diversity
Panelists:
3 from Asia Pacific
3 from West European and Others Groups (WEOG)
1 from Eastern European Group
Online participants:
1 from Africa Group
1 from Middle East
1 from Asia Pacific
C. Stakeholder groups:
Panelists:
2 from civil society (Harvard University, University of Zurich, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
2 from the private sector which provides international services (Bytedance, IDC)
2 from the technical community (IEEE, China Academy of ICT)
1 from an intergovernmental organization (UNICRI)
Online participants:
1 from government (ICANN GAC)
1 from private sector (Mobile Web Ghana)
1 from civil society (Israel AI policy scholar)
1 from technical community (China Academy of ICT)
Onsite Moderator: Jia HE
Online Moderator: Xu Zhao
Rapporteur: James George Butcher
Online Participation:
Ms.Florence Toffa, the executive director of Mobile Web Ghana, Africa.
Mr. Feng Guo, vice president of ICANN GAC
Ms. Danit Gal, Israel AI policy scholar
Mr. Yue Liu, chair of Internet technology and policy, China Academy of ICT
Discussion facilitation:
Ms. Jia He (onside moderator) will communicate with all the panelists about the name list, agenda, questions' direction in advance. She will prepare a table for the panel with 8 table mics, 1 mic for onsite audience, and 1 mic for online moderator.
Ms. Xu Zhao (online moderator) will set up the equipment for the online participation. We will firstly use the IGF recommended equipment to make the online participant possible. Online moderator will take the training and work closely with the IGF workshop facilitators. If IGF does not provide those equipment, Bytedance has its own App which has live broadcast function (called Toutiao). Bytedance is professional to provide live broadcast, and would like to bring the equipment including camera to the conference and make live videos for online participants. Before the beginning of the panel, online moderator will provide a link for all the online participants with email. When the panel is ready to start, online moderator will open every equipment. Attendees can watch the panel and ask questions/make comments via several ways. Bytedance will also create a zoom code/skype account for online attendees as an alternative. Ms Xu Zhao will initiate an online training with zoom/skype for potential attendees. Online attendees will have a separate queue and microphone, which will rotate equally with the mics in the room. Ms Xu Zhao will check the order according to the time marked at different queues.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: No
Link to Report:
Agenda:
Introduction by medorator: Jia He (3 mins)
Speakers (10 mins):
1. Mr. Urs Gasser, Harvard University (5mins)
2. Mr. Zhang Hongjiang, Bytedance (5mins)
Panel discussion (50mins):
1. Mr. William J. Drake, University of Zurich
2. Mrs. Ping Lang, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
3. Mr. Irakli BERIDZE, UNICRI
4. Ms. Karen MCCABE, IEEE
5. Mr. Chwee Chua, IDC
Onsite Q&A (5mins):
1. Mr. Baoguo Cui, Tsinghua University(2 mins Q+3 mins A)
Online Q&A (20mins):
1. Ms.Florence Toffa, the executive director of Mobile Web Ghana, Africa. (2 mins Q+3 mins A)
2. Mr. Feng Guo, vice president of ICANN GAC (2 mins Q+3 mins A)
3. Ms. Danit Gal, Israel AI policy scholar (2 mins Q+3 mins A)
4. Mr. Yue Liu, chair of Internet technology and policy, China Academy of ICT (2 mins Q+3 mins A)
Summary by medorator: Jia He (2 mins)
...
While there is widespread awareness about human rights-related aspects of these issues, there is little discussion about the aggregate effects that they might have on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Considering that the IGF 2017 will be held in Geneva, this session also aims at involving intergovernmental organizations that can feed into the debate and share their experiences in implementing cooperative efforts towards the solution of those problems.
Following main policy questions will be addressed during the debate:
Moderator: Tereza Horejsova, Geneva Internet Platform and Diplo Foundation
Rapporteur: Katherine Townsend, USAID and Africa Open Data Conference Movement
Invited speakers are listed below:
Technical Community and Academia
Civil Society
Private Sector
Government
Intergovernmental and International Organizations
Proposer's Name: Mr. Galperin Hernan
Proposer's Organization: USC/DIRSI
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Galpaya Helani
Co-Proposer's Organization: Lirneasia
Co-Organizers:
Ms., Helani, GALPAYA, Civil Society, Lirneasia
Mr., Hernan, GALPERIN, Civil Society, USC/DIRSI
Session Format: Panel - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: United States
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: United States
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Galperin Hernan
Speaker: Helani Galpaya
Speaker: Alison Gillwald
Speaker: Valerio DeStefano
Speaker: Jacki O'Neill
Speaker: Sunil Johal
Speaker: Vigneswara P Ilavarasan
Speaker: Pablo Bello
Speaker: Mona Badran
Content of the Session:
Digitization and networked communications are increasingly touching all aspects of modern life. Among them is employment, which has served as a key organizing principle for society since the industrial revolution. Currently, a number of forces are reshaping traditional employment, and more generally how labor markets operate. First, advances in artificial intelligence in combination with modern robotics are threatening to automatize jobs that were previously considered too complex for non-human execution. Second, online labor platforms facilitate the unbundling of work into smaller tasks that employers can contract out to freelance workers around the world.
From a development perspective, the digitization of work enables job seekers in poor countries to enter labor markets in rich countries, previously inaccessible due to high communication costs and barriers to labor migration. Virtual labor mobility thus has the potential to raise incomes by decoupling workers from the geographical constraints of local labor demand and improving matching with individual skills. At the same time, online work may erode labor protection standards and unleash a global race to the bottom in wages and workers’ rights. Further, there is evidence that online labor platforms exacerbate the frictions that result in inferior labor outcomes for women, ethnic minorities and other disadvantaged groups.
In sum, there is much that remains to be understood about the digitization of work and its long-term implications for development. This panel seeks to tease out the main questions and present evidence based on current research projects about the future of work in development contexts.
Relevance of the Session:
This session addresses Work in the Digital Age, an emerging issue identified in the IGF 2017 Call for Proposals. It brings current research and relevant stakeholders to discuss how work is changing in the age of AI and the emergence of digital labor platforms, and how different stakeholders (workers, governments, civil society, industry) are responding to these changes.
Tag 1: Digital Work
Tag 2: Internet Economy
Tag 3:
Interventions:
The panel will begin with 5 minutes of opening remarks and a brief presentation of the speakers by the moderator. Each panelists will then deliver a short (8 minute) presentation. This will be followed by 10 minutes of questions/answers proposed by the moderator. The moderator will then open the floor for 30 minutes of questions and comments from the audience and remote participants. The last 5 minutes will be used as a wrap-up led by the moderator.
Diversity:
The selection of panelists seeks to bring contributions from diverse stakeholder perspectives and regions. Helani Galpaya, Alison Gillwald and Hernan Galperin are part of a multi-year, multi-region research project that examines the impact of labor digitization on workers in South Asia, Africa and Latin America respectively. The project collects evidence from household surveys as well as from transactional data collected from online labor platforms, all of which will be presented at the panel.
Vigneswara Ilavarasan is an expert on IT outsourcing and has studied the Indian BPO industry extensively. He combines industry experience with research expertise on the topic. He is based at IIT Delhi.
Sunil Johal was a Director with the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation, and is currently Policy Director at The Mowat Centre, an independent public policy think tank located at the University of Toronto, where he studies how governments are adapting social safety programs for the gig economy.
Jacki O’Neill is a Researcher at Microsoft India, and combines industry and research perspectives on how to design appropriate technologies for emerging markets. Her latest work focuses on crowdwork and ‘peer economy’ platforms.
Pablo Bello is the Executive Director of the Inter-American Association of Telecom Operators (ASIET) and the Latin American think tank of Telecommunications (cet.la). Mr Bello is an expert on telecommunications public policy and on digital development.
Mona Badran is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics & Political science in Cairo University. She has previously worked as a consultant with Orange R&D Labs in Cairo, and as an economist with Bearing Point a USAID contractor in 2007.
Finally, Valerio de Stefano is a lawyer with the International Labour Office (ILO) who has worked on the adaptation of employment contracts to digital work, and more generally on workers’ rights in the gig economy.
In terms of gender diversity, the panel is roughly balanced (4 female, 5 male panelists). There is also regional diversity, with participants representing Africa, South Asia and Latin America (in addition to Canada and a multilateral organization).
Onsite Moderator: Hernan Galperin
Online Moderator: Aude Schoentgen
Rapporteur: Aude Schoentgen
Online Participation:
Online participation will be promoted in advanced through social media and relevant email lists. The onsite moderator will coordinate with the online moderator to ensure equal participation between onsite and remote participants during open debate. The online moderator will be required to participate in a training session in preparation for the panel.
Discussion facilitation:
As per above, the onsite moderator will promote discussion among panelists, the audience and remote participants. There will be a set of questions projected on the screen to orient the discussion. These questions will emerge from panelists and will be organized by the onsite moderator.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/4098/233
Background Paper
The panel will begin with 5 minutes of opening remarks and a brief presentation of the speakers by the moderator. Each panelists will then deliver a short (6 minute) presentation. This will be followed by 10 minutes of questions/answers proposed by the moderator. The moderator will then open the floor for 30 minutes of questions and comments from the audience and remote participants. The last 5 minutes will be used as a wrap-up led by the moderator.
Proposer's Name: Ms. Claire Sibthorpe
Proposer's Organization: GSMA
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Lindsey Dominica
Co-Proposer's Organization: GSMA
Co-Organizers:
Ms., Claire, SIBTHORPE, Private Sector, GSMA
Ms., Dominica, LINDSEY, Private Sector, GSMA
Session Format: Panel - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: United Kingdom
Stakeholder Group: Private Sector
Co-Proposer:
Country: United Kingdom
Stakeholder Group: Private Sector
Speaker: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Speaker: Yannick Glemarec
Speaker: Mai Oldgard
Speaker: Nanjira Sambuli
Speaker: Garcia Garcia Ramilo
Speaker: Rachel Samren
Content of the Session:
We cannot afford to leave anyone behind in the digital future. Unfortunately, despite an increased number of initiatives looking at the barriers to gender equality in internet access, the digital gender divide remains. Indeed, the ITU’s most recent estimate indicates that the global Internet user gender gap has grown from 11% in 2013 to 12% in 2016. Today, penetration rates remain higher for men than women in all regions in the world.
It is increasingly urgent that effective, tangible and measurable action should be taken to overcome the digital gender gap in access. A widening digital gender gap has significant implications in terms of women’s empowerment and development as well as for societies, businesses and economies. A focus on gender equality in the digital world is critical to discussions on shaping the digital future.
The gender divide in internet access and use is driven by a complex set of social, economic and cultural barriers. It requires a holistic approach and action by all stakeholders if it is to be addressed. It also requires that we look at how we deliver concerted action and at scale. The recent report from Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development’s Working Group on the Digital Gender Divide, proposes a set of clear and specific recommendations for different stakeholders to address the gender gap in internet access and use, in a clear and concerted ‘Call to Action’. However, addressing this gender divide also requires that we deliver concerted action and at scale.
While there have been efforts to address the digital gender divide, much more is required and it is critical that we take action which enables us to take significant strides to address the digital gender divide. This interactive panel will bring together high level panellists from different regions and stakeholders to explore how we can deliver at scale and address the digital gender divide. Panellists will explore this issue followed by contributions from the audience. This interactive discussion with workshop participants will focus on how we can scale up efforts to ensure digital inclusion for women. Join us to discuss how we can address the digital gender divide, realize this significant opportunity and ensure that women are equally part of the digital future.
Relevance of the Session:
A widening digital gender gap has significant implications in terms of women’s empowerment and development as well as for societies, businesses and economies. It is increasingly urgent that effective, tangible and measurable action should be taken to overcome the digital gender gap in access. A focus on gender equality in the digital world is therefore critical to discussions on shaping the digital future. Addressing this gender divide requires that we deliver concerted action and at scale. This interactive panel will bring together high level panellists from different regions and stakeholders to explore how we can deliver at scale, address the digital gender divide and ensure that women are equally part of the digital future.
Tag 1: Gender Issues
Tag 2: Digital Future
Tag 3: digital inclusion
Interventions:
This session will be structured such that there is an interactive panel will bring together high level panellists from different regions and stakeholders to explore how we can deliver at scale and address the digital gender divide. Panellists will explore this issue followed by contributions from the audience. After initial contributions from the panel where each will share their experiences and insights, the discussion will be opened up to the workshop participants. There will be an interactive discussion with workshop participants which will focus on how we can scale up efforts to ensure digital inclusion for women.
Panelists:
- The ITU and UN Women have both been driving a number of efforts to address the digital gender divide. Last year they luanched 'EQUALS’ (the Global Partnership for Gender Equality) aimed at accelerating global progress to bridge the gender digital divide. Senior representatives from both organizations leading these efforts will be asked to speak about their experience and how we can scale up efforts to ensure digital inclusion for women.
- Mobile operators are driving efforts to accelerate digital and financial inclusion for women. For instance, through the Connected Women Commitment Initiative, mobile operators are making formal commitments to size and reduce the gender gap in their mobile internet and/or mobile money customer base by 2020. Senior representatives driving these efforts from Millicom and Telenor will speak about their experiences in Africa, Asia and Latin America and what is required to reach women at scale.
- Najira Sambuli from the Web Foundation and Chat Garcia Ramilo from the Association for Progressive Commmunications (APC) are both driving forward both research and activities focused on addresssing the gender divide. They will bring in the perspective of those working in non-governmental organisations in different regions.
- We will also ensure that there is a government speaker on the panel since the digital gender divide can only be addressed by targetted action by all stakeholders and government is a key stakeholder.
Diversity:
We already have five confirmed speakers representing a diversity of stakeholders and regions:
• Ms. Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Chief of the Strategic Planning and Membership Department, International Telecommunications Union,
• Yannick Glemarec, Deputy Executive Director, UN Women
• Mai Oldgard, Senior Vice President, Head of Group Sustainability, Telenor
• Nanjira Sambuli, Digital Equality Advocacy Manager, Web Foundation
• Chat Garcia Ramilo, Deputy Executive Director, Association for Progressive Communications
• Rachel Samren, EVP Chief External Affairs Officer, Millicom
We will also ensure we have a confirmed government speaker. We therefore have confirmed speakers which bring a diversity in terms of gender, geography (including those representing global organisations as well as those based in Africa and Asia) and stakeholder groups (including private sector, international organisations and civil society).
Onsite Moderator: Claire Sibthorpe
Online Moderator: Yiannis Theodorou
Rapporteur: Dominique Lazanski
Online Participation:
We intend to open up the discussion to online attendees to be able to both make an input and raise a question. The online moderator will work with the workshop moderator to ensure that they have equal opportunity to participate (e.g. will have separate queues for online and onsite attendees to intervene and rotate equally betweeen the two). We will ensure that we have an appropriately trained remote moderator, work with the IGF team to ensure that the online participation session is set up appropriately and also ensure we are learning from others on how to best support effective online participation of the IGF.
Discussion facilitation:
Session format:
- Interactive panel will bring together high level panellists from different regions and stakeholders to explore how we can deliver at scale and address the digital gender divide. This session will be moderated by Claire Sibthorpe (Head of Connected Women, GSMA)
- After initial contributions from the panel where each will share their experiences and insights, the discussion will be opened up to the workshop participants (audience members and online participants). There will be an interactive discussion with workshop participants which will focus on how we can scale up efforts to ensure digital inclusion for women.
- The workshop session will conclude with a brief final remark from each of the panelists on how to scale up efforts to bridge the gender divide following the discussions and short summation of the discussion by the moderator.
This workshop will be moderated by Claire Sibthorpe (Head of Connected Women, GSMA)
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: No
Link to Report:
Additional Reference Document Link: http://broadbandcommission.org/Documents/publications/WorkingGroupDigitalGenderDivide-report2017.pdf
Agenda:
Introduction: Claire Sibthorpe, Head of Connected Women, GSMA
Panel discussion: Panelists:
Proposer's Name: Mr. MINGLEI SHE
Proposer's Organization: China Association for Science and Technology
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Chuang Liu
Co-Proposer's Organization: China Association for Science and Technology
Co-Organizers:
Mr. Ricardo Israel Robles Pelayo,civil society, International Commercial Law of the Universidad Humannas, Mexico (Education, Estado de Mexico)
Mr. kalanidhi Adinarayana, civil society,Common Wealth Science and Technology Academy for Research, Indian
Mr. Waweru Mwangi, civil society,Institute of Computer Sciences and Information Technology, Jomo Kenyatta University for Agriculture and Technology, Keynya (Education, Nairobi, Kenya)
Mrs. Meng Zeng, Inter-govermental Organization,Development Program of United Nations (UNDP)
Mr. Yunqiang Chu, government, ICT for Agriculture, Agriculture Department of Guizhou Province, China
Mr. Jinnian Wang, Private sector, China Remote Sensing Application and Technology Ltd.
Mrs. Babara Rayn, Inter-govermental organization,Group of Earth Observation Geneva
Session Format: Panel - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: China
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: China
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Ricardo Israel Robles Pelayo
Speaker: Rebecca Ryakitimbo
Speaker: Kalanidhi Adinarayana
Speaker: Waweru Mwangi
Speaker: Xiang Zhou
Speaker: Chuang Liu
Speaker: Barbara Ryan
Content of the Session:
Global internet access creates an equal playing field for both the most and least developed countries in our world socially, politically, and economically. Bridging the digital divide requires hard work from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.
Part of the U.N.’s goals in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is to “significantly increase access to information and communications technology and strive to provide universal and affordable access to the Internet in the least developed countries by 2020.”
This workshop is consisted of two groups, one focuses on the Internet + Big data governance for poverty alleviation and other focuses on tthe topic of internet + big data governance for keeping the environment health; both of them will focus their topics on Internet + Big data for reaching SDGs.
Speakers from multi-stake holders will address the issues from technical barriers,local experiences and international cooperation.
The expected outcomes are:
(1) Principles and guidelines of Internet + big data governance for showing cases and best practices in action of poverty alleviation;
(2) Principles and guidelines of Internet + big data governance for showing cases and best practices in action of keeping the environment health
(3) Action lines of Internet + big data governance for poverty alleviation and environment 2017-2018
(4) A workshop on Internet + Big Data Governance for Poverty Alleviation and Environment (Phase I) will be held as a session in China's Data Expo from 25-28, May, Guizhou, China.. The expected outcomes of the session will provided good practice for making the IGF 2017 session success.
Relevance of the Session:
Internet and Big data provide an unprecedented opportunities for remote area to achieve leapfrog development, however the issues of poverty and environment fragility greatly threaten the well-being of the people living there. With limited internet access and tech-savvy knowledge, they are most vulnerable to the problems such as internet fraud,cybersecurity,digital gap etc. As a result, it is vital that we establish the internet infrastructure with customized internet governance structure in mind, which demands close collaborations between private and public sectors and other multi-stakeholders.
Using technology ( internet,big data etc) to address the issues of poverty and environment is consistent with UN new sustainable development goals agenda.
Tag 1: Access to Information
Tag 2: Internet & ICTs for the Sustainable Development Goals
Tag 3: Environmental Impact of ICTs
Interventions:
Prof. Ms LiuChuang will start the session by welcoming all the speakers( including online participants) and audiences and then give her perspective on policy enact and regulation regarding big data contributing to poverty reduction and environment protection.
Mrs. Meng Zeng from,Development Program of United Nations (UNDP) will share her experiences of using internet to alleviate poverty worldwide.
Mr. kalanidhi Adinarayana from Common Wealth Science and Technology Academy for Research, Indian will address the technical barriers we are going to face when tackling poverty and environmental issues in the developing and the least developed countries.
Mr. Ricardo Israel Robles Pelayo from International Commercial Law of the Universidad Humannas will talk about internet access and human rights (especially women and children).
Mr. Jinnian Wang from China Remote Sensing Application and Technology Ltd will discuss the cooperation between private and public sector.
Mr. Yunqiang Chu from Agriculture Department of Guizhou Province will present his report about big data technology application in Guizhou and current challenges confronted by the government agency.
Mrs. Babara Rayn from Inter-govermental organization,Group of Earth Observation Geneva will talk about how to avoid the lessons the industrialized countries made during the past decade.
Ms Rebecca Ryakitimbo from Tanzania will discuss "Water data for food security and environment conservation to ensure sustainable development.
Other experts and audience will make comments and raise questions in regards to the speeches presented,guided by the moderator.
Diversity:
4 females and 5 males among the 8 speakers confirmed, among them 2 from intenational government, one from the local goverment (Provinceial level), 2 from private sectors, and 3 from education and acdemic communities.
The speakers are from Asia (China and Indian), Africa ( Kennya and Tanzania), South American ( Mexico) and Switherland (Geneva).
Besides 3 experts who participated the IGF many times, 5 of the speakers are first itme to join IGF, They are from Kennya, Indian, China local government and private sector and Geneva.
The diversity speakers will help the expected outcomes more efficient and benefit to all.
Onsite Moderator: Mr.Qinglin Wang
Online Moderator: Mr Xiaofeng,Tao
Rapporteur: Mr Jiang Dong
Online Participation:
Online participation will be led by a facilitated dialogue. Online attendees will get involved in the workshop during the whole session and have separate queue and microphone which rotate equally with the mics in the room and is entitled to raise questions after each presentation
of the speaker and engage during the panel discussion. Trained online moderator with previous experience will direct the online participation.
Discussion facilitation:
The moderator will open the session by welcoming all the participants,introducing the topic about to be discussed and the speakers present and
online. (10 minutes)
All Speakers make their presentation respectively. After each presentation, the moderator make comments and engage the audiences and online participants in a quick Q&A session.(40 minutes)
Right after the presentations, the moderator will engage the panelists in a lively conversation to get their perspectives on the session and questions raised during the presentations (20 minutes).
The moderator will elicit what panelists find most insightful from the discussion and build on them by asking questions to create active flow of
conversation with both panelists and experts in the audience.(10 minutes)
The last ten minutes, the moderator will warp up the discussion by summarizing the consensus of the facilitated dialogue and pointing out the
challenges we are confronting.(10 minutes)
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/4098/231
Meng Zeng,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,
She has been working for UN China since 2015. She is the principal author for the first big data report of UNDP on “the Living Standards Dimension of the Human Development Index: Measuring Poverty with Big Data in China” with five big data proxy indicators to measure poverty in 2284 counties across the country. Based on this index and on the data collected in 2284 counties throughout China, she has developed an interactive visualization map, which allows users to zoom in on any province and visualize its performance across all eight indicators. In order to promote application of big data for development, she designed and implemented “Big Data China Road show”.
She is currently working for UNFAO China as Poverty Reduction and Innovation Consultant. She focuses on study and practice of e-commerce for poverty reduction in China through harnessing big data.
Agenda:Prof. Ms LiuChuang will start the session by welcoming all the speakers( including online participants) and audiences and then give her perspective on policy enact and regulation regarding big data contributing to poverty reduction and environment protection.
Mrs. Meng Zeng from,Development Program
Proposer's Name: Mr. Tracy Hackshaw
Proposer's Organization: Internet Society Trinidad & Tobago Chapter
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Patrick Hosein
Co-Proposer's Organization: Director, Trinidad & Tobago Multistakeholder Group (TTMAG)
Co-Organizers:
Mr.,Tracy,HACKSHAW, Technical Community, Internet Society Trinidad & Tobago Chapter (ISOC-TT); Ms.,Maureen,HILYARD, Civil Society, Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC); Dr.,Patrick HOSEIN, Academic Community, Trinidad & Tobago Multistakeholder Advisory Group (TTMAG)
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: Trinidad and Tobago
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Co-Proposer:
Country: Trinidad and Tobago
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Discussant: Samuels Carlton - Jamaica
Discussant: Hosein Patrick - Trinidad & Tobago
Discussant: Yaw Ching Rhea Trinidad & Tobago/United States of America
Discussant: Maureen Hilyard - Cook Islands
Discussant: Jane Coffin - United States of America
Discussant: Anju Mangal - Fiji
Discussant: Bevil Wooding - Trinidad & Tobago
Content of the Session:
As the Internet continues growing and consumption patterns increase globally, will there come a point when the resources available in Small Island Developing States be unable to support the needs of its users?
The SIDS continue to struggle with resource challenges in all forms - water, food, shelter, energy, quality of air - and many of these challenges have the potential to further drain the limited bandwidth, network resources and human capacity available to public, private and civil society actors in these territories.
While these resource challenges engage the attention of inhabitants of the SIDS, the Digital Economy is advancing at breakneck speed, attracting talent and attention to the OECD countries, and increasingly, to the emerging mega economies of Brazil, India, Russia and China.
The increasing disparity in resource allocation at all levels exacerbates the "Digital Inclusion problem" - both within SIDS and between SIDS and the OECD+BRIC economies - which then presents "traditional" employers, entrepreneurs seeking to grow and participate in the Digital Economy, Government policymakers grappling with mounting socieconomic challenges and perhaps most critically, the "average citizen".
How then do we, as small, vulnerable economies, work together to meet and rise above this challenge, or risk being quite literally drowned in the Digital Revolution?
The 2017 Roundtable will bring together developmental and Internet Governance and Policy experts from the Caribbean and Pacific Islands as we continue to advance our shared/collective research and action Agenda at the most open and inclusive United Nations Forum dealing with issues relating to the Internet, ICT and Development.
DRAFT AGENDA
Welcome & Introductions (5 mins)
Discussant Topic 1 - 20 mins - OPEN ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
As the Internet continues growing and consumption patterns increase globally, will there come a point when the resources available in Small Island Developing States be unable to support the needs of its users?
Discussant Topic 2 - 30 mins - OPEN ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
The SIDS continue to struggle with resource challenges in all forms - water, food, shelter, energy, quality of air - and many of these challenges have the potential to further drain the limited bandwidth, network resources and human capacity available to public, private and civil society actors in these territories. How then do we, as small, vulnerable economies, work together to meet and rise above this challenge, or risk being quite literally drowned in the Digital Revolution?
Open Roundtable Discussion & The Way Forward
Relevance of the Session:
The inclusion of the economic action by Small Island Developing States must form a part of any global debate on Shaping the Digital Future. Given the sustainability challenges being faced by the SIDS, the Roundtable and the topic addressing head-on the issue of looming technical, human and bandwidth resource deficits is critical to a Forum looking towards the Future and how ALL stakeholders, including the approximately 65 million inhabitants of the 50+ countries and territories that make up the SIDS.
Tag 1: #accessandinclusion
Tag 2: #sustainabledevelopment
Tag 3: Digital Economy
Interventions:
As we have been doing for the last few years, we will be utilizing our highly successful Roundtable format where everyone in the session can participate equally. Our approach functions in like manner as combined "talkshow" and "Town Hall" format where a moderator will introduce the topic and invite identified "Lead Discussants" (the invited Subject Matter Experts) to introduce the key themes of the discussion - prepared and discussed with the moderator online in the leadup to the IGF - and immediately invite participation from in situ and remote participants on each of the key themes. Discussants and Participants will engage in meaningful dialog while the moderator will work to ensure that the critical elements of the engagement are documented and pushed forward in the ongoing SIDS Action and Research Agenda in the area of Digital/Internet Policy & Governance.
Diversity:
Over 90% of our discussants are from developing countries - the majority being from some of the most vulnerable countries on the planet. Additionally, the very nature of SIDS defines our session as being geographically diverse.
According to the UNOHRLLS, SIDS are by and large very small countries. Cuba is the most populated island with 11.3 million inhabitants and the least populated country is Niue with 1,500 inhabitants. The SIDS have a combined population of about 65 million, which is slightly less than one percent of the world's population. Further, some SIDS like Niue actually experience negative population growth (-2.3 percent) due to the high level of emigration (to New Zealand, in the case of Niue).
In terms of gender diversity, we propose to achieve full gender parity at the level of the Discussants.
Onsite Moderator: Tracy Hackshaw
Online Moderator: ISOC IGF Ambassador from a Small Island Developing State - name to be nominated by the ISOC NGL Leadership
Rapporteur: ISOC Youth@IGF Fellow from a Small Island Developing State - name to be nominated by the ISOC NGL Leadership
Online Participation:
Remote Participants will be treated as equals in the Roundtable. The Remote Moderator will be encouraged to engage in online discussions with our Remote Participants and to create opportunities for interventions in the live session - through both comments and questions - potentially directly from the participant if technically feasible. The Moderator will frequently poll the Remote Moderator during the discussions to ensure that Remote Participants are not treated as an "afterthought".
Discussion facilitation:
As in the past, the organizers and discussants will use social media and their own networks to "seed" the discussion prior to the Roundtable. Questions and ideas will be incorporated into the planning of the "live" Roundtable and the moderator will pose some of these questions directly during the Roundtable to create further engagement. Additionally, we will appoint a "Social Moderator" who will monitor the #IGF2017 and Workshop hashtags to incorporate comments and questions into the discussion.
Our approach functions in like manner as combined "talkshow" and "Town Hall" format where a moderator will introduce the topic and invite identified "Lead Discussants" (the invited Subject Matter Experts) to introduce the key themes of the discussion - prepared and discussed with the moderator online in the leadup to the IGF - and immediately invite participation from in situ and remote participants on each of the key themes. Discussants and Participants will engage in meaningful dialog while the moderator will work to ensure that the critical elements of the engagement are documented and pushed forward in the ongoing SIDS Action and Research Agenda in the area of Digital/Internet Policy & Governance.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/filedepot_download/4098/214
Co-proposers/co-organizers
Session title
Digital competences to harness technologies for sustainable development - Cases and Approaches
Session format and timing
The session will last for 90 minutes. It will comprise three segments: (a) keynote speech (5-10min); (b) multistakeholder 6 to 8 people round table (35-40min); (c) an open mic including other NRIs in the audience (35-40min).
The workshop starts with a brief explanation of the flow of the session by the onsite moderator(s), which present the keynote speaker and the policy questions that structure the discussion. The keynote speech presents a brief account of the convergence between the Internet governance and sustainable development agendas. A multistakeholder round table of selected NRIs follows the keynote. It aims at enabling the conversation by selected participants around each of the two policy questions presented above. The third segment will host an open mic/dialogue session enabling the participation of people in the audience who wish to join the dialogue. In the end, the moderator(s) will summarize discussions, highlighting consensus achieved by the participants as well as divergences that appeared during the debate.
Content of the session
The session is built around two policy questions regarding the topic: “Digital competences to harness technologies for sustainable development. “ They are: (1) what is the role individual NRI´s in harnessing technologies, through digital competences, for sustainable development within the respective country/region?” and (2) How can NRIs collectively contribute to that goal?
The scope of the competences we need for today´s digital world is changing. The new practices tend to be based online, and users normally interact with them through electronic devices. In the case of the active population, learning, productivity and competitiveness are also increasingly dependent on digital factors, meaning that there is a growing need for digital competences in many different professions.
Digital competences include digital inclusion, formal education, employability, advanced specialization and new knowledge. These competences are part of exercising a full citizenship. A country with digitally proficient citizens is also a country where more people are included, involved, and able to deal with the society they are part of. This applies both to developed countries and others countries that are working to reach that stage.
Digital competences are also intrinsically linked to employability - increasing digitalization in the labor market requires new competences. A more skilled active population generates more new jobs, as well as innovative markets and products, generating more competitive and robust economic activities.
At the same time, all countries must be active agents in the global effort to produce new scientific computing knowledge and develop the capacity to manage and use large amounts of information. We cannot wait to find out what the new technologies will be; we have to create them and work with them.
Creating a more resilient society involves developing new competences, particularly digital ones, which are constantly changing and evolving; at the same time, it involves preparing people for growing uncertainty, recognizing that there are differences that will require unique preparation models.
It is in this context its fundamental to promote a public policy integrated action that aims to stimulate and guarantee the development of competences as tools to help prepare the new generations for the “unknown”, investing increasingly in new knowledge and in the capacity to create new jobs - more qualified and better paid - encouraging entrepreneurship in young people.
Speakers
Keynote:
Carlos A. Afonso (Expert)
People invited to the round table:
1. Ana Neves (Portugal IGF)
2. Flavio Wagner (Brazilian IGF)
3. Tian Luo (China IGF)
4. Federica Tortorella (IGF Dominican Republic)
5. Michel Tchonang (Central Africa IGF)
6. Anriette Esterhuysen (South Africa)
7. Bertrand Moullier
Relevance of the issue
The session envisions a discussion among different NRIs that can contribute for the Internet locally and globally. The issue of how the NRIs are individually and collectively organized to foster Internet development is especially relevant to governance and policy arenas such as IGF. The issues under discussion (including the policy questions proposed around which the session is structured) deal with possible strategies that can help stakeholders in the Internet governance arena tackle one of the sustainable development goals.
The development of digital competences is currently one of the major concerns of both developed and developing nations, for social justice/citizenship, it represents the basic foundation of an inclusive Digital Society.
It encompasses important issues for social justice such as: accessibility, access, education, digital literacy (that comprehends also safety and privacy issues, rights, ethics and so on and so forth) and inclusion. Those areas are of fundamental importance in today's society and represent a concern that must be address in order to achieve the next digital level.
Interventions/Engagement with participants (onsite and online)
Interventions/Engagement with participants is thoroughly described in items “12” and “13” below.
Geographical, Stakeholder and Gender Diversity
The list of participants comprises people from all stakeholder groups and individuals who have convergent and divergent economic, political and social perspectives on the policy question proposed. It also follows a 50/50 gender balance at the time of this submission. They all come from different countries and most of them come from the developing World, some of them being newcomers to the IGF space.
Onsite moderator(s)
Carlos A. Afonso (Expert)
Online moderator(s)
Vinicius Santos (Brazil IGF)
Rapporteur(s)
Online participation logistics
Online participation and interaction will rely on the WebEx platform. Those joining the session using WebEx (either invited members of the round-table or the general audience) will be granted the floor in the Q&A segment of the workshop. People in charge of the moderation will strive to entertain onsite and remote participation indiscriminately. Social media (twitter and facebook) will also be employed by the online moderators who will be in charge of browsing social media using some hashtags (to be defined).
Discussion facilitation
The discussion will be facilitated by the on site moderators who will guide the debate in each of the proposed segments for the workshop as well as during the Q&A and comments session in the end.
The first segment of the session (5-10 min) comprises a keynote speech that provides a brief account of the convergence and digital competences, between the Internet governance and sustainable development agendas.
The second segment comprises a multistakeholder round table (35-40min) of selected NRIs that aims at enabling an initial conversation by selected participants around the following policy questions (15-20min each) : (1) What is the role of individual NRIs in harnessing technologies for sustainable development within the respective country/region?; and (2) How can NRIs collectively contribute to that goal? For each round, moderators will call up to four participants to (3-5min each) to provide a preliminary answer to the respective question. Moderators will ensure that each person participates at least once in the dialogue.
The third segment (35-40min) will host an open mic/dialogue session enabling the participation of people in the audience who wish to join the dialogue. Those invited to join the round-table may also wish participate in the third segment, but have to enter the cue line as a regular member of the audience.
Moderators will strictly enforce time limits during all segments of the workshop and will be in charge of using the remaining time of the session to provide general comments on the overall results achieved by the debate during the session.
RESOURCES FOR PROPOSERS
● Sustainable Development Goals: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/?menu=1300.
● Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/summit.
● IGF 2016 Main Session: Assessing the role of Internet Governance in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2016-main-session-assessing-the-role-of-internet-governance-in-the-sustainable
● ISOC Factsheet "The Internet and Sustainable Development": https://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/ISOC-ICTs-SDGs-201506-1.pdf.
● "OECD Observer i-Sheet -- The digital economy": http://oecdobserver.org/news/categoryfront.php/id/2270/Digital_economy_2016.html.
● INCoDe.2030 http://www.incode2030.gov.pt/
CONNECTING WITH IGF INTERSESSIONAL GROUPS
● CENB III: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/policy-options-for-connection-the-next-billion.
● Best Practice Forums: https://www.intgovfor
...Proposer's Name: Mr. Ali AlMeshal
Proposer's Organization: Bahrain ISOC
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Satish Babu
Co-Proposer's Organization: ISOC-TRV
Co-Organizers:
Ms.,Lianna,Galstyan,Technical Community, .AM Registry, Armenia
Ms.,Sarah, Kiden,Academia, Uganda University
Ms.,Maritza,Minan, Civil society, AUI PERU
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: Bahrain
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: India
Stakeholder Group: Private Sector
Speaker: Walid Al-Saqaf
Speaker: Elias El Boustani
Speaker: Ali AlMeshal
Speaker: Satish Babu
Content of the Session:
One of the most impressive achievements of the Internet has been its impact on the global economy, particularly on the domains of finance, commerce, trade and innovation. The transformative nature of the Internet has resulted today in not just a connected world, but also in a world that transacts together.
The ‘New Economy’, as the Digital Economy is also known, is the result of the transition from the brick-and-mortar businesses of the Twentieth Century to the ‘Brick-and-Click’ and the ‘Click-only’ economies of today, which are built around the Internet. As we look to the future, the Internet is the enabler, the marketplace and the market, and has room for not just giant trans-national enterprises but also for the tiny startups. The space for ‘permissionless innovation’ that the Internet provides, overcomes all barriers such as geography and location.
Despite this sweeping potential, there are substantial variations in the way the Digital Economy has been leveraged by different regions and countries of the world. The Digital Divide that still exists—albeit different from the original digital divide that focused on access—is still a reality. While most people do have access today, the New Digital Divide is between people who have reliable, affordable, fast broadband, and the people who have intermittent, expensive Internet that are difficult to be used for transactional services. Given this gap, there are perhaps few countries amongst Emerging Economies which have fully leveraged the potential of the Internet as much as Developed Economies.
There are, however, a few examples from the Global South that illustrate how the Internet Economy could be leveraged provided there is coherent policy intent coupled with pragmatic and innovative approaches. Prominent amongst these is the Middle East.
As late as five years back, the Middle East was seemingly afflicted by a number of economic issues arising from the global recession, crashing oil prices, the social aftermath of the Arab Spring, subdued local demand, and social inhibitors, which together predicted a deep and protracted economic slowdown for the region.
Despite these dire predictions, the Middle East has shown remarkable resilience in not only maintaining the size of its economy, but even growing in the face of these challenges. The current GDP of the region is USD 1.7 trillion, far surpassing the pessimistic estimates of 2012-13. One of the most important technological enabler of this rebound appears to be the Internet.
This Round-table focuses on sharing the experience of the Middle East in using the Internet in building and stabilizing its Digital Economy, and the lessons for the rest of the world. The experiences of speakers and audience members from other regions of the world as well as their responses to the applicability of the Middle East model in their own context would add richness to the discussions.
The outcome from the session would be to evolve a consensus on the Best Practices in the use of the Internet in realizing the potential of a Digital Economy, and also regional and local Best Practices in any aspect of this transition, including Internet Governance aspects. The speakers at the Round-table represent the different stakeholders of the transition to digital economy, including Business, Government and Civil Society.
Relevance of the Session:
Economic factors lie at the heart of numerous problems that the world faces today. Measures that strengthen the economy will enhance the quality of life of millions of people around the world, permit poverty reduction, improve education & health, promote innovation, attract investment and stimulate wealth creation.
The Middle East, particularly Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE, were expected to show little growth after the turbulence of the Arab Spring, coupled with the crippling impact of oil price crash. However, a few years later, contrary to expectations, the region has boucned back to a state of growth. To quote McKinsey (2015),
"The Middle East is on the verge of a massive digital disruption. In the past decade, the cross-border data flow connecting the Middle East to the world has increased by more than 150-fold. Several countries--including the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Qatar--are leading the digital consumer charge, with high smartphone adoption rates and social media use. "
For workplaces and economies of the future, it is clear that the Internet will play a central role, manifest through such components as e-business, e-commerce, and e-governance. The example of the Middle East, data has become the great lubricant for economic growth.
It is important to discuss and highlight the factors behind this remarkable turn of events, and how governments, Business and Civil Society from around the globe can learn from this Internet-driven transformation.
The Round-table will examine social, economic, technology, policy and Internet Governance drivers that have been at play in the Middle East, that have collectively contributed to this success. It will further examine, through interventions from speakers from different regions, if the same Best Practices would work effectively in other global contexts. Finally, speakers from the Middle East will also touch upon what else needs to be done to take this process to the logical conclusion and complete the transition to a fully-empowered Digital Economy.
Tag 1: Internet Economy
Tag 2: Internet & ICTs for the Sustainable Development Goals
Tag 3: Digital Economy
Interventions:
The Round-Table will have a mix of Subject Matter Experts (Economists, Internet Governance Resource Persons) as well as representatives of Business, Government, and Civil Society from different regions, who will be present in person as well by remote participation and social media (largely Twitter, but questions would be taken on email as well).
The Session would start with the domain experts (Economists and IG specialists) who would start off with a 10 minute introduction to the topic, followed by brief interventions (5 minutes or less) by speakers and walk-in participants (local and remote) from different stakeholder groups. 20 min will be set apart for open questions which will be answered by speakers that the moderator may identify.
There will be no difference in priority between previously identified speakers, walk-in users in the audience, remote speakers and social media participants.
Diversity:
The proposal strives to bring in diversity in its different aspects, as it has speakers, co-organizers, and moderators, from different regions, stakeholder groups, age, gender, disability and specialization. Further diversity will be brought in from participants in the audience as well as remote. While the topic is centered around the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region, the discussions will not be confined to this region, and will touch upon the applicability of the Middle East's Digital Economy model in other regions. By giving appropriate publicity about the workshop, and by ensuring top-class experts amongst the speakers, the workshop will attract a cross-section of audience at the IGF, and further add to the diversity.
Onsite Moderator: Ali AlMeshal
Online Moderator: Lianna Galstyan
Rapporteur: Satish Babu
Online Participation:
The online moderator for the session will be Lianna Galstyan, who is has participated in several IGFs in the past (including IGF 2016) and is an experienced online moderator. Online participation will be encouraged from all participants including the host-provided remote participation tool (such as Adobe Connect) as well as email and Twitter. The online moderator will ensure that remote participants get the same priority as the speakers and the audience physically present in the session. The advantage of the Round-table format is that (a) it is easily amenable to remote participants to see and participate; and (b) since it is based on conversations, it is easier for remote participants to join the discussions.
Discussion facilitation:
The session will follow the following format:
1. Welcome and Session Objectives: Moderator (5 min)
2. The Digital Economic Future: Domain Expert (10 min)
3. The Middle East Experience in Leveraging the Digital Economy: Domain Expert (10 min)
4. Sharing of experiences (3-5 min x 10 = 40 min)
5. Open Q & A (20 min)
6. Summing up and Conclusions: Moderator (5 min)
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2016-day-1-room-7-ws14-asia-an
Proposer's Name: Ms. Emily Taylor
Proposer's Organization: Oxford Information Labs Limited
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Giovanni Seppia
Co-Proposer's Organization: EURid
Co-Organizers:
Mr Giovanni Seppia, Technical Community, EURid
Ms Emily Taylor, Private sector, Oxford Information Labs Ltd
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: United Kingdom
Stakeholder Group: Private Sector
Co-Proposer:
Country: Belgium
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Speaker: Mohamad Amin Hasbini
Speaker: Sarah Roberts
Speaker: Sabrina Abualhaiga
Speaker: Giovanni Seppia
Speaker: Jacob Malthouse
Speaker: Emily Taylor
Content of the Session:
The session will take a wide-ranging view of the environmental impact of internet technologies, and what steps need to be taken by all stakeholders to shape a greener digital future for all.
The overall theme of the roundtable is twofold: internet technologies are having an adverse environmental impact; at the same time internet technologies can reduce the impact of climate change in other contexts by increasing efficiency and reducing waste. The session will be forward looking, considering risks of emerging technologies for future generations. It will also highlight examples of good practice by industry players which could be used as a model by others.
Framed as a moderated round-table discussion, which will bring together diverse stakeholders with a broad spectrum of expertise, the 90 minute session will focus on answering the following questions:
• What is the environmental impact of current and future technologies, hardware, software, cloud services and internet of things, and to what extent are consumers aware of it?
• How are businesses and governments reducing the carbon footprint of their current and future digital installations?
• What are the environmental risks if insufficient action is taken?
• What actions need to be taken by different stakeholders to ensure that we have an environmentally sustainable digital future, and what factors are preventing sufficient action being taken?
The emphasis will be on future, practical actions and policy measures that can be applied by all stakeholders to shape a green future digital environment for all.
Relevance of the Session:
Climate change is one of the most urgent challenges facing humanity and collective action is required to shape a more environmentally sustainable digital future. The sustainable development goals recognise the challenge of climate change - relevant to this roundtable are SDG 12 (responsible consumption and production), 13 (climate action) 15 (life on land).
Internet technologies may seem like 'clean' industries, yet the carbon emissions from technology are estimated to outstrip those of the airline industry.
Data centres, cloud services, increased uptake and reliance on digital technologies all create a significant environmental impact such as power and water consumption. At the level of individual Internet users, it is estimated that a user reading the first two words of a web page in a browser generates 20 milligrams of CO2; and 2 Google searches generate the same CO2 as boiling a kettle.
While much remains to be done to reduce such impact, there are signs of progress and good practices which this roundtable will highlight.
Public awareness of the environmental impact of the Internet is low. The metaphors we use to describe internet technologies, 'virtual' 'cloud', incorrectly imply that these services have no physicality. The market drives consumers to upgrade their devices at regular intervals, creating mountains of techno-garbage which are often shipped from the Global North to the Global South for reprocessing. Increased miniturization means that it is more challenging to repurpose or recycle such devices, exposing workers in the Global South to dangerous, toxic conditions. This is relevant to the Internet Governance Forum because the environmental impact of digital devices is significant, yet is rarely considered within the IGF. All stakeholders have a role in overcoming these challenges.
The emerging Internet Governance issue of Internet of Things (IoT) needs to be considered through the lens of its environmental impact. Smart cities, industrial and agricultural applications of IoT can help to combat climate change, for example by increasing efficiency, reducing water and energy consumption, improving road traffic flows to reduce emissions. The economic benefits of having 20 billion connected devices by 2020 should be assessed against their possible, adverse effects on climate and nature.
Tag 1: Environmental Impact of ICTs
Tag 2: Climate Change
Tag 3: Internet & ICTs for the Sustainable Development Goals
Interventions:
Question 1: What is the environmental impact of current and future technologies, hardware, software, cloud services and internet of things, and to what extent are people aware of it?
This will be addressed primarily by participants from the academic community. A speaker from Chatham House / World Economic Forum (TBC), specialising in climate change will set the scene on the pace of climate change, the environmental footprint of digital industries, and how digitisation is helping reduce consumption in other areas.
Dr Sarah T Roberts of UCLA (confirmed) will address the environmental impact of the techno-trash of devices, and the impact on the Global South.
A speaker from the European Commission (TBC), government (LAC or AP region, TBC), or IGO will address relevant regulatory frameworks aimed at reducing the environmental impact of internet technologies, and using internet technologies to reduce climate change. All participants will be encouraged to engage with the question.
Question 2: How are businesses, governments and civil society reducing the carbon footprint of their current and future digital installations?
Giovanni Seppia of EURid (co-organiser, confirmed) will describe how EURid has reduced its carbon footprint since 2011 through the adoption of the EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS). Jacob Malthouse from the .eco domain name registry (confirmed) will provide evidence of its environmentally friendly approach as an internet registry.
A speaker from one of the major Internet technology multinationals (TBC) will describe their efforts to reduce the environmental impact of data centres and defend their record on the recyclability of mobile devices.
Mohamad Amin Hasbini of Kaspersky Labs and a director of Smartcities.org, will describe how Dubai Smart City (a government led project) aims to use IoT deployments to reduce environmental impact of technology and the rapidly expanding city of Dubai.
A civil society representative (TBC) will describe environmentally conscious internet access projects (eg Amazonian rainforest or India). All participants will be encouraged to engage with the question.
Question 3: What are the environmental risks if insufficient action is taken?
This section of the discussion will be led by Sabrina Abualhaiga, Youth IGF Ambassador (confirmed), who will describe the risks for future generations of failing to reduce the environmental impact of internet technologies. Other participants, both planned speakers and audience members will be encouraged to develop ideas on the likely environmental impact of failure to take collect action.
Question 4: What actions need to be taken by different stakeholders to ensure that we have an environmentally sustainable digital future, and what factors are preventing sufficient action being taken?
All speakers and participants will discuss this final question, and ideally point to concrete steps that each stakeholder group is taking or will commit to taking to shape a greener future digital environment for all.
Diversity:
The co-organisers have a strong track record in assembling IGF participants with diversity in gender, geography, stakeholder group, disability and viewpoint, and will adopt a similar approach to gathering participants for this roundtable.
Our confirmed participants include three women and three men. We aim for at least 50/50 gender balance.
We have confirmed participants from the United States, United Arab Emirates, France, Italy, United Kingdom and Belgium. We are actively approaching participants from Latin America, Asia Pacific and Africa to join the roundtable discussion.
Onsite Moderator: Emily Taylor
Online Moderator: Sebastien Pensis, EURid
Rapporteur: Emily Taylor
Online Participation:
The remote moderator will monitor and stimulate discussions in the virtual meeting space. The moderator will regularly report on activity within the virtual meeting room, and will interact with remote participants throughout the session.
The session moderator will call on the remote moderator to feed in comments and chat conversations from the virtual meeting space at several points during the roundtable discussions.
The remote moderator will also liaise with remote participants who wish to make audio interventions during the roundtable session.
The co-organisers have extensive experience of blending remote participation (even remote speakers) into a live session and encouraging par
...Proposer's Name: Mr. Maarten Vanhorenbeeck
Proposer's Organization: Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST)
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Michael Carbone
Co-Proposer's Organization: Access Now
Co-Organizers:
Mr,.Maarten,VAN HORENBEECK,Technical Community,FIRST
Mr.,Michael,CARBONE,Civil Society,Access Now
Session Format: Panel - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: United States
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Co-Proposer:
Country: United States
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Cristine Hoepers
Speaker: Audrey Plonk
Speaker: Githaiga Grace
Speaker: Mallory Knodel
Speaker: Martijn de Hamer
Content of the Session:
This panel, proposed by FIRST, an international association of CSIRT, and Access Now, a civil society CSIRT, aims to identify critical issues that may affect how CSIRT are trusted or otherwise effective in responding to security incidents across multiple stakeholder groups. Issues that are expected to be raised include privacy of users, human rights issues involved in security response, and the tension between network security monitoring for security purposes, and surveillance.
The goal of the session is to identify types of behavior that may have developed over time between stakeholders around the work of CSIRT. Output from the session will be submitted to a number of forums, including the IGF BPF on Cybersecurity, or the FIRST Special Interest Group on Ethics.
Relevance of the Session:
While much work is being done on making the internet a trustworthy, secure network that can support various uses such as cultural exchange, business transactions and government, security incidents will continue to have an impact.
A cornerstone of security programs both in government and business is the development of a strong incident response program. Incident response programs often result in the creation of a specific entity, commonly referred to as a Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) or Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT). These organizations exchange information with their peers to detect incidents, and take appropriate steps to mitigate negative impact on their host organization.
CSIRT can have a role that is limited to a particular industry, a specific country, or a specific organizational network. They can also be responsible for the response to security issues in software and networks widely used by individual users.
A concern of incident response is the fact that it needs to operate well across stakeholder groups. Each group has a separate responsibility: government may CSIRT protect national security, protect the economic capability of a state, or protect its citizens. Private sector companies operate large parts of the internet and its infrastructure, and are required to ensure product safety. Civil society helps protect and ensure individual and organizational rights. The technical community is responsible for ensuring the "glue" between each of these works well, and the internet is an enabling service.
In order to truly shape our digital future, these core issues, covering privacy, human rights issues, and tension between stakeholder groups must be openly discussed, learned from, and our ability to deal with them improved.
Tag 1: Cybersecurity
Tag 2: Human Rights Online
Tag 3: Privacy
Interventions:
The workshop is planned as an interactive session with a moderated panel of experts. 40% of the time will be allocated to opening statements from the experts, in which they will be asked to address the indicated questions. 25% of the time will be allocated to interventions from the floor, 25% to interventions from remote participants and 10% of the time for closing statements.
Our lineup of confirmed expert panelists consists of:
Audrey Plonk, Senior Director, Global Cybersecurity and Internet Governance Policy, Intel Corporation (Private sector)
Grace Githaiga, Co-convenor for the Kenya ICT Action Network (Civil society)
Martijn de Hamer, Head of the National Cyber Security Operations Center at NCSC-NL (Government)
Mallory Knodel, Association for Progressive Communications (Civil society)
Cristine Hoepers, General Manager, CERT.br (Technical Community)
Moderator: Michael Carbone, Manager Education Programs, Access Now (Civil Society)
Remote moderator: Maarten Van Horenbeeck, Director, Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST)
The following are the way specific topics will be addressed:
Affiliation: Civil Society
We will request Civil Society to discuss some of the challenges civil society experiences when dealing with security incidents, and engaging CSIRT community members for help, in particular those CSIRT from the government or private sector.
Affiliation: Government
We will request our government participants to discuss:
- The challenges in operating a CSIRT, and how to cooperate with other stakeholder groups, such as civil society.
- The implications of working with data on victims of cybersecurity incidents.
Affiliation: Private sector
We will request our private sector participant to discuss some of the challenges in working on product security issues with other stakeholder groups. For instance, how does the impact and response to a security incident change when the incident is exploited, and to what degree does the response become more sensitive. As an example, by disclosing the existence of a vulnerability, exploitation of vulnerable internet users may see an increase when no patch is available.
Affiliation: Technical community (CERT.br)
We will request our technical community participant to share anecdotes, concerns and learnings from working with different stakeholder groups. We will also ask them to share some of the concerns they have identified as being an organization that is required to work with all other stakeholders to coordinate the response to a major incident.
We will specifically ask in-person and remote participants to provide examples of issues they have seen, or to confirm or dispute issues the expert panelists have raised.
Diversity:
As part of this panel, we have confirmed panelists from Africa, Latin America, Western Europe and North America. We anticipate the panel will be gender equal, which at this point holds true for our confirmed panelists. Representation exists from civil society, government and technical community. Currently each of the speakers listed has been confirmed. If we do need to make replacements closer to the date, we will continue to maintain the same stakeholder group/gender balance to the degree possible.
One of our goals with this panel is to create a forum in which civil society, government, technical community and private sector have the ability to meaningfully interact on some of the more important issues hindering their collaboration in cybersecurity, and in particular in global incident response.
We also plan to engage the potential audience with interest in this session through a number of third party organizations and initiatives, including FIRST, the BPF on Cybersecurity and several industry mailing lists to call for both remote and in-person attendees to participate.
Onsite Moderator: Michael Carbone
Online Moderator: Maarten Van Horenbeeck
Rapporteur: Maarten Van Horenbeeck
Online Participation:
During the session, we will ensure online participation in the following ways:
- A moderator is assigned to the online question queue whom is similar in background and technical expertise as the in-room moderator. The workshop proposer and author of the background paper will be online moderator;
- We will immediately relay questions as the "next up" question from the audience when one is flagged by a remote participant, to avoid unnecessary waiting for the remote participant. If the number of remote questions and comments overwhelms the number originating from the in-person group, we will switch to granting an opportunity to speak to someone remote, and then to someone attending in-person next;
- We plan to specifically advertise the session through relevant forums and mailing lists (including FIRST and the BPF on Cybersecurity) to sollicit participation by remote attendees. Where possible, we will engage with a number of the NRIs which have previously participated in cybersecurity session, or have shown an interest, to contribute their ideas.
- During the session closing, we will do a specific call to get closing remarks from a small number of remote (2-3) participants. We will announce this at the beginning of the session to ensure remote attendees can prepare their thoughts throughout the session.
Discussion facilitation:
The following agenda will be followed:
- Panel introduction by the moderator
- Each panelist introduces some areas of sensitivity around incident response operations they have experienced
- Panel moderator to ask panelists about their views on some of the issues shared
- Moderator to ask remote participants, and local participants, to raise issues they see as being sensitive in conducting incident response on security issues
- Moderator to ask panelists to provide input on some of the issues raised
- Moderator to ask remote and local participants for questions and ad
Proposer's Name: Ms. Sylvia Cadena
Proposer's Organization: APNIC Foundation
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Pablo Hinojosa
Co-Proposer's Organization: APNIC
Co-Organizers:
Ms., Carolina, CAEIRO, Technical Community, LACNIC Ms., Vymala, Thuron, Technical Community, AFRINIC
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: Australia
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Co-Proposer:
Country: Australia
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Speaker: Benjz Gerard Sevilla
Speaker: Michael Ginguld
Speaker: Jennifer Chung
Speaker: Shita Laksmi
Speaker: Steve Song
Speaker: Nicolas Echaniz
Speaker: Carlos Rey-Moreno
Speaker: Jochai Ben-Avie
Content of the Session:
The round table will explore the link between innovative business models for access provision, innovative device designs that contribute to access provision and local content generation to engage local communities as a shift to the paradigm of infrastructure ownership to support underserved communities worldwide.
Two main contributors per topic will provide fire starters remarks for a round table discussion, as follows:
- Devices: Nicolas Echaniz (Altermundi) will focus his contributions about their work designing LibreRouter. Benjz Sevilla (Ateneo de Manila) will share about their work designing drones for humanitarian assistance. They will present the devices they have worked on.
- Jennifer Chung (Dot Asia) will share about the experiences from .Asia supporting organisations that produce local content in Asia, that reflect their cultural identity and Shita Laksmi will share about her experiences supporting organizations developing applications and services for local needs.
- Michael Ginguld (AirJaldi), Steve Song (NSRC) and Jochai Ben-Avie (Mozilla) will speak about innovative business models for access provision.
The round table will focus on identifying the correlation among the 3 elements outlined above and the challenges that those seeking to address the needs of underserved communities faced when tackling the access challenge and the barriers for innovation.
Relevance of the Session:
Many of the challenges associated with connecting the next billion are associated with the technologies that can be of use to connect communities in underserved areas and the challenges to provide reliable connectivity that supports economic and social development. However, most of the conversations are around the use of devices that are developed in the north, with traditional business models for commercial viability in mind.
This session will contribute to explore issues around ownership of the creative power that could leap the access discussion forward, where innovation is not only applied to the how (devices and technologies) but the what (content and services) and the who and for how long (alternative business models).
Tag 1: Internet & ICTs for the Sustainable Development Goals
Tag 2: Internet-based Innovation
Tag 3: Local access
Interventions:
- Devices: Nicolas Echaniz (Altermundi) and Carlos Rey-Moreno (UWC) will focus his contributions about their work designing LibreRouter. Benjz Sevilla (Ateneo de Manila) will share about their work designing drones for humanitarian assistance. They will present the devices they have worked on.
- Jennifer Chung (Dot Asia) will share about the experiences from .Asia supporting organisations that produce local content in Asia, that reflect their cultural identity and Shita Laksmi (DiploFoundation) will share about her experiences supporting organizations developing applications and services for local needs.
- Michael Ginguld (AirJaldi), Steve Song (NSRC) and Jochai Ben-Avie (Mozilla) will speak about innovative business models for access provision.
Diversity:
The main contributors bring voices from Argentina (Nicolas Echaniz - Altermundi), Philippines (Benjz Sevilla - Ateneo de Mania), India (Michael Ginguld - AirJaldi), Brazil (Anya Orlova - UNESP) and South Africa (Carlos Rey-Moreno - UWC) as well as regional (Jennifer Chung and Shita Laksmi from the Asia region) and global views from NSRC (Steve Song) and Mozilla (Jochai Ben-Avie) .
5 male and 3 female speakers have confirmed.
Speakers represent private sector, government, civil society, technical community and academia.
Onsite Moderator: Duncan Macintosh
Online Moderator: Vymala Thuron
Rapporteur: Carolina Caeiro
Online Participation:
Prior to the event, the workshop organisers will request contributions via social media and promote the session to encourage participation.
A group of remote speakers will be assembled prior to the event, based on their ideas and their remote interventions will be given priority during the session.
Discussion facilitation:
The workshop will be moderated by Duncan Macintoch, CEO APNIC Foundation. To ignite the debate and set the scene, the workshop will commence with 3 minute remarks by each of the speakers listed above. Contributions from the pool of remote speakers will then be shared with the group and the microphone will be rolled throughout the room to capture the contributions from the audience.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/4098/430
Additional Speakers:
Agenda:
5 min. Moderator set the scene – / the round table will explore how shifting the ownership of devices, infrastructure and content platforms can unlock
...Organizer's Name: Ms. Marketa Geislerova
Organization: Global Affairs Canada
Co-Organizer's Name: Ms. Deborah Brown
Organization: Association of Progressive Communications
Co-Organizers:
Marketa Geislerova,
the Digital inclusion Lab,
Office of Human Rights Freedoms and Inclusion
Global Affairs Canada
125 Sussex Drive, Floor A3
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
K1A 0G2
Government
Deborah Brown, APC
Association of Progressive Communications
APC Executive Director's Office
PO Box 29755, Melville 2109, South Africa
info@apc.org
Civil Society Association
Session Format: Round Table and Workshop - 90 Min
AGENDA
Moderator: Tara Denham, Director, Democracy Division, Global Affairs Canada
Provocations (20 minutes)
Valentina Hvale Pellizzer, Association for Progressive Communications
What do you think are some of the concrete opportunities and challenges digital technologies pose for gender equality? Do you think that the spectrum is balanced?
Dhyta Caturani, Indonesia-based human rights and women rights activist
How would you assess the state of gender equality in the context of digital media and ICTs today? What issues do you consider to be the most critical?
Irene Poetranto, The Citizen Lab
What effects do cyber policies and regulations have on women and girls? What digital and emerging technologies hold for gender equality if we do not address some of the negative trends we are seeing today? How are Internet censorship, filtering, and surveillance used by some states or proxies affecting women?
Farhaan Ladhani, Perennial, Digital Public Square
Are emerging technologies such as AI a game changer for gender equality? What are some of the opportunities and risks related to these technologies?
Chasers and Clarification (10 minutes) - quick questions and answers with the audience
Building the Playbook (50 minutes)
4. Opportunity to contribute to another area of engagement/group (15 minutes)
Key take-aways and next steps (10 minutes)
Relevance of the Session:
Shape your Digital Future.
Digital and emerging technologies like Internet, mobile phones and artificial intelligence have the potential to promote gender equality and to combat violence against women and girls (VAWG). But that is not the trend that we currently see. The time is ripe for a discussion of how digital and emerging technologies affect gender equality, and how they can be used to promote a more inclusive world where women are on a level playing field. The objective of the roundtable discussion is to inform and contribute to the creation of a Playbook for Gender Equality in the Digital Age, that will raise awareness on pressing issues at the intersection of digital technologies and gender equality, and lay the ground for the creation of a multi-stakeholder network aimed at ensuring that our collective digital future is positive and empowering for all.
Tag 1: Gender
Tag 2: Cyber VAWG
Tag 3: Artifical Intelligence
Onsite Moderator: Tara Denham
Online Moderator: Marc-André Argentino
Rapporteur: Marketa Geislerova
Proposer's Name: Ms. Celina Bottino
Proposer's Organization: Institute of Technology and Society of Rio
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Chinmayi Arun
Co-Proposer's Organization: Centre for Communication Governance (CCG) at National Law University, Delhi
Co-Organizers:
Ms.,Celina,BOTTINO,civil society,Institute of Technology and Society of Rio
Ms., Chinmayi,ARUN,civil society,Center for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: Brazil
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: India
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker:
Speaker: Malavika Jayaram
Speaker: Chinmayi Arun
Speaker: Urs Gasser
Content of the Session:
The policy debates about Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been predominantly dominated by organizations and actors in the Global North. There is a growing need for a more diverse perspective regarding the policy issues and consequences of AI. The developing world will be directly affected by the deployment of AI technologies and services. However, there is a lack of informed perspectives to participate in the policy debates.
This roundtable is a follow up to the international event “Artificial Intelligence and Inclusion” held in Rio de Janeiro earlier this year. The discussion will be focused on development of Artificial Intelligence and its impact on inclusion in different areas such as health and wellbeing, education, low-resource communities, public safety and security, employment and workplace, and entertainment, media and journalism, among others. The goal of this roundtable is to bring the debates of the this international event to the IGF community, enlarging the conversation and deepening the understanding of AI inclusion challenges and opportunities, to identify and discuss areas for research, education and action.
We want to identify, map, understand, and address the manifold issues around AI and Inclusion from an interdisciplinary perspective, with a particular focus on two (often interrelated, but analytically distinct) dimensions of inclusion: First, the complex set of issues concerning the geographic divide between the Global North and the Global South when it comes to the development, design, and application of AI-based technologies. Second, the uneven impact of AI and related technologies on often marginalized communities, including youth, people in rural areas on with low socio-economic status, LGBTQ, ethnic and racial minorities, people with disabilities, girls and women, etc.
Relevance of the Session:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related technologies have started to shape important parts of the digital economy and affect core areas of our increasingly networked societies. Whether transportation or manufacturing, social justice or health and education, AI has the potential to deeply impact our lives and shape our individual and collective futures in ways both visible and hidden. The promise of AI-based technologies is enormous, and benefits range from efficiency gains to unprecedented improvements of quality of life. The challenges and potential risks are equally staggering, for instance when considering the uncertainty regarding the future of labor or the emergence of new power structures outside the control of existing governance and accountability frameworks.
The issues arising from these technologies have to be aligned to humans in terms of our moral values and ethical principles. We shall discuss how to make AI behave in a way that is beneficial to people beyond reaching functional and inclusive goals and addressing technical problems. This will allow for an elevated level of trust between humans and our technology that is needed for a fruitful pervasive use of AI in our daily lives
The event will be highly interactive and participatory. This discussion has to be as diverse as possible so we are focussing on speakers from global south countries. Artificial Intelligence is par of our digital future and it must be intensively discussed in a multistakeholde environment.
Tag 1: Artificial Intelligence
Tag 2: Emerging Issues
Tag 3: Human Rights
Interventions:
The proposed format is a round table. There will be an initial presentation to set the scene and raise the issues that will be debated. The presentation will be followed by an open discussion. In order to provoke an effective debate representatives from government, technical community, civil society, lawyers and representatives from the global south to participate in the round table.
Introduction by Carlos Affonso - 10 min
Round of presentations by the speakers – TOTAL - 60m
Chinmayi Arun, 12 min (Confirmed)
She is from the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi. She discusses the challenges unchecked AI development could pose to civil liberties in Asia. She argues that in a world of conflicting values, it's going to be difficult to develop values for artificial intelligence that are not the lowest common denominator. She brings perspective from India, a country where the balance of power between the citizens and the state is delicate and in her view, there is a great potential for AI to tip that balance of power in favor of the state. She advocates that AI should be intensively discussed now in order to help the people that are designing it think of it in a way that imagines a better world.
Malavika Jayaram, 12 min (Confirmed)
From the Digital Asia Hub. She discusses the language we use to talk about Artificial Intelligence, and the impact of AI in Asia. She studies the impact of AI on Asian countries, that is not monolithic. Asian countries such as Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore are better equipped and engages with this issue very differently than poorer developing, emerging economies that don’t understand the consequences of AI applications. Malavika have also put together a serie of events in Asia that took place in Hong Kong, Seoul and Japan to discuss challenges of AI and its implications for public good.
Urs Gasser 12 mins (Confirmed)
Executive Director of Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Urs is leading a global initiative to address Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence that aims to support interdisciplinary research to ensure that AI develops in a way that is ethical, accountable, and advances the public interest.
Sebastian Sposito, 12 mins (confirmed)
Public Policy and Governmental Relations Analyst from Google. He is based in Mexico and oversees Google’s initiatives related to Artificial Intelligence. As a representative from the private sector, he will be able to share the views and plans of Google regarding AI.
Government Representative, 12 mins (TBC)
Brazilian government representative that is dealing with technology policies and AI development.
Debate 20 mins
Diversity:
This workshop aims at making the discussion regarding AI and its development as more diverse and inclusive as possible, regarding gender and geography. Bearing this in mind, the workshop is being proposed by women from Global South countries, Brazil and India and the panel includes also another woman from Asia. One of the speaker is a first time IGF organizer. We will also include private sector representative from Latin America to add one more perspective from this region of the globe.
Onsite Moderator: Carlos Affonso Souza
Online Moderator: Fabro Steibel
Rapporteur: Celina Bottino
Online Participation:
We will use ITS Rio’s website and mailing lists of the Network of Centers to gather interested online participants, channeling them into the official IGF WebEx environment to participate in the session. It will also be possible for these online participants to submit contributions to the session in advance by email.
Discussion facilitation:
The workshop will have an onsite moderator that will be responsible for presenting the issues that will be debated and to conduct the debate after his presentation, giving opportunity to the diversity of perspectives. The moderator will engage participants to talk about their regional perspectives regarding AI and inclusion.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/wks2014/index.php/proposal/view_public/126
Co-proposers/co-organizers
Session title
Fake News, Disinformation, Misinformation: Challenges for Internet Governance
Session format and timing
Total duration of this session will be 90 minutes.
This session will attempt to be both informative, and interactive between NRIs who have signed up for this NRI session, while also accommodating a brief audience question/comment period. After the opening statement of the moderator(s) which be limited to five minutes to provide an overview of the session, and describe the format, Segment I will focus on understanding the discussions that took place at these NRIs, exchanging also among the organizing NRIs [ 25 minutes] via lightening comments of 3 minutes from a designated speaker[s] from each of the organizing NRIs, followed by 1-2 minute exchanges among the designated NRI speakers.
Segment II will be prioritized to hearing a brief round of inputs/comments from any remote NRIs who have previously advised they wish to speak [2-3 minute statements/contributions about what their NRI addressed on this topic, or directly related topics] with priority to any remote hubs of the organizing NRIs who addressed Fake News/Misinformation/Disinformation in their 2017 NRI.
Segment III: Open Mike, to include both speakers in the room, and remote [but not attending the IGF2017 in person] persons interested/concerned about these issues. All comments will be limited to 2 minute time slots.
Segment IV: Summing up from the Rapporteurs in support of the Moderator(s), including identifying as possible, any “messages”, or outputs or key ideas from the Session followed by final comments and thoughts of the moderator(s) about how to advance further work on these important issues.
Content of the session
Determining what is fake news, misinformation, or disinformation, how it has grown, whether it is a real threat to the online world, how it affects citizens, and even elections, or other essential decisions taken at a local/national, or global level has emerged as a major topic of discussion and potentially challenge to the online world. The online communications facilitated by the Internet brings individuals, organizations, and even governments together to share information and exchanges. Yet, if the information cannot be trusted as factual, it may affect decisions and even misinform them. Such concerns affect who trusts whom, who is reliable as a source of information, and what is factual, or non factual, or is only a personal view that can be amplified through the use of online tools.
The topic of “fake news” or “faked news” or disinformation has gained significant visibility in the last two years. Several NRIs addressed these issues, and are thus organizing this NRI to NRI exchange. They have all taken unique approaches as is suitable to the bottom up approach of each NRI, but the concerns about what is factual, whether via news channels, online messages, or other mechanism are a consistent theme across all the organizing the NRIs to this session. In some countries, and independent media is increasingly challenged. Online information sources, which may present themselves as “independent media” may not bring true independence or fact checking that is independent.
This session does not compete or replicate any of the five workshops approved by the IGF MAG, but attendance by any of such workshop organizers as observers is very welcomed.
NRIs respond to a very bottom up input from their communities, so they bring forward information that is unique to their own communities.
Speakers/Resource persons
Speakers will be drawn from each NRI that is organizing because they included a session directly relevant to these topics. Designated speakers who are appointed by their NRI will be limited to 1-3, although others from their NRI may attend the session. Anyone speaking on behalf of the NRIs should be designated as such a speaker to present information about the discussions that took place within the NRI.
The agreement of the NRIs in requesting these special sessions was to reflect work within the NRIs, and not to compete with workshops that are submitted into the MAG open call for workshops, thus, the focus will be on those NRIs that addressed this topic, and outreach to other NRIs that might be interested in these topics for NRI discussions for 2018.
So far confirmed speakers:
- Mr. Hrvoje Lisicar, Croatia IGF, Faculty of Law in Zagreb University
- Mr Abdul-Hakeem Ajijola, Nigeria IGF, Chairman, Consultancy Support Services (CS2) Limited
Relevance of the issue
Trust in the online world, often referred to as the Internet, but encompassing the World Wide Web and social media is being eroded by a growing lack of trust.
Some are suggesting that they will not use online services as they are filled with trolls, malware, viruses. Yet, the digitization of all applications means that citizens really need to use online applications, whether financial, government services, or business services. Many people get the majority of their “news” now, online, as they can’t afford, or can’t access traditional media.
Without credible online resources, the Internet and World Wide Web will erode as trusted sources - and that affects billions of users, who have been told that being online is where you find facts and truth not only about your own communities, but about the world at large. Historically, print media and broadcast media have been held to standards of fact checking. Is the online surrogate for “news” being held to any standard? And if not, why not? And, is the solution merely educating citizens to do their own due diligence? If so, what are the sources they should use for such information?
Interventions/Engagement with participants (onsite and online)
Remote participation of the NRIs remote hubs will have priority:
As some NRIs will not be able to send many of their participating community members to the IGF2017, some will be organizing remote hubs. For any NRI that either focused on this topic during their NRI, or has a strong interest, a priority for ensuring that they have a speaking slot during the Remote Participants section will be developed, using a request to speak submitted to the remote moderator. A deadline will be established for these formal requests, so that such speakers will be recognized and ensured a time slot, just as on site NRI presenters are.
Additionally, there is an open mike segment for those attending on site, but who were not addressing this topic in 2017, but may bring perspectives or expertise to these topics.
Geographical, Stakeholder and Gender Diversity
The NRIs themselves are reflective of geographical diversity, and at their national, subregional, or regional level reflect stakeholder diversity. The speakers selected from the NRIs will be based on their individual criteria for expertise, experience, and support from their NRI to represent and engage on behalf of their NRI. Already, the NRIs co organizing bring geographical diversity. We will not require that the presenters come from any particular stakeholder group, or gender, as they are speaking on behalf of entities that reflect all three of these diversities. We will be encouraging diverse attendance from all NRIs to this session, and that will undoubtedly result in diversity across these three categories in our audience.
Onsite moderator(s)
IGF-USA, Marilyn Cade
UK-IGF Nick, Wenban-Smith
Colombian IGF, Julian Casasbuenas
Online moderator(s)
Nigeria IGF Representative
Rapporteur(s)
Nataša Glavor, Croatia IGF
Dutch Youth IGF
Online participation logistics
NRIs that may be providing remote hubs should be invited to join this session and request a speaking slot ahead of time, to ensure that they are included equally with on site designated speakers
The session will use the WebEx remote participation tools provided by the IGF Secretariat.
Use of Social Media:
In addition, this session will invite a dedicated person to tweet about the session and to follow any retweeting, or other tweeting about this session.
The remote moderators should be seated in a prominent place, so that on site moderator(s) can easily see them. However, by designating a specific time slot for remote contributions from remote NRI hubs, we can ensure that remote speakers have equal contribution access.
Two microphones should be available for use in inviting comments from the in-room participants.
Discussion facilitation
To support the discussion within the NRI to NRI Exchange, each of the organizing NRIs will be invited to provide a one to two pager about their specific session on these topics which will be posted as “background information”. The moderator(s) will be invited to strive to have exchanges among the NRIs speaking, and those making remote comments and on site comments.
Corina Călugăru, Ambassador, Committee of Ministers Thematic Co-ordinator on Information Policy, Council of Europe
Wolfgang Schulz, Hans-Bredow-Institut, University of Hamburg – Moderator
Panellists:
Luca Belli, Center for Technology & Society, FGV Rio de Janeiro
Andy O’Connell, Facebook
Marco Pancini, Google
Karmen Turk, Triniti Law Firm, University of Tartu
- Draft Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on the roles and responsibilities of internet intermediaries:https://rm.coe.int/draft-recommendation-on-internet-intermediaries-7th-revised-version-/1680770c37
- Study on the human rights dimensions of automated data processing techniques (in particular algorithms) and possible regulatory implications: https://rm.coe.int/study-on-algorithmes-final-version/1680770cbc
- Recommendation CM/Rec(2014)6 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on a Guide to human rights for Internet users. User-friendly tool: https://www.coe.int/en/web/internet-users-rights/homeThe transformation process caused by increasing digitalization affects society, the economy and the state. Close cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary and networked collaboration is crucial for seizing the opportunities of digital transformation. Switzerland is in a strong position in this respect, thanks in particular to its multicultural nature, willingness to engage in dialogue and create a consensus, in addition to its pragmatic direct-democratic processes. In 2016, the Swiss Goverment formulated the 'Digital Switzerland' Strategy providing guidelines for government action and indicating where and how authorities, academia, the private sector, civil society and politics must work together in order to shape the transformation process for the benefit of everyone. To this end, the Government has launched a Dialogue on 'Digital Switzerland' where it assumes a moderator role. The highlight of the process is a national conference. Together with interested external stakeholders, the Government investigates what new measures are required for the further development of the strategy. Education, innovation, public services, sustainability, digital labor, cybersecurity and data policy were among the topics discussed at the first conference, which took place November 20, 2017.
We will present the governmental strategy and share highlights from the first conference. This will be coupled with a presentation of digitalswitzerland, a major cross-industry initative created to strenghen the country's position as a digital hub, as well as GenéveLab, the innovation laboratory of the Canton of Geneva. The Speakers will provide a short overview to open the discussion, followed by a moderated discussion with participants. Attendants are invited to discuss the prospects and challenges of tackling the dynamic transformation process in a coordinated bottom up approach.
Organizer: Federal Office of Communications Switzerland
Speakers
Mr Philipp Metzger, Director General of OFCOM SwitzerlandMr Edouard Bugion, EPFL and Digital Switzerland
Mr Alexander Barclay, GenèveLab
Ms Roxana Radu, Chair ISOC-CH and Geneva Internet Plattform
Moderator
Jacques Beglinger, SwissHoldings
IGF 2017 WS #48
The Future of Internet Identifiers: How the DNS will Function in a Smart Cyberspace?
Proposer: Wolfgang Kleinwachter, University of Aarhus
Co-Proposer: Jörg Schweiger, DENIC
Session Format: Panel - 60 Min
Draft Program:
Opening Remarks (3 min.):
Jörg Schweiger, CEO DENIC
Introduction (7 min.):
Vint Cerf, CIE Google Inc.
Speakers (4x5 min.):
Christoph Blanchi, DONA Foundation
Marco Howening, RIPE NCC
Hans-Peter Dittler, ISOC Board
Ramy Ahmed Fathy, ITU-T SG 20
Commentators (4x3 min):
Nigel Hickson, ICANN
Xu Peixi, University of Bejing
Keith Drazek, VeriSign
Olga Cavalli, Buenos Aires South School of Internet Governance
Discussion (18 min.)
Moderator:
Wolfgang Kleinwächter, University of Aarhus
Remote Moderation:
Rainer Rodewald, Medienstadt Leipzig e.V.
Rapporteur:
Rainer Rodewald, Medienstadt Leipzig e.V.
Content of the Session:
For more than 30 years the Domain Name System (DNS) provided a first hand service for Internet identifiers. A domain name, an e-mail address and an IP number were the main identifiers which enabled communication among computers and people behind the computers. But with new applications and services, in particular related to (mobile) Apps, Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things, the role of identifiers in the Internet Governance Ecosystem might face some change.
As Karl Auerbach has said: "It is not that the Domain Name System (DNS) is becoming less important as a technical way of mapping structured names into various forms of records, most often records containing IP addresses. Nor is the Domain Name System used less then heretofore. ... And national governments continue to believe that domain names are the holy grail of levers they can use to impose their views of right and proper behavior onto the internet. All of that remains. And it will remain. What is happening to DNS is more subtle: Domain names are slowly becoming invisible."
This process leads to a question which will be discussed in the workshop: Will we see the emergence of a new generation of Internet identifiers, in particular with regard to industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things and how the requirements for a new generation of Internet identifiers look like, how would they be determined and how would the issue of migration and coexistence be addressed to keep the global Internet interoperable and unfragmented?
The workshop will provide expertise mainly from the technical and business community but also from a governmental perspective (ICANNs GAC and ITU-T Study Group 20). And the interests of users will be also included into the debate as well as the perspective of developing countries.
Relevance of the Session:
The management of critical Internet resources, in particular Internet identifiers as domain names, has been in the spotlight of the Internet Governance debate in the last two decades. With the completion of the IANA transition and the emergence of new applications and services, related to industry 4.0, Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence, the DNS is facing new challenges. This will have consequences both for the development of the domain name market as well as for related governmental policies. This is also a challenge for the technical community (to keep the Internet interoperable and non-fragmented) and will effect th interests of Internet end-users.
Online Participation:
We will reach out for an extended Online participation to the members of the ITU-T Study Group 20 as well as to members of the IGF-DC on IOT and other interested groups.
Discussion facilitation:
The moderator will not allow long individual presentations by invited speakeers. He will ask direct questions to the speakers on the podium and will include, as early as possible, the audience
The Seed Alliance is a grants and awards program that seeks to promote Internet Development in the Global South supporting a variety of stakeholders in Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia Pacific and Africa.
The main purpose of this session is to highlight the contributions from innovators across the global south to support Internet development, innovations that shape our digital future.
6 projects awarded by the ISIF Asia, FRIDA and FIRE Africa programs will be introduced through video presentations about their work, as follows:
Duncan Macintosh, CEO APNIC FOUNDATION, introductory remarks about how the Seed Alliance contributes to the SDGs. Duncan will present the award to:
Laura Kaplan, Development and Cooperation Manager at LACNIC will talk about Gender and Technology, and Seed Alliance's contribution to closing the gendered digital divide. Laura will present the awards to:
Vymala Thuron from AFRINIC to talk on the benefits and impact of community projects and why it is important for the Seed Alliance to pursue the work. Vymala will present the awards to:
Alan Barret, CEO of AFRINIC will be closing the event.
During the Opening Ceremony, welcoming remarks will be given by:
o Ms. Doris Leuthard, President of the Swiss Confederation
o Mr. Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General (Video-message)
o Mr. Liu Zhenmin, Under-Secretary-General, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
o Mr. Michael Møller, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva
o Mr. Houlin Zhao, Secretary-General, ITU
o Mr. Frank La Rue, Assistant Director-General Communication & Information, UNESCO
o Mr. Pierre Maudet, Conseiller d’Etat, Genève
o Mr. Rémy Pagani, Maire de la ville de Genève
The Opening Ceremony will start and conclude with a cultural performance.
High Level Session of the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2017
“Shaping our future digital global governance”
Monday, 18 December 2017, 4pm – 6pm
Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
*Participants are advised seating in the Assembly Hall is limited; all those interested in attending this session should secure their seats in the preceding opening ceremony.*
Theme: Digitisation provides unique opportunities for growth and development. But in recent times, the Internet has also been associated with growing challenges that call for a better coordinated global digital governance system. Pooling the strengths of different stakeholders – governments, private sector, technical community and civil society – is essential in any such effort. This session aims to discuss the pressing matters relating to digitisation and to the future evolution of the global digital governance framework. Potential gaps in the current digital governance system would be part of the conversation and suggestions for improving global cooperation among all stakeholders can be developed.
Host Chair: Ms. Doris Leuthard, President of the Swiss Confederation
UN Representative: Mr. Liu Zhenmin, Under-Secretary-General, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs and UNSG representative
Format: Moderated interactive roundtable discussion
Moderator: Ms. Nathalie Ducommun, Talk Master of Swiss Television RTS
Remote Moderator: Mr. Jovan Kurbalija, Head of Geneva Internet Platform
Policy questions:
The session will discuss the following policy questions:
Agenda:
Speakers:
Four main topics have been identified by the young for discussion:
* Fake news online
* GPDR and the impact on EU and non-EU young citizens
* Blockchain technology and the need for new digital skills: young entrepreneurship
* Raising awareness of the young on internet safety and their responsibilities: the role of the young
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The purpose of this Open Forum is to allow the voice of young people to be heard by Information Society experts on issues related to internet governance and to help young people to take an active part in decision-making processes.
One of the focus points will also be to see how the recommendations which emerge from the present Open Forum can be taken into consideration at national and regional levels and what needs to be done to achieve this.* With the participation of Mrs Mariya GABRIEL,
EU Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society
* Key foreword: Mr Michał BONI, MEP, EPP, Chair of the Delegation
& Mr George SADOWSKY, ICANN Board
*Message from: Mrs Julie WARD, MEP, S&D & Mrs Jacqueline BEAUCHERE, Microsoft (tbc)
*Key invitees: EP Delegation to IGF, Moctar YEDALY - AUC, Mihail KOMAROV- Academia, HSE
*Young Leaders, representatives of the: Youth IGF Movement & Asia Pacific Youth IGF (among others)The shift to a digital economy, the rise of the Internet and the opportunities provided by global electronic commerce increasingly influence sustainable development. In its Information Economy Report 2017: Digitalization, Trade and Development, UNCTAD stresses that we are only seeing the beginning of digital transformations that will have major transformational effects. They will create significant opportunities for developing countries but also major challenges. For example, as more and more cross-border economic transactions go digital, it becomes increasingly important to bring the trade community and the Internet Governance community together.
The purpose of this Open Forum is three-fold: 1) to introduce IGF participants to UNCTAD's work on e-commerce and the digital economy; 2) to present the key messages from the Information Economy Report 2017; and 3) to discuss ways to initiate dialogue between the Internet and trade policy communities, particularly with respect to addressing the complex challenges of data localization and barriers to cross-border data flows.
Tag 1: Internet Economy09:00 Welcome remarks and highlights of the Information Economy Report 2017
Mr. Torbjörn Fredriksson, Chief, ICT Analysis Section, UNCTAD
09:15 Linking the Internet and Trade Policy Communities
Mr. William J. Drake, International Fellow and Lecturer, University of Zurich
09:30 Multistakeholder Responses
H.E. Mr. Julian Braithwaite, UK Permanent Representative to the UN and WTO in Geneva
Mr. Tarek Kamel, Senior Vice President, ICANN
Ms. Anriette Esterhuysen, Director, Global Policy and Strategy, the Association for Progressive Communications
Ms. Marietje Schaake, Member of European Parliament from the Netherlands
09:55 Closing remarks
Mr. Torbjörn Fredriksson, UNCTAD
The Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility (DCPR) is a multistakeholder group aimed at stimulating discussion on the roles and responsibilities of online platforms in the online ecosystem, in particular with regard to human rights protection.
Session panellist will debate the results of their research, which have been included in the book “Platform Regulations: How Platforms are Regulated and How they Regulate Us” constituting the Official 2017 Outcome of the DCPR. This volume explores challenges and opportunities posed by the platformisation of our economy and, more generally, our society. The book features eleven contribution on topics ranging from the human rights dimension, to data governance and new roles of platforms calling for new solutions. It also includes the Recommendations on Terms of Service and Human Rights, whose development was facilitated by the DCPR, through a multistakeholder participatory process.
Free hard copies of the book will be distributed at the DCPR session, which will be opened by the keynote remarks of:
An interactive debate will follow, stimulated by the authors of the analyses featured in Platform Regulations. The panel will be composed by:
Proposer's Name: Ms. Florence Poznanski
Proposer's Organization: Internet Without Borders
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Felix Blanc
Co-Proposer's Organization: Internet Without Borders
Co-Organizers:
Mr.,Jonas, VALENTE, Civil Society, Intervozes (Brazil)
Mr., Diego VICENTIN, Technical Community, Univesidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil)
Session Format: Panel - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: Brazil
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: France
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Peter Micek
Speaker: Roxana Radu
Speaker: Félix Blanc
Speaker: Veridiana Alimonti
Content of the Session:
Submarine cables and Internet exchange points play a crucial role in interconnecting national and international networks into a complex network of submarine highways. Estimates show that a 10% increase in broadband penetration brings around a 1.4% increase in terms of economic growth. But interconnection costs remain very high in developing countries, especially in Africa, due to various factors including national telecom monopolies, lack of backbone infrastructures or barriers to market access. In 2005, the Geneva Working Group on Internet Governance urged international agencies to report on interconnection costs and fund “initiatives that advance connectivity, IXPs, and local content for developing countries”. Since then, several organizations have met the challenge and recommended to promote the liberalization of access to international gateways.
Latin-America and Africa, and generally all the BRICS, are passing through a request of huge transformation of their infrastructure, which is materializing with the construction of new submarine cables, satellites, backbones and inter-exchange points, linking Brazil, for example, to Europa and Africa. But without a favorable context on transparency, jurisdiction and governance, the impacts of new internet infrastructures can be reduced.
This panel aims to build up an overview on these topics. What outcomes shall additional submarine cables have on Internet affordability in Latin America and BRICS countries, and how to maximize them? How could sea cables consortia provide greater transparency on their functioning
and tariff policy? How can these changes take place with a national legislation on telecommunication infrastructure that reduces public regulation, like in Brazil? Are international gateways eligible to become “collective goods, socially produced, and governed as common-pool
resources” ? How to reduce the high dependency of some countries to international broadband, especially in Africa and Latin America?
Our round-table might bring sea cables consortia and Internet broadband experts face-to-face with frontline activists, universities and a civil society coalition to think of a way to bring innovative solutions on transparency, affordability and governance.
This panel is the result of a project in progress since 2016 which was launched at the RightsCon in Brussels in March 2017. It will be the presentation of the state of the current research.
Relevance of the Session:
Our workshop on the governance of submarine cables will deal with the thematic of (global) inter-connectivity. We will emphasize on innovative participatory and economical mechanisms for sharing the costs and benefits of Internet infrastructures that are crucial for the
future of global inter-connectivity: submarine cables and IXPs. We will address key issues of Internet governance including that transparency,
affordability, neutrality and open access.In this order, we understand that the panel has a central place in the debate of the Future of Internet.
Tag 1: Interconnection and Price Regulation
Tag 2: BRICS
Tag 3: Internet Governance
Interventions:
Confirmed interventions:
- Roxana Radu, Technical Communitiy, DiploFoundation, Switzerland: Balance and perspective of the outcome of submarine cables in the international legislation and governance of Internet
- Peter Micek, Civil Society, Global Policy & Legal Counsel, Access Now, New York: Internet Shutdown and censorship, the urgency of new Internet gateways
- Veridiana Alimonti, Civil Society, Lawyer and member of the director council of Intervozes (Master's degree in Economic Law from the University of São Paulo Law School.), Brazil: Digital Rights and regional infrastructures, the ecosystem of relationship between providers, users and citizens in Latin América
- Felix Blanc, Technical Community, Resercher, fellow at Fundação Getulio Vargas/Centro de Tecnologia e SociedadeCivil Society (Brazil), member of Internet Without Borders : The ELLA Submarine Cables and his innovative governance model
* Debate, questions and further research perspectives (30 minutes)Diversity:The panel aims to represent a diversity between continents with a strong representation of speakers from Latin America and Africa. Moreover, many organizers are participating in the IGF for the first time. Internet without borders is led by women, activists for equal rights and greater representation in the institutions, a great place will be given so that gender equality be guaranteed in the final composition of the panel.
Onsite Moderator: Florence Poznanski
Online Moderator: Felix Blanc
Rapporteur: Diego Vicentin
We want to facilitate the exchanges in order to produce a constructive return on the exhibitions to improve the work and propose the new issues of research. We will ask our speakers to highlight specific questions, clear perspectives for them to serve as a point of reference for the public.
The questions selections will follow theese goals.Online Participation:
The panel will last 1h30. The first 50 minutes will be reserved to the interventions of the panelists and then 40 minutes of questions and debate. Those wishing to intervene must register during the exhibitions, explaining whether their intervention is a question, a contribution or a critique. Depending on the number of participants in the room and the number of people accompanying the on-line panel, a key will be defined for allocating the number of on-line and onsite interventions between the two moderators. Interventions of the participants online will be expressed live via webcam if the Internet connection allows, by sending audio to the moderator or by reading text by the moderator.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: No
Link to Report:
Additional Reference Document Link:
Proposer's Name: Mr. Shreedeep Rayamajhi
Proposer's Organization: RayZnews
Co-Organizers:
Civil Society, Learn IG
Session Format: Panel - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: Nepal
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Confrimed Speakers
Shreedeep Rayamajhi – Media -Learn IG - Nepal
Aris Ignacio-Academia - College of Information Technology – Philippines
Maheeshwara Kirindigoda- Internet safety project – Private Sector -Sri Lanka
David NG- eHelp Association – Technical – Hongkong
Burna Santos- Brazil
jianne.soriano-Net Mission
Speaker: Shreedeep Rayamajhi
Relevance of the Session:
During the workshop we would be highlighting the personal experience, and need of technology in terms of youth awareness and how community collaborative project like Learn IG can helps in bridging the gaps. Most of the times People are awarded fellowship but when they go back they limit themselves to the limitation of their reach. This session will explore the possibility of how leaders can use their knowledge, learning and expertise to help others raise awareness specially with youth and community.
Content of the Session:
The collaborative Community Development Program Learn Internet Governance Program is a Dynamic platform of getting information which focuses in open knowledge sharing method. During the IGF 2017 we want to share our experience and help promote the concept to further enlarge the group of internet leaders with the possibilities of what can be done at individual level. Especially in developing and least developed and developing nations where there is crisis of funding this concept can help people to network and do something credible in terms of spreading the awareness and knowledge that they have. They can use the available resources in utilizing their own knowledge and network to create a better means of communication channel that can empower the youths and share knowledge at local level without the support of any funding. It can further multiply and can be a very effecting means of capacity building as well. Right now with Learn IG, we have a simple website and forum for communication and collaboration. We are further planning to network and grow in terms of how and what can be done. This year we also published a report on Internet development status of developing countries in AP region.
We want to promote the concept of networking and knowledge sharing at individual level of youth internet leaders. Promoting and empowering youths as our basic objective.
As today in most parts of the world, it is very costly to participate in forums like IGF and other IG awareness course these kinds of informational tool can be handy for communication and information dissemination. Our main focus are:
1. To promote easy and effective mean of communication
2. To promote next generation leadership in developing countries
3. To build network among internet leaders
4. To create an open knowledge sharing platform
5. Utilization of local resources
6. Issues and challenges of Youth leadership in IG process
7. Communication and collaboration opportunity
I strongly believe today when there is a trend of people who are just traveling as a holiday to all these internet events where with Learn IG we want to make a point that things can be done with strong will and knowledge to make change it is possible and we youths believe in creating a better, safe and equal internet for all.
Tag 1: Youth Engagement
Tag 2: Access and Diversity
Tag 3: Digital Literacy
Interventions:
An interactive dialogue with questions and answers with all the participating leaders and exchanging information in an open discussion.
we have selected all the speakers from a young group on the regional and on the basis of their work involvement with Internet governance issues.
We have asked them to prepare a presentation or any form of information that they can share it on the table.
Rapporteur: Shreedeep Rayamajhi
Online Participation:
The online participation will be carried out by online moderator and we will be taking in LIVE question from the online particiaption as well as our participats present .
Discussion facilitation:
As mentioned above we have clearly defined the topic and have circulated our speakers about the topic. we have also asked them to get their information as organized as possible. We are also working in bringing in case study specifically related to individual projects and further other details of collaboration and communication. Likewise, we will also be focusing on the real time data and internet penetration rate of countries just in case to give an idea about where the global internet is moving. It will give the discussion a new angle for discussion during the introduction session.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: No
Link to Report: https://www.slideshare.net/ShreedeepRayamajhi/internet-development-repor...
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Speakers Profile :
Burna Santos – Civil Society-Brazil
For the past three years I have worked as a legal advisor at the Presidency of Brazil, covering Human Rights and Internet Governance issues and taking part in interesting discussions on the Internet in Brazil in past years like the Marco Civil da Internet (Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet) and Data Protection bill draft. I am also an alumna of the Brazilian School of Internet Governance, a CGI.br fellow at the 9th Latin America and Caribbean Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Internet Governance Forum, an ICANN Fellow during ICANN58, and a very proud member of the Internet Society Special Interest Group Youth Observatory.
Inspired by my Youth Observatory colleagues and as a young person who is interested in policy-making processes, building a safe online environment for young women is one of my highest priorities. Because of this, I joined the IGF's Best Practice Forum on Gender & Access as a voluntary investigator and co-authored the "Young Latin American Women Declaration: Enabling access to empower young women and build a feminist Internet Governance."
Aris Ignacio Academics -Philipnes Aris Ignacio is the Dean of the College of Information Technology at Southville International School and Colleges, where he teaches different disciplines in Information Technology and Computer Science.
He is also involved with ICANN through APRALO and ISOC. He is the President of the Internet Society's Philippines Chapter, as well as a member of the At-Large structure. He majorly involved with APrIGF youth IGF and other regional initiative.
Maheeshwara Kirindigoda Private Sector SriLanka
Maheeshwara Kirindigoda is an Activist in the filed of ICT I am being privilege to hold the responsibilities as the Secretary to the Internet Society Sri Lanka chapter, President of the Chamber of ICT, Chairmen IGF Sri Lanka organizing committee and Secretary to the Central Province Export Chamber. He runs the internet saftey program in Sri Lanka and has been associated with organizing the Sri Lankan IGF.
Agenda:
During the workshop, we will be highlighting the personal experience, initiative and skills of youth for bridging the gaps of IG. We are also planning to highlight the problems with in the awareness campaign and youth involvement in the internet governance process and their role for future.
The moderator will further make the session interactive with questions and answers making the session more inclusion. Participants can ask their questions by raising their hand.
here are major agendas.
We are keeping last 10 minutes to make sure we answer all the questions including online.
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Proposer's Name: Mr. Hartmut Glaser
Proposer's Organization: Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br)
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Jamila Venturini
Co-Proposer's Organization: Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br)
Co-Organizers: Romina Garrido, female, Chile, Datos Protegidos, civil society
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: Brazil
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Co-Proposer:
Country: Brazil
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Content of the Session:
The workshop aims at discussing the challenges for the regulation of personal data protection in Latin America and identifying solutions and innovations developed in the different countries in an exercise that can feedback into the ongoing regulatory discussions in the region. Besides dealing with traditional data protection issues such as (i) the concept of personal and anonymous data; (ii) consent and other legal bases for data processing; (iii) international transfer of personal data; (iv) data protection authority, etc., the workshop will discuss – from a regional perspective – emerging topics such as (i) privacy by design; (ii) the right to be forgotten; (iii) algorithm accountability; and (iii) the complexity inherent to data flows exchange between private and public entities in processing personal data. Such an approach is suggested as a way of shifting the focus of the debates on the topic from the perspective of the Western European countries and the United States to a Latin American one, in an attempt to broaden the discussion and include the particular challenges of developing countries and young democracies, in a moment in which data protection has become centerpiece of the policy agenda. The general outline of the session includes a high level presentation of the regional situation regarding data protection and will be followed by two rounds of short interventions from invited commentators that will delve into particular realities and concrete cases from selected countries. The floor will be opened for the interventions of interested participants from the audience, who will help understanding the regional context and pointing to best practices and ways forward to advance the regulatory efforts on data protection.
Relevance of the Session:
In the past years, data protection has increasingly become a central Internet governance issue. Despite being in the agenda of several IGFs, the subject has gained more relevance and nuances that go from privacy and security issues to freedom of expression and information ones. The advance of new technologies that allow the processing of greater amounts of personal data and the emergence of the so-called Internet of Things (sometimes associated to initiatives on “smart cities”) have at the same time increased the power and information asymmetry between companies and users (and sometimes even between companies and States) and the challenges for data protection regulation.
The Latin American context regarding data protection is diverse: according to the DLA Piper’s Data Protection Laws of the World Handbook, most countries in the region have a moderate level of protection. That is the case, for instance, of Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay. Brazil, Honduras and Venezuela, on the other hand, are classified as having a limited protection, while Argentina is the only country classified as having a robust level of protection in the region.
Despite the relevance of the topic for Latin American countries, international debates on data protection, especially in the regulatory field, have had a strong focus on the tensions between the policy orientations of European countries and the United States. The innovation of this workshop will be to gather key actors in a multistakeholder perspective to discuss the challenges of data protection from a regional point of view, trying to identify its particularities, as well as solutions and best practices that emerge in specific contexts. The discussion is timely considering that several countries in the region are discussing either the adoption of comprehensive personal data protection laws (e.g. Brazil, Ecuador, etc.) or the modernization of their existing frameworks (e.g. Argentina, Chile, Mexico, etc.). In this sense, it can at the same time receive inputs and contribute to local debates on the subject. The session was also designed to have a pedagogical character by providing clarification to local stakeholders on the role and limits of data protection and to advance in identifying and preventing setbacks in freedom of expression and access to information – a common fear in a region that has historically been marked by several authoritarian regimes.
Any serious discussion about “our digital future” should take into account the role of big data and the impacts of the processing of immense amounts of personal information collected by private and state agents. Considering that a great part of the “next billion” users to be connected to the Internet are located in the developing world (especially Africa and Latin America), it is crucial to reframe the discussions on data protection to assure that the future of the new “digital citizens” includes safeguards and the respect for their human rights.
Tag 1: Data protection
Tag 2: Human Rights
Tag 3: Internet Economy
Interventions:
The proposed format will allow the interaction of several invited experts that represent distinct countries, sectors and visions towards the challenges and opportunities for data protection in Latin America. There will be two moderators that will make a quick introduction of the session and who will be followed by a keynote from a representative from an intergovernmental organization. A first round of interventions will be introduced by the moderators with an orienting question about the situation of data protection in selected countries of the region (Argentina, Brazil and Mexico). After this first round of quick presentations, the members of the roundtable that did not present comments will answer moderator’s questions on specific cases from their countries (Chile, Colombia and Peru). Finally, the floor will be opened for the interventions and questions of the participants in the audience, who will be able to bring their concerns and cases and interact with all panelists that then will give their final considerations. Bellow is a preliminary list of proposed moderators and participants indicating the ones that are still to be confirmed.
Moderators:
Carolina Aguerre, female, Argentina, University of San Andres, academia
Luiz Fernando Castro, male, Brazil, CGI.br, government
Introduction (keynote):
Danilo Doneda, male, Brazil, UERJ, academia
First round:
Alejandro Pisanty, male, Mexico, ISOC, technical community
Marcel Leonardi, male, Brazil, Google Brazil, private sector
Romina Garrido, female, Chile, Datos Protegidos, civil society
Second round:
Amalia Toledo, female, Colombia, Fundación Karisma, civil society
Martin Borgiolli, male, Peru, Hiperderecho, civil society
Instead of long interventions from few speakers, the workshop will be organized in three “rounds” and the time of the interventions by each panelist is planned to be as short as possible (5’ each and 10’ to the representative of the intergovernmental organization). This format will assure broad participation of representatives from several countries in the region in order to identify the current situation of Latin America with regards to data protection and the main concerns each country presents. And still reserve enough time for the audience and online participants to intervene. Each moderator will guide one “round” of the discussion, to add more dynamics to the conversations.
Diversity:
The diversity of the workshop is assured from the selection of moderators: two moderators, from both genders, different countries and different stakeholder groups. The first round of interventions will have representatives from different countries and stakeholder groups presenting their views on the situation of data protection in their countries. Although they bring a specific perspective about each country’s process, the overall diversity of policy views on data protection represented by the different participants in the general discussion will provide balance to the eventual narrow scope of those presentations. The second round of interventions, despite bringing only representatives from civil society, includes gender and country diversity. Its goal is to bring cases and examples from other countries in very short interventions. The speakers of this round were selected due to the specific work they have been doing in the field (e.g. research about the observation of data protection rules by private companies, litigation on specific cases related to data protection, etc.). The keynote from a high level representative from an intergovernmental organization active in Latin America is expected to take into account the diversity of the region.
Onsite Moderator: Carolina Aguerre and Luiz Fernando Castro
Online Moderator: Diego Canabarro
Rapporteur: Jamila Venturini and
Proposer's Name: Mr. Nigel Hickson
Proposer's Organization: ICANN
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Dierdre Sidjanski
Co-Proposer's Organization: ICANN
Moderator: Markus Kummer
Proposer:
Country: Switzerland
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Co-Proposer:
Country: Switzerland
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Speaker: Larry Strickling
Speaker: Keith Drazek
Speaker: Lori Schulman
Speaker: Matthew Shears
Speaker: Arda Gerkens
Speaker: Grace Mutung'u
Speaker: Jordan Carter
Speaker: Farzaneh Badii
Speaker: Mark Carvell
Speaker: Markus Kummer
Speaker: Lilian Deluque Bruges
Content of the Session:
Key elements of the Domain Name System (DNS) are governed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). ICANN is a not for profit multistakeholder organization based in the US but with a global presence. Unlike in intergovernmental organizations, policy making is not dominated by any one group, but rather through equal engagement with business, the technical community, civil society, end users and governments. Anyone at ICANN has a voice and can contribute expertise to the search for policy solutions. The governance structure of ICANN and its policy development processes are procedurally complex and demanding but have yielded sustainable solutions with broad buy-in from all actors. The IANA Transition, where certain key responsibilities for the technical governance of the DNS were transitioned from the US authorities to the broad Internet Community is perhaps the best example of a complex policy negotiation – with a concrete result – being managed by a group of different stakeholders.
The multistakeholder Roundtable, while reflecting on the effectiveness of the multi-stakeholder process for the DNS at ICANN (and there are problems as well as achievements) will assess how it could be used for other IG issues which pose challenges for policy makers. The way we govern the Internet in the future will surely be a contributory factor in shaping our digital future.
A key Internet Governance questions addressed, through these Roundtable discussions is how bodies – especially those that are inter-governmental in nature, can adapt to benefit from the plurality of multi-stakeholder voices.
Relevance of the Session:
As the Internet issues faced by the international community proliferate, the governance of them becomes of increasing importance. National and Regional solutions are increasingly being found inadequate to deal with the global complexity of the digital transformation we are witnessing.
Tag 1: Multistakeholderism
Tag 2: ICANN
Tag 3: Digital Transformation
Interventions:
The Session will be organised in the form of a Roundtable with the discussants answering (arranged) questions from the moderator and then also the audience (both physically present and also on-line).
Diversity:
The Discussants are drawn from different sectors, from different geographical areas and gender. They also include those experienced at the IGF and those for whom this IGF will be their first.
Onsite Moderator: Markus Kummer
Online Moderator: Dierdre Sidjanski
Rapporteur: Nigel Hickson
Online Participation:
In addition to taking questions, through the moderator, of those taking part remotely, we will in advance have at least one discussant taking part virtually and will also, in advance of the session, pose specific question on appropriate social media.
Discussion facilitation:
In the spirit of an interactive roundtable the Moderator will ensure that all the discussants are involved in the conversation (they are not giving up their time for no purpose) and contribute to the overall theme. There will be no opening statements or introductions. He will go straight to questions.
He will also involve the audience for questions (not statements) and the on-line audience. He will group questions together and not simply ask each discussant in turn to answer, but ensure that the relevant discussant speaks.
Before the end of session, he will pose final questions to discussants , allowing them a brief time for reflection.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: https://www.intgovforum.org/cms/igf2016/index.php/proposal/view_public/6
Agenda:
Proposer's Name: Mr. Rui ZHONG
Proposer's Organization: Internet Society of China
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Ping Wu
Co-Proposer's Organization: Internet Society of China
Co-Organizers:
Ms. Jing MA, Civil Society, China Association for Science and Technology
Session Format: Panel - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: China
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: China
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Alison Gillwald
Speaker: Satish Babu
Speaker: Kenta Mochizuki
Speaker: Lei Ning
Speaker: Shenshen Cao
Content of the Session:
The application of AI will be quite extensive, for instance in the field of digital advertising, agriculture, sales, even music, art, psychology and charity. However, the development of AI will encounter many challenges, such as policy issues on data protection, ethical considerations in AI's design core value and neutrality. Therefore, some sorts of approaches and issues are necessary to be further discussed for the development and governance of AI.
This workshop will invite multi-stakeholder representatives to discuss what policy challenges AI will be encountered and how to create an enabling policy environment that conducive to the sustainable development from different dimensions and aspects.
Intended Agenda and issues to be discussed:
1.Xinmin Gao, Internet Society of China (3 mins; Opening remark)
2.Kenta Mochizuki, Yahoo Japan (8 mins; Talk about user's AI data privacy and protection)
3.Alison Gillwald, University of Cape Town (8 mins; Talk about ICT technology and policy advice for government)
4.Satish Babu, IEEE (8 mins; Talk about AI's challenges in Internet governance from perspective of technology)
5.Lei Ning, Baidu (8 mins; Talk about AI's challenges in Internet governance from perspective of product and international cooperation)
6.Shenshen Cao, Tencent (8 mins; Talk about AI's challenges in Internet governance from perspective of public policy and industry's sustainable development)
7.Discussion, on-site and remote interactive Q&A (45 mins; we will try to invite other potential guests to join discussion, such as Google, Microsoft)
8.Xinmin Gao, Internet Society of China (2 mins; close the workshop)
Relevance of the Session:
Artificial Intelligence(AI)is considered as one of important rising ICT industries and is shaping the digital future of human being. Technically, AI basically involves with Machine Learning, which means it will potentially collect, analyze and use large amounts of data, particularly some of which combined with other information could be identified to one’s personal information. In accordance with the legal provisions of personal information protection, these acts should be clearly, fully and completely authorized by the users, and also the purposes, means, content, retention duration and use scope etc. should be clearly informed to the users. Therefore, what kinds of specific policies and measures necessary in the process of collecting and using data should be discussed so as to guide and instruct the AI developer obeying the security principle, taking appropriate management measures and technical means based on the possibility and severity of personal information damage, as well as effectively protect personal information from unauthorized retrieval, loss, disclosure, damage and tampering.
Furthermore, as the machine is designed by the developer, the program naturally endowed with the designer's value orientation, which means the developer need to uphold a wide range of inclusiveness in the AI training and design process, fully considering the interest of women, children, the disabled, minorities and other vulnerable groups, as well as set special rules of judgment in extreme morality and law circumstance. In that the AI system is not as "technically neutral" as it looks like, the specific group may turned out to be the victims of systematic "prejudice" and "discrimination" unwittingly.
Generally, research and development of AI technologies or products are not restricted by administrative license and access. However, once these technologies and products applied to specific industry, there may arouse industry license issues. Will the industry regulation extend to AI field in the future? In finance, medicine, smart home, automatic driving and other specific fields, will regulation be necessary to intervene in the AI development? For example, if a driverless car with passengers encountered an accident, who should bear the main responsibility and how to monitor such situation?
Thus, how to govern the AI through practical policy approaches is very vital consideration for many areas, such as cyber security, personal information protection, network neutrality, ICT for sustainable development.
Tag 1: Digital Future
Tag 2: Internet of Things
Tag 3: Internet & ICTs for the Sustainable Development Goals
Interventions:
As the diverse background and knowledge difference of the speakers, we will invite them to share insights from different issue angles, including policy making advice, technical practice, product development, industry research etc.
Diversity:
In the current stage, we have five speakers from different stakehloder groups (private sector, technical community and civil society), and two female speakers. Most of them come from developing countries and some of them are first time participating in IGF.
Onsite Moderator: Xinmin GAO, VP, Internet Society of China
Online Moderator: Rui ZHONG, Director, Internet Society of China
Rapporteur: Rui ZHONG, Director, Internet Society of China
Online Participation:
The workshop is open to every one, both onsite and remote participation. We will have a remote moderator to interact with the remote participants and will foward their questions and insights to the workshop speakers and audience. We will post the message of workshop info online in advance to let more people knowing what will be discussed and welcome joining from the global.
Discussion facilitation:
The workshop will be set as panel format, firstly allowing each panelist to share her/his main views and then have mutual discussion about other speakers' viewpoints. The on-site moderator also raise some questions prepared. To listen to more voice, we reserve more time slot for audience and remote participants to ask questions and make comments.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/wks2014/index.php/proposal/view_public/41
1. Xinmin Gao, Internet Society of China (3 mins; Opening remark)
2. Kenta Mochizuki, Yahoo Japan (8 mins; Topic: User's AI data privacy and protection)
3. Alison Gillwald, University of Cape Town (8 mins; Topic: ICT technology and policy advice for government)
4. Satish Babu, IEEE (8 mins; Topic: AI's challenges in Internet governance from perspective of technology)
5. Lei Ning, Baidu (8 mins; Topic: AI's challenges in Internet governance from perspective of product and international cooperation)
6. Shenshen Cao, Tencent (8 mins; Topic: AI's challenges in Internet governance from perspective of public policy and industry's sustainable development)
7. Discussion, on-site and remote interactive Q&A (45 mins)
8. Xinmin Gao, Internet Society of China (2 mins; Closing remark for the workshop)
Debates over the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) over its several years of effort led to a renewed and broader agreement about sustainability, and then led to the endorsement of the Sustainable Development Goals. These goals are not only built on the MDGs, but also supplant them, as of course, a greater awareness of the need for broader engagement to achieve the change that societally and economically is needed to shape our world into the world we want. The adoption of the SDGs by the United Nations, renewed understanding of how the major challenges that the world is facing are interdependent. No country can really expect to be its own island, whether in its need for food, water, energy, or jobs. The SDGs are a foundational platform that all countries are challenged with the adoption and the endorsement by the United Nations to consider how to address the challenges.
The SDGs provide a new vision for development, a vision that does not assume Development is isolated, but understands and admits that it is changing the role of women and youth; bringing access to ICTs to small farmers and midwives in developing countries; advancing access to information and education for children that have not school rooms, or limited access to books in their language to help them learn.
In response to growing awareness about the importance of sustainable development initiatives and activities and to meet what has been established as necessary goals for the world, the SDGs offer the potential guidelines to move the world toward a sustainable future.
Looking back at the MDGs, this session proposes to look at the learning of the MDGs very much like a prologue to what must be done now. In fact, the SDGs are already finding ways to gain supporting implementation initiatives. In addition, to take into account lessons learned about lack of data, and lack of focused reporting on achievements.
In order to know where we are, we need data. We cannot plan how we move toward achieving the SDGS unless we have better understanding. As a wise sage once said: If you do not know where you are going, any road will get you there. In addition, another study the past to know the future. Many reports are published by businesses, NGOs, and think tanks. Reports are published annually by UN agencies. However, it is very difficult to determine what is factual from all these reports, and who provides the input to the studies, so it is difficult to determine where “we” are.
The implementation of the 17 UN SDGs in developing countries is only a fortnight away, and as it looks, the UN could be up against more than it really understood. Creating a form of standardized reporting is very challenging for developing countries, unless there is a sort of “road-map” that is built on their present status in terms of data gathering mechanisms and analysis.
According to World Bank Report (Poverty Global Practices Group and Development Data Group April 2015), a significant number of developing and least developed nations across Asia and Africa lack sufficient data to be used by business and policymakers in making estimates.
Lack of data and why the need for sufficient data:
Data helps experts weigh the feasibility of goals, provides clarity on the nature of the problem and facilitates statistic-based supervision and evaluation of development progress. It is paramount in intermediate outcome tracking and determination of whether the paths predicts that a country or the UN will achieve or miss on an SDG and its targets. Most developing countries lack data even in priority areas and that has come as one of the most pressing challenges the 2030 Agenda is likely to face. As has been suggested, a little under 30 of the world’s poorest countries have extremely limited data to measure the trend of SDGs indicators.
Mechanisms for gathering data:
One fundamental data collection method is through conducting household surveys, which will provide important data for evaluation and analysis of individual wellbeing in terms of health and education statuses, agriculture, energy and consumption levels. Another reliable method is the use of administrative records, which can provide statistics on demographic changes and trends, for instance, to aid in the formulation of health, education and social protection policies.
However, we must be realistic that developing countries often lack resources to conduct the aforementioned surveys; some have poor and unreliable registration systems, which may force analysts to rely solely on non-statistical estimates. To add to the challenges, one SDG target requires that legal identity, including birth registration, be provided for all by 2030. Relying only on telecom operators/mobile operators to report on connectivity, for instance, is a very flawed measurement, as has been demonstrated by Lirne Asia’s research.
Data measurement mechanisms that are suitable for developing and developed countries need updating. Moreover, this needs to happen quickly. It may be that grants and training programs for developing countries will be needed to help strengthen the organizations at the national levels so that they can enhance their ability to gather reliable data and be more comprehensive with what they provide to the UN registry bodies if SDGs are to be met.
The workshop on “Data for sustainable development road-maps” session will bring together a diverse set of UN Agency representatives responsible for gathering statistics; other kinds of data producers, business professionals and users, as well as innovators in the field (national and international experts) to discuss the way forward, including exploring how new technologies and approaches that can be used to strengthen the data ecosystem globally.
The session would be organized around five themes aiming to achieving the following outcomes:
Theme 1: Addressing data gaps and financing
● present the current situation for countries to produce SDG indicators and
highlight data gaps.
● discuss opportunities to strengthen census and survey regimes.
● discuss opportunities to further develop the administrative data system with the
view of ensuring harmonization, comparability, and quality of data.
● present possibilities for using new data/ technology to address identified data
gaps and engage new actors.
● to determine how alignment with national and regional agendas will impact data
collection in developing countries and indicator production and reporting.
Theme 2: Encouraging data use
● have an open dialogue with key users on how data/ statistics produced can
better meet their needs.
● Identify ways to harness the opportunity of the momentum around data for the
SDGs to strengthen the sharing, accessibility and presentation of data.
● raise the profile of data production and use with key stakeholders including
policy- makers to encourage the use of improved data for evidence-based decision-making and accountability.
Theme 3: Strengthening the Data Ecosystem
● solidify the multi-stakeholder approach to achieving and measuring the SDGs,
and create new data communities.
● Identify and discuss solutions to major funding gaps.
● Identify and discuss solutions to major capacity gaps.
● Provide an opportunity for country-to-country learning in the SDG indicator
production process.
● ensure high-level political and policy-maker buy-in for the Roadmap process.
● Identify key issues for the policy and enabling environment for the data
ecosystem.
Theme 4: Improving Systems
Theme 5: Policy and enabling environment
This theme will focus on the necessary policy initiatives in relation to data production, sharing and use as well as the enabling environment to ensure data quality, interoperability, security and protection.
...“The impact of digitisation on politics, public trust, and democracy”
The digital space, as a cornerstone of the public policy space, can be a great enabler for democratic discourse and participation, as well as inclusive policy-making. At the same time, the misuse of the digital public policy space can lead to the distortion of truth, mistrust in public information, and misrepresentation of public opinion.
This session will discuss both the opportunities and the challenges that digitisation brings to the digital political sphere, the public trust, and democracy. Discussions will revolve around ways of strengthening the benefits of democratic participation and inclusion via digital means, limiting the negative impact of the misuse of the public policy space, and rebuilding trust among online users.
The session will also address the roles and responsibilities of different stakeholders. It will look at issues such as government policies aimed at creating more inclusive policy-making processes through the use of digital tools, the responsibility of Internet intermediaries for the dissemination of fake news and false news that can influence political processes, and the elements that can help rebuild trust among users. Also, the session will discuss the role of media actors in a democracy and the implications of the ongoing structural change in the media ecosystem. Most importantly, the session will look into whether and how digital literacy, education, and awareness-raising could be the key towards empowering citizens not only to take advantage of digital tools, but also to deal with the challenges related to the misuse of the digital public space.
‘Good stories’, ‘bad stories’, and lessons learnt will be explored as part of the discussions.
Host Chair: Mr. Philipp Metzger, Director General, Swiss Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM)
Moderator: Ms. Nathalie Ducommun, Talk Master of Swiss Television RTS
Remote Moderator: Ms. Katharina Hoene, DiploFoundation
Agenda:
Introduction by Mr. Philipp Metzger, Director General, OFCOM - 10 min
Part 1: Benefits - 80 min
Remarks from first group of panelists (8 people, 2min input each)
Discussion with audience
Part 2: Challenges - 80 min
Remarks from second group of panelists (8 people, 2min input each)
Discussion with audience
Conclusions and wrap-up - 10 min
Policy questions:
Part 1 (Benefits): What are the benefits that digitisation brings/can bring to political processes, democracy, and the public trust? How can they be leveraged? How can digital tools be most effectively used to strengthen democratic participation and restore public trust in the online space? Who can make this happen? Part 2 (Challenges): What are the challenges that digitisation brings/can bring to politics, democracy, and the public trust? How can they be addressed, and by whom? What are the roles and responsibilities of the different stakeholders? How can we ensure that digital tools can be trusted as key resources for democratic participation and inclusive societies? Can digital literacy, education, and awareness-raising be the key towards empowering citizens to deal with the challenges related to the misuse of the digital public space?
Speakers:
Mr. Martin Chungong, Secretary General, Inter-Parliamentary Union
Ms. Nighat Dad, Executive Director, Digital Rights Foundation, Pakistan
Mr. Bobby Duffy, Global Director, Ipsos Social Research Institute
Ms. Farida Dwi Cahyarini, Secretary-General, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Indonesia
Mr. Hossam Elgamal, Chairman, Egyptian Cabinet Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC)
Ms. Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, European Commission
Mr. Hasanul Haq Inu, Minister of Information, Bangladesh
Ms. Malavika Jayaram, Executive Director, Digital Asia Hub
Mr. Frank La Rue, Assistant Director-General Communication & Information, UNESCO
Ms. Claudia Luciani, Director of Democratic Governance and Anti-discrimination, Council of Europe
Ms. Dunja Mijatovic, International Expert on Human Rights and Media Freedom, Board Member of Access Now
Mr. Gonzalo Navarro, Executive Director, Asociación Latinoamericana de Internet
Mr. Jean Paul Philippot, President, European Broadcasting Union
Ms. Nanjira Sambuli, Digital Equality Advocacy Manager, World Wide Web Foundation
Mr. Sébastien Soriano, Chairman ARCEP (French National Regulatory Authority for Telecoms and Posts), Chairman BEREC (Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications)
Mr. Robert Strayer, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Cyber and International Communications and Information Policy, U.S. Department of State
Rania Al Erksoussi is the Coordinator for the Federation-wide Databank and Reporting System. Rania joined the IFRC in 2008 and worked in multiple roles within the Humanitarian Pandemic Preparedness team first, then in the Health Department. More recently, she supported the Health Department’s data and information management, strategic planning, and reporting. Additionally, she worked on coordinating, disseminating and training National Society representatives in collecting and analysing data using the Rapid Mobile Phone-based system. Rania has a Master's degree in business administration (MBA) and an undergraduate degree in French Literature. She comes to the RCRC from a business background working in the private sector in Syria.
CJ Hendrix is a data systems analyst for the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX), a project of UN OCHA. He has worked in the fields of geographic information systems and satellite imagery analysis for over 20 years with focus on humanitarian information management since 2005. He has worked in environmental projects and humanitarian emergencies in Kenya, Eritrea, Pakistan, Uganda, Haiti, Sudan, South Sudan, and the United States. In 2011 he began work on the Humanitarian Exchange Language (HXL) which is now being used to improve data sharing in the humanitarian community and is a core component of HDX.
Emir Hartato is a Project Co-Manager for PetaBencana.id<https://info.petabencana.id/about/>,an applied research project affiliated with MIT Urban Risk Lab that has won Internet for Development Award from The Information Society Innovation Fund (ISIF) Asia at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2017. He has an undergraduate degree in Geography (University of Indonesia) and recently, he completed a Masters of Geographic Information Science (MGIS) at the University of Canterbury (UC), Christchurch, New Zealand with the thesis focusing on crowdsourcing framework for disaster management. He also worked for almost four years with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) that involves capacity building for various stakeholders in the use of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data for humanitarian and economic development in various regions (Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malawi).
Heather is the Data Literacy Lead at International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. As a technologist, she strengthens community collaboration via humanitarian technologies and social entrepreneurship. She builds partnerships, curates digital spaces, fosters volunteer engagement and delivers training while inspiring systems for co-creation with maps, code and data. At the International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent, her mandate includes data skills global advocacy and training programs in partnership with the 190 national societies and the 13 million volunteers. Previously, she was lead programs on community, social innovation, and technology at Qatar Computing Research Institute (Qatar Foundation), Ushahidi, and Open Knowledge (School of Data). Her experience also includes working on internet technologies including domain name services, network operations, and software-as-a-service. She is a current Board Member at OpenStreetMap Foundation and a past Board Member at the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (4 years). She co-wrote a chapter on Open Communities and articles the power of data and digital literacy for the World Economic Forum and Civicus Datashift. Heather holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Combined Political Science and History from Carleton University, as well as a Library and Information Technician diploma from Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology.
Proposer's Name: Mr. Arsene Tungali
Proposer's Organization: Rudi International
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Samme-Nlar Tomslin
Co-Proposer's Organization: Consultant
Co-Organizers:
Mr. Arsene Tungali, Civil Society, Rudi International
Mr. Tomslin Samme-Nlar, Civil Society, Consultant
Ms. Yolanda Mlonzi, Civil Society, Student
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: Cameroon
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Duncan Macintosh
Speaker: Tatiana Tropina
Speaker: Michael Oghia
Speaker: Kai Rehnelt
Content of the Session:
Cybersecurity and the use of digital networks for ensuring individual security are increasingly of concern to all sectors of society. We see a rise in state-sponsored threats, hacktivism, citizens being surveilled, Internet of Things (IoT) being deployed with little or no security, and not only as an initiative from governments or security forces, but as a request from citizens and social groups interested in a more secure and safe environment as well.
Sometimes policy responses and measures to attain security, work against openness and privacy, however. We see many governments asking for ways to access users’ data or to surveil them in order to investigate crime. Sometimes encryption is seen by states as a hindrance to national security. It is therefore important that cybersecurity governance does not supersede other Internet governance issues. Cybersecurity mechanisms must not interfere with the ability to use the Internet to exercise rights to freedom of speech and privacy.On the other hand, users must answer the question of how much of their privacy and intimacy they are willing to sacrifice for greater security?
This workshop will serve as a good discussion platform for members of the Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) as well as IGF participants who are interested in the topic. This session will focus on discussing how we ensure openness and privacy while looking seriously at cybersecurity issues as well.
This roundtable session will bring together subject matter experts and others interested in this topic to share new insights. The session will include the following:
- A moderator who will introduce the theme and the subject matter experts
- Subject matter experts will give initial remarks, focusing on one aspect of the theme. They will highlight the relationship between security and openness as well as the relationship between security and privacy, among others.
- The moderator will then lead a discussion with the participants around the table.
- The moderator will offer closing remarks.
Relevance of the Session:
The safety of netizens on the Internet and their trust of it will have a significant role on how the Internet impacts society, and economy going forward. Given the community’s desire to connect the next billion, ensuring that we generate collaborative, multistakeholder solutions to the privacy vs. security debate is paramount. Moreover, we posit that privacy and security are a false dichotomy, since they can coexist but require more dialogue in order to effectively address so that our digital future can be more secure by remain open.
This session will look into those questions and will help come up with an understanding on how we can find balance between these issues, as well as invite perspectives from across stakeholder groups.
Tag 1: Cybersecurity
Tag 2: Privacy
Tag 3: Openness
Interventions:
A roundtable is the format that is best suited to allow conversations among participants, on equal footing. We have selected a number of experts whose knowledge will help quicken the debate and open up to other participants around the table to share their views as well.
Each one of them will be sharing their expertise in this area, covering a specific aspect based on their background and expertise. Some of them are from the technical community, using their technical background to discuss cybersecurity issues and how they affect the openness and privacy of communications/data. Others are cyber security specialists and others from the civil society.
Their remarks will be followed by insights from other participants who will have equal right and who will also have an interest or experience in the area of cybersecurity. With the help of the moderator, the conversation will help members of the IGC and other participants understand the topic and share relevant examples and applications from their own contexts.
Diversity:
The session organizers are taking seriously the issue of diversity in planning this workshop. Among the two proposers, one has organised a session last year (2016), the other one has never been to any global IGF so this will be his first experience. He is really looking forward to it. Moreover, one of our co-organizers (a lady) will be attending IGF 2017 as her second IGF but this will be the first session she is working on. Our onsite moderator is a young lady!
Our speakers will be coming from different backgrounds and regions. We one of the speakers who is youth, the moderator being youth as well. Moderator is from Africa, speakers from America, Europe and South Asia which is a way for us to ensure everyone is included and we have insights from all over the world. They will not only be from civil society but we will have one form the technical community, another one bringing in legal expertise, etc.
The Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) is comprised of different people, from different regions with similar or different focus and expertise. Putting together this workshop proposal has been a collaborative work and we tried our best to include all possible voices into this workshop proposal and we look forward for it at the upcoming IGF.
Onsite Moderator: Chenai Chair
Online Moderator: Chenai Chair
Rapporteur: Joash Ntenga Moitui
Online Participation:
Our onsite moderator will also serve as remote moderator to ensure equal speaking opportunity for our remote participants. Since the IGC has many members that cannot make it to the global IGF, we intend to facilitate their participation as well using the remote participation facilities provided in the room. The discussion moderator will be checking with remote participants to see whether there is anyone on the queue to be given space to either speak on the mic or send a text that will be read.
Discussion facilitation:
All participants in the room will be seated around the table, we will ensure there are microphones available to ensure everyone is able to have access to one and contribute. Subject matter experts as well as participants will have equal opportunity to be part of discussions. We value a round table format because we want to hear as many insights from everyone to enrich the debate. Our experts will be helping clarify some aspects of the discussions. Online members will be catered for as well.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/4098/252
Proposer's Name: Ms. Bruna Santos
Proposer's Organization: Youth Observatory
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Sze Ming Tan
Co-Proposer's Organization: Sinar Project
Co-Organizers:
Miss Sze Ming Tan, Civil Society, SINAR PROJECT/ Youth for Rights (Y4R).
Miss Sarah Linke, Civil Society, Youth Observatory.
Mr. Carlos Guerrero, Civil Society, HiperDerecho and Youth Observatory.
Session Format: Birds of a Feather - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: Brazil
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: Malaysia
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Jianne Soriano
Speaker: David Morar
Speaker: Bruna Santos
Speaker: Elisabeth Schauermann
Content of the Session:
Taking into consideration the Sustainable development goals and the importance of the youth for the Internet of the Future, the main idea of the present proposal is to hold a workshop with the IGF community in order to discuss the actual problems and barriers encountered by youth online and by the community when dealing with us.
By acknowledging our newcomer status on the IG related discussions, we want to learn and, therefore, get involved in the policy discussion and to have our voices heard. But first, we believe it is of great importance to debate on the barriers, such as the need to strengthen the network to planning and building strategies of youth movements representation and also the importance of programmes that are not only directed towards capacity building initiatives but also on the engagement of youth on policy development processes.
When addressing these questions, the discussion should focus whether or not the Youth should build an agenda for its engagement on the IG ecosystem, and if yes, which topics should be present on that. Having said that and given the initial framework, the session aims to discuss the following questions with the audience:
- What are the barriers encountered by youngsters when entering the Internet Governance Ecosystem? How can we prospect the youth to engage with IG?
- Is there any ideal model of Youth engagement program? What do you think are the key elements to any of them ?
- Considering the amount of Youth movements around the globe, how can we represent the diversity of realities and youths in order to legitimately represent their claims? How do you think those initiatives could work together in order to exchange experiences, best practices and regional backgrounds?
- Talking about the need of a forum or a line of action that would conjoint the ideas and practices of these newly engaged individuals, do you think that there should be a Youth Agenda for Internet Governance? Or a Best Practice youth Forum within the IGF ?
Relevance of the Session:
The internet in the youth’s life is not a new technology, is something that make part about what we are, we develop our personality with internet: how we communicate with each other, how we learn, how we share our experiences. We are not only consuming and creating content, but we are also engaging in the evolution and use of the internet. We are creating new models of online businesses, developing internet protocols, defending human rights on the internet and participating in the development of community networks, among other things. Although the number of youth involved and the high impact of their activities, we are still underrepresented at internet governance forums.
Among/In spite of the existing obstacles, several youth movements have emerged, underlining the need for the inclusion of young people on the internet governance ecosystem and creating capacity building opportunities to access such ecosystem with solid tools and a more resourceful participation. They are generating new lines of discussion. It is thus important to generate synergies among the different movements, learn from the exchange of experiences and discuss how to better approach the involvement of youth in the internet policy development processes, be it at the national, regional or global level.
Addressing the nature and possibilities of youth involvement and inclusion is not only important to strengthen the voices of the youngsters already interested in and active on the internet governance ecosystem, but also to pave the way for newcomers and future generations.
Moreover, as we are engaged in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, we should bare in mind that 70% of the under 25-year-olds, i.e., 1.9 billion people, are not yet online (fuente: World Bank). That is to say, when we develop programmes and policies for the next billion to connect, we should not leave out the youth approach.
Tag 1: Youth Engagement
Tag 2: Internet & ICTs for the Sustainable Development Goals
Tag 3: Multistakeholder Cooperation
Interventions:
As a discussion facilitation dynamics, we would provide each speaker a question, leaving us with the following division:
Bruna Santos, Youth Observatory - Is there any ideal model of Youth engagement program? What do you think are the key elements to any of them ?
David Morar, Schar School Of Policy and Government - Talking about the need of a forum or a line of action that would conjoint the ideas and practices of these newly engaged individuals, do you think that there should be a Youth Agenda for Internet Governance? Or a Best Practice youth Forum within the IGF ?
Elisabeth Schauermann, Internet Society IGF Ambassador - What are the barriers encountered by youngsters when entering the Internet Governance Ecosystem? How can we prospect the youth to engage with IG?
Jianne Soriano, Net Mission Ambassador - Considering the amount of Youth movements around the globe, how can we represent the diversity of realities and youths in order to legitimately represent their claims? How do you think those initiatives could work together in order to exchange experiences, best practices and regional backgrounds?
Diversity:
1. All of the involved in the organization of this Session — Speakers, Rapporteur, Moderators — are either Young professionals or engaged in Youth movements.
2. Of our 4 Speakers, three are female. Our Rapporteur is also female.
3. Our Speakers are from Latin America, North America, Europe and Asia. We have privileged Youth Speakers from developing nations such as Brazil and Malaysia.
4. Our speakers represents both the Academia, Civil Society and Business stakeholders.
Onsite Moderator: Paula Côrte Real
Online Moderator: Elisson Diones
Rapporteur: Veronica Arroyo
Online Participation:
A remote moderator will enlist questions and comments from the online audience during the workshop. Prior to the workshop, the idea is to gather content posted with the hashtags #YouthAgenda #YouthBarriers, further on this content will be used to bring in comments and questions from prospective attendees which may enrich the debate.
A collaborative document will gather these records of comments and questions prior to, during, and after the workshop, and will be integrated into the report. A variety of media can also serve as background material for this debate, based on previous workshops.
Remote participation tools will ensure an inclusive, accessible, and global audience.
Discussion facilitation:
The proposed session is the birds of a feather format, in order to promote an informal discussion on the proposed topics between onsite and online audience and to allow interventions freely within the open mic. We believe the Birds of a Feather session format will provide a non-commercial, dynamic environment for attendees to openly discuss current topics of focused mutual interest within the youth movements with a strong emphasis on audience-driven discussion, professional networking and grassroots participation.
Therefore the proposed dynamics is the following:
1. Opening - (10 min)
Onsite moderator opens the session and introduces the speakers:
Bruna Santos, Youth Observatory
David Morar, Schar School Of Policy and Government
Elisabeth Schauermann, Internet Society IGF Ambassador
Jianne Soriano, Net Mission Ambassador
2. Onsite moderator will address each speaker the following question (30 min, 7 min each):
What are the barriers encountered by youngsters when entering the Internet Governance Ecosystem? How can we prospect the youth to engage with IG? (Elisabeth Schauermann)
Is there any ideal model of Youth engagement program? What do you think are the key elements to any of them ? (Bruna Santos)
Considering the amount of Youth movements around the globe, how can we represent the diversity of realities and youths in order to legitimately represent their claims? How do you think those initiatives could work together in order to exchange experiences, best practices and regional backgrounds? (Jianne Soriano)
Talking about the need of a forum or a line of action that would conjoint the ideas and practices of these newly engaged individuals, do you think that there should be a Youth Agenda for Internet Governance? Or a Best Practice youth Forum within the IGF ? (David Morar)
3. Group discussion on the assigned questions (20 min)
Two groups: Group a will address questions 1 and 2 (Elisabeth and Bruna) and group b will address questions 3 and 4 (Jianne and David). One panel
The annual session of the UN IGF Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality (DCNN) promotes multistakeholder analysis about the state of Net Neutrality in the world.
In 2017, Zero Rating* continued to be one of the most discussed net neutrality issue and, for this reason the session will be largely dedicated to the Zero Rating Map, which is 2017 outcome of the DCNN. The purpose of the Map is to build an open access resource that can contribute to the promotion of a more informed debate on Net Neutrality and Zero Rating and can be exploited by a wide range of stakeholders, including researchers, regulators, entrepreneurs and user rights advocates. The Zero Rating Map is an ongoing effort and the beta version will be presented during the session in order to stimulate feedback from the participants.
To date, inputs on Zero Rating practices in several countries have already been collected, utilising an open Ethercalc sheet. All interested stakeholders are invited to contribute to this crowdsourced effort, adding information regarding their respective countries. The Ethercalc sheet will remain open to receive submissions during the IGF and after the IGF, and the Zero Rating Map will be regularly updated, including the most recent information added to the Ethercalc sheet. The Zero Rating Map will be available on www.zerorating.info
The elaboration of the Zero Rating Map is coordinated by Dr Luca Belli, DCNN Chair and Senior Researcher at the Center for Technology & Society at Fundação Getulio Vargas (CTS/FGV). All contributors to this effort will be able, but not obliged, to include their name as authors of the contributions to the Map. Contributors stating their name will be explicitly acknowledged in the Zero Rating Map, which will be graciously maintained by CTS/FGV.
Keynote remarks:
* For further information on Zero Rating, see the 2016 DCNN Outcome on “Net neutrality reloaded: zero rating, specialised service, ad blocking and traffic management”
AGENDA:
1. Brief update on current state of play in trade and Internet governance, including presentation of the background paper that was finalized on December 4 (20 minutes).Speakers: Jeremy Malcolm, EFF (on DC’s history, objectives, and demographics), Jyoti Panday, EFF (on background paper), Kelly Kim, Open Net Korea (on RCEP), Parminder Jeet Singh, IT for Change
2. Discussion and adoption of the draft resolution on transparency (20 minutes).Speakers: TBC
3. Discussion on priorities and work program for 2018 (20 minutes).Speakers: William Drake, U. Zurich (on initiatives to link trade and IG communities & discussions)
Proposer's Name: Ms. Jessica Zucker
Proposer's Organization: Microsoft Corporation
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Kaja Ciglic
Co-Proposer's Organization: Microsoft
Co-Organizers:
Mr. Paul, Nicholas, Private Sector, Microsoft Mr. Duncan, Hollis, Civil Society, Temple University, Geneva Internet Platform/Diplo Foundation
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: United States
Stakeholder Group: Private Sector
Co-Proposer:
Country: United States
Stakeholder Group: Private Sector
Speaker: Latha Reddy
Speaker: Konstantinos Komaitis
Speaker: Paul Nicholas
Speaker: Ben Hiller
Speaker: Elina Noor
Speaker: Fathi Derder
Speaker: Marilia Maciel
Speaker: Yvette Issar
Content of the Session:
Effective cybersecurity is critical to international peace and economic stability; however governments continue to invest in greater offensive capabilities in cyberspace, and nation-state attacks on civilians are on the rise. The world needs new rules to protect and defend civilians against nation-sponsored attacks. The creation of a Digital Geneva Convention can play the central role in safeguarding citizens, infrastructure, and private companies around the world from state-led or state-sanctioned cyberattacks in times of peace. Every day we are reminded why we need an international treaty to protect civilians, and while the work done to date, through vehicles such as the G7, G20, and United Nations Group of Governmental Experts (UNGGE) are essential, a gap still exists between these intended efforts and everyday reality. The process of creating the Digital Geneva Convention involves formidable challenges. It will require political will and commitment from government leaders across the world. It will also necessitate drawing from lessons learned from other similar processes in non-ICT sectors, which were spearheaded by non-governmental groups. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together cybersecurity and technology policy experts from different stakeholder groups to raise awareness of the crucial issue of cybersecurity norms, the gap in international efforts and reality, and discuss a potential way forward. By building on the work done to date, governments, the technology sector and civil society groups can pave the way for an agreement that will ensure a stable and secure cyberspace.
Relevance of the Session:
This panel discussion on the Digital Geneva Convention and international cybersecurity norms underpins the future of our online environment and is as such directly related to the main theme of IGF 2017 – Shape your Digital future. It also represents a different take on the issue of cybersecurity than workshops that have typically been included in IGF and have traditionally focused on awareness raising and capacity building.
It is nevertheless critical to this audience: the discussions around behavior of states online cannot remain in the realm of the diplomats alone, but need to include and be shaped by the civil society and the industry. The session will provide an opportunity to provide input into an initiative started by Microsoft to shape the government debate, as well as give space to government stakeholders involved in the discussions to present their views and state of play.
Tag 1: Cybersecurity Norms
Tag 2: Confidence building measures
Tag 3: Digital Geneva Convention
Interventions:
Speakers have been chosen to reflect their expertise in the debate on cybersecurity norms, as well as their different viewpoints, given that they come from different background both in terms of sector and geography. That diversity will help stimulate the discussion and provide a broad range of perspectives to the audience.
All the speakers will be initially given 5 minutes to present their views through a managed set of questions and answers with the moderator, to ensure the audience is brought up to speed with the debate on the subject. Thereafter the moderator will ensure that they are given an opportunity to answer in a balanced manner.
Diversity:
This workshop aims to gather a variety of stakeholders to raise awareness of the importance of the multistakeholder dialogue in cybersecurity norms discussion, a debate that has typically been limited to the domain of nation states. To this end, we will seek to ensure that civil society is represented, as is academia and industry, as well as participants that bring different government perspectives to the table.
Efforts will be made to introduce new perspectives in the dialogue which have not been heard in Internet governance discussions. Special attention will be made throughout the planning of the session to ensure diverse interventions from workshop participants can be facilitated through the break-out group discussion and organizers will encourage and incorporate remote participation on social media.
Gender balance has been encouraged through speaker choices and each speaker will bring unique expertise and experience to the topics discussed.
Onsite Moderator: Duncan Hollis
Online Moderator: Kaja Ciglic, Tereza Horejsova
Rapporteur: Jessica Zucker
Online Participation:
The online moderator will work closely with the on-site moderator to prepare the session ahead of time, ensuring that they are aware of the questions and the topic areas that will be raised in the room. The online moderator will also facilitate discussion ahead of the event, requesting questions and driving engagement and interest in the session on social media platforms, such as Twitter and LinkedIn, as well as on the websites and events or other activities of the co-organizers. The online moderator will generate interest in the weeks prior to the event through a targeted social media campaign, leveraging Twitter hashtags and blog posts. During the session itself, the moderator will facilitate the discussion online, highlighting the key points raised, as well as responding to questions received online and ensuring that they are raised in the room. Online attendees will have a separate queue and microphone, which will rotate equally with the mics in the room. Following the session, the speakers will all be available for a moderated Q&A on Twitter.
Discussion facilitation:
The panel participants have been carefully selected for their expertise to allow the discussion to be grounded in the most up to date information. After their initial intervention, the moderator will actively seek to gather feedback and questions from the audience to ensure that participation in the discussion is as broad as possible and questions or concerns from the audience are addressed. As debates around cybersecurity norms have largely remained in the domain of nation states, a forum such as IGF presents a unique opportunity to gather voices from civil society, academia and the private sector to move the needle forward.
To enable effecting discussion, the following will be ensured:
- Additional reading materials will be shared ahead of the discussion and handouts will be developed for the session highlighting key aspects of the debate on international cybersecurity norms
- Organizers will moderate an online discussion through blog posts and social media in the weeks leading to the event to gather input and questions that spark particular interest
- PowerPoint summarizing key points of the panel’s intervention will be projected to facilitate conversations with members of the audience whose native language is not English
- The moderator selected will be an expert not only in the topic, but well versed in leading multi-stakeholder discussions and will actively encourage participation from the audience. He will work closely with the online moderator to ensure those audiences are equally brought into the debate.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: No
Link to Report:
Additional Reference Document Link: http://www.esteri.it/mae/resource/doc/2017/04/declaration_on_cyberspace.pdf
Agenda:- The session will begin with an introduction and background on the topic by the moderator (Duncan Hollis). Mr. Hollis will frame the discussion and discuss the format of the roundtable. (5 min)
- Next 3 speakers will provide brief introductory remarks intended to provide context on the topic in order to frame the roundtable discussion (15 minutes)
o Paul Nicholas (5 minutes)
o Ben Hiller (5 minutes)
o Konstantinos Komaitis (5 minutes)
- Following the opening remarks, the moderator will facilitate the roundtable conversation with the speakers and resource personnel touching on the following topics (65 minutes)
o The progress on cybersecurity norms discussions to date
o The Digital Geneva Convention proposal and the forms it could take
o Potential challenges in development and implementation
o Lessons learned from non-ICT fields, drawing upon other processes and experiences of other Geneva based organizations
- The moderator will have 10 minutes to sum-up discussion and close session.
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Proposer's Name: Ms. Maria Beebe
Proposer's Organization: TechNation Afghanistan, Global Networks
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Shabana Mansoory
Co-Proposer's Organization: TechWomen Afghanistan
Co-Organizers: Ms. Maria Beebe and Ms. Shabana Mansoory
Session Format: Panel/Break-out Group Discussion - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: Afghanistan
Stakeholder Group: Private Sector
Co-Proposer:
Country: USA
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Moderators:
Onsite:
Ms. Maria Beebe, Co-founder at TechAfghanistan
Mr. Omar Mansoor Ansari, President at TechNation (Afghanistan)
Online Moderator:
Sidra Jalil
Rapporteur:
Shabana Mansory
Speakers:
Country Speakers:
Tajikistan - Zuhra Halimova, Visiting Scholar at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, andMavzuna Abdurakhmanova, Program Coordinator, Open Society Institute (OSI) Tajikistan Kyrgyzstan - Zarina Chekirbaeva, Executive Director at American Chamber of Commerce in the Kyrgyzstan
Afghanistan - Shabana Mansoory, TechWomen Afghanistan
Pakistan - Sidra Jalil, Program Manager, Code for Pakistan
Nepal - Dikchya Raut
India - Amrita Choudhury
Resource Speakers:
mCade Strategies - Marilyn Cade
Ustad Mobile - Benita Rowe
Microsoft/Telecommunications and Internet Governance - Melissa Sassi
TetraTech - Nilmini Rubin
CLDP/ DoC - Joseph Gattuso
Facebook - Ankhi Das
Digital CASA - Rajendra Singh and/or Digital CASA resource speaker
EMPTREC - Fiorina Mugione/Lorenzo Tosini
IBM - Cathey Rogers (invited)
MasterCard Foundation - Manu Bhardwaj (invited)
USAID - Jordan Sellman (invited)
DotAsia - Jennifer Chung (invited)
Internet Society (ISOC) - Jane Coffin/Joyce Dogniez (invited)
IEEE - Karen McCabe (invited)
Content of the Session:
This proposal is made by TechNation, a Kabul-based technology and entrepreneurship support company, with the support from its programs, TechWomen Afghanistan, and TechWomen.Asia. “Fast Tracking Digital Dividends for Women in Central Asia and South Asia (CASA)” workshop. The workshop explores digital solutions shaped for and by women in the CASA region that already show initial impact on economic growth, creation of paid work (jobs), new kinds of services (such as, e-health, e-agriculture, other socially relevant applications), and that have potential for scalability to broaden impact to benefit women in the CASA countries. Country speakers will present case studies that examine the link between (a) quality of access to the Internet and related technologies and (b) quality of foundations for a digital economy, including (1) regulations and publicpolicies of national governments that allow firms to connect and to compete, (2) digital skills that are needed to leverage uses of technology, and (3) institutions/organizations that are capable and accountable. Moreover, the country speakers will examine the level of digital development of their country (emerging, transitioning or transforming) and determine whether policies match the needed progress and the level of achievement.
The session will open with an introduction of the concept of “digital dividends,” based on the World Bank report and other research, with a focus on women. An “expert” speaker will be invited to “set the stage.” Country speakers will present case studies that examine the link between (a) quality of access to the Internet and related technologies and (b) quality of foundations for a digital economy, The speakers and general participants will then break into small groups (by sectoral interests) to brainstorm and highlight digital development strategies that are broader than ICT strategies that could be scaled within and between countries. Rapporteurs will be assigned to each breakout group, as recording and real time transcription is not available to breakout groups. A template approach will be used to capture each group’s ideas and suggestions.
At the end of the session, the groups come back together to summarize their small group discussions and the invited “resource speakers” will suggest ideas for next steps in the scaling up of the case studies or pilot projects, as a way of shaping women’s digital future in CASA and accelerating progress. The workshop participants will further explore the link between the workshop topic about fast-tracking digital dividends for women and by women to the overall IGF2017 main theme of Shaping Your Internet.
Background: Women make almost half of the population in CASA (49.8%). In Central Asia, the percent of female population is: 48.46% in Afghanistan, 49.39% in Tajikistan, 50.83% in Uzbekistan, 50.84% in Turkmenistan, 51.72% in Kazakhstan, and 50.53% in Kyrgyzstan. In South Asia, the percent of female population is: Pakistan: 48.63, India: 48.16, Bangladesh: 49.51, Sri Lanka: 51.75, Nepal: 51.54, Bhutan: 46.26, and Maldives: 49.85. Majority of these women live below the poverty line, do not have access to education, sustainable livelihoods, and technologies. Access to internet is considered a luxury, rather than a basic human right. Issues such as digital literacy, local technologies, local content, poor infrastructure, cost of bandwidth, quality of service and inadequate policies are shared problems in the region. Yet, pilot programs and initiatives abound for discussion, information exchange, and sharing good practices, even lessons learned from failures. Thus, the workshop objective of sharing good practices across CASA in fast tracking digital dividends is consistent with the IGF’s commitment of bringing a diverse group of stakeholders from a geographic region to discuss shaping your Internet.
Relevance of the Session:
The workshop objective of sharing good practices across Central Asia and South Asia (CASA) in fast tracking digital dividends is consistent with the IGF’s commitment of bringing a diverse group of stakeholders from a geographic region to discuss shaping your Internet. The workshop will explore policies that are matched to the level of digital development: at the emerging level where foundations are laid for digital adoption; at the transitioning level where everyone is enabled to take advantage of new technologies; and at the transforming level where digital dividends are shown in faster growth, more jobs, and better services.
Tag 1: Gender Issues
Tag 2: Digital Future
Tag 3: Enhanced cooperation
Interventions:
The Overview of the Workshop and Introduction of Digital Dividends Framework (5-10 minutes). Speakers will frame their discussion on the link between (a) quality of access to the Internet and related technologies and (b) quality of regulations that allow firms to connect and to compete, skills that leverage technology, and institutions that are capable and accountable. And then they can drill down on their specific project or initiative that focused on (a) skills that leverage technology and the impact on job creation OR (b) institution building and the impact on service delivery OR (c) advocating for regulation (if NGO) or regulatory policy (if govt) and the impact on productivity, etc. (Each speaker will have 5 minutes each x 4 speakers = 20 minutes) then participate in one of four break out groups by sectoral interest (30 minute in depth discussion). Virtual break our groups as well. Report back and recommendations = 30 minutes). Total time = 90 minutes
Diversity:
Diversity is reflected as follows: The speakers are all female, geographic diversity - speakers are from Afghanistan, UAE, Pakistan and the U.S. representing civil society, technical community, public policy from a private sector perspective, with some wearing multiple stakeholder hats.
Online Participation:
We will use Webex provided by the IGF secretariat. The online moderator will participate in the training to be provided by IGF and facilitate remote participation. Prior to the actual session at IGF, we will host online sessions and promote the workshop via social media so additional people can join in. We will ask the remote participants to add to the knowledge base. We will select a few venues in several of the Central and South Asian countries where people can have access and connect with the session online in real time. The illustrative venues are: Kabul at TechNation’s office, Pakistan’s Code for Pakistan facility, Facebook India and World Pulse. At each of these venues, the participants will be provided with a moderator who can set the stage and facilitate the group’s remote participation, including their own break- out session or remote participation in one of the break-out groups. The remote participants will share the recommendations arising out of their break-out session for inclusion in the action planning discussion.
Discussion facilitation:
Effective facilitation of a discussion involves the recognition and employment of different perspectives and different skills to create an inclusive environment. Discussion is a powerful mechanism for active learning; a well-facilitated discussion allows the participant to explore new ideas while recognizing and valuing the contributions of others. Discussion facilitation will include: 1. Creating an inclusive environment; 2. Keeping discussions constructive and positive; 3. Encouraging participants.
Conduc
Proposer's Name: Ms. Hija Kamran
Proposer's Organization: Digital Rights Foundation
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Nighat Dad
Co-Proposer's Organization: Digital Rights Foundation
Co-Organizers:
Ms., Hija, KAMRAN, Civil society, Digital Rights Foundation
Ms., Nighat, DAD, Civil Society, Digital Rights Foundation
Session Format: Panel - 60 Min
Proposer:
Country: Pakistan
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: Pakistan
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Nighat Dad
Speaker: Amalia Toledo
Speaker: Alexandrine Pirlot de Corbion
Speaker: Joana Varon
Speaker: Lisa Garcia
Speaker: David Kaye
Content of the Session:
Surveillance is not a uniform experience, be it surveillance by the state, companies or social actors. The gendered nature of surveillance and the different forms it takes given the positionality of the person experiencing it is particularly glaring when experienced by members of a particular gender or a marginalised community. Sometimes surveillance is discriminatory per se, in that it is directed specifically at people because of their gender, race, class, disability, sexual orientation, etc. For instance, phishing attacks experienced human rights activists or offline and on-the-ground-surveillance of journalists covering controversial topics. In other instances, facially non-discriminatory surveillance is experienced differently by certain individuals because of their marginality and positionality through the disparate impact that it has. It is the second form of surveillance that is often left undiscussed and the intersectionality of race, class, gender, religion, sexual orientation and ability is unexamined.
The purpose of this panel is not only to map and understand the diversified experiences of surveillance but to take these findings regarding the diffused nature of surveillance and work towards actively finding solutions to the particular kinds of surveillance experienced by marginalised groups. The aim of the discussion will also be mainstream discourse from the margins at a global level.
Relevance of the Session:
The different experiences of surveillance are important to recognize in mainstream discourse around surveillance. Digital Rights Foundation has conducted a research on the gendered surveillance experienced by female journalists in Pakistan. Most journalists reported that the nature of the threats and surveillance that they receive takes on a gendered form. During the research, we discovered that there is also an intersectionality of class and minority status in the experience of journalists.
In other online spaces, women and LGBT communities experience heightened social surveillance. This surveillance has the effect of monitoring and modifying certain behaviors and the expression of these groups. The social dynamics of surveillance and the different effects that it has on different groups can only come forth through experiential knowledge and discussions such as the one proposed here.
Digital Rights Foundation is already engaged in critical work that seeks to map and understand the differentiated impact of surveillance. The session will not only feed into that work, but will allow us to partner with others working from the periphery to work towards campaigns and literature that mainstreams this discourse.Furthermore, DRF hopes to take the findings from the panel and its on-going research and turn this topic into a report to be published a few months after the conference.
Tag 1: Surveillance
Tag 2: Access and Diversity
Tag 3: Digital Rights
Interventions:
The panel will consist of a discussion that will start with the perspectives of each panelist and then move on to an interactive debate on the issues of surveillance and its diverse impact. The latter part of the discussion shall also include a question and answer session. At the same time, the discussion will be broadcast online to get the perspective of a wider range of people.
The total time of the panel shall be 60 minutes. The first 40 minutes shall be assigned to the speakers who will be allotted a time of 7 minutes each to present their prepared point of view. Then the last 20 minutes of the discussion will move on to a debate initiated by the moderator, but will involve questions and cross-questions from the speakers (10 minutes) and the audience (10 minutes).
Diversity:
Digital Rights Foundation advocates for diversity in all of its activities. This panel seeks to bring together speakers from different communities and representatives of marginalised communities to share their experiences of surveillance and the address the unacknowledged silences within surveillance discourse. This panel will include activists from different parts of the world, working with marginalised communities and the inequalities that inhere in the digital realm.
The provisionally confirmed speakers include Alexandrine Pirlot de Corbion leads Privacy International’s strategic programme and has worked on fighting for the right to privacy, has researched on issues related to human rights, irregular migration, gender, conflict management, and human security. Anja Kovacs who directs Internet Democracy India, and works for an Internet that supports free speech, democracy and social justice in India and beyond. Courtney Radsch is the Advocacy Director at Committee to Protect Journalists. She is a journalist, researcher, and free expression advocate with more than 13 years of experience in the United States and the Middle East. Nighat Dad heads Digital Rights Foundation, and is the champion of women’s rights to access the internet safely in Pakistan. And Lisa Garcia serves as a Professor in the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley. Her current projects include an analysis of how technology can facilitate voter mobilization among voters of color in California and a historical exploration of the race, gender, and class inequality at the heart of the founding of California's public school system.
Onsite Moderator: Alexandrine Pirlot de Corbion
Online Moderator: Hija Kamran
Rapporteur: Hija Kamran
Online Participation:
The online participation at DRF’s session will be closely monitored by the onsite and online moderators, encouraging remote participants to make their voices count in the discussion. The participation will be done via online media like Facebook and Twitter and also any other medium recommended by the IGF team. DRF has encouraged online participation in its previous sessions as well, including the conferences we organised in the home country where the proposed online moderator was specially trained to manage active participation by those attending remotely.
Discussion facilitation:
The onsite moderator along with the present team of DRF will be responsible to facilitate maximum participation by those attending, on-ground and remotely.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: No
Link to Report:
Additional Reference Document Link: http://digitalrightsfoundation.pk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Surveillance-of-Female-Journalists-in-Pakistan.pdf
Surveillance is not a uniform experience, be it surveillance by the state, companies or social actors. The gendered nature of surveillance and the different forms it takes given the positionality of the person experiencing it is particularly glaring when experienced by members of a particular gender or a marginalised community. Sometimes surveillance is discriminatory per se, in that it is directed specifically at people because of their gender, race, class, disability, sexual orientation, etc. For instance, phishing attacks experienced human rights activists or offline and on-the-ground-surveillance of journalists covering controversial topics. In other instances, facially non-discriminatory surveillance is experienced differently by certain individuals because of their marginality and positionality through the disparate impact that it has. It is the second form of surveillance that is often left undiscussed and the intersectionality of race, class, gender, religion, sexual orientation and ability is unexamined.
The purpose of this panel is not only to map and understand the diversified experiences of surveillance but to take these findings regarding the diffused nature of surveillance and work towards actively finding solutions to the particular kinds of surveillance experienced by marginalised groups. The aim of the discussion will also be mainstream discourse from the margins at a global level.
The panel will consist of a discussion that will start with the perspectives of each panelist and then move on to an interactive debate on the issues of surveillance and its diverse impact. The latter part of the discussion shall also include a question and answer session. At the same time, the discussion will be broadcast online to get the perspective of a wider range of people.
The total time of the panel shall be 60 minutes. The first 40 minutes shall be assigned to the speakers who will be allotted a time of 7 minutes each to present their prepared point of view. Then the last 20 minutes of the discussion will move on to a debate initiated by the moderator, but will in
...Proposer's Name: Ms. Nirvana Farrag
Proposer's Organization: The Egyptian Cabinet Information & Decision Support Center-IDSC
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Heba Abd ElHamid
Co-Proposer's Organization: The Egyptian Cabinet Information & Decision Support Center-IDSC
Co-Organizers:
Mr. Menghestab Haile
Country Director - Egypt, World Food Programme (WFP) Cairo, Egypt
Dr. Jimson Olufuye
Chair of AFICTA
Session Format: Round Table - 60 Min
Proposer:
Country: Egypt
Stakeholder Group: Government
Co-Proposer:
Country: Egypt
Stakeholder Group: Government
Speaker: Menghestab Haile
Speaker: Jimson Olufuye
Speaker: Atef ElShabrawy
Speaker: Mostafa Fathi
Speaker: Hoda Dahroug
Nowadays, we are living in a world where virtually everything — from cellphones and cars to washing machines — is connected. Physical objects are connecting to networks, communicating with devices and sensors, and creating and sharing data to build the “Internet of Things (IoT)”. In reality, the IoT is much more than smart homes and connected appliances. It is about creating new ways of helping people and organizations in advancing their lives in a digital age. This global connectivity between the Internet and devices presents governments and organizations with tremendous opportunities to reduce operating costs, increase employee productivity, enhance citizen experiences, improve agency connectivity, and accelerate meaningful innovation.
The main aim of the workshop is to address the impact of Internet of Things and smart solutions in enabling the decision making process through various technical, social, economic and political perspectives. The workshop will attempt to highlight how Internet of Things tools can have a significant role in shaping the digital future of the human life through greater connectivity and ultimate functionality.
In order for decision-makers to meet the aspirations of nations, they need to pay attention to the role of IoT tools in impacting performance since IoT goes hand in hand with efficiency, transparency and accountability. Decision makers need to learn the importance of embracing data-driven decision making through the engagement of various multi-stakeholders. in addition, decision-making is now based on a combination of our knowledge, experience, intuition, and data. Data-driven decision-making is accurate, on time, valuable, and actionable data.
In formulating the digital future of the human life -especially in developing nations-, welfare and prosperity can be achieved through the use of modern day technologies such as medical treatment databases, cell phones to improve livelihoods, and computers to enable ability the citizens to compete for online jobs in the global market. In this context, governments can become closer to its people through the use of information technology and communications and utilizing smart solutions to increase efficiency and help in making their lives better.
Whilst ICTs are generally adaptable; their effectiveness in addressing development issues still depends on utilizing smart solutions and the Internet of Things tools to encourage a healthy and regulatory environment.
The workshop will address the impact of internet of things and smart solutions on the decision making process through the following questions:
Relevance of the Session:
The workshop will tackle the role of Internet of Things in shaping the digital future since the Internet of Things is shaping human life with greater connectivity and ultimate functionality, and all this is happening through networking to the Internet where no limits exist to what can be connected to the Internet. Internet of Things can begin to reach its full potential—especially if leaders truly embrace data-driven decision making.
Tag 1: Internet of Things
Tag 2: Digital Future
Tag 3: Multistakeholder
Interventions:
The workshop will include speakers from multistakeholders various backgrounds in order to provide diverse inputs and opinions about the supportive role of smart solutions in the decision making process and the international best practices in the Internet of Things.
Diversity:
The speakers represent different organizations including international organizations working in international development, government entities concerned with information technology and communication, african institutions working in the field of ICT from a regional perspective. Gender balance is taken into consideration in selecting the speakers for the workshop. The proposed speakers represent geographical, gender and multi-stakeholders (government, international organizations, independent consultant, private sector, etc.)
Onsite Moderator: Mr. Menghestab Haile
Online Moderator: Ms. Iman Mahdy
Rapporteur: Ms. Hoda Salah
Online Participation:
Online participation will be available during the workshop to enable participants from different countries who did not have the opportunity to participate in person in IGF 2017 to engage in the discussions and share their views about the topic. Remote participants are encouraged to send their questions/comments and the speakers will respond and interact accordingly. They will have the opportunity to interact on an equal basis with those from in-room participants.
Discussion facilitation:
Speakers will present their speech/presentations in 5 minutes (each). Presentations will be followed by an open discussion where participants are welcomed to comment and interact in the workshop (30 min.)
The workshop will be concluded by a wrap up covering the key questions raised during the session (5 min.)
Workshop Format
The workshop will take the format of a moderated roundtable discussion which will give both the speakers and the participants from different backgrounds and expertise the opportunity to get together in an interactive setting where all views and ideas can be shared equally. This format is useful in raising multiple questions and in engaging in meaningful dialogue while the moderator will work to ensure that critical elements of the engagements are documented and shared afterwards. The workshop will depend on the role of the moderation in posing different questions to the speakers and the audience and lead the participants in agreeing to the discussion points.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Additional Speakers:Mrs. Estherine Fotabong, NEPAD's Director of Programme Implementation and Coordination
Estherine Lisinge-Fotabong is the Director of the Programme Implementation and Coordination Directorate of the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency (NPCA). Before that, she was the UNEP Country Liaison Officer for South Africa and the Environment Adviser to the NEPAD Secretariat. Before joining UNEP, she held several positions including: Assistant Lecturer in Law at the University of Soa, Yaoundé, Cameroon; Director of Policy and Strategy; WWF Central African Regional Programme Office – Biodiversity and NEPAD Programme Officer with UNEP-DGEF. Mrs. Fotabong has a Master’s degree in Law as well as in International Affairs specializing in International Policy and Practice.
Mrs. Dalia Salem, Head of the European Sector, Egyptian Ministry of International Cooperation
Agenda:Organizer: The Egyptian Cabinet Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC)
Co-organizer: World Food Programme (WFP) in Cairo, Egypt & AFICTA
Format: The workshop will take the format of a moderated roundtable discussion which will give both the speakers and the participants from different backgrounds and expertise the opportunity to get together in an interactive setting where all views and ideas can be shared equally. This format is useful in raising multiple questions and in engaging in meaningful dialogue while the moderator will work to ensure that critical elements of the engagements are documented and shared afterwards. The workshop will depend on the role of the moderation in posing different questions to the speakers and the audience and lead the participants in agreeing to the discussion points.
Duration: 60 minutes
Forum Host : Ms. Nirvana Farrag, Director General, International Cooperation Department-the Egyptian Cabinet Information and Decision Support Center, IDSC (5 min)
Speakers: (35 min. - sorted alphabetically)
Speakers represent different organizations including international organizations working in international development, government entities concerned with information technology and communication, African institutions working in the field of ICT from a regional perspective. Gender balance is taken into consideration in selecting the speakers for the workshop. The proposed speakers represent geographical, gender and multi-stakeholders (government, international organizations, indepen
...Proposer's Name: Ms. Sophie Tomlinson
Proposer's Organization: ICC BASIS
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Timea Suto
Co-Proposer's Organization: ICC BASIS
Co-Organizers:
Mr Belisario Contreras, Inter-governmental Organization, Organization of American States Ms Sophie Tomlinson, Private Sector, ICC BASIS Ms Carolin Weisser, Civil Society, Oxford Martin School Global Cybersecurity Capacity Centre
Session Format: Break-out Group Discussions - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: France
Stakeholder Group: Private Sector
Co-Proposer:
Country: France
Stakeholder Group: Private Sector
Speaker: Audrey Plonk
Speaker: Sadie Creese
Speaker: Belisario Contreras
Speaker: Carmen Gonsalves
Speaker: Lillian Nalwoga
Content of the Session:
Internet Governance issue:
First-time users and certain demographics (e.g. children, women) are most often confronted with the impact of cybercrime, cyberbullying and other cyber risks. Those groups, in particular, but all Internet users need to be able to identify those risks and manage threats effectively to take advantage of the opportunities that the Internet offers. Increased awareness about cybersecurity and knowledge about how to protect themselves can strengthen not only the individual and the communities but also the ability of a whole country to protect critical digital infrastructure and combat cyber threats. The maturity of cybersecurity capacity in a country encourages confidence in the online environment and fosters meaningful access by all groups in society, thus helping address digital divides. There is a broad agreement that collaboration between stakeholders to mitigate potential threats and foster access is crucial for this effort.
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together cybersecurity experts from different stakeholder groups to raise awareness of ongoing multistakeholder partnerships in cybersecurity capacity building efforts globally. The workshop will look forward to the digital future and discuss opportunities for scaling up these efforts and leverage their learnings to address implementation challenges in cybersecurity capacity building, an essential dimension for bridging digital divides.
Session format:
Through break-group discussions the workshop will provide an opportunity for stakeholders to meet one another, share experiences and identify opportunities for cross-border collaboration. The break-out group discussion will facilitate sharing of best practices and lessons learned from deploying cybersecurity capacity building initiatives. These will be collected and shared in the workshop report as a tool for those aiming to launch such initiatives in the future.
Agenda:
• The workshop will open with discussion between experts and participants on the importance and impact of cybersecurity capacity building efforts taking place around the world. (20 minutes)
- Experts will be asked to highlight in their remarks how developing countries can utilise private sector expertise, and work with the technical community and civil society to address goals and provide examples of forums/initiatives where this is taking place.
• Participants will be invited to split into groups and will be asked to:
- Share their views and experiences on existing initiatives they participated in, know of or helped launch.
- Survey examples of where cybersecurity capacity building has helped bridge digital divides.
- Evaluate opportunities and challenges faced.
At least two experts will lead each break-out group and co-organisers will explore the use of a hand-out (with specific questions) for each break-out group to facilitate discussion. (30 minutes).
• Through an interactive discussion, all participants will then have the opportunity to:
- Report back on their break-out group discussion
- Identify mechanisms and initiatives that can be leveraged for international multistakeholder cooperation.
The moderator will have 3 minutes to sum-up discussion and close session (40 minutes).
Relevance of the Session:
The workshop will be directly related to the IGF 2017 theme as cybersecurity is increasingly important to ensure everyone’s digital future is safe and empowering. There are many multistakeholder initiatives taking place around the world to support capacity building (such as the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise) but often little knowledge of where countries can go to exchange knowledge/views with relevant stakeholders and experts. The workshop will provide an opportunity to share global best practices and help stakeholders address the opportunities and challenges they are facing nationally to ensure the digital future is secure and accessible for all.
Tag 1: Cybersecurity
Tag 2: Access and Diversity
Tag 3: Multistakeholder Cooperation
Interventions:
Speakers have been chosen to ensure geographic, gender, sector, and stakeholder group diversity.
Moderator
- Dominique Lazanski, GSMA
Speakers
- Belisario Contreras, Organization of American States
- Lillian Nalwoga, ISOC Uganda (remote speaker)
- Sadie Creese, Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre, University of Oxford
- Audrey Plonk, Intel
- Carmen Gonsalves, Netherlands Government
Online Moderator
- Timea Suto, ICC BASIS
Rapporteur
- Stephanie MacLellan, Centre for International Governance Innovation
Diversity:
This workshop aims to gather a variety of stakeholders to raise awareness of ongoing multistakeholder partnerships in cybersecurity capacity building efforts globally. Each stakeholder group will be represented and speakers will represent different geographies and cultures to provide varied policy perspectives and a menu of different arenas where cybersecurity expertise is available.
Co-organizers will share different perspectives and represent different stakeholder groups and geographies.
Gender balance has been encouraged through speaker choices and each speaker will bring unique expertise and experience to the topics discussed.
Special attention will be made during the planning of the session to ensure diverse interventions from workshop participants can be facilitated through the break-out group discussion and organisers will encourage remote participation by promoting the workshop on social media.
Organisers will explore facilitating the intervention of a remote hub in a developing country. This could be arranged by sending a remote hub prepared questions to be discussed in the break-out groups and have them report on their ideas during the session.
During the break-out group discussion diverse experts/speakers will be assigned to each group help animate discussion and ensure different perspectives are raised.
Organizers will build on experience organizing break-out groups in the past and special attention will be made throughout the planning of the session to ensure diverse interventions from workshop participants can be facilitated in person and remotely. Organizers will also encourage remote participation on social media.
Onsite Moderator: Dominique Lazanski, GSMA
Online Moderator: Timea Suto, ICC BASIS
Rapporteur: Stephanie MacLellan, Centre for International Governance Innovation
Online Participation:
The remote moderator will be involved throughout workshop planning to provide guidance on where remote participation will need to be facilitated.
The moderator will frequently communicate with the remote moderator throughout the session to ensure remote participants’ views/questions are reflected in the discussion and the remote moderator will raise her hand when an online participant wishes to make an intervention.
Organisers will ensure that the workshop is promoted in advance to the wider community to give remote participants the opportunity to prepare questions and interventions in advance and to generate interest in the workshop. Organizers will also ensure the workshop is promoted on the ICC BASIS website and via social media.
During the break-out group discussion the remote moderator will manage the discussion online with one of the speakers. This will ensure remote participants are given the opportunity to communicate with an expert directly. Remote participants will be asked if they would like to provide a remote intervention in the final section to brief the group on what was discussed. This will help ensure equal online participation.
As noted above, organizers will also explore including a remote hub in the discussion.
Discussion facilitation:
The list below provides examples of the ways discussion will be facilitated amongst speakers, audience members, and online participants and ensure the session format is used to its optimum:
Seating: The speakers will sit up at the front of the room in a roundtable format for the first part of the discussion. This will help set the scene and provide an opening discussion to highlight key issues. Following the first section, speakers will sit amongst participants in break-out groups (number dependent on the number of participants) and remain in these groups for the rest of the session. There should be enough chairs
...Proposer's Name: Ms. Farzaneh Badiei
Proposer's Organization: Georgia Tech
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Tatiana Tropina
Co-Proposer's Organization: Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law
Co-Organizers:
Ms. Tatiana Tropina,Senior Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (in personal Capacity) Ms. Farzaneh Badiei, Executive Director at Internet Governance Project
Session Format: Debate - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: United States
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: Germany
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Arthur van der Wees
Speaker: Tatiana Tropina
Speaker: Milton Mueller
Speaker: Maarten Botterman
Speaker: Mr. O'Donohue, European Commission
Moderator: Arthur Rizer
Content of the Session:
The massive deployment of networked devices and sensors, many of them aimed at the consumer market, has created new kinds of security risks for the Internet. These risks were revealed following the 2016 Mirai botnet. Mirai is malware that scans the Internet for devices running default usernames and passwords and then controls these devices to make them participate in massive distributed denial of service attacks. Since many of the IoT devices are cheap, distributed en masse, and deployed by consumers who are not experts in ICT management, the rise of Internet of things is causing concern.
These IoT problems have prompted several computer security experts to call for government regulation to solve the problem. Bruce Schneier has written that “government is the only solution” and believes that “the government could impose security regulations on IoT manufacturers, forcing them to make their devices secure even though their customers don’t care.” Richard Clayton and Ross Anderson have also done work for the European Commission advocating an approach based on safety regulation. On the other hand, these calls for regulation are coming not from experts in political economy or regulatory institutions and processes, but from technical experts, who may not be familiar with some of the dilemmas, challenges and pitfalls of asserting government regulation. Regulatory initiatives pose many of the problems of jurisdictional fragmentation and cross-border divergence that often undermine the effectiveness of government on the internet. Regulation is also challenged by the “moving target” problem, i.e. rapid technological change in this area; it would not be unusual for regulations to be put into place that address a problem that no longer is relevant, while overlooking the new ones. Advocates of regulation also tend to fail to distinguish accurately between different legal and regulatory mechanisms. Liability lawsuits, for example, would not be classified as “regulation” by political economy experts, yet Schneier and security experts such as Brian Krebs put them both in the same basket. The application of liability laws to IoT vendors has certain parallels with the earlier debate over software liability, and is an issue to be explored.
This workshop would be framed as a debate between advocates and opponents of IoT “regulation.” However, the positions represented would not be divided into two simple, polar opposites (yes regulation or no regulation) but rather would explore a broader range of governance options for the emerging Internet of things. The workshop would bring together a range of expertise on cybersecurity-related technical issues; IoT business and technology development; political economy and policy related to regulation and regulatory institutions; and law and economics expertise related to liability in high-tech sectors.
Relevance of the Session:
There is a little doubt that IoT security - and the question of achieving it - is one of the key issues for the Internet development in the short and medium term, and, therefore, one of the very important topics for the Internet governance. The challenge of IoT security is not only a problem of securing cheap mass distributed devices, but as we explained in the proposal also a bigger issue of the choice between less or more regulation - and therefore, the issues of multi-stakeholder participation in this choice, - the question of consumer trust and user-centric security approaches. Therefore, IoT security touches many dimensions of the Internet governance from a broader perspective and has a potential to shape many of the debates in the future .
Tag 1: Cybersecurity
Tag 2: IoT
Tag 3: Regulation
Interventions:
The panel will include experts in regulation and tech, who will represent different stakeholder groups - business, civil society, technical community and others. This will allow us to discuss different dimension of the problem and explore more options than just bipolar question “yes or no to IoT security regulation”. The session would rely on the strong Q&A moderation with the moderator setting the scene and asking questions related to the perspectives of a particular panellist. Some discussants believe that IoT regulation is needed, some believe it is not needed and some believe it might be needed in the future. These perspectives will be discussed and the participant's views will be included as well. We aim to open the session for wider participation from the very beginning, asking everyone to make an intervention on IoT security and regulatory options. This will allow for an interactive discussion.
Diversity:
The proposed set of panelists represents geographical, gender and stakeholder balance: the submitters of this proposal invited representatives from the technical community, civil society organisations, business (we are going to invite representatives from Dyn), and European Commission. In addition to stakeholder diversity, we have a gender diversity, as at least three of the invited speakers are female, and there will be more invited. The panel represents a geographical balance with panelists invited from different regions.
Online Moderator:
Rapporteur: Karim Farhat
Online Participation:
Internet Governance Project will use Twitter for disseminating information about the workshop and the available remote participation facilities provided by IGF. It will also provide a remote participation sign up sheet on its website to give information to the participants that want to attend remotely. It will encourage the remote participants of the workshop to sign up to a Skype group to discuss the workshop topic before, during and after the workshop. During the session, the remote participants comments will be given priority over those participating in person. Following the design of other successful and effective remote participation facilitation, all the participants in the room are encouraged at the beginning of the workshop to log into the WebEX room and follow remote participation discussion in WebEX chat. This way remote participants will be able to interact with various people present in the room. The people in the room will be encouraged to queue up to make comments in the WebEX room.
Discussion facilitation:
As explained in details in the other parts of this proposal, the discussion facilitation will strive to achieve the most interactivity of the session and to bring together different perspectives in the intense debate by:
Strong moderation of the debate with moderator asking questions to both panel and the audience, trying to summarise the discussion at different points and provoke both the speakers and the audience to address different aspects of the issue
Inclusion every participant into the debate
Asking all the participants - including both speakers and audience members - to intervene with statements that reflect position on the issues being discussed or to address earlier interventions. All those who participate can ask questions not only to the panel, but to each other as well
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/filedepot_download/4098/295
1. Moderator sets the scene and introduces the participants and mentions the issues that will be discussed
2. IoT implications for cybersecurity and why it should be regulated?
The debaters who are "for" regulatiton of IoT and believe there is need for regulation will put their arguments forward
3. The debaters that do not think regulation is the optimal solution for IoT put their arguments forward
4. The moderater briefly mentions the "for" and "against" arguments and then asks the "against" regulation debaters how cybersecurity should be maintained in IoT devices if regulation is not in place and asks the "for regulation" debaters to discuss what regulations should be in place.
5. Both sides debate the shortcomings of each others solutions
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Proposer's Name: Ms. Smitha Krishna Prasad
Proposer's Organization: Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Chinmayi Arun
Co-Proposer's Organization: Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi
Co-Organizers:
Ms. Smitha, Krishna Prasad, Civil Society, Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi
Ms. Gayatri Khandhadai, Civil Society, Association for Progressive Communications
Session Format: Panel - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: India
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: India
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Gayathry Venkiteswaran
Speaker: Chinmayi Arun
Speaker: Carlos Affonso de Souza
Speaker: Grace Githaiga
Speaker: Wolfgang Schultz
Speaker: Susan Benesch
Speaker: David Kaye
Content of the Session:
As hate speech online spreads at an alarming rate, states, companies, civil society and other stakeholders grapple with the question of how to mitigate the situation. States have relied on command-control regulation, including hate speech laws, as the primary solution. However, these laws are used to censor and punish political dissent and other expression protected under the ICCPR and most countries’ constitutions. These laws also seem to be able to do very little for the journalists being murdered, attacked and threatened for their online speech, or for people receiving onslaughts of threats, doxxing, abuse and other forms of aggression online.
In the global south especially, this is a phenomenon that cannot be ignored. Law regulating hate speech and religious expression has had serious consequences offline. It is often used to harass and intimidate media, bloggers, human rights defenders, women and political dissidents. These are the very same groups that the law should protect since they are often attacked online for their speech. Women are threatened with unspeakable violence and doxxed, bloggers and journalists are killed, and human rights defenders are frequently attacked. Both harmful speech and the law meant to mitigate it are used against these groups. There is therefore a need to study the reasons offered, such as religious sensitivities, more closely. This session focuses particularly on the intersection of expression and religion in the online space.
This session seeks an open discussion from the participants on the following issues:
A. What are the current and imminent threats relating to hate speech online?
B. What are the ways in which hate speech laws are used to target vulnerable speakers?
C. Is protected expression touching on religion under threat? If so, from whom and how do we tackle it?
D. Are hate speech and religion specific expression laws effective or acceptable when applied to online spaces?
E. How can we engage with the Rabat Action Plan and the Istanbul process to incorporate online and gender related challenges?
F. Are there opportunities to work out better ways in which online platforms can deal with hate speech, political censorship and other forms of intimidation of speakers online? Specifically, how can online platforms engage better with these issues in the Global South?
Relevance of the Session:
Hate speech and unreasonable restriction on speech online are a major threat to inclusive societies, and especially to democracies. In addition to stifling valuable, protected speech, they create an environment and culture of otherisation and intolerance. If the norms set down by the UDHR are to be protected online, we must cultivate an environment where differing views and choices are embraced online.
Tag 1: Freedom of Expression
Tag 2: Inclusive Societies
Tag 3: Hate Speech
Diversity:
The panel has been designed carefully keeping in mind gender parity and equality. Further, the panel has also been designed to include individuals who work on domestic issues in different parts of the global South, as well as individuals who work on these issues within the international law framework to ensure that views from diverse jurisdictions across the world are brought forward and discussed.
Onsite Moderator: Gayatri Khandhadai
Online Moderator: Smitha Krishna Prasad
Rapporteur: Deborah Brown
Online Participation:
Throughout the session #IGF2017 will be used and so will #hatespeech. APC will set up systems for anonymous and audience questions and comments to be streamed and displayed as the meeting progresses. APC will also solicit questions ahead of time from those who cannot attend in person, by publicizing the workshop on Twitter and with blog posts.
Throughout the session, a dedicated communications person will be available to facilitate online participation and to increase the visibility of the session and IGF among the networks of the co-organisers. This person will also be working on the visual aid for the whole session towards setting up the chart that identifies key issues raised.
Discussion facilitation:
The session will start with a 5 minute briefing by the moderator which captures the background and objectives of discussing the two ends of the spectrum of hate speech and religious speech, as well as the rules for the session. Each of the speakers will then spend about 5-6 minutes presenting their views on various issues that touch the topic of the session (as described in detail above in the section on interventions).
The moderator will tie the discussion into each of panelists chosen topics of discussion, to ensure the flow of the conversation.
For the next 35 minutes the moderator will open the floor to ask the participants and audience to point out the different areas including and outside the issues raised by the speakers on how hate speech and religion related rights are impacted by ICTs.
For the last 10 minutes, a chart will be drawn up identifying the different issues and linking them with the help of visual aid. This will be presented along with summaries of discussions to Mr. Ahmed Shaheed with a request to focus on technology and ICTs in his mandate as the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of religion or belief.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/filedepot_download/4098/266
Proposer's Name: Dr. Luca Belli
Proposer's Organization: Center for Technology & Society at FGV
Co-Organizers:
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: Brazil
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speakers:
Content of the Session:
BRICS countries (i.e. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are experiencing unprecedented change due to large-scale deployment of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) and are intensifying efforts to become key players for the development of the future Internet. Increasingly recognized as a major scientific and economic bloc, BRICS seem determined not only to embrace ICTs but also to strengthen cooperation in order to shape the global technology field, as highlighted by the recent approval of a BRICS Science & Technology Enterprise Partnership (STEP).
The establishment of STEP shows that BRICS are not only promoting a new wave of technological development but also intensifying synergy regarding digital policies in order to drive the fourth industrial revolution, developing effective solutions for shared problems while transforming the economic, social and legal landscape.
The growth, direction and societal impacts of the next generation Internet will be much faster in the BRICS areas, where the majority of next generation Internet users will concentrate. As stressed by the Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update 2016–2021, smartphone use, which will account for 48% of all Internet traffic by 2021, is increasingly driven by BRICS users. This observation tellingly exemplifies that future technology and ‘game changers’ are likely to be in large part be shaped by BRICS users, while future Internet policies are likely to be driven by such innovations, with effects worldwide.
Considering the existing technological and regulatory environments and the current policy trends, the panellists will identify what are the emerging issues, policy priorities and policy-discussion fora that are likely to shape or are already shaping the governance of the next generation Internet. Moreover, the panellist will analyse how cooperation in digital policy might be enhanced amongst BRICS.
Relevance of the Session:
BRICS are intensifying efforts to become key players for the development of the future Internet and innovation and policy put forward by BRICS countries is likely to have repercussions on a global scale. The identification of emerging policy priorities, cooperation mechanisms and technology game changers emerging from the BRICS area seem therefore essential to have a clear understanding of the trends that will shape and are already shaping the Internet governance ecosystem.
Tag 1: BRICS
Tag 2: Emerging Issues
Tag 3: Enhanced cooperation
Interventions:
Alison Gillwald will share the results of Research ICT Africa’ survey on user perceptions of ‘trust’ issues, cybersecurity, censorship, surveillance and privacy awareness in South Africa and will identify policy priorities
Benedicto Fonseca Filho will analyse the international policy and cooperation strategy of the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with a focus on both intergovernmental and multistakeholder initiatives involving the BRICS, such as the STEP partnership
Elonnai Hickok will analyse the causes that led to the current thriving startup ecosystem in India, while focusing on the challenges that Indian internet users are facing and putting forward suggestion to cope with such challenges
Luca Belli will present the upcoming CyberBRICS project, aimed at the establishment of a policy and research network dedicated to digital policy, Internet governace and technological evolutions in the BRICS area.
Luigi Gambardella, President of ChinaEU a business-led International Association, will analyse the intensifying business cooperation and mutual investments in Internet, Telecom and Hi-tech between China and Europe.
Rashid Ismailov, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Telecommunications of Russia, will provide an overview of the cyberpolicy priorities of Russia
Tatiana Indina, will analyse the current challenges and opportunities for startups in Russia, with particular regard to data localisation
Diversity:
The panel is gender-balanced and includes speakers from all geographical zones and all stakeholder groups
Onsite Moderator: Luca Belli
Online Moderator: Luã Fergus
Rapporteur: Ilona Stadnik
Online Participation:
The remote moderator will encourage remote participation through various social networking platforms in addition to the platform provided by the IGFSecretariat
Discussion facilitation:
The first part of the workshop (around 50 minutes) will be dedicated to an interactive roundtable during which the panellists will be asked to provide concise answers (i.e. less than 3-minute-long) to the questions asked by the moderator. Furthermore, panellists will have the possibility to reply to their peers' statements.
Subsequently, the panellists will engage in an open and interactive debate, during which the audience will play a key role asking questions, providing inputs and steering the discussion.
The attendees and the remote participants will be allowed to ask questions during the workshop, but their participation and inputs will be particularly encouraged during the second part of the session.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/4098/263
The first part of the workshop (around 50 minutes) will be dedicated to an interactive roundtable during which the panellists will be asked to provide concise answers (i.e. less than 3-minute-long) to the questions asked by the moderator. Furthermore, panellists will have the possibility to reply to their peers' statements.
Subsequently, the panellists will engage in an open and interactive debate, during which the audience will play a key role asking questions, providing inputs and steering the discussion.
The attendees and the remote participants will be allowed to ask questions during the workshop, but their participation and inputs will be particularly encouraged during the second part of the session.
Fang Xingdong, CEOof China Labs
'Out of my hands?: Harnessing exponential tech and user centered action to counteract sextortion'
Proposer: Marjolijn Bonthuis
E-mail: marjolijn.bonthuis@ecp.nl
Stakeholder Group: Intergovernmental Organization
Organization: NLIGF
Country: Netherlands
Co-proposer: Catherine Garcia van Hoogstraten
Email: C.vanHoogstraten@hhs.nl
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Organization: The Hague University of Applied Sciences, South School of Internet Governance
Country: The Netherlands
Co-organizers:
Arda, Gerkens, Civil Society, Director of the expertise bureau Online Child Abuse & INHOPE, Dutch Senator
Catherine Garcia van Hoogstraten, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, South School of Internet Governance
Session Format: Birds of a feather- 90 Min
Format description: The goal of this Birds of a feather session is to create an open forum and multistakeholder dialogue in which the attendees generate the majority of the discussion and knowledge sharing. The session will be organized as a facilitated and highly interactive dialogue through which each participant will have the opportunity to express their position.
After introducing the case in point with a video (max. 3 minutes), the moderator will ask the speakers a round of 3 key critical questions posed in the introduction to the session that will reflect the main goals of this session explained below. The speakers will have 5 minutes each for reacting to the 3 critical questions(total of 35 minutes). We will use green cards to let all onsite and online participants signal their convergence and red to signal their divergence with the 3 critical questions(40 minutes). We will ask during the discussions to justify their view points of convergence or divergence in relation to the questions. We have used this format already in prior internet governance national forums and turned out to be very interactive.
Content of the session:
The internet is shaping our life in many ways, some of it being a bliss, some being terrible. Sex is an important part of the internet, but so far the use of internet as a part of sexual exploration has had its downside. Society likes to blame the one who made the pictures, saying that by not having them, you will not be at risk. But the real problem is the anonymous spreading on the internet. Letting these images go public is a nightmare to many people. What if you could decide if, how and where an image is spread? What can you do to be in control of your own images made?
This birds of a feather session will address the current theme of sextortion and the tech responsiveness of websites and applications to help victims in sextortion incidents need of minimizing and controlling the impact and scale of this form of online harassment based on non-consensual distribution of sexual images. It will advance our understanding of the attempts in the ecosystem technical response to tackle with sextortion
It will mainly survey emerging exponential technology and user centered action being deployed by multistakeholders to counteract sextortion. Furthermore, this session will bring together different stakeholders to facilitate a joint discussion with online and onsite participants on the challenges and opportunities brought by this emerging exponential technology to tackle sextortion.
The session has four main GOALS:
1. Explore key emerging exponential technology and user centered action being deployed by multistakeholders to counteract sextortion
2. Identify its challenges and opportunities and its implications for Internet Governance
The expected OUTCOMES include the following:
1. Nuanced understanding of current emerging exponential technology and user centered action being deployed by multistakeholders to counteract sextortion and its implications for Internet Governance
2. Multistakeholder dialogue and commitment to contribute to draft policy recommendations to help victims in sextortion incidents
Relevance of the Session:
To be in control of your digital images, being able to stop spreading of leaked images or being made under sextortion, should be a possibility with the technologies out there. That would truly be shaping your future on the internet. These new tech tools will be using image matching technology combined with AI to stop a photo from being shared before it even gets a chance to make it live on the platform and will also work across other platforms like Facebook, Messenger or Instagram.
Tags:
Tag 1: Cybersecurity
Tag 2: Child Safety
Tag 3: Multistakeholder action
Tag 4: New Technology and emerging issues
Tag 5: Ethical dimensions of technology mediation
Discussion facilitation:
Organizers will develop a list of thought-provoking questions to spur conversation. In addition, we will closely work with the remote moderator to ensure online participants are afforded equal opportunity to participate.
As a birds of a feather session, we hope for a lively, perhaps confrontational discussion as our speakers engage as peers with the other participants around the table. The onsite moderator will sharpen contrasts between points of view, request examples from everyone in the room, and note points of covergence and divergence with respect to the 3 critical questions. The goal of this session is not necessarily to reach consensus on the nature of the problem or potential mitigations, but rather to elucidate a variety of frank points of view, and perceptions of what key internet stakeholders ought to be doing in response. This is not a panel, and as such all speakers will be looking to engage substantively with the others in the room.
Online Participation:
The livestream for this event will be promoted in advance through the social networks of the organizer, as well as by discussants. Responses to the session’s key discussion topics will be solicited in advance from community members who will not be able to participate in the live discussion, such as those located in time zones not conducive to viewing the livestream. Questions and comments received will be shared with the Onsite Moderator for incorporation into the live discussion. During the live session, the Online Moderator will coordinate with remote participants to facilitate live audio participation in the discussion if technical media permit. In addition, non-audio based comments and questions received through social media or chat discussions in the virtual meeting space will be integrated into the discussion directly by the Online Moderator.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/4098/301Dui
Discussants:
* Arda Gerkens, Director of Expertisebureau Online Child Abuse, Dutch Senator, President of INHOPE
* Neil Walsh, United Nations Cybercrime Chief, UNODC
* Catherine Garcia van Hoogstraten, Technology, Internet Policy and Cybersecurity Consultant, Liaison and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Public Management, Law and Security -The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Vising Faculty at the South School of Internet Governance
* Karuna Nain, Facebook's Global Safety Programs Manager
* Semanur Karaman, Coordinator Political Participation, Gender and Tech at Tactical Tech Collective
*Walid Al Sagaf, Vice Chair at ISOC Blockchain Special Interest Group
* Renata Aquino, Researcher in Education, Communication and Technology, member of ISOC Blockchain
* Su Sonia Hearing, Mentor at Middle East & Adjoining Countries School of Internet Governance, Organizing Committee Member Youth IGF Turkey
* Gregory Mounier, Head of Outreach and Support at EUROPOL
* Claudio Lucena, Visiting Researcher at Georgetown University
* Olga Cavalli, Director of the South School of Internet Governance, ICANN GAC Advisor on the Special Group of Technology Affairs
Onsite Moderator: Catherine Garcia van Hoogstraten
Online Moderator: Vanessa Berning and Renata Aquino
Rapporteur: Wilma Westenberg
Agenda:Proposed Agenda:
Welcome and Overview - 2 minutes Moderator
Overview of the problematic through a video – 3 minutes
Speakers reacting to the 3 critical questions - 35 minutes
Open discussion among audience participants facilitated by Moderator and speaker acting as discussion Facilitators- 40 minutes
Summarize outcomes – 10 minutes
...
Co-proposers/co-organizers
In this context, the session will be structured in three parts:
Segment 1: Multilingualism and IDNs: What and why? The session will start with a short intro into the issue of multilingualism on the Internet, and will continue with a brief introduction to IDNs.
Segment 2: IDNs through the eyes of end-users. This segment will be focused on end-users, and their perceptions of, experiences with, and expectations from IDNs.
Segment 3: IDNs behind the scenes. The technical community (registries, registrars, ICANN, the Universal Acceptance Steering Group, etc) and the private sector (search engines, e-mail service providers, etc.) will be invited to talk about what they do in the area of IDNs, and how they (can)respond to end-users’ needs and concerns related to IDN usability. This segment will include experience sharing (from existing IDN registries, Internet companies, etc), discussions on challenges faced in implementing IDNs, overviews of the work done to address such challenges, etc. Other stakeholders involved in the promotion of IDNs will be included in this segment as well (e.g. governments, IGOs, etc.).
Depending on the level of interaction in the room, segments 2 and 3 could be combined into a Q&A-type discussion, where there will be a dialogue among end-users, registries, registrars, Internet companies, other technical organisations, etc.
The session will rely on a strong moderation (2 moderators) and several resource persons whose role will be to help set the scene for discussions, by sharing national and regional perspectives. A set of questions will also be developed, to help engage participants in the discussion.
The rapporteur(s) will present key messages from the session in the last minutes of the session.
The session aims for fully interactive discussion with all present participants.
Speakers/Resource persons
Segment 1:
Jonne Soininen, ICANN Board
Segment 2:
Lianna Galstyan, Internet Society Armenia
Segment 3:
Irina Danelia, Coordination Center for TLDs .RU/.РФ
Sanja Simonova, MARnet
Alena Belskaya, Hoster.by for TLDs .BY/.БЕЛ
Edmon Chung, Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Jennifer Chung, DotAsia Registry
Geographical, Stakeholder and Gender Diversity
The session will not have speakers as such, but the co-organisers will make sure that the session respects diversity criteria, both among the resource persons, and throughout the overall session discussions.
Onsite moderator(s)
Andrea Beccalli, ICANN
Mikhail Anisimov, Coordination Center for TLDs .RU/.РФ
Online moderator(s)
Aleksandar Icokaev
Rapporteur(s)
Sorina Teleanu
Online participation logistics
Webex and Twitter will be used to gather input from online participants.
Discussion facilitation
The session will rely on strong moderation, with two moderators facilitating discussions among all session participants.
Proposer's Name: Mr. bruno vianna
Proposer's Organization: coolab
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. marcelo saldanha
Co-Proposer's Organization: Instituto Bem Estar Brasil
Co-Organizers:
Mr. Adriano BELISARIO, Civil Society, Coolab
Mr. Rafael ZANATTA, Civil Society, IDEC
Session Format: Flash Session - 30 Min
Proposer:
Country: Brazil
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: Brazil
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Adriano Belisario
Speaker: Rafael Zanatta
Speaker: Marcelo Saldanha
Speaker: bruno caldas vianna
Speaker: Paulo Duarte Paulo Roberto Duarte de Souza Júnior
Content of the Session:
In this session we will make a short presentation of the Coolab experience and some partnerships with other NGOs that works with community providers. Coolab is a collective dedicated to the creation of free networks in Brazil. We provide loans and support for the communities to create their own infrastructure. When these loans are returned we can invest in new communities. This way we believe we can create a sustainable practice for bridging the digital divide.
Coolab's methodology itself provides empowerment of the community by ensuring that the design and installation is made by neighbors after a week of immersion and training.
In March 2017, Coolab was selected as most novel project in Mozilla’s Equal Rating challenge, which allowed us to start operations with a 30.000 USD endowment.
Relevance of the Session:
We see community networks as a most valuable tool to regain control of the Internet infrastructure, as well as the most democratic method for closing the digital divide. By taking control of the communications infrastructure, communities not only are able to decide on local connectivity governance, but they enables neighbors in different technical fields. Local networks foster the local economy more than the ones created by government or corporations, by creating local jobs and driving maintenance costs; they’re more efficient and resilient. Being able to design, build and manage their own infrastructure is a great incentive to the overall empowerment of the community and vital for shaping the future of the Internet as an open, accessible and democratic arena.
Tag 1: Digital Divide
Tag 2: Community Networks
Tag 3: Capacity Building
Interventions:
Marcelo Saldanha and Adriano Belisário will put the debate about legal issues in the case of brazilian regulations and how those regulations talk about community connectivity and democratization of the telecom
Laura Tresca will talk about the capacity building and the methodology used by coolab to create and make ignitions in the communities, including some examples of community networks created and their infrastructures
Rafael Zanatta will talk about the part of the methodology and the model created by coolab through a cooperative process
Paulo Duarte will talk about initiatives that Nupef and coolab creates together
Diversity:
We'll propose a gender balanced panel with different stakeholders.
Onsite Moderator: Bruno Vianna
Online Moderator: Bruno Freitas
Rapporteur: Adriano Belisário
Online Participation:
We want to offer an online experience as close to the onsite one as possible. The online moderator is very familiar with the issues debated and he will have time to prepare himself further in the months before the event. He will take questions and comments from the online audience and propose them at the most appropriate moments.
Discussion facilitation:
As the time is very limited, we will have the speakers talk very briefly, in a concise form. There will be no physical separation between speakers and audience; we will dispose chairs in a circle mixing all participants. This will, we believe the audience is more encouraged to engage.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: No
Link to Report:
Nils Brock, journalist and researcher (Phd at the Free University of Berlin) in the field of communication politics and media development. Freelance writer and correspondent in Latin America for 12 years (eg. Jungle World, welt-sichten, Nachrichtenpool Lateinamerika, NPLA). Co-founder of Flujos.org media collective in Mexico in 2007. Since then, he has had several experiences as media trainer and producer. International aidworker for AMARC Brasil (2012-2017). Since September 2017 project coordinator and media developer for NPLA in Berlin, Germany.
Agenda:1. Introduction – 10 minutes
2. Presentation of Coolab proposal and results so far – 30 minutes
3. Open for participants’ questions – 20 minutes
4. Sharing of participants experiences on sustainable networks – 30 minutes
5. Debate on community-based ustainable networks – 45 minutes
6. Next steps and conclusions - 15 minutes
Mr. Duncan Cass-Beggs is currently OECD Counsellor for Strategic Foresight. His work aims to enhance strategic foresight and new approaches within the OECD and bring a stronger future focus to global dialogue on key policy issues. He works with OECD staff, governments and leading foresight practitioners worldwide to explore disruptive changes that could occur in the future – and their implications for policy decisions today. This work will aim to challenge prevailing assumptions and stimulate ongoing dialogue on the most adaptive policies for a rapidly evolving and uncertain world.
Ms. Molly Lesher is the Co-ordinator of the OECD Going Digital project, which brings a whole-of-OECD perspective to understanding the digital transformation and developing pro-active policies to make it work for growth and well-being. More broadly, her work is aimed at supporting OECD member and partner governments with digital economy policy advice and analysis.Ms. Olga Cavalli is an Internet leader whose work has been fundamental for advancing a wide range of Internet-related fields in Latina America. Olga currently teaches at the University of Buenos Aires, is the President of the ISOC Argentina Chapter and she is also involved in the development of wireless connectivity projects in rural areas of the center and north of Argentina. Olga works towards the inclusion of girls and women in ICTs and the Internet, organizing activities jointly with ISOC, ISOC Argentina Chapter, ITU, UNESCO, ICANN, the Argentina National Center of Engineers and the University of Buenos Aires.
Dr. Suso Baleato is specialised in the application of computational methods to support scientific inquiry and policy analysis. His research focuses on Internet measurement and the causality of digitalisation, and it has been published in academic outlets such as Science. Dr. Baleato contributes to the global digitalisation policy-making process in the context of the OECD and G7/ G20 dialogue, with an emphasis on privacy and data protection, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. He has been appointed Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), Martin Associate at the Oxford Cybersecurity Capacity Center, and Liaison of the Civil Society Council for the OECD Committee on the Digital Economy Policy.
Mr. Johannes Rühl is currently serving as Councilor at the Permanent Delegation of Switzerland to the OECD in Paris, where he works on matters related to digital policy, trade, competition and investment. He previously worked for the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) dealing with various international trade negotiations. He holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a PhD from the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva.
TITLE: Policy Changes for Public Access
DESCRIPTION:
This Session of the Dynamic Coalition on Public Access (DC-PAL) has two objectives: the first is to share real-world examples of the important role libraries perform by providing public access to the Internet. Four speakers will bring experience from Africa, Latin America and the Pacific.
The second objective is more ambitious. Building on the Principles on Public Access agreed in 2015, DC-PAL wants to launch a deeper analysis of the tangible policy changes needed to make a reality of public access in libraries.
What are the barriers, and what are the enablers of high impact projects?
What can we learn from different regional experiences? What made them successful or not? Which technology or regulatory framework the respective governments employed? What policy prescriptions the DC-PAL should prioritize and why?
The DC-PAL session at IGF 2017 will serve as a springboard to start gathering information from all stakeholders.
NAMES OF SPEAKERS:
Maria Garrido will discuss the Developing Access for Information Report (DA2I) that recognizes that access to information is crucial for sustainable development, and offers affirmation of the work that libraries do in guaranteeing public access to the Internet. (20 minutes).
Moderator: Esmeralda Moscatelli, Policy and Research Officer, IFLA
ORGANIZER(S) NAME(S): Esmeralda Moscatelli, Janet Sawaya, Stephen WyberProposer's Name: Mr. Menno Ettema
Proposer's Organization: Council of Europe - No Hate Speech Movement
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Ruxa Pandea
Co-Proposer's Organization: Youth Department - Council of Europe
Co-Organizers:
Mr. Menno, ETTEMA, Intergovernmental Organisation, Council of Europe Ms. Irina Drexler, Civil Society, PATRIR
Session Format: Flash Session - 30 Min
Proposer:
Country: France
Stakeholder Group: Intergovernmental Organizations
Co-Proposer:
Country: Hungary
Stakeholder Group: Intergovernmental Organizations
Speaker: Ron Salej
Speaker: Ingrid Aspelund
Content of the Session:
Background:
The No Hate Speech Movement aims to mobilise young people to take action for Human Rights online. The how can vary but basically follows the same lines of action adopted by Human Rights actions undertaken in offline settings.
A new manual We CAN! Taking action on hate Speech through Counter and Alternative narratives with young people through Human Rights Education is launched March 2017. It, combined with the manual Bookmarks of the No Hate Speech Movement, educates youth to recognise and respond to hate speech constructively.
Working on Narratives has been the entree point for education for remembrance, democracy and human rights adopted at the Remembrance centre on Utoya Island, Norway. The centre was erected on the site Attack in 2013 in which 69 Norwegian youth lost their lives.
Content:
5 min: Introduction
There are many different forms of action that can be taken on Hate Speech. The ‘Model for taking action for Human Rights’ of the manual Compass (www.coe.int/compass), identifies: Legal action; direct action; Research and Information gathering; Lobby & Advocacy; Education; Awareness-raising; campaigning; counselling (incl. victim support). These forms of actions can be illustrated by one sentence examples from the No Hate Speech Movement in Ireland.
Presently the debate on taking action on hate speech seems to limit itself to two fronts:
1. Reporting and take down (legal action, often outsources, through the reporting tools of the Internet companies)
2. Use of Counter (and Alternative) Narratives
15 Minutes: Exploration: what are Counter and Alternative narratives taken examples from Utoya training centre and the No Hate Speech Movement
Using 2 illustrative video’s in buzz groups of 2 to 3 people the group will review the questions:
- What is a Counter Narrative?
- What is an Alternative Narrative?
- What makes a Counter or Alternative narrative a Human Rights Narrative?
10 Minutes: closing discussion
Participants can share from their practice and realities examples of using Counter and Alternative Narratives. The discussion can be structures around a few of these questions (tbc):
- Why and when should Counter and Alternative Narratives be used to take action on hate speech, is it preferred above reporting, if so why?
- How can counter and alternative narratives become a tool towards building a democratic internet space; what minimum criteria need to be provided and who should secure them?
- Who is responsible to develop; strengthen; promote: Counter & Alternative Narratives?
(civil society; national authorities; Journalist & media; Internet Businesses, specifically social media platforms; educators; individual users?)
- How can we ensure that Counter and Alternative narratives function within a human rights framework?
- How can we monitor and measure impact from the use of counter and alternative narratives.
Relevance of the Session:
The use of Counter Narratives as response to violent radicalisation is becoming a growing practice, in addition to reporting and take-down of ‘illegal’ hate speech. The role of the various stakeholders (National authorities, Internet business, Youth workers, Educators and broader civil society) in this process however remains unclear with most initiatives taken up by the civil society sector.
Counter and Alternative narratives can and should however play an important role in the shaping of our digital future. They can strengthen pluralistic and participatory democratic processes online if successfully based on a human rights framework. Their success (strength of the message; outreach and impact) depends on the commitment and support the work on narratives receives.
Civil Society and online activists in particular are developing their expertise and related educational processes. The role and involvement of Internet businesses and the regulatory role of governments needs to be reviewed.
Tag 1: Hate Speech
Tag 2: Human Rights Online
Tag 3: Counter and Alternative Narratives
Interventions:
Ron Salaj, Online activist and co-author of the We CAN! manual, will be able to explore with participants the structure and function of Counter and Alternative narratives.
Ingrid Aspelund, Programme coordinator at the European Wergeland Centre. She will illustrate how the educational programme at Utoya, on the site of the Hate attack killing 69 Young people at a summer camp, aims to strengthen support for freedom of expression and democratic participation using Counter and Alternative narratives.
Diversity:
All speakers, organisers and moderators and first time participants in IGF.
The profile of speakers reflects gender diversity, thematic expertise and different regions of the European continent
Onsite Moderator: Menno Ettema
Online Moderator: Anca Sendescu / Ruxa Pandea
Rapporteur: Irina Drexler
Online Participation:
The session will be announced through the social media channels of the No Hate Speech Movement (outreach Europe, Morocco, Mexico, Canada, and parts of India, Tunisia, USA.)
During the Session online participants can follow the short introduction and raise questions through the online moderator.
The discussion questions can be taken up by online participants in the IGF chat room linked to the session.
National Campaigns of the No Hate Speech Movement, and partner organisations in other parts of the world are invited to host a discussion session in their local community (before or during the IGF session) and feed in their findings. Potentially the No Hate Speech Movement online Community manager could host a Google Hangout session(s) with the remote community gatherings.
Discussion facilitation:
The session consist of three phases
1. Plenary introduction, this intends to give a quick baseline for all participants to start from.
2. Buzz groups with plenary feedback to explore Counter and Alternative Narratives. This method allows for involvement of the participants, group learning and joined exploration of the potential and challenges of using counter and alternative narratives. It helps break the ice, yet is still guided. Online participants can easily feed in their thoughts through the discussion board with the online moderator needs to summarise and vocalise to the participants in the session.
3. Discussion groups on challenges and way forward with working on Counter and alternative narratives. This method allows for more freedom for the discussion to go different directions and inputs from participant’s practices.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: No
Link to Report:
0-5’: Introduction, short presentation of forms of taking action on hate speech and for human rights that exists in a democratic society.
5-20’: Exploration: what make Counter and Alternative narratives a human rights narrative supporting pluralistic democracy?, with illustrations from the No Hate Speech Movement and other campaigns and youth actions.
20-30’: closing discussion, sharing of practices and examples by participants
IGF is based on a multistakeholder model. It allows all stakeholders to equally work together: Governments, Civil Society, Private Sector and Technical Community! The Newcomers&Youth Track will explain what is the role of all these stakeholders.
During this informal gathering, that we call the Knowledge Cafe, learn what is the role of Governments and Intergovernmental Organizations within the IGF and ways for your engagement?
Come and spend time with representatives of many organizations involved in the IGF!
Proposer's Name: Ms. Sarah Moulton
Proposer's Organization: National Democratic Institute
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Chris Doten
Co-Proposer's Organization: National Democratic Institute
Co-Organizers:
Mr.,Chris,DOTEN,Civil Society,National Democratic Institute
Ms.,Sarah,MOULTON,Civil Society,National Democratic Institute
Session Format: Birds of a Feather - 60 Min
Proposer:
Country: United States
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: United States
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Matt Chessen
Speaker: Alina Polyakova
Speaker: Samuel Woolley
Speaker: Donatien Niyongendako
Content of the Session:
While this is designed to be a free-flowing conversation, the discussion leader will ensure that the group touches on three core points about shaping a better internet for the future: how to deal with trolling and online harassment, particularly via AI bots, without infringing on free speech; how social platforms and content algorithms can be manipulated to surface hatred or false information, and what, if anything, can be done about it; and the role of governmental policymakers in writing legal frameworks to support an open but inclusive online dialogue. Given the range of experiences of our participants, as well as the other diverse voices we expect will participate in the conversation, we expect a vibrant discussion.
Relevance of the Session:
At the same time that the internet is becoming the indispensable communications medium of a majority of citizens around the world, the online space increasingly seems to be warping into a hostile environment for civil dialogue. The openness that makes the internet the greatest communication platform in human history is being misshapen by forces who attempt to drown out speech with hatred, misinform with biased propaganda, and craft realities grounded in alternative sets of facts. Critical questions will be answered - or ignored - in the next years that will shape the role of the internet in our lives: the obligations of policymakers to reign in online hatred vs. protecting free speech; of social platforms to build content algorithms that do not reflect unconscious bias or can be easily manipulated; and the role of civil society in pushing back against the internet deluge of falsehood and fake news, sometimes pushed by nation-states. How can decisions or policies enacted by the wider internet governance community help or hinder the outcomes take by these different stakeholders?
Tag 1: Freedom of Expression Online
Tag 2: Disinformation
Tag 3:
Interventions:
While the Birds of a Feather session will not have formal presentations, key topic leaders have been identified who will further guide conversation around key discussion questions posed to the session participants, based on their diverse expertise. Alina Polyakova of the Brookings Institution (confirmed) focuses on the uses of the internet by nation-states to manipulate public opinion, while Matt Chessen (confirmed) as a Digital Diplomacy team member from the US State Department will articulate a governmental perspective on mass communication. Oxford’s Samuel Woolley (confirmed) will share a perspective advanced research on the ways in which computational propaganda is being distributed by AI-powered bots, while Donatien Niyongendako of DefendingDefenders (confirmed) can discuss the impacts his civic organization has seen on the suppression of public communication in the Horn of Africa.
Diversity:
This Birds of a Feather session will have lead speakers representing a variety of stakeholder groups, including government, academia, civil society, and technology specialists. No suggested members have been participants in an IGF event in the past, and each of the confirmed speakers represents differing areas of subject matter expertise and geographic focus. Additional speakers to be confirmed will include representatives from the Global South, as well as those who have direct experience encountering online harassment and trolling - particularly women. We intend to use the online discussion capabilities to further diversify the types of participants in the discussion.
Onsite Moderator: Chris Doten
Online Moderator: Sarah Moulton
Rapporteur: Amanda Domingues
Online Participation:
The livestream for this event will be promoted in advance through the social networks of the organizer, as well as by discussants. Responses to the session’s key discussion topics will be solicited in advance from community members who will not be able to participate in the live discussion, such as those located in time zones not conducive to viewing the livestream. Questions and comments received will be shared with the Onsite Moderator for incorporation into the live discussion. During the live session, the Online Moderator will coordinate with remote participants to facilitate live audio participation in the discussion if technical media permit. In addition, non-audio based comments and questions received through social media or chat discussions in the virtual meeting space will be integrated into the discussion directly by the Online Moderator.
Discussion facilitation:
As a birds of a feather session, we hope for a lively, perhaps confrontational discussion as our speakers engage as peers with the other participants around the table. The facilitator will sharpen contrasts between points of view, request examples from everyone in the room, and note points of disagreement. The goal of this session is not necessarily to reach consensus on the nature of the problem or potential mitigations, but rather to elucidate a variety of frank points of view, and perceptions of what key internet stakeholders ought to be doing in response. This is not a panel, and as such all speakers will be looking to engage substantively with the others in the room. Specific conversational prompts may include:
What is the role of internet policy makers in responding to nation-state engagement in online conversations?
What are the economic incentives for creating disinformation flows? Should one remove troll networks?
Does fact checking work? Should communications platforms adopt it? Who checks the checkers?”
With accelerating AI behind sock-puppet bot accounts, what is the future of civic dialogue online?
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: No
Link to Report:
Background Paper
Agenda:
Introduction to the topic by Moderator (5 mins)
Introduction of Topic Leaders (10 mins)
Open Discussion with Session Participants (40 mins)
The Birds of a Feather session will be driven primarily by interests of in-person and online participants, but guiding questions would include:
Concluding remarks (5 mins)
Content:
1- Digital Transformation/FTTH – 10 min
The Lebanese Government initiated the process of transforming Lebanon into a digital nation. Huge Projects are implemented by OGERO Telecom, starting with enhancing the transport network, implementing Fiber access to the users, to upgrading existing submarine cables, enabling IoT services, establishing Startup incubator and Data center.
2- Digital Government- 10 min
a. Digital Government Principles
b. Digital Transformation Enablers
c. Digital Architecture
d. Existing Situation and Future Projects
3- IXP - 10 min
Lebanon Internet Exchange project
4- Lebanon IGF initiative- 10 min
Lebanon engagement in the Internet Governance process, formation of the Lebanese MAG and brief on the 1st event held to publicly announce the start of preparations for 2018 LIGF Forum.
5- Entrepreneurship -10 min
how the Central Bank of Lebanon contributed to the recent leapfrog of the Lebanese entrepreneurship eco-system through the proliferation of VC funds, accelerators, bootcamps, etc.
6- Open discussion and Lebanese Sweets.
Name of Online Moderator:Ms Zeina Bou HarbTOWARDS GLOBAL GOOD PRACTICE IN IOT
(please find the opening presentation below)
The IGF Dynamic Coalition on the Internet of Things (IoT) brings together stakeholders from all over the world to engage in a dialogue on “good practice” in IoT, with the intent to find a realistic and long term sustainable way forward.
Since the 3rd Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting in Hydrabad (2008), IoT has been on the agenda for multi-stakeholder discussions of all IGFs, and the Dynamic Coalition on IoT continues to raise attention for the potential as well as challenges of the emergence of a world in which increasing amounts of sensors and actuators connected to the Internet and collect, act and share data, with other things and people.
The Internet of Things is developing at increasing speed and rapidly becoming a necessity in many sectors, in order to be able to provide services that otherwise would not have been possible or affordable. At the same time, over the last year the IoT has also been used in DDOS attacks and for other criminal and/or harmful actions.With this, establishing a global bottom line of good practice is becoming increasing urgent to ensure we find ourselves in a world that respects and supports people and society, and that offers effective and affordable services for all.
The DC workshop is oriented around 3 key issues that are reflecting our current thinking working towards a common appreciation of IoT good practice in 2016. These ideas are at the core of the draft declaration on IoT best practice that has been published on the IGF website. The ideas on which we would like to receive feedback are:
Feedback and suggestions are welcome.
Agenda
Committed contributors:
For this session, we have asked representatives from government, industry, civil society and the technical community to prepare some opening statements in the full understanding that IoT is inevitable, and an increasing part of the fabric of our society; and that it comes with challenges we need to address, from multiple stakeholders' perspectives, in order to make sure we are building a society we are willing to live in.
We are looking forward to introductions by the following delegates:
Moderator:
Avri Doria is a Principal Researcher with Technicalities, a research group supporting human rights and public interest concerns. She is a key contributor to the work of DC IoT, and Board Member of ICANN. She has been deeply involved in a variety of functions within ICANN and GNSO since 2005. In 2005 she was elected to the GNSO council to represent the NCSG. In 2013 she served as a member of the Accountability and Transparency Review Team that reviewed ICANN’s governance model. In June 2014 at ICANN 50 in London, Avri received the first ever ICANN Multistakeholder Ethos Award.
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The IGF DC IoT is an open, global platform that proposes taking ethical considerations into account from the outset, both in the development, deployment and use phases of the life cycle, thus to find a sustainable way ahead using IoT helping to create a free, secure and enabling rights based environment. The text of the IoT Global Good Practice paper can be found and commented at https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/internet-of-things-good-practice-policies-dc-on-internet-of-things.
Chairman of the DC IoT is Maarten Botterman is Director of GNKS Consult BV and has over 25 years relevant experience on Internet and IT Technologies, Governance, and how it affects the way we work, live and organize our societies. He is Chairman of the IGF Dynamic Coalition since IGF 2014. Currently, he is. also Board Member of ICANN, Chairman of the Policy Expert Group of PICASSO, and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of NLnet Foundation. His work has included projects of relevance for IoT since 2001, including recent work on standards, security, and data protection. For more information on his work see www.gnksconsult.com.
Please watch this space for further updates.For more information on the Coalition, please go to http://www.iot-dynamic-coalition.org/.
...Proposer's Name: Mr. Hartmut Glaser
Proposer's Organization: Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br)
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Juliano Cappi
Co-Proposer's Organization: NIC.br
Co-Organizers:
Mr.,Carlos,DESOUZA,CivilSociety,Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade - ITS-Rio
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: Brazil
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Co-Proposer:
Country: Brazil
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Participants:
Carlos Affonso (Civil Society, ITS Rio, Brazil)
Kyung-Sin Park (Technical Community, Korea University / Open Net Korea)
Monica Rosina (Private Sector, Facebook, Brazil)
Neide Oliveira (Government Sector, Federal Prosecution Service, Brazil)
Paul Fehlinger (Civil Society, Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network)
Peter Micek (Civil Society, Access Now, US)
Stefanie Felsberger (Civil Society, A2K4D, Egypt)
Susan Chalmers (Government Sector, NTIA, US)
Thiago Tavares (Civil Society, SaferNet, Brazil)
Content of the Session:
This workshop aims at discussing the shutdown of Internet applications and services in selected countries, delving into their motivations and impacts considering the technical, economic and social perspectives. Debates about the interruption of access to Internet services and content are not recent. In 2011, during the “Arab Spring”, websites like Twitter and Facebook were cut off within Egypt in an attempt of the government to prevent social media from being used to foment political protests. Despite some policy advances in the past few years, in 2016, Vladmir Putin threatened to block Google, Twitter and Facebook if they didn’t comply with a demand of data from Russian bloggers. Last December, Justice John Nicholas from the Australian Federal Court, ordered Internet service providers (ISPs) to “take reasonable steps to disable access” to Pirate Bay, Torrentz, and the streaming service SolarMovie, in a bid to crack down on online copyright infringement. The suggested strategy to block the applications was using the domain name system (DNS). In Brazil, the subject returned to the center of the debates between in 2015, mainly due to the action of the judiciary, which issued decisions on the blocking of Whatsapp throughout the country; a measure that affected citizens and organizations from other countries in the region. The decisions looked at telecommunication network operators and ISPs and led to discussions at the Legislative and the Supreme Court.
In this context, the proposed agenda includes a debate on the following issues: a) shutdown as a mechanism for law enforcement; b) challenges and risks of implementing application blocking; c) Internet Governance Principles at stake (net neutrality, freedom of expression, innovation).
Panelists will be invited to discuss the emergence of this new “Internet shutdowns trend” in a round-table. There will be an initial presentation to set the scene that will be followed by an open discussion. In order to stimulate the debate, representatives from government, technical community, civil society, lawyers and Internet applications will be invited to join the discussion.
Relevance of the Session:
This proposal is relevant to the extent that it seeks to broaden the scope of analysis that focus on Internet shutdowns, considering the technical economical and social impacts of its implementation and the various constraints involved in the cases of interruption of access to applications worldwide.
Despite the emergence of new cases regarding interruption of access to some specific Internet applications in the last years, many disputes and conflicts generated by its implementation have not been settled at all. Apparently, government institutions are using that strategy as an essential instrument to enforce national legal systems on transnational services. From a legal perspective, it is important to highlight that case law on the issue is scarce in many countries and that the technicalities of the Internet are still a challenge for justice operators who are striving to make sense of the complexity of the matter.. From a technical perspective, the implementation of application blocking is a challenge that involves many different instances of the Internet. The implementation on the physical layer may lack precision, resulting on the exclusion of unexpected groups of Internet users and even unexpected Internet services. The use of the Domain Name System to block a given application may raise questions on the role of Internet registries, registrars, name server providers, hosting providers, etc., which are entitled fundamentally of operating domain names. Finally, from the social perspective the increase in the number of cases of application blocking cases may endanger basic Internet Governance principles like Network Neutrality, freedom of expression and innovation – having a particular impact on developing countries. It is fundamental to bring together different actors involved in the implementation of application blocking to debate the issue in a multistakeholder, interdisciplinary and international context in order to advance in comprehending this phenomena and identifying its causes in order to put attention to them from different perspectives.
Tag 1: Blocking
Tag 2: Net Neutrality
Tag 3: Freedom of Expression Online
Interventions:
The session is structured around three 30-minute segments. The first will count on a general introduction about the topic under discussion by one of the moderators. He will summarize his briefing by posing a policy question to the participants. The question will be related the overall impacts of Internet shutdowns and application blocking observed in different regions. A 20-minute segment will follow in which participants in the round-table will be able to make 2-minute interventions at a time. In the second 30-minute segment, the other moderator will present some conceptual and practical challenges related the tensions between localization and the transnational nature of Internet flows, with a special focus on the issue of jurisdiction. He/she will provoke participants to look into the future with a policy question related to the “challenges for the next decade” in relation to issue of jurisdiction. Another 20-minute segment will follow in which participants in the round-table will be able to make 2-minute interventions at a time. The last part of the session will comprise a 30-minute open mic session that will be based on a policy question that delves into “the role of the multistakeholder community in coping with the facts and challenges listed in the previous segments”. The five last minutes of the third segment will be used by the moderators to summarize discussions.
The workshop participants are:
Moderators
Paul Fehlinger (Civil Society, Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network)
Thiago Tavares (Civil Society, SaferNet, Brazil)
Speakers
Carlos Affonso (Civil Society, ITS Rio, Brazil)
Kyung-Sin Park (Technical Community, Korea University / Open Net Korea)
Monica Rosina (Private Sector, Facebook, Brazil)
Neide Oliveira (Government Sector, Federal Prosecution Service, Brazil)
Peter Micek (Civil Society, Access Now, US)
Stefanie Felsberger (Civil Society, A2K4D, Egypt)
Susan Chalmers (Government Sector, NTIA, US)
Diversity:
The perspective defined to approach the complexity of application blocking requires a broad diversity of participants to accomplish the workshop objectives. The selected cases of application blocking are from different countries, involve actors from different sectors of society and also demands a multidisciplinary approach considering the broad impact of its implementation. As Internet shutdowns may affect specific groups in different manners, gender diversity is also fundamental to understand and measure the problem.
Onsite Moderator: Paul Fhelinger - Civil Society, Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network
Onsite Moderator: Thiago Tavares - Civil Society, SaferNet, Brazil
Online Moderator: Diego Canabarro - Technical Community - NIC.br
Rapporteur: Jamila Venturini - Technical Community - NIC.br
Rapporteur: Vinicius W. O. Santos - Technical Community - NIC.br
Online Participation:
Online participation and interaction will rely on the WebEx platform. Those joining the session using WebEx (either invited members of the round-table or the general audience) will be granted the floor in the open debate segment of the workshop. People in charge of the moderation will strive to entertain onsite and remote participation indiscriminately. Social media (twitter and facebook) will also be employed by the online moderators who will be in charge of browsing social media using hashtags.
Discussion facilitation:
The discussion in the proposed session will be facilitated around three policy questions posed for the participants in the round-table as well as the audience in general: (1) what are overall impacts of Internet shutdowns and application blocking in different regions? (2) what are the challenges for the next decade in relation to issue of jurisdiction bearing in mind the tensions between localization and transnationality of Internet services and flows? And (3) what is the role of the multi
Proposer's Name: Ms. Kaoru Mizuno
Proposer's Organization: ITU
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Andrea Saks
Co-Proposer's Organization: G3iCT
Co-Organizers:
Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability (DCAD) (http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/accessibility/dcad/Pages/default.aspx)
Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs (G3ict) (http://g3ict.com/ )
Session Format: Other - 90 Min
Format description: Open forum discussion preceded by brief presentations
Proposer:
Country: Switzerland
Stakeholder Group: Intergovernmental Organizations
Co-Proposer:
Country: United States
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Andrea Saks
Speaker: Gerry Ellis
Speaker: Gunela Astbrink
Speaker: Judith Ann Okite
Speaker: Shadi Abou-Zahra
Content of the Session:
Since the approval of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2006, much efforts have been made to achieve an inclusive society for everyone, including persons with disabilities and persons with specific needs. Their voices are starting to be heard, and the progress is reported in participation of persons with disabilities in decision-making processes at national level. However in many countries, this is still an area for improvement.
It is important to understand that disability is not attached to just a few persons but to all of us especially when we age, and that we need to remove barriers in society in order to allow persons with disabilities and those with age related disabilities to enjoy their rights on equal basis with others
“Universal design" is defined by UNCRPD Article 2 and means the design of products, environments, programmes and services to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design. "Universal design" shall not exclude assistive devices for particular groups of persons with disabilities where this is needed.
ICT technologies can play an important role in achieving an inclusive society. If universal design is considered at an early stage of the development of ICT technologies and systems, then expensive refits can be avoided. If this is not done, there is a risk of creating new barriers to accessibility.
Taking into consideration rapid development and prevalence of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies worldwide, it is urgent to promote, among others, key principals, concept and practice of universal design, and take appropriate measures for the implementation globally interoperable.
This workshop will discuss these issues and identify the way forward towards a truly inclusive society through ICT technologies.
Relevance of the Session:
The goal of the workshop is to raise awareness to everyone that it is imperative to achieve an inclusive society. ICT accessibility for persons with disabilities and those with specific needs can be achieved only by including them in the discussions around the Internet Governance and the creation of accessible ICT products and services. Their voices must be heard by governments, regulators, designers and standard writers so that our Digital Future will be accessible for everyone.
Tag 1: Enhancing Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities
Tag 2: Access and Diversity
Tag 3:
Interventions:
All proposed speakers' views/perspectives/expertise have been discussed during DCAD conference calls and agreed by the DCAD members. The speakers will briefly make presentation, then they will receive questions from the audience. This is to increase audience participation time and encourage discussion.
Diversity:
All proposed speakers are international experts on accessibility for persons with disabilities, diversity in gender and region/country, including speakers from developing countries.
Onsite Moderator: Andrea Saks
Online Moderator: Kaoru Mizuno
Rapporteur: Kaoru Mizuno
Online Participation:
There will be designated onsite moderator for remote participation. The workshop will use the ITU Guidelines for supporting remote participation in meetings for all (http://www.itu.int/pub/T-TUT-FSTP-2015-ACC). The moderator will have the full list of remote participants and their affiliations. Should there be persons who are blind participating remotely who cannot access directly the remote participation tool, due to the fact that they are not able to access the 'hand-raising' mechanism with their screen reader, they will be recognized by the Chair during all question & answer sessions so that they are able to make comments directly.
Discussion facilitation:
The moderator of the workshop will at the beginning take a roll call of all the participants and their affiliations, so that the moderator can call on individuals to comment on subject pertaining to their interest. A list of questions will be prepared in advance to ask both the speakers and the audience so that the discussion will be interactive and inclusive.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/4098/356
Additional Speakers:
Masahito Kawamori, ITU-T Q26/16 Rapporteur, Keio University
Muhammad Shabbir, Islamabad Pakistan Chapter
Agenda:
3. Open discussion stimulated by the onsite moderator
4. Wrap-up of the discussion
Proposer's Name: Ms. Liyun Han
Proposer's Organization: China Internet Network Information Center(CNNIC)
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Rui Zhong
Co-Proposer's Organization: Internet Society of China (ISC)
Co-Organizers:
Dr., Liyun HAN, Technical Community, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) Mr., Rui ZHONG, Civil Society, Internet Society of China (ISC) Ms., Jing MA, Civil Society, China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) Prof., Qingguo MENG, Academia, Center for Internet Governance (CIG), Tsinghua University, Mr., Jinhe LIU, PhD student, Research Center for Media Economics and Management, Tsinghua University
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: China
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Co-Proposer:
Country: China
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Xiao Zhang
Speaker: Zhibin HUI
Content of the Session:
“HYPER CONNECTIVITY” breeds and fosters the idea of “SHARING”, a spirit to reallocate resources to where they are valued more. Built around the sharing of physical and intellectual resources, “SHARING ECONOMY” is making a fine figure world widely with people using services ranging from vehicleshares to homeshares. Whist services and start-ups enabling P2P exchanges through technology have sprung up, this is only the beginning: in its entirety and potential, SHARING ECONOMY is to bring revolution across all aspects of social and economic life.
SHARING ECONOMY is blooming while experiencing growing pains, like regulatory uncertainty, trust issues, interest disputes etc. A lot of policy issues related to the governance of SHARING ECONOMY need to be addressed, such as:
1. Economy policy: sharing economy is a new economic pattern of restructuring and integrating the social idle resource, especially with the driving force of ICTs, it enables every one or each entity to get involved in the economy activity, especially in rural areas of developing countries. However, issues as tax, price rationality, intellectual property right protection, online fraud, dispute mediation had not been fully discussed.
2. Government regulatory: sharing economy is newly emerging and undoubtedly affects the traditional group's interests and rule. Governance is for development. What kind of policy government should take to reduce differentiation and imbalanced development calls for more consideration and wisdom.
3. Platform responsibility: the application platform should develop effective mechanism to benefit more people and protect user's personal information, avoiding government power abuse and hacker attack.
4. User self-discipline: practical measure or policy should be developed to improve user's behavior and protect public interest during the conduct of sharing economy. This workshop is to review the prospect and challenges during the rise of the sharing economy, exchange the experiences and practices on economy growth and regional balance. Collaborative Governance with multi-stakeholders' participation will shape a sharing economy benefited to everyone, enhance social diversity and support the joint efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Relevance of the Session:
This session is designed to make a direct attack on the governance challenges emerging with the increased coverage and complexity of digitalization, in regards to governance objects, tools and approaches. It brings sharing economy, a new and active digital economy pattern into focus, to review how the Internet and society governance model is developing from going in one-way to multistakeholder as well as online and offline cooperation. What the session discusses include re-identifying the roles of government, platform, enterprise, users and consumers, technology providers etc. in a new ecosystem, exploring policy evolvement and even social ethics, which are topics that really matter in shaping our digital future.
Tag 1: Internet Economy
Tag 2: Multistakeholder Cooperation
Tag 3: Internet & ICTs for the Sustainable Development Goals
Interventions:
The workshop involves speakers from the different stakeholders including the typical representative enterprises in the field of sharing economy, representatives from the civil society such as Association for Science and Technology and Internet Society, the academic researchers from the well-known universities, institutes as well as think tanks, the participants of technical community and the government official, who will demonstrate and interpret the blooming development and propose the future actions to answer the emerging challenges of SHARING ECONOMY from their perspective positions.
The speakers from DIDI Chuxing, Ofo, 58.com which are forerunner corporations in China will share the developing experience of sharing transportation, community Leasing and service platform, the chief analyst from Tencent Research Institute will describe the interpretation report on the share economic trend in China launched by Tencent Research Institute.
The speakers from the academia such as DiploFoundation, National Research University of Russia, Tsinghua University, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences will view the evolving process of the E-economy and the relevance to the IG ecosystem.
The speakers from the associate and Internet Society can share the thoughts on the sharing economy from the aspect of industry structure.
The speakers with the technology expertise including Prof. Xiaodong Lee, Prof. Zhou Xiang, Dr. Kong and Satish Babu will discuss the role of technology innovation such as big data, IoT and open source in promoting sharing economy.
We also invited the government officials from the Cyberspace of Administration of China (CAC) who is to be confirmed can talk about the annual government report and policies relevant to the governance of sharing economy.
The proposer will follow up with the confirmed speakers to specify who will give the presentation and who will contribute to the workshop trough discussion and dialogue.
Diversity:
1.Diversity of speaker stakeholder: We have invited experts from multistakeholders, such as enterprises, civil society, academia, technical community and government officials.
2.First-time participant: most of our co-organizers are the old faces to IGF who have the familiar experience and contributed to annual IGF via organizing workshops over consecutive four years. Tsinghua University is the first time to participate IGF.
3.Diversity of regions: Our participants are from China, Russia, India, Swiss and others.
Onsite Moderator: Dr. Liyun HAN
Online Moderator: Ms. Julie ZHU
Rapporteur: Ms. Shuyi GUO
Online Participation:
The workshop is encouragdged and panned for remote participation. Julie ZHU, the researcher of the Center for Internet Governance (CIG) of Tsinghua University, is appointed to the remote moderator, cooperating with the IGF staff, she willcoordinate the online participating system and collect the questions and key points from the remote participants, while she will keep the close interaction with the onsite moderator to convey the information and facilitate the Q&A between the onsite and online participants.
Discussion facilitation:
Agenda(90MINs):
1.【5mins】The moderator will open the session by welcoming participants, framing the topic, briefly introducing panelists and mentioning their commitment in the discussion.
2.【40mins】Formal Presentations from some panelists.
3.【20mins】After presentation, the moderator will engage the panelists in a lively conversation to get their perspectives on the questions as outlined below.
①Optimizing the relationship between supply and demand with intelligent sharing tools.
②Interest distribution among key resource holders.
③Roles of government, industry and other players involved in the market.
④Interesting predictions about the future of sharing economy.
4.【15mins】The moderator will elicit what panelists found most insightful from the discussion, and build on them by asking questions to create a dynamic flow of interaction among the panelists.
5.【5mins】the moderator will invite the audience to pose brief questions to the panelists, asking audience members to identify themselves. (The moderator may consider engaging the audience earlier)
6.【5mins】With 5 minutes left, the moderator will share the top takeaways from the discussion and bring the session to a close.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/2015-igf-joao-pessoa/workshops/list-of-published-workshop-proposals
1.Danil Kerimi, Head, IT and Electronics Industries, World Economic Forum 2.Dr. Jovan Kurbalija, Director, DiploFoundation & Head, Geneva Internet Platform 3.Michael Kende, Senior Advisor at Analysys Mason, and guest professor at the Graduate Institute of Geneva 4.Dr. Mikhail M. Komarov, deputy head for international relations, School of business informatics, National Research University. 5.Dr. Prof. Xiaodong Lee, Co-chair of Center for Internet Governance (CIG) ,Tsinghua University 6.Prof. Xiang Zhou, Head of Major project division at Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI), Professor o
...Proposer's Name: Ms. Kirsten Zeiter
Proposer's Organization: National Democratic Institute (NDI)
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Amanda Domingues
Co-Proposer's Organization: National Democratic Institute (NDI)
Co-Organizers:
Ms.,Amanda, Domingues, Civil Society, National Democratic Institute
Ms.,Sandra,Pepera, Civil Society, National Democratic Institute
Session Format: Panel - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: United States
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: United States
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Nathan Matias
Speaker: Soraya Chemaly
Speaker: Nighat Dad
Speaker: David Kaye
Content of the Session:
This session will be a multi-sector panel discussion about strategies for understanding and combating online violence against politically-active women. Online harassment of politically-active women is one form of the global problem of violence against women in politics (VAW-P), and can result in women choosing not to participate in leadership or political debates, and ultimately not to express their opinion. The resulting limitation of both the number of women able to participate and the range of issues discussed poses a fundamental challenge to democracy, progress towards gender equality and women’s empowerment, as well as to the integrity of the information space. The panel will engage experts from multiple sectors including digital activism, women's empowerment, technology, and international governance, to discuss methods for building international understanding of this issue and identifying strategies for combating it.
Relevance of the Session:
As political discourse increasingly shifts online, a free, open and inclusive internet where all citizens can engage in dialogue is critical to modern democracy. However, in too many places, citizens’ ability to engage in political discourse online is under threat by online activity by individuals and organizations that seek to silence or exclude the voices of women and other marginalized groups, such as online violence against politically-active women. This type of activity can have the devastating impact of driving women, and especially young women, away from online political discourse - ultimately undermining the integrity of the information space and of democratic culture and practice. This issue pertains directly to the IGF 2017 main theme, "Shape Your Digital Future," because if women, and especially young women, are not able to participate equally in online spaces due to online violence, they will not be able to be part of the decision-making that shapes their digital future.
Tag 1: Gender Issues
Tag 2: Digital Inclusion
Tag 3: Human Rights Online
Interventions:
This panel will facilitate discussion between multiple experts across sectors, who can leverage their expertise in gender equality, civic technologies, and internet governance to discuss how to understand and combat online violence against politically-active women. Each speaker will share their perspective and experience with this issue, the approaches they have employed, the challenges that remain, and next steps for understanding and combating online violence against politically-active women. Specifically, Nathan Matias will discuss his technical research on factors that contribute to fair participation online, and approaches to large scale experiments on reducing harassment online. Soraya Chemaly will contribute her perspective as a leading writer, activist, and advocate for curbing online abuse, media and tech diversity, and expanding women's freedom of expression. Nighat Dad is the Executive Director of Digital Rights Foundation, Pakistan. She is an accomplished lawyer and a human rights activist. Nighat Dad is the Executive Director of Digital Rights Foundation, Pakistan. She is an accomplished lawyer and a human rights activist. Nighat Dad will share her experience as a pioneer campaigning around access to open internet in Pakistan and globally, campaigning and engaging at a policy level on issues focusing on Internet Freedom, Women and technology, Digital Security and Women’s empowerment. As UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expressions, David Kaye will provide insight into intergovernmental approaches to combating online violence against politically-active women, particularly as it pertains to issues of freedom of expression. Together, these perspectives and experiences will contribute to a nuanced and multi-faceted discussion that takes into account multiple sectors, regions, and stakeholder groups.
Diversity:
The speakers and moderator of the panel represent varying genders, geographic backgrounds, age groups, stakeholder group, and policy perspectives. To further facilitate diversity and participant interaction, the discussion also plans for digital participation and engagement. The panel moderator will further take every effort to ensure diversity in participation during the Q&A / discussion session at the conclusion of the panel, to ensure a variety of voices have the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to the discussion.
Onsite Moderator: Sandra Pepera, Civil Society, National Democratic Institute
Online Moderator: Amanda Domingues, Civil Society, National Democratic Institute
Rapporteur: Kirsten Zeiter, Civil Society, National Democratic Institute
Online Participation:
This panel will be livestreamed in Washington, DC for civil society, democracy and governance, and women's empowerment experts. Twitter will also be used to promote the panel discussion and facilitate live interaction with an international audience. Our online moderator, Amanda Domingues, will participate online as well and feed questions from these participants up to the panel in real time in order to develop a robust global discussion.
Discussion facilitation:
Moderated by Sandra Pepera, each speaker will have the opportunity to share their perspectives on raising awareness of and combating online violence against politically-active women. In order to facilitate a lively dialogue between the speakers, Ms. Pepera will open the floor to allow each speaker to share their perspectives through a series of guiding questions. There will be opportunity throughout the panelist discussion for panelists to interact with one-another and address points raised by the panel. Following this, there will be time for questions and discussion from the audience within IGF and through online participation.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: No
Link to Report:
Dr. Dubravka Šimonović (confirmed in principle)
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women
Ms. Dubravka Šimonovic was appointed as United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences in June 2015 by the UN Human Rights Council for an initial three years' tenure (maximum tenure of six years). She started her tenure on 1 August 2015.
Ms. Šimonović was a member of the CEDAW Committee between 2002 and 2014, and served as its Chairperson in 2007 and 2008, its follow-up Rapporteur from 2009 to 2011 and as the Chairperson of the Optional Protocol Working Group in 2011.
For a number of years she headed the Human Rights Department at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Croatia and was posted as the Minister Plenipotentiary at the Permanent Mission of Croatia to the United Nations in New York. She was also the Ambassador to the OSCE and United Nations in Vienna, Austria. She was the Chairperson of the UN Commission on the Status of Women between 2001 and 2002 and also worked as a member of the UNIFEM Consultative Committee. Ms Šimonović served on the UN Women Advisory panel producing the report Progress of the World’s Women: In pursuit of Justice.
At the regional level she was the Chair and Vice Chair of the Council of Europe’s Task Force to combat violence against women, including domestic violence in 2006 and 2007. Between 2008 and 2010, she co-chaired the Ad hoc Committee (CAHVIO) that elaborated the Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence.
Ms. Šimonović holds a PhD in family law from the University of Zagreb. She is the author of several books and articles on women’s rights and violence against women. She also lectured at the Harvard Law School, Nottingham University, Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights (University of Cincinnati) and at the Women’s Human Rights Training Institute organized by the Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation.
Dr Dubravka Šimonovic is a Visiting Professor in Practice in the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at LSE.
Agenda:Welcome and Introduction: Sandra Pepera (moderator) (10 minutes)
Panelist Interventions (35 minutes, 7 minutes for each speaker)
- Dr. Dubravka Šimonović
- Soraya Chemaly
- Nathan Mathias
- Nighat Dad
- David Kaye
Moderator-Guided follow-up questions (15 minutes)
Audience Questions and Discussion (30 minutes)
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Proposer's Name: Mr. William Drake
Proposer's Organization: University of Zurich
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Richard Samans
Co-Proposer's Organization: World Economic Forum
Co-Organizers:
Ms. Fiona Alexander, government, Government of the United States of America Mr. Vint Cerf, private sector, Google Mr. William J. Drake, civil society, University of Zurich Ms. Anriette Esterhuysen, civil society, Association for Progressive Communication Mr. Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz, civil society, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development Mr. Richard Samans, private sector, World Economic Forum Mr. Thomas Schneider, government, Government of Switzerland Ms. Hong Xue, civil society, Beijing Normal University Institute for Internet Policy & Law
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: Switzerland
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: Switzerland
Stakeholder Group: Private Sector
Speaker: William Drake
Speaker: Richard Samans
Speaker: Alexander Fiona
Speaker: Anriette Esterhuysen
Speaker: Vint Cerf
Speaker: Raul Echeberria
Speaker: Torbjörn Fredriksson
Speaker: Wolfgang Kleinwächter
Speaker: Goran Marby
Speaker: Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz
Speaker: Marietje Schaake
Speaker: Thomas Schneider
Speaker: Lee Tuthill
Speaker: Mary Uduma
Speaker: Hong Xue
Content of the Session:
The past few years have witnessed an increasingly intense debate on the world-wide growth of national data localization restrictions and barriers to Cross-Border Data Flows (CBDF). Data localization proposals and policies typically involved requirements such as: data must be processed by entities physically within a national territory; data processing must include a specific level of “local content,” or the use of locally provided services or equipment; data must be locally stored or “resident” in a national jurisdiction; data processing and/or storage must conform to national rather than internationally accepted technical and operational standards; or data transfers must be routed largely or solely within a national or regional space when possible. Barriers to CBDF may involve: prohibitions on the transfer of personally identifiable information to jurisdictions deemed to have inadequate laws regarding privacy and data protection; censorship and other limitations on information that governments deem to be ‘sensitive;’ or digital trade protectionism. Governments’ motivations for establishing such policies vary and may include goals such as promoting local industry, technology development, employment, and tax revenue; protecting their citizens’ privacy (or in some cases, claiming to); ensuring access to data for the purposes of law enforcement, and more broadly defending their legal jurisdiction over data; or advancing national security or an expansive vision of “cyber-sovereignty.”
The stakes here are high. For example, the McKinsey Global Institute has estimated that data flows enabled economic activity that boosted global GDP by US $2.8 trillion in 2014, and that data flows now have a larger impact on growth than traditional flows of traded goods. The growth of localization measures and barriers to data transfers could reduce these values and significantly impair not only business operations but also economic development and many vital social processes that are predicated upon the movement of data across a relatively open and unfragmented Internet. Accordingly, specific language limiting such policies has been included in a number of “mega-regional” trade agreements, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA). While the TPP has been rejected by the new US government and the forecast for other agreements is cloudy at best, it is possible that at least some of the policies in question are inconsistent with certain governments’ existing commitments under the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). Even so, the extent to which these issues should be addressed via trade instruments remains a highly controversial issue, with many in the global Internet community and civil society remaining very critical of non-transparent intergovernmental approaches to an increasingly important piece of global Internet governance, and many privacy advocates vehemently opposing the potential application of trade rules to personal data.
Accordingly, the purposes of this proposed workshop are four-fold. First, it would bring together senior participants in the international trade and Internet governance communities that to date have not had sufficient opportunities to dialogue on their respective approaches to these and related issues. Second, it would take stock of the growth of data localization measures and barriers to data flows and assess the scope and impacts of such policies. Third, it would consider what can be achieved via international trade instruments given the current geopolitical context. Fourth, and most importantly, it would explore the possibility of constructing a parallel track of multistakeholder dialogue and decisionmaking that is balanced and enjoys the support of diverse actors around the world. In particular, we would consider whether a global community of expertise and practice can be constructed to share information and devise effective normative agreements on the issues. Normative agreements involving sufficient monitoring and reporting could help to ensure that data policies are not applied in a manner that constitutes arbitrary discrimination or disguised digital protectionism, and do not impose restrictions that are greater than what is required to achieve legitimate public policy objectives.
The workshop would build on a report prepared by William J. Drake for the World Economic Forum (WEF) that is to be released in the autumn of 2017. This report will in turn build on a report on Internet Fragmentation by Drake, Vint Cerf, and Wolfgang Kleinwachter that was prepared for the WEF in 2016 www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_FII_Internet_Fragmentation_An_Overview_2016.pdf as well as the outputs of the WEF/ICTSD E15 Initiative on Strengthening the Global Trade and Investment System www.e15initiative.org. The workshop would be the fifth in a series of international meetings held in 2017 to gather inputs on the construction of a multistakholder expert community on the issues.
Relevance of the Session:
The session would explore the potential relevance of the multistakeholder cooperation models employed in Internet governance processes in addressing a set of issues that largely have been discussed in international trade policy circles. The growth of data localization and CBDF barriers directly affects the openness of the Internet, a key concern in Internet governance. The trends are also directly relevant to whether we can indeed shape our global digital future in a manner that balances national objectives with the transnational data flows central to the Internet's functioning and social utility.
Tag 1: Multistakeholder Cooperation
Tag 2: Internet Governance
Tag 3:
Interventions:
The onsite moderator will pose a series of questions to the discussants and encourage interactive discussion. These will encompass a) the policies and their impacts; b) the role of trade mechanisms; and c) the prospects for multistakeholder cooperation. The organizer and onsite moderator have both organized dozens of successful Roundtable discussions involving 15 or more participants, including at the IGF, and know how to manage the narrative flow of a conversation. The onsite moderator will get the discussants to respond to each other, ensure that they stay on point, and manage their time effectively. To optimize the time allocation, not all discussants will speak to every question posed; a baseline framework for managing this will be agreed online by the participants in advance.
Diversity:
The Roundtable speakers are roughly 1/3rd from the USA, 1/3rd from Europe, and 1/3rd from the global South. There are 10 men and 6 women. Their stakeholder group breakdown is: 3 governmental, 3 intergovernmental organizations, 3 private sector, 2 technical community, and 5 civil society/research. 11 could be identified as primarily from the Internet governance community, 5 could be identified as primarily from the international trade diplomacy community. They are also diverse in intellectual perspectives and political positions on the issues to be addressed.
Onsite Moderator: Richard Samans
Online Moderator: Adam Peake
Rapporteur: Adam Schlosser
Online Participation:
At the 50 minute mark the discussion will be opened to all participants in the room and online on an equal rotating basis. The very experienced remote moderator will signal remote participants to speak or, if the technology fails, will read their typed interventions. In addition, the rapporteur and another colleague will live tweet the meeting so it can be followed in that manner.
Discussion facilitation:
Prior to the meeting the roundtable discussants will coordinate online to agree a baseline set of topics to be covered
Round table, 90 minutes long.
Relevance of the issue
A blockchain is a distributed database that maintains a continuously growing list of ordered records. By design, blockchains are inherently resistant to changes in the data; once recorded, the data in a block cannot be altered retroactively. The blockchain is actually a way to structure data. It is usually associated with the foundation of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Despite this more usual implementation blockchain can be also applied to several other situations where it is necessary to keep an ownership history for information and interactions. It has the potential for many other uses, for example, helping to develop more transparent and distributed social and economic structures. The session is quite relevant to shed light on the debate of all these uses of the blockchain technology. Among several different alternative uses for the blockchain technologies, we can highlight some: a proof of concept in which blockchain is used to track artwork objects as well as loan processes between museums; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created a proof of concept to make available course completion certificates, enabling the authenticity inspection of them without the need of nominated authorities; United Arab Emirates proposed a solution to track diamond’s origins with the use of blockchain technologies; a commercial solution for the use of Internet of Things equipment along with blockchain systems so as to improve trustworthiness in any sort of transaction; and there’s also an ongoing debate prospecting possible uses of blockchain as a replacement for Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies.
Onsite moderator(s)
Representatives from: Dr. Yuri Grin
Dr. Grin will also share the info about ITU blockchain focus group.
Online moderator(s)
Online moderator: Armenia IGF
Online participation and interaction will rely on the WebEx platform. Those joining the session using WebEx (either invited members of the Panel or the general audience) will be granted the floor in the discussion segment of the workshop. People in charge of moderation will strive to entertain onsite and remote participation indiscriminately. One idea is to inscribe everybody (onsite and online participants) in a single queue and project it onto the screen. Social media (twitter) will also be employed by the online moderators who will be in charge of browsing social media using some hashtags (to be defined).
Rapporteur(s)
China IGF, Nigeria IGF, Armenia IGF, Brazil IGF
Online participation logistics
Online participants will be treated equally as the onsite, and the online moderator will post guiding questions to have them engaged.
Discussion facilitation
The discussion will be facilitated by the onsite moderators who will guide the debate and comments session in the end.
Audience members (onsite and online participants) will inscribe in a single queue that will be projected onto the screen to facilitate the speech organization. Onsite moderator will call each one in order to speak and the online moderator in the case of remote participants.
The scale and complexity of terrorism has evolved, as shown by the growth in the reach of terrorists and terrorist organisations and the changes in their modus operandi. Internet-based communications are widely used by terrorist organisations to incite violence, find new recruits, and coordinate their activities. While the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da’esh) has attracted global attention in this regard, there are also concerns about how other terrorist and violent extremist groups with various ideological backgrounds use the internet to incite hatred, discrimination, violence and terrorism.
Societies face serious challenges in trying to respond to these threats. In their responses, some States have adopted pervasive measures including through surveillance and interception of communications; the collection, retention and analysis of data; and the blocking and filtering of information, often on a widespread scale. The private sector also plays a key role in these activities, and States increasingly are requesting ICT businesses to take measures such as blocking, filtering or removing content, denial of services, and collecting and retaining personal data of Internet users. Internet companies, partly in response to such calls for action, increasingly appear to intensify their efforts to combat “extremist” messages, often in cooperation with States agencies, such as Internet Referral Units.
It is crucial that any measures to prevent and counter violent extremism online are taken in full compliance with international human rights law, in particular the rights to freedom of opinion and expression, privacy, and freedom of religion or belief. Such measures also must not undermine the enormous potential the Internet has to foster democratic participation in public life, stimulate debate on issues of public importance and enhance development. However, the interplay and at times cooperation and collaboration of States and business enterprises in responding jointly to extremism online is often problematic due, for example, to poorly defined legal concepts (such as “extremism” or “national security”), insufficient oversight and lack of transparency and accountability. The session will focus on a sharing of experiences and initiatives to prevent violent extremism online, with a view to addressing some of the human rights challenges and recommendations for ways to move forward.
Kate Gilmore, OHCHR, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights (moderator)
David Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
Fiona Asonga, CEO, Technology Service Providers Association of Kenya, Kenya
Brett Solomon, Access Now, Executive Director, Australia
Chinmayi Arun, National Law University Delhi, Centre for Communication Governance, Executive Director, India
Alexandria Walden, Public Policy and Government Relations Counsel, Google
Name of Online Moderator: TBD
Background Paper:
Past IGF Participation: Yes
Report Link:
Name: Mr. Tim Engelhardt
Organizational Affiliation: Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Proposer's Name: Mr. Nicholas Carlisle
Proposer's Organization: No Bully
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Clara Sommarin
Co-Proposer's Organization: UNICEF
Co-Organizers:
Mr, Nicholas, Carlisle, Civil Society, No Bully
Ms, Clara, Sommarin, Intergovernmental Organization, UNICEF
Session Format: Other - 90 Min
Format description: Fishbowl
Proposer:
Country: United States
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: United States
Stakeholder Group: Intergovernmental Organizations
Speaker: Nicholas Carlisle
Speaker: Clara Sommarin
Speaker: Christopher Castle
Speaker: Jacqueline Beauchere
Speaker: Ki Chun, David NG
Content of the Session:
Were you “unfriended” on Facebook because you expressed a viewpoint that did not sit well with others? Were you so put off by the words and actions of a colleague that you “unfollowed” them on Twitter? Has the level of discourse online stooped to such new lows that you found yourself loosing trust in others, stressed out or even not sleeping? If you answered “yes” to any of these, take some comfort - you are not alone.
New preliminary research indicates that 65% of people around the world, including teens, have suffered some sort of negative experience online, which has led them to be less trusting of others both online and off. A full report on the state of digital civility, personal online safety and digital interactions was made available on International Safer Internet Day 2017, and follow-on research from the originally surveyed countries as well as several more will be available for the IGF.
In keeping with this theme, there is a growing movement across the globe to restore the original promise of the Internet of connectivity and a common space for all. In 2017 UNESCO, Facebook, and No Bully launched a global campaign to combat cyberbullying that is bringing together technology companies, the private sector, civil society organizations, educators, and youth to achieve collaborative impact on one of the biggest issues facing children and teens online. UNICEF has been working on its own research on online bullying and online child sexual exploitation and abuse, and will reference these education and awareness-raising campaigns.
Goals of this Fishbowl
• Get out of our own Fishbowl and listen to others
• Deepen the understanding of the impediments to online civility
• Generate strategies to activate the big switches that can reduce online bullying and hate speech among youth
• Share knowledge and feedback on existing initiatives and address what is not working
• Raise awareness among key influencers about what is increasingly being perceived as a problem.
Above all else – we want this to be a highly interactive session where the audience drives the conversation. We’re here to listen and learn, not drive. If you want to be a wall flower in this session, watch out. You might be called on …
Relevance of the Session:
This workshop is directly related to the IGF 2017 theme as it explores a set of issues that, if not addressed, could discourage existing and new internet users from fully utilizing it. As mentioned earlier, the original promise of the Internet was connectivity and a common space for all. Without addressing the issues of bullying and exploitation online, that promise is threatened. In a worst-case scenario, there will be a reduced or even no digital future for many.
Tag 1: Digital Literacy
Tag 2: Youth Engagement
Tag 3: Global Citizenship
Interventions:
Our “Speakers” will serve more as discussants and help with audience engagement. After reviewing some of the research in this area, the speakers will share brief perspectives on the topic of digital civility and bullying. But the the key role for our speakers will be to engage with the audience and bring them into the discussion. We expect a wide diversity of views from the audience participants to make this a valuable session.
Diversity:
The nature of our session, a highly interactive discussion with the audience (as opposed to talking at the audience), lends itself to an extremely diverse session. While we have a small handful of speakers listed in the proposal from various stakholder groups and regions, their role is quite limited. Their aim is to provide a variety of brief perspectives – from IGO and civil society to private sector and youth and to help engage the audience/participants in discussions and exchanges. Due to the relevance of this topic to the theme of the IGF and the global concern about civility online, we expect participation from across the multistakeholder community. Our experience shows that this topic is particularly suited to audience participation because everyone, regardless of where you are from or what stakeholder group you represent, is impacted and interested in advancing digital civility.
Please note that one of our discussion facilitators, David Ng, is a placeholder for a Youth Ambassador from NetMission in Hong Kong. Those have not been selected yet.
Onsite Moderator: Jim Prendergast
Online Moderator: Berry Cobb
Rapporteur: Jim Prendergast
Online Participation:
Through the various networks of each of the participating organizations, we will publicize the session in advance to generate awareness in the community of those who are working in this area but are not able to make the trip to Geneva. Our moderator will coordinate closely with the remote moderator to ensure that remote participants are given ample opportunity to offer comments, ask questions and make other interventions as we shape a truly global, multi-stakeholder dialogue.
We will also conduct advanced outreach to the remote hub coordinators to ensure they are aware of our session and have a copy of any materials.
Discussion facilitation:
Aside from a brief overview of some research there will be no speeches, presentations or other dais-led discussions. Again, our “speakers” will act more as discussion facilitators and will engage the audience to make them a part of the conversation. In fact – we don’t really want an audience – we want a room full of participants.
Organizers will develop a list of thought-provoking questions to spur conversation. In addition, we will closely work with the remote moderator to ensure online participants are afforded equal opportunity to participate.
Ideally, the room would allow for re-arranging of the furniture to make it a big circle to better foster interaction and participation – as if one were sitting around a campfire.
Proposed Agenda
Welcome and Overview - 2 minutes Moderator
Overview of the Research – 8 minutes
Reaction from Discussion Facilitators - 10 minutes
Open discussion among audience participants facilitated by Moderator and Discussion Facilitators- 60 minutes
Summarize outcomes and next steps – 10 minutes
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: No
Link to Report:
Tommaso Waybe Bertolotti
Tommaso Wayne Bertolotti is a philosopher of technology. He earned his PhD at the University of Pavia, in Italy, where he is adjunct professor of cognitive philosophy. His research focuses on the ethical and cognitive impact of Internet technologies, especially as it concerns social cognition and other cultural and biologically inherited aspects of human life. He lives in Paris where he collaborates with the French engineering school Telecom ParisTech. Since Spring 2017 he inaugurated his own brand of philosophical consulting, MonPhilosophe, to leverage the importance of philosophy in addressing everyday challenges.
Agenda:Welcome and Overview - 2 minutes Moderator
Overview of the Research – 8 minutes
Reaction from Discussion Facilitators - 10 minutes
Open discussion among audience participants facilitated by Moderator and Discussion Facilitators- 60 minutes
Summarize outcomes and next steps – 10 minutes
Diversity in the Internet’s multistakeholder model: the role of Capacity Building and multilingual Internet Governance Content in promoting an Inclusive Internet
Proposer's Name: Ms. DALILA RAHMOUNI and Ms Olga Cavalli
Proposer's Organization: French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and South School on Internet Governance
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Dustin Phillips
Co-Proposer's Organization: ICANNWIKI
Co-Organizers:
Ms., Dalila RAHMOUNI, Government, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mr., Emmanuel ADJOVI, International Organization, International Organization of La Francophonie
Dustin Phillips - Civil Society – ICANNWiki
Adrián Carballo - Civil Society - CCAT LAT Centro de Capacitación para América Latina y el Caribe
Julio César Vega Gómez - Private Sector - Asociación de Internet MX
Session Format: Debate - 90 Min
Speakers
Speaker: Emmanuel ADJOVI
Speaker: Charly Berthet - French Digital Coucil
Speaker: Lucena Claudio
Speaker: Garcia Van Hoogstraten Caterine
Speaker: Witaba Bonface
Speaker: Jennifer Chung
Session Format: Debate - 90 Min
Content of the Session:
In 1990, 75% of the Internet users lived in developed countries. Today, more than 66% of Internet users live in developing countries. In 2030, an overwhelming majority of users will access the Internet from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
With multistakeholder processes and a global set of actors, Internet governance (IG) is often viewed as an inclusive ecosystem. It’s true that the IG community has made progress in becoming more inclusive in recent years, but there is still a lot of work to be done to give everybody a voice in shaping their digital futures. This panel will examine this task through the lens of Internet governance content.
WSIS+10 Outcome Document recognizes that there is a digital divide among developed and developing countries, with a primary dimension being content accessibility.The approach to closing the digital divide must be multidimensional, looking beyond mere connectivity to understand the quality of access to linguistically relevant and localized content. The creation of high quality, multilingual Internet Governance content is one way to help developing countries and the Internet community at large understand the complexity of Internet services and addressing the challenges of regulations, cybersecurity and other technological developments that directly shape their everyday lives.
Promoting an inclusive Internet governance ecosystem is essential to the future of the globally connected Internet. If strides aren’t made toward closing the digital divide and people don’t have a voice in shaping the very resource that shapes their lives dramatically, there will be negative effects for the Internet as a whole.
The debate will be opened under these general ideas:
How inclusive is Internet governance?
How can the different stakeholders contribute to the Internet governance model?
What risks do we face if Internet governance fails to be a truly inclusive ecosystem?
What role does Internet governance content play?
How can we improve Internet governance content?
How can this content be created considering the multilingualism?
How can we go beyond multilingual content to localized content?
What are the challenges related with different scripts? Have IDNs helped?
Relevance of the Session:
In 1990, 75% of the Internet users lived in developed countries. Today, more than 66% of Internet users live in developing countries. In 2030, an overwhelming majority of users will access the Internet from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
The future of the Internet Governance depends on the capacity of the Internet community to be representative of the diversity of world in terms of stakeholders, culture, language, regional representation and gender inclusion.
Tag 1: Access and Diversity
Tag 2: Internet Governance and the role of the different stakeholders
Tag 3: Multilingualism and Local Content
Proposer's Name: Ms. Barbara WANNER
Proposer's Organization: U.S. Council for International Business
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Karen MCCABE
Co-Proposer's Organization: IEEE
Co-Organizers:
Ms. Karen McCabe, Technical Community, IEEE
Ms. Christine Arida, Government, National Telecom Regulatory Authority, Government of Egypt
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: United States
Stakeholder Group: Private Sector
Co-Proposer:
Country: United States
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Speaker: Hosuk Lee-Makiyama
Speaker: Christopher Wilson
Speaker: Hossam ElGamal
Speaker: Audrey Plonk
Speaker: Christopher Yoo
Speaker: Makoto Yokozawa
Speaker: Rachel Bae
Speaker: Ellen Blackler
Speaker: Esther Peh
Speaker: Helani Galpaya
Speaker: Karen McCabe Karen McCabe
Speaker: Carolyn Nguyen
Content of the Session:
The Internet-enabled transformation to the global economy has advanced cross-sectoral development, commercial opportunities for small businesses in developing countries, innovation, exchange of knowledge and opinions, and greater societal inclusion. The power of ICTs and digital innovations have the potential to help realize many of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the coming decade if they can be effectively utilized.
This promise depends on stakeholder opportunities to invest and compete, sufficient infrastructure, and cross-border flows of data and information. These essential elements have been challenged by some government measures that aim to promote domestic industry, innovation, and/or privacy and security, but have the potential to limit growth of the digital economy –acting as barriers to the use of the Internet and ICTs to advance global development. A key task with respect to Internet governance, therefore is to identify policies that enable digital trade to serve as an engine for realizing the SDGs and societal inclusion goals.
Trade stakeholders should draw upon expertise in the Internet governance community to map and understand these potential enablers and barriers to digital trade. Internet governance stakeholders, for their part, should engage in constructive dialogue with the trade community to discuss how trade policy might be deployed to address Internet barriers. An important complement is to build user trust in the online environment through interoperable privacy and security frameworks aimed at optimizing the benefits of digital trade. In addition, business acknowledges a responsibility to channel its digital innovative advancements and trade-related benefits into initiatives aimed at bridging global development gaps.
Speakers will address the following agenda:
1. The Evidence Base: What research tells us about the economic developmental benefits of digital trade
2. Digital Trade Rules: Instruments for economic development and societal inclusion
3. Localization Rules: Impact on Realizing the SDGs
4. Fostering Users’ Trust in the Digital Economy: Addressing privacy/security concerns while optimizing digital trade benefits
5. Business Responsibility: Channeling trade benefits to education and economic opportunities
6. Best Practices in Internet Governance: Making the connection between Internet governance and digital trade to realize sustainable development and societal inclusion
Relevance of the Session:
This workshop will be directly related to the 2017 IGF theme as it will enable representatives from all stakeholder groups and diverse regions to explore how to “shape their digital futures” by finding the appropriate policy balance that leads to greater economic prosperity through digital trade but also ensures a trusted and open Internet environment that fosters social inclusion and societal benefits.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development reflects a growing understanding that ICTs, the spread of global inter-connectedness, and an open Internet have great potential to enable economic development and new forms of cross-border commercial activities that will bridge the digital divide and expand societal inclusion.
The WSIS+10 Outcome Document echoes this theme, noting that ICTs have increased the efficiency and ingenuity of all sectors, and that cross-border flows of digital information and technologies have proved critical to realizing breakthroughs in business, agriculture and science.
Workshop speakers will examine how a constructive approach to digital trade and effective use of ICTs will serve as an engine for realizing many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and expanding societal inclusion.
Tag 1: Internet & ICTs for the Sustainable Development Goals
Tag 2: Digital Trade
Tag 3: Data Localization
Interventions:
Speakers have been selected to ensure both a diversity of stakeholder groups as well as different regional perspectives. Also important, the speakers will bring rich substantive backgrounds in international trade, ICTs as enablers of trade and economic growth, global technical standards, and privacy and security frameworks.
1. Rachael Bae, OECD (IGO-France), and Hosuk Lee-Makiyama, ECIPE (civil society-Belgium), will provide IGO and civil society perspectives on what research tells us about the economic and developmental benefits of digital trade
2. Hossam ElGamal, Government of Egypt (Africa group), Esther Peh, Mission of Singapore to the WTO (government-Asia Pacific ), Prof. Makoto Yokozawa, Kyoto University (civil society- Asia Pacific, Helani Galpaya, LIRNEasia (civil society-Sri Lanka), and Christopher Wilson, Amazon (private sector-USA) will offer points of view from Asia, Africa, and the USA about how digital trade rules may serve as important instruments for economic development and societal inclusion.
3. Karen McCabe, IEEE (technical community-USA), Helani Galpaya, LIRNEasia (civil society-Sri Lanka), Hossam ElGamal, Government of Egypt (Africa group), Rachel Bae, OECD (IGO-France), and Carolyn Nguyen, Microsoft, (private sector-USA) will provide both developed and emerging economy perspectives about how localization rules, often employed for privacy and security-related reasons -- and which range from mandates for certain technical standards to data storage and server requirements -- can have adverse and unintended consequences to economies and citizens alike creating very insecure conditions and discouraging investment, innovation, and growth.
4. Audrey Plonk, Intel (private sector-Europe), Prof. Christopher Yoo, University of Pennsylvania Law School (civil society-USA), and Prof. Makoto Yokozawa, Kyoto University (civil society-Asia Pacific) will offer diverse perspectives on policy approaches that address security and privacy concerns while optimizing the benefits of digital trade.
5. Chris Wilson, Amazon (private sector-USA), Karen McCabe, IEEE (technical community-USA), Carolyn Nguyen, Microsoft (private sector-USA), and Ellen Blackler (private sector-USA), will propose some new approaches to corporate social responsibility, which recognizes the importance of channeling the benefits of digital trade into new educational and employment opportunities to enable ever-larger shares of the work force to become active participants in the Internet economy.
6. All of the speakers will provide diverse stakeholder and regional perspectives on best practices in Internet Governance that will enable digital trade to serve as an engine for realize the SDGs and societal inclusion.
Diversity:
Each stakeholder group is represented in the roster of confirmed speakers -- private sector, government, civil society, technical community, and IGO. We also have sought to ensure diverse regional representation, drawing speakers from the African region, Asia Pacific region, Europe, South Asia, and the United States.
Co-Organizers not only come from three stakeholder groups -- private sector, technical community, and government -- but also reflect perspectives of the USA and a member of the African regional group. In addition, all three co-organizers are female, demonstrating gender balance.
Among the speakers, online moderator, and substantive rapporteur, there also is abundant evidence of gender balance and regional diversity. Two of the female speakers are from the Asia Pacific and South Asia; the online moderator is a promising young ICT professional from South Asia.
First-time IGF session speakers include: Rachel Bae, OECD (IGO, WEOG); and Esther Peh, Government of Singapore (government, Asia Pacific).
Onsite Moderator: Mr. Eric Loeb, AT&T
Online Moderator: Ms. Sharada Srinivasan, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Rapporteur: Ms. Judith Hellerstein, Hellerstein Associates
Online Participation:
The pre-IGF preparatory process will entail reaching out to and confirming the participation of remote discussants, particularly from emerging economies, who the Moderator will invite to offer comments or pose questions via the Remote Moderator following each agenda topic. In addition, the co-organizers will explore with Roundtable participants the potential for establishing remote participation hubs, particularly in emerging economies, delving into technical capabilities and needs that could be addressed by the bus
Proposer's Name: Ms. Khouloud Dawahi
Proposer's Organization: UN Major Group for Children and Youth
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Donovan Guttieres
Co-Proposer's Organization: UN Major Group for Children and Youth
Co-Organizers:
1. Mr. Donovan Guttieres, Civil Society, United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth (UN MGCY)
2. Ms. Khouloud Dawahi, Civil society,UN Major Group for Youth and Children
Session Format: Panel - 90 Min
Format description: The session will start by setting the scene and outlining the purpose and objectives of the session. Speakers will then offer flash presentations reflecting on the work undergone by their respective organizations while sharing best practices, lesson learned, recommendations, and emerging trends with the audience. These brief presentations will set the stage for an interactive, moderated discussion between the speakers of the panel and the audience, followed by questions and answers, and a conclusion.
Proposer:
Country: Tunisia
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: United Kingdom
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: khouloud Dawahi
Speaker: Donovan Guttieres
Speaker: Sharada Srinivasan
Speaker: Michael Joseph Oghia
Content of the Session:
This workshop will take the form of an interactive, intergenerational discussion to leverage the expertise and research experiences of the diverse organizations taking part in the session. The focus of the discussion will be at the intersection of ICTs, policy, youth, and sustainable development. It will highlight the ways in which ICTs can be used to share knowledge, promote citizen-based reporting on the SDGs, build capacity, and enable access to tools for implementing the SDGs. Enhancing digital literacy is especially important to leverage the potential benefits that come from ICTs. It will further highlight the importance of engaging youth in decision-making processes surrounding ICTs, allowing them to deliberate and share perspectives on the intersection of ICTs, policy, society, and governance. For example, youth are actively engaged in conducting impact assessments on the social, environmental, and economic dimensions of ICTs, including its design, development, deployment, scale, and appropriate and inclusive use. As pivotal catalysts in implementing the SDGs, engaging youth is crucial to mobilize long-lasting change.
During the workshop, the panelists will present examples of youth-led initiatives to enhance and democratize access to Internet and appropriate use of ICTs, as well as youth-led participatory technology assessments and foresight surrounding ICTs, and a range of other topics. Speakers come from diverse regions, backgrounds, and field of practice - which contribute to an engaging and fruitful dialogue. The panel will then discuss various topics at the intersection of ICTs, policy, and society, focusing on the role of youth using ICTs as a vehicle towards achieving the 2030 Agenda. The panel will give a chance for the presenters, along with other invited panelists, to discuss some of the questions highlighted below.
During the panel discussion with the audience both on site and remotely, the following questions will be addressed:
1. How can ICTs be used to enhance participation of youth towards the SDGs? (e.g. knowledge share, awareness raising, reporting)
2. How can ICTs be used as an enabler for youth to contribute to implementing the SDGs? (e.g. digital skills, ICT tools)
3. What avenues do youth have to formally engage in ICT-related discussions and decision making at the global, regional, and national level? What barriers do they face?
4. What are examples and best practices for democratizing access to ICT knowledge, building digital literacy, and ensuring appropriate use ICTs for sustainable livelihoods and community resilience?
5. How can youth in developing countries leverage the rapid rate of digitization, as well as different e-governance structures that give rise to unique patterns of innovation, in order to leapfrog into the digital economy?
6. How and in what ways do the generic properties of ‘digital creativity’ create different kinds of opportunity for decent jobs and movement across traditional work roles?
7. What is the importance of youth engaging in participatory technology assessments for ICTs? How can they meaningfully engage?
During the event, the UN Major Group for Children & Youth, as the formal General Assembly mandated space for meaningful youth participation in certain intergovernmental processes, will launch a youth-led, peer-review, publication comprised of crowdsourced policy briefs on the topics of digital technology, e-governance, and inclusivity for the 2030 Agenda. This will provide a space for inputs from youth from around the globe, reflecting the positions of youth on emerging issues, best practices, and lessons learned on this topic.
After the moderated panel discussion, the floor will be open for Q&A, from both participants present in the room and those online. The panel will close with recommendations on enhancing access to ICTs and ensuring an inclusive digital future for all.
Relevance of the Session:
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have made it possible for more people to connect to the internet than ever before, with the number increasing each day. A 2014 report by the ITU on annual global ICT use highlights that more than 3 billion people are connected to the internet worldwide. In 2015, the percentage of the population living in areas covered by mobile broadband networks stood at 69 per cent globally. In rural areas, the share was only 29 per cent (Report of the Secretary-General on Progress towards the SDGs). While half the world continues to reap the benefits and make use of an increasingly digital and interconnected society, the other half is left behind. Addressing systemic gaps in reliable access to ICTs and bridging the digital divide is key to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Target 9.c outlines the importance of investing in the requisite physical and digital infrastructure to provide universal and affordable access to the Internet, especially in least developed countries, by 2020. Target 17.8 further emphasizes the potential use of ICTs as a cross-cutting means-of-implementation throughout the 2030 Agenda. Initiatives such as the Technology Facilitation Mechanism, technology banks for LDCs, and other capacity building systems need to adequately address such barriers and enable both appropriate technology use and inclusive policy environments to stay true to the 2030 Agenda’s commitment of “leaving no one behind.”
Youth, defined as individuals between the ages of 13 and 35 by the Youth Coalition on Internet Governance (YCIG), are identified as the catalyst of change in the interconnected world. Comprising close to 50% of the global population, they are key partners in implementing the 2030 Agenda. They are perceived as early adopters of technology, especially ICTs, and able to adapt technology to suit their needs, Furthermore, they are drivers of technology development and innovation. Youth and ICTs are thus two of the main building blocks needed to achieve the 2030 Agenda, as well as the requisite resilience for a sustainable post-2030 digital future.
Tag 1: Internet & ICTs for the Sustainable Development Goals
Tag 2: Youth Engagement
Tag 3: Leaving No One Behind in the Digital Future
Interventions:
1. Ms. Katherine Townsend -World Bank /USAID- Global perspective
2. Khouloud Dawahi ,Civil Society ,United Nations Major Group for Children & Youth (UN MGCY) - Global perspective
3. Mr. Mark W. Datysgeld - Governance Primer Coalition - perspective from LAC
4. Ms. Sharada Srinivasan, Civil society CTIC Research Fellow, 1 World Connected, University of Pennsylvania of Law - Global perspective
5. Mr. Michael Oghia, Civil society, Youth Coalition on Internet Governance interim steering committee member - Eastern European perspective.
6. Ms. Chenai Chair, Technical society, Chair, Researcher & Communications/Evaluations Advisor, Research ICT Africa-African Perspective
7. Ms. Meicen Sun, Civil Society, PhD Student, Political Science Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Asian Perspective
Diversity:
The proposed speakers, are well informed about the key issues relating to youth engagement and Internet & ICTs for Sustainable Development since they are young experts working on youth-led initiatives in the field of sustainable development .They also represent different regional perspectives (American and Latin American, European, African, and Asian), different organizations working on ICTs for development and youth engagement (UN MGCY, Governance Primer Coalition, Centre for Youth Empowerment and Leadership, Research ICT Africa, Youth Coalition on Internet Governance, and more), and different stakeholders (Civil society ,Academia, and intergovernmental). Not to mention that the speakers represent both developing and developed countries.
Onsite Moderator: Khouloud Dawahi - UN Major Group for Children and Youth
Online Moderator: Arsène Tungali - The Youth Coalition on Internet Go
Proposer's Name: Ms. Ingrid Brudvig
Proposer's Organization: World Wide Web Foundation
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Nandini Chami
Co-Proposer's Organization: IT for Change
Co-Organizers:
Ms, Ingrid, BRUDVIG, Civil Society, World Wide Web Foundation - Women’s Rights Online Network
Ms, Nandini ,CHAMI, Civil Society, IT for Change
Session Format: Break-out Group Discussions - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: South Africa
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: India
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Nanjira Sambuli
Speaker: Nandini Chami
Speaker: Amalia Toledo
Speaker: Lisa Garcia
Speaker: Amel Fahmy
Content of the Session:
The pandemic of technology-mediated violence has emerged as a near-insurmountable barrier for women and girls across the world seeking to use the Internet to expand their life-choices. Governments, Internet companies, and women’s rights activists are united in the recognition that something needs to be done, and that too urgently, if the gender digital divides in access are to be bridged and women’s meaningful use of connectivity assured. But zeroing down on what exactly needs to be done to guarantee a gender-inclusive and safe online public sphere is extremely difficult – as any step in this direction forces us to examine limits to Internet speech and participation that can allow societies to thrive without penalising their women and girls. Online gender based violence combines misogyny, homophobia, racism and other prejudices, making the promise of freedoms online elusive for a large majority of users.
Sexism and its unholy variants are ever-present in multiple Internet based social interactions. Understanding these forms of violations is vital to know how best to balance the competing considerations of freedom of expression online and women’s right to freedom from violence, whether it be a legal measure against online VAW, a private complaint resolution mechanism managed by an Internet intermediary, or civil society-initiated campaigns and awareness programs.
Through an open house discussion using the Break-out Group Discussions format, this workshop seeks to bring together civil society organisations, representatives from social network and social media platforms, and government officials, to reflect upon good practices in this domain that they are familiar with, to address the following questions:
- In framing an effective response to technology-mediated violence against women, what should be the roles and responsibilities of governments, Internet intermediary platforms and civil society organisations, so that freedoms are maximised and un-freedoms eliminated?
- What should be the framework and remit of the law and the mechanisms for effective law enforcement?
- How should intermediary responsibility get operationalised?
- What can civil society organisations do to create online cultures that are gender-inclusive and safe?
Relevance of the Session:
An inclusive digital future is one that respects, protects and promotes women’s human rights. As Dubraka Simonovic, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women has observed, building an Internet free from gender-based violence has become an essential precondition for ensuring women’s full participation in all spheres of life. In realising this objective, it is becoming clear that concerted actions from governments, Internet intermediary platforms, and civil society organisations -- in their respective roles and responsibilities -- is indispensable. Too often, conversations in this area tend to become one-sided -- privileging either a regulatory response or one that is steeped in an ethic of self-governance. This workshop seeks to tide over this impasse, by re-opening the discussion on the balance between considerations of free speech and freedom from violence that we seek to achieve on the Internet, in a way that enables all stakeholders to express their viewpoints. The future of Internet governance also depends on the extent to which we are successful in creating spaces for meaningful multistakeholder dialogue and debate -- and the workshop process intends to demonstrate one way of ensuring this.
Tag 1: Gender Issues
Tag 2: Freedom of Expression Online
Tag 3: Inclusive Digital Futures
Interventions:
Since we are organising the workshop as a Break-out Group Discussion, the speakers will make trigger presentations of 3-4 minutes each, which will help in catalysing small group discussions on the following three questions:
- What should be the framework and remit of the law and robust mechanisms for law enforcement?
- How should intermediary responsibility get operationalised?
- What can civil society organisations do to create online cultures that are gender-inclusive and safe?
Amalia Toledo, Amel Fahmy and Lisa Garcia, will draw upon their expertise of working on freedom from violence issues in Colombia, Egypt and Philippines, respectively, to highlight key issues/concerns around building online cultures that are gender-inclusive and safe. Nanjira Sambuli will reflect upon key issues/concerns in terms of operationalising intermediary liability and Nandini Chami will discuss emerging insights with respect to defining the framework and remit of the law on online gender-based violence and fixing gaps in law enforcement, drawing upon IT for Change’s research in this area.
Diversity:
This workshop reflects women’s leadership in the ICT policy space, as all speakers are women. Speakers are representative of at least 5 developing countries and diverse regions, including Kenya, India, Colombia, Philippines, South Africa and Egypt. Several speakers have attended IGF previously, but at least three are first-time session speakers at the IGF.
Onsite Moderator: Ingrid Brudvig - Women’s Rights Research and Advocacy Coordinator, World Wide Web Foundation
Online Moderator: Ingrid Brudvig - Women’s Rights Research and Advocacy Coordinator, World Wide Web Foundation
Rapporteur: We will select a rapporteur from each of the three break out groups. The session moderator, Ingrid Brudvig, will then collate an
Online Participation:
We will facilitate remote participation via the moderator in the room to manage online participation via WebEx (or similar tool). This will be open to the public (participants will have to pre-register) and will allow participants to ask questions and make comments using live audio/video during the session. Remote participants will be able to listen to the introductory trigger presentations and add their comments/questions to relevant Break Out groups. During the Break Out sessions the remote moderator will rotate to each of the groups and communicate the main discussion points with the remote participants for their reactions. We will also encourage remote participation via social media with appropriate hashtags including #womensrightsonline. This facility will be promoted throughout the Web Foundation’s global and local networks in the months leading up to the IGF in December.
Discussion facilitation:
The workshop will open with an introduction by the moderator, Ingrid Brudvig followed by trigger presentations from the speakers, as detailed above. Attendees will then self-organise into three groups, each of which will examine one out of the three key questions of the workshop:
- What should be the framework and remit of the law and robust mechanisms for law enforcement?
- How should intermediary responsibility get operationalised?
- What can civil society organisations do to create online cultures that are gender-inclusive and safe?
After 30 minutes of working on the overarching question, one representative from each group will report back to the plenary -- emerging best practices and continuing challenges that need attention -- in relation to the area they focused upon.
Remote participants will be able to react to the introductory trigger presentations. The remote moderator will also sit in each of the break away groups for 10 minutes each to capture the main discussion points and share this with remote participants.
Following the Break Out sessions the moderator will then respond to the group presentations and summarise the key insights they provide, to the larger question of what should be the roles and responsibilities of governments, Internet intermediary platforms and civil society organisations, specifically, in the context of responding to online GBV in a manner that maximises freedoms, and eliminates un-freedoms. Reactions from remote participants will also be shared.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: https://www.intgovforum.org/cms/documents/igf-meeting/igf-2014-istanbul/open-forums-1/285-report-web-foundation-open-forum-igf-2014/file
Proposer's Name: Mr. James Tager
Proposer's Organization: PEN America
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Katy Glenn Bass
Co-Proposer's Organization: PEN America
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Speaker: Yehven Fedchenko
Speaker: Ashif Rabi
Speaker: James Tager
Speaker: Dunja Mijatovic
Speaker: Andreas Vlachos
Speaker: Rasha Abdulla
Speaker: Paolo Cesarini
Workshop Overview
The rise of “fake news”—which is primarily spread on the internet through the sharing of online articles and chain e-letters, and posts on social media platforms—has given rise to widespread concern about its negative societal impact, including influencing elections, undermining public faith in institutions, and eroding support for democratic principles. In response, governments and technology companies around the world are working quickly to curb its spread. However, some of the approaches being advanced have the potential to restrict free speech online, limit legitimate civic debate, and damage press freedom. As this ongoing debate continues, how do we ensure that efforts to combat fake news do not unduly burden free expression online?
AGENDA
1. Introduction and Moderating Remarks, James Tager (5-10 Minutes)
2. Opening Panelist Remarks (8 minutes each, for a total of 40 minutes)
Each panelist will be instructed to prepare their comments with the intent of addressing one or more of the questions posed (above) in addition to sharing their own professional engagement or relevant national context on the issue of fake news.
- Muhammad Ashif Entaz Rabi
Ashif Rabi is a Bangladeshi blogger, social activist, and former TV show host on the front lines for the fight for free expression. He is currently a National Endowment for Democracy Fellow exploring ways to form responsible civic digital spaces.
- Yehven Fedchenko
Yehven Fedchenko is the Director of the Mohyla School of Journalism in Kyiv, Ukraine, and the co-founder of StopFake.org, a fact-checking project aimed at refuting fake news and misinformation in and about Ukraine.
- Dunja Mijatovic
Dunja Mijatovic, an expert on media law and regulation, is the former OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, having served from 2010-2016.
- Andreas Vlachos
Andreas Vlachos is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield and Chief Research Scientist for Factmata, a British company using artificial intelligence to create and strengthen fact-checking tools.
- Rasha Abdulla
Rasha Abdulla is an Associate Professor at the University of Cairo and an expert in social media and new media, particularly in the Arab world.
- Paolo Cesarini
Paolo Cesarini is head of unit at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition and will be speaking about upcoming EC efforts to address the issue of fake news.
3. Moderated Inter-Panelist Conversation (15-20 minutes)
Panelists will respond briefly to each other’s opening comments, prompted by questions from the Moderator where necessary.
4. Audience Questions (approx. 30 minutes, until end of Workshop)
The audience—both online and in-person—will be invited to join in discussion with the panelists, raising their own questions and (briefly) sharing their own experiences and perspectives where relevant.
Content of the Session:
The rise of “fake news”—which is primarily spread on the internet through the sharing of online articles and chain e-letters, and posts on social media platforms—has given rise to widespread concern about its negative societal impact, including influencing elections, undermining public faith in institutions, and eroding support for democratic principles. In response, governments and technology companies around the world are working quickly to curb its spread. However, some of the approaches being advanced have the potential to restrict free speech online, limit legitimate civic debate, and damage press freedom.
Proposed responses to fake news ranges wildly: from fining Internet platforms that don’t remove fake news, to government-initiated ‘take down notices’ against fake news purveyors, even to criminal punishment of “rumourmongers” and Internet shutdowns during elections. As this ongoing debate continues, it is vital to amplify voices from civil society, to help ensure that efforts to combat fake news do not unduly burden free expression online.
Tag 1: Freedom of Expression Online
Tag 2: Human Rights Online
Tag 3: Human Rights
Questions Posed:
• What role, if any, should the government play in combatting fake news? What are the different regulatory approaches to fake news being considered, and which ones are most or least consistent with free expression principles?
• What are the specific pros and cons of specific regulatory approaches being proposed? E.g. proposals to fine social media providers who do not remove fake news in a timely manner; government-funded fact-checkers; government-initiated take-down notices against fake news purveyors; ‘media freezes’ or Internet shutdowns before major civic occasions
• What responsibilities do technology and social media companies bear for addressing fake news?
• What risks to free speech are entailed by efforts to curb the flow of misinformation? What are the tension points between free expression and the fight against ‘fake news’?
• What role can/should civil society play in combatting fake news online, and/or ensuring that government responses to ‘fake news’ do not infringe on our rights?
Proposer's Name: Ms. Gunela Astbrink
Proposer's Organization: Women With Disabilities Australia
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Shadi Abou-Zahra
Co-Proposer's Organization: W3c
Co-Organizers:
Ms.,Gunela,ASTBRINK,Civil Society,Women With Disabilities Australia
Mr.,Shadi,ABOU-ZAHRA,Technical Community,W3c
Session Format: Birds of a Feather - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: Australia
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: France
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Speaker: Vint Cerf
Speaker: Maarten Botterman
Speaker: Shadi Abou-Zahra
Speaker: Satish Babu
Speaker: Timmers Paul
Speaker: Gerry Ellis
Speaker: Judith Ann Okite
Content of the Session:
This session will discuss how people with disability can benefit from various applications related to the Internet of Things as well as discussing how to reduce potential barriers.
People with disability use ambient assistive technologies that are especially designed to support independent living. This may include control of lighting, doors, heating, entertainment and security systems integrated through accessible interfaces. These assistive technologies have been expensive. The Internet of Things will mean mainstreaming of such systems. However, interoperability with existing systems and accessible user interface design need to be taken into account so new barriers are not created.
This session brings together experts from the private sector, civil society and international organisations to discuss how policy, standards and innovative design can help to ensure that the Internet of Things is inclusive of many parts of the community.
Sample discussion questions:
Give examples of how the Internet of Things will benefit people with disability
Where will the future take the Internet of Things?
Explain some of the possible barriers
How can we ensure that new barriers are not erected for people with disability?
What role does policy development play?
What role do standards play?
(Other questions and discussion points are likely to arise during the session)
The session agenda:
• Introduction of topic (5 mins)
• Short statements (5 mins each) by subject matter experts (35 mins)
• Set questions by moderator to stimulate discussion among subject matter experts and workshop participants including remote participants (40 mins)
• Summary of key points raised (5 mins)
Relevance of the Session:
The Internet of Things is a ‘hot’ topic especially from the privacy and security aspect. This is a key area of concern for Internet governance as reflected in many fora including the Dynamic Coalition of the Internet of Things. The Internet of Things is shaping our digital future in all areas of our lives. This session will add accessibility for people with disability in terms of the benefits and challenges of the Internet of Things in future. The outcomes of this session will provide direct input into the Dynamic Coalition on the Internet of Things as well as the Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability.
Tag 1: Internet of Things
Tag 2: Enhancing Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities
Tag 3: Access and Diversity
Interventions:
Vint Cerf will offer valuable insights into the future direction of the Internet of Things; disability representatives will offer their lived experience of the value that the Internet of Things may provide; policy perspectives will be provided by Maarten Botterman of the Dynamic Coalition on the Internet of Things and Paul Timmers; international accessibility standards will be discussed by Shadi Abou-Zahra and a technical perspective from Asia will be provided by Satish Babu.
Diversity:
Four people in the session have a disability, one of whom is from Kenya, Africa. Both the onsite and online moderators are women as well as two speakers who are yet to be confirmed. While there is a larger number of participants from the Western European region, there is one participant from Asia and one from Africa. Stakeholder groups are well-represented with participants from the private sector, civil society and technical community and have a broad range of policy perspectives.
Onsite Moderator: Gunela Astbrink
Online Moderator: Shreedeep Rayamajhi
Rapporteur: Ivan Ng
Online Participation:
The online moderator is skilled and as a previous MAG member and from the African region, recognises the importance of remote participation. People with disability often do not have the resources to travel to IGF and therefore online participation is essential in this session. The online moderator will plan with the onsite moderator to ensure the remote participation in the session room works well beforehand. The online moderator will be seated next to or in clear sight of the onsite moderator (depending on the room) to intervene when there are online comments. The onsite moderator will ask the online moderator at regular intervals during the session if there are any online interventions.
Discussion facilitation:
The moderator will stimulate discussion and debate through the Birds of a Feather format. All speakers are subject matter experts but will speak from their own policy perspectives during the guided discussion. The moderator will ensure that audience members and online participants are encouraged to be part of the discussion throughout the session by asking directly for interventions.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/wks2014/index.php/proposal/view_public/99
Additional Reference Document Link: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/107831
Andrea Saks
Agenda:
• Introduction of topic (5 mins)
• Short statements (5 mins each) by subject matter experts (35 mins)
• Set questions by moderator to stimulate discussion among subject matter experts and workshop participants including remote participants (40 mins)
• Summary of key points raised (5 mins)
Launched by ITU and UN Women in 2014, the fourth annual EQUALS in Tech Awards (formerly GEM-Tech Awards) celebrate initiatives that are closing the gender digital divide. This award will celebrate projects and initiatives whose policies and actions are fully committed towards ensuring that women and girls have an affordable access to technology and the Internet, are empowered with skills on how to use technology, from basic digital literacy through the entire spectrum of STEM education; and allow an equal representation of women professionally which would hopefully encourage their advancement and development within these fields.
The EQUALS in Tech Awards is the flagship event of the EQUALS partnership, a multi-stakeholder initiative created to promote awareness; build political commitment, leverage knowledge, efforts, and resources to achieve digital gender equality at both the global and national levels.
Join us on December 19 to celebrate three winners that are championing gender digital inclusion. The event will be followed by a cocktail.
The Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity (DC3) is a multistakeholder group aimed at fostering a cooperative analysis of community networks’ potential to promote sustainable Internet connectivity, empowering individuals and fostering the full enjoyment of fundamental rights such as freedom of expression and self-determination.
Session panellist will debate the results of their research, which have been included in the book “Community Networks: the Internet by the People for the People,” which is the Official 2017 Outcome of the DC3. This volume explores benefits, challenges and opportunities for community networks, analysing a series of case studies, and puts forward proposals regarding concrete policies to promote community networking. As a conclusion, this work includes the updated version of the Declaration on Community Connectivity, which was elaborated through a multistakeholder participatory process, featuring an online open consultation, between July and November 2016; a public debate and a feedback-collection process, during the IGF 2016; and a further online consultation, between December 2016 and March 2017.
Free hard copies of the book will be distributed at the DC3 session, which will be opened by the keynote remarks of:
An interactive discussion will follow, stimulated by the short and provocative remarks of the DC3 book authors:
Brief presentation of the proposal for a Community Networks map by Luis Martinez, ISOC Mexico
Big-data, business and respect for human rightsTuesday 19/12 Room XXI E from 5:20 to 6.40 PM
OPEN FORUM n. 49
Organizational Affiliation:
joint open forum by WBU/EBU, Council of Europe and Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA)
SCOPE OF THE SESSION
Is it possible for business entities to use Big Data in a fair way that respect human rights and privacy rules ?
This open forum will bring together companies, governments and other stakeholders to discuss the importance of fostering sustainable and responsible business on/via the Internet, with regard to the management of (big-)data. It will explore the opportunities for governments, companies and the civil society to constructively collaborate together, in order to address common issues facing the management of (big-)data.
Various models of self-regulation in the use of Big Data will be discussed in the Media, in non ICT and in the Internet sector.
Swiss policy in relation with the Business and human rights framework at the national level (Swiss government) will be presented.
While Council of Europe will present model of enforcement and of self-regulation agreements at the international level.
BACKGROUND
The European Broadcasting Union (member of the WBU) has made the challenge of big-data a priority. A ‘big-data’ week has been organised in Geneva with speakers from
all over the world (including UN privacy rapporteur Prof. Joe Cannataci) to discuss why big-data are so sensitive as media and how could do they relate to human rights.
The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) is following the topic of big-data because of its implications for the realisation and promotion of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
The Council of Europe is also working on big data related issues from a standard setting angle, having already addressed the data protection implications of big data and examining the broader impact of algorithms on human rights.
In a press release issued on 4 April 2016, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights underlined that the effects of business practices on human rights have become a central issue for human rights protection. He also referred to a survey carried out by The Economist which highlighted that many businesses have started to view themselves as important actors in respecting human rights. While it is the task of governments to secure for everyone within their jurisdiction the rights and freedoms enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights, there is now wide recognition that businesses are key actors in the respect for human rights. This is confirmed by the Committee of Ministers in a Declaration in 2014 and a Recommendation in 2016.
The protection of personal data and the right to privacy online are at odds with the very nature of the Internet which is to facilitate the free flow of (big-)data in an open environment. There is a growing technological ability to collect, process and extract new and predictive knowledge from great volume, velocity, and variety of data. The main issue is the analysis of the data using software to extract new and predictive knowledge for decision-making purposes regarding individuals and groups.
MAIN TOPICS OF DISCUSSION:
- Respect for human rights - what are the challenges for Internet business vis-à-vis respecting human rights in the management of personal data they process? To what extent have the tech sector/Internet businesses committed to respecting the UN Guiding Principles on business and human rights (i.e. ‘Ruggie Principles’). How companies can avoid infringing on the human rights of others and how should they address adverse human rights impacts with which they are involved?
- Fostering business online - looking ahead, how can governments, business and other stakeholders work together to respect human rights in the management of personal data? Where are common issues and opportunities of collaboration? What does sustainable and responsible Internet business practice look like? Reference to good practices.
- Conclusions :
The final round of interventions, will close the discussion with proposal of solutions on how to establish a correct relation between digital service suppliers and their users on the way to use their data.
Tag 1: Big Data
Tag 2: Human Rights Online
Tag 3: Digital Geneva Convention
Organizers: Giacomo Mazzone for EBU, Rémy Friedmann for FDFA, Peter Kimpian and Lee Hibbard for CoE:
Moderator:
Lee Hibbard - Council of Europe
SPEAKERS:
EBU – Giacomo Mazzone Head of Institutional Relations
FDFA– Rémy Friedmann, Senior Advisor, Desk Human Security and Business, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA)
- Human Security Division, Deputy Head, Human Rights Policy Section
CoE - Corina Călugăru, Coordinator on Information Policy (TC-INF), Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Republic of Moldova to the Council of Europe
CoE – Alessandra Pierucci, Chair of Data Protection Committee of Council of Europe
eXascale/scigility – Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Full Professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, leading the eXascale Infolab.
Institute for Human Rights and Business - John Morrison, Executive Director of IHRB
Microsoft – Bernard Shen, Assistant General Counsel Corporate, External & Legal Affairs – Business & Human Rights
Name of Online Moderator: Peter Kimpian
Background Papers & Links to relevant documents and to recently organized events
FROM THE PRESS : THE GUARDIAN:
EBU-UER:
- www.ebu.ch/member-services/big-data
; ebu_big_data_initiative_newsletter.pdf ;
- https://www.ebu.ch/contents/events/2016/12/big-data-initiative-workshop-algorithms-and-society.html
- http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=fb1289bbe8d8438ceb20398df&id=2d49d094ac
Council of Europe:
- Guidelines on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data in a world of big data see https://rm.coe.int/16806ebe7a
- (Ms. Pierucci)
- Letter of intent exchanged with Internet Service providers and Social media organizations: https://www.coe.int/en/web/freedom-expression/exchange-of-letters
- (Ms. Calugaru)
eXascale/scigility
https://exascale.info/assets/pdf/ubicomp16_yang.pdf
Institute for Human Rights and Business
The Wilton Park conference of June 2016 : https://www.wiltonpark.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/WP1478-Programme.pdf
https://www.wiltonpark.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/WP1478-Report.pdf
IHRB report, November 2016 :
https://www.ihrb.org/uploads/reports/IHRB%2C_Data_Brokers_and_Human_Rights%2C_Nov_2016.pdf
The concept note of the session that took place at the UN annual forum on business and human rights in November last year:
http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Business/ForumSession5/Nov16/LeadershipLeverage.pdf
GNI principles
http://globalnetworkinitiative.org/principles/index.php & http://globalnetworkinitiative.org/staff
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Microsoft https://shop.icrc.org/handbook-on-data-protection-in-humanitarian-action.html see Chapter on the cloud
...Proposer's Name: Ms. Sheetal Kumar
Proposer's Organization: Global Partners Digital
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Richard Wingfield
Co-Proposer's Organization: Global Partners Digital
Co-Organizers:
Ms.,Sheetal,KUMAR,Civil Society,Global Partners Digital
Mr.,Richard,WINGFIELD,Civil Society, Global Partners Digital
Session Format: Other - 60 Min
Format description: This session will combine a panel (total of 15 minutes) and a break-out format (remaining 45 minutes).
Proposer:
Country: United Kingdom
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: United Kingdom
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Alice Munyua
Speaker: Dominique Lazanski
Speaker: 'Gbenga Sesan
Speaker: Constance Bommelaer
Content of the Session:
Why: This workshop will build on the outcomes of an IGF session debate in 2016 entitled "On cybersecurity: Who has got our back?". During that session proposal, one of the key outcomes and requests of participants was that there is a need for more guidance on how encryption policy can be human rights respecting. This session will provide participants with the ability to critically assess existing encryption-related policies against human rights standards.
How: Four experts (see below) will provide their perspectives on the interplay between encryption and human rights for 3-5 minutes each. All participants will then break out into groups. They will be asked to analyse a piece of legislation or policy and provide recommendations on how to improve it. This discussion will last 10-15 minutes. Then each group will be asked to present their analysis and take questions from the other participants. By the end the participants will be able to critically evaluate encryption policies against human rights standards.
Relevance of the Session:
This session will explore the issue of encryption and the relationship between encryption-related policy and human rights. It relates to the main theme "shape your digital future" as it implies the need to take responsibility for the way digital technologies evolve and impact society. Encryption policy has broad implications for the development and use of the internet including security, trust and its sustainable growth. This session will support that theme by providing participants with concrete tools to be able to use in policymaking in order to uphold human rights online. The organisers aim to feed the outcomes of the best practices identified in this workshop into the IGF's intersessional work streams, including the potential set-up of an IGF best practice forum (BPF) on encryption.
Tag 1: Human Rights Online
Tag 2: Internet Economy
Tag 3: Cybersecurity Norms
Interventions:
'Gbenga Sesan is a prominent Nigerian digital rights activist who will be able to speak to the role that encryption plays in protecting human rights, including privacy and freedom of expression. He has played a key role in the evolution of an 'Internet Rights and Freedoms' bill in Nigeria.
Alice Munya has long-standing experience in internet governance and is well-acquainted with a variety of perspectives on a broad range of IG issues, including those which are technical in nature. In this workshop, she will present the perspectives and challenges faced by governments (in particular law enforcement) when it comes to encryption. Alice's experience stems from her position on the board of the Communications Commission of Kenya, the board of directors of the Kenya Network Information Centre (KeNIC) and as vice chair of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC).
Constance Bommaeler is Senior Director of Global Internet Policy at The Internet Society and will present the views of technologists and the challenges they face with regards to encryption policy. ISOC occupies a unique role as a global organisation and network that promotes principles that are intended to persuade governments to make decisions that are right for their citizens. It is a leading organisation on policy and technology standards.
Finally, Dominique Lazanski works at the GSMA focusing on Internet governance and security and will be able to provide the views of the private sector, and in particular the mobile industry and the challenges it faces in protecting security and privacy as interconnected/networked devices and the internet of things are further integrated into daily life.
Diversity:
Each participant will present different perspectives: business, government/law enforcement, technologist and civil society and represent diversity in terms of stakeholder group (all four stakeholder groups are represented), gender (three of the speakers are women), and region (two of the speakers come from the global South, in particular the African continent).
Onsite Moderator: sheetal@gp-digital.org
Online Moderator: daniela@gp-digital.org
Rapporteur: richard@gp-digital.org
Online Participation:
A remote moderator will be in permanent contact with remote participants and update them on the progress of the session. Remote participants will be encouraged to feed into the discussion, and their comments and remarks will be fed back to the room to incorporate them in the discussion.
There will be a specific segment of the session dedicated to receiving questions from remote participants, to make sure they have opportunities to intervene and engage.
Discussion facilitation:
This format is designed to facilitate maximum participation and information sharing among participants, as well as the exchange of expertise on a highly topical and complex, evolving internet governance issue. The panel session which will be facilitated by the onsite moderator and will set out the differing perspectives on encryption policy and its human rights implications.
Following the panel discussion, a brief round of questions will be taken before participants break out into smaller groups, a format which facilitates discussion (see description for more information on the break-out aspect of the session). Each group will then nominate a rapporteur to report back to the wider group. The panel experts will also rotates around the groups to offer support and guidance while the break-out session takes place.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/filedepot_download/4098/268
Additional Speakers:
No other speakers have been added but all the original ones have been confirmed:
Agenda:
Why: This workshop will build on the outcomes of an IGF session debate in 2016 entitled "On cybersecurity: Who has got our back?". During that session proposal, one of the key outcomes and requests of participants was that there is a need for more guidance on how encryption policy can be human rights respecting. This session will provide participants with the ability to critically assess existing encryption-related policies against human rights standards and is equally divided between a moderated panel discussion with experts and an interactive, hands-on session for participants.
20 minutes: A moderated discussion with experts
Four experts (see below) will provide their perspectives on the interplay between encryption and human rights for 3-5 minutes each.
15 minutes: Interactive analysis in break-out groups
All participants will then break out into groups. They will be asked to analyse a piece of legislation or policy and provide recommendations on how to improve it.
20 minutes: Sharing insights in plenary
Each group will be asked to present their analysis and take questions from the other participants.
5 minutes: Wrap up and next steps
A short wrap-up will summarise findings and explain what next steps, including any concrete outputs/materials that will follow the session that summarise findings, which be distributed.
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Proposer's Name: Ms. Jazmin Acuna
Proposer's Organization: TEDIC
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Maricarmen Sequera
Co-Proposer's Organization: TEDIC
Co-Organizers:
Same as the Proposal Contact person.
Session Format: Flash Session - 30 Min
Proposer:
Country: Paraguay
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: Paraguay
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Jazmin Acuna
Speaker: Maricarmen Sequera
Speaker: Luis Pablo Alonzo
Content of the Session:
In this session, we would like to present a strategic lawsuit that TEDIC is carrying forward in order to defy a court decision that censor a publication about gender-violence on the Internet. We want to describe how we have worked to raise awareness about the issues that affect women online, such as cyber harassment, phising, “sextorsion“, and others. Specifically, how we are making use of litigation tools to bring attention to the need to discuss the gendered nature of violence on the Web and ways to address it. The presentation will focus on a recent case whereby a famous YouTuber in Paraguay filed a lawsuit against a journalist and TEDIC for publishing screen-shots of a group chat where several men discuss how to rape the journalist in order to correct her sexual orientation. Policymaking debates that have emerged around the case are centered on questions of privacy, public interest, freedom of expression and digital inclusion, among others.
Relevance of the Session:
The session proposal is relevant to policymaking debates that are taking place around the world, particularly those related to ICTs and development, issues of privacy and freedom of expression and how to regulate gender-based violence on the Internet. Organizations such as Article19, Access Now and Latam digital rights partners such as Fundación Karisma, R3D and Derechos Digitales have shown their support for TEDIC and the journalist and have expressed their concern about the precedents that could leave this case.
Tag 1: Gender Issues
Tag 2: Freedom of Expression Online
Tag 3: Internet Governance
Interventions:
Since the format of the flash session focuses on the work of an organization, the speakers - members of TEDIC - will present the case throughout the time of the session. The presentation will be accompanied by a slideshow. If possible, we would like to open up some time for Q&A.
Diversity:
The session will be led by two women from TEDIC - Maricarmen Sequera and Jazmin Acuna - who will discuss the issue of gendered violence on the Web with a perspective from the global South. This means focusing on challenges of working with weak and often corrupt judiciaries, entrenched sexist values in society and government institutions and media outlets that perpetuate rape culture.
Onsite Moderator: Jazmín Acuna
Online Moderator: Luis Pablo Alonzo
Rapporteur: Luis Pablo Alonzo
Online Participation:
Due to the format of this session, online participation will be limited to sharing twits from the speakers‘ presentation.
Discussion facilitation:
Due to the format of the presentation, discussion beyond the speakers‘ presentations will be limited to a small session of Q&A, only if there is enough time for it.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: No
Link to Report:
None
Agenda:-Brief presentation about TEDIC and the speakers
-Short Q&A with participants to introduce a case of gender violence in Paraguay: Participants will receive a paper with a general description of the case in which a journalist, who is a lesbian woman, had access to a group chat where a number of men discuss how to correct her sexual orientation by raping her. The goal of this exercise is to discuss the options available (or not) to the journalist in that particular instance.
-Presentation of the case where a judge censored TEDIC and the journalist for making public the chat conversation and calling it an issue of gender violence: a reflection on the limits of privacy, freedom of expression and public interest.
-Strategies applied to address the case: litigation, media campaign, grassroots organizing
-Short Q&A
IGF is based on a multistakeholder model. It allows all stakeholders to equally work together: Governments, Civil Society, Private Sector and Technical Community! The Newcomers&Youth Track will explain what is the role of all these stakeholders.
During this informal gathering, that we call the Knowledge Cafe, learn what is the role of Civil Society within the IGF and ways for your engagement?
Come and spend time with representatives of many organizations involved in the IGF!
Proposer's Name: Mr. Pace Frank
Proposer's Organization: University of Groningen
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Jeanne Mifsud-Bonnici
Co-Proposer's Organization: University of Groningen
Co-Organizers:
Prof. Jeanne Mifsud Bonnici, Civil Society, University of Groningen
Ms. Aukje Snijders, Civil Society, University of Groningen
Session Format: Panel - 60 Min
Proposer:
Country: Netherlands
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: Netherlands
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Pace Frank
Speaker: Patrick Curry
Speaker: Kenneth Pennington
Speaker: Jan Ellerman
Speaker: Maria Angela Biasiotti
Content of the Session:
In an era of pervasive commercial encryption and the critical state of law enforcement inability access to data at rest, cloud information has become more vital for successful prosecution in criminal investigations. Companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft, are experiencing increasing requests from law enforcement globally for access to user information and content. How these requests are received, interpreted, approved or denied, vary depending on laws from the originating nation and the specific format and nature of the request. The aim of this session will be to discuss immediate challenges and to propose potential solutions to the hurdles faced during investigations requiring access to such data.
The panel will discuss and engage the audience on the topics of:
• Cloud storage and the increasing requirement for access to remotely stored evidence;
• Understanding and working with encryption;
• Investigative challenges working with internet service providers and tech sector companies;
• Jurisdictional and legal implications of transmitting and using evidence acquired from other countries
The panel will be comprised of experts with broad experience in cross-border criminal investigations, prosecution, data protection, Information Technology law and industry/government collaboration. All the panelists are either currently serving, or have many years of experience in positions with national and international law enforcement organizations, academic research and cyber related industry. Additionally, the session will take discussion points and follow the lead of the MAPPING project (www.mappingtheinternet.eu) which aims to address many of the listed topics.
Relevance of the Session:
Recent changes and new legislation in the United States and across Europe are affecting the means by which governments acquire and courts interpret the legality of access to remotely stored data. As the conversation on encryption and lawful access continues, it is important to bring forward all perspectives and solutions that will help shape the future of this aspect of internet governance.
Tag 1: Cybercrime
Tag 2: Access to Information
Tag 3: Cloud Computing
Interventions:
After a brief introduction from the moderator, each of the speakers on the panel will be afforded 5 minutes to comment or present, on the topic most relevant to their expertise. The diversity of the panel will include law enforcement practitioners, prosecutors, data protection experts, academic researchers and NGOs specializing industry/government collaboration in cyberspace.
Diversity:
The panel will be comprised of experienced and first-time IGF participants, both male and female, from within and outside Europe. One of the goals of the session is to engage with all stakeholders involved in Internet Governance. This includes members of civil society, NGOs representing the interests of vulnerable populations, academia and government.
Onsite Moderator: Mr. Frank Pace
Online Moderator: Ms. Aukje Snijders
Rapporteur: Prof. Jeanne Mifsud Bonnici
Online Participation:
Our online moderator, Ms. Aukje Snijders, will be prepared to monitor the WebEx, social media and in cooperation with the session moderator, be prepared to equally include online participants. Ms. Snijders will be sufficiently trained in the use of the WebEx platform and together with the moderator, will have a plan in place to include sufficient opportunity for online participation and intervention as requested.
Discussion facilitation:
The panelists along with the orchestration of the moderator, will seek to engage the audience to spur an exchange of ideas and proposals on how best to shape the future of policy and legislation while taking into account technical realities. As such, the goal will be to allow more than 30 minutes to ensure a productive dialogue with those in attendance.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: No
Link to Report:
Additional Reference Document Link: https://mappingtheinternet.eu/
Mr. Markus Hartmann
Markus Hartmann is a Senior Prosecutor at the Prosecutor’s Office of Cologne and head of the Northrhine-Westphalian Central Cybercrime Department (Zentral- und Ansprechstelle Cybercrime, ZAC NRW). The ZAC NRW is in charge of high-profile cybercrime cases. The department acts as a central point of contact for LEAs, scientific and economic institutions and corporations with regard to cybercrime-related issues.
Mr. Christopher Kelly
Chris Kelly is the Director of the Digital Evidence Laboratory for the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office. In this role, Chris supervises a team of analysts conducting digital forensic examinations of computers, mobile devices, and other technical evidence in the course of criminal investigations. Prior to his appointment to this position, Chris served as Managing Attorney of the Cyber Crime Division for the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office. In that position, Chris not only prosecuted cyber offenses, but also worked with members of the Cyber Crime Division to design and implement priority projects and trainings as set forth in the Massachusetts Strategic Plan for Cyber Crime. Before joining the Attorney General's Office, Chris worked for the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office, where he built and ran the current Computer Forensic Laboratory. During his tenure in Suffolk, Chris prosecuted cyber crime cases and worked actively on digital aspects of all types of criminal investigations. Chris holds several digital forensic certifications including the GCFA, DFCP, CCE, CCME, EnCE, and CCLO/CCPA. He is a regular speaker on topics related to digital forensics and cyber crime investigations. Additionally, Chris serves as an instructor, and performs curriculum development, for the United States Secret Service's National Computer Forensic Institute in Hoover, Alabama. He is an adjunct professor of digital forensics at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston. Chris serves as a leader or active member of several professional associations including the High Technology Crime Investigation Association, International Association of Chiefs of Police Cyber Crime and Digital Evidence Committee, High Tech Crime Consortium, and American Academy of Forensic Science Digital and Multimedia Sciences Section. Chris is a member of the Accreditation Task Group for the National Institute of Standards in Technology's Digital Evidence subcommittee of the Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science. He also sits on the editorial board for the Journal Digital Investigation, and reviews articles for the Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law. Chris earned bachelor's degrees in psychology and political science from Boston University, and his law degree from Suffolk University Law School
Agenda:-The session will begin with a moderated panel discussion (30 min) which will build the foundation for proceeding engagement with the audience (25 min). The experts will outline current challenges in:
(a) Investigations requiring access to remotely stored data (b) Meeting requirements for successful prosecution of such cases (c) Working with existing and proposed legislation and (d) The impacts of recent court rulings
-The following discussion will aim to solicit constructive dialogue regarding the challenges expressed by the panelists and a closer examination of the recent court rulings presented
- The moderator will have 5 minutes to summarize and close the session.
...Launched by ITU and UN Women in 2014, the EQUALS in Tech Awards (formerly known as the GEM-TECH Awards) celebrate initiatives that are closing the gender digital divide. The annual EQUALS in Tech Awards are a contribution from ITU and UN Women to EQUALS, the Global Partnership for Digital Gender Equality. The panel session will be held to give the winners of the EQUALS in Tech Award the opportunity to share their experiences and commitment towards bridging the gender digital divide as a way of promoting the social and economic inclusion of girls and women.
Following from the EQUALS in Tech Awards Ceremony to be held on December 19, this session will give the winners the opportunity to highlight lessons learned and best practices looking forward, as well as challenges in running their projects.
Tag 1: Gender IssuesProposer's Name: Mr. Gus Rossi
Proposer's Organization: Public Knowledge
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Deborah Brown
Co-Proposer's Organization: APC
Co-Organizers:
Mr.,Gus,Rossi,Civil Society,Public Knowledge
Ms.,Deborah,Brown,Civil Society,APC
Session Format: Round Table - 60 Min
Proposer:
Country: United States
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: South Africa
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Mehwish Ansari
Speaker: Robert Pepper
Speaker: Thomas Schneider
Speaker: Gus Rossi
Speaker: Benedicto Fonseca
Speaker: Deborah Brown
Content of the Session:
What´s going on at the ITU? There are many important internet governance discussions coming up at the ITU, affecting the Internet of Things, the regulation of OTTs, and cybersecurity. Planning for the ITU’s major fora, like the 2018 Plenipotentiary Conference and the World Telecommunication/ICT Policy Forum are already underway. Yet, given the multilateral character of the organization, it is relatively hard for the broader internet governance community to follow those debates.
This session brings together the views of different stakeholders with participation or following the ITU (government officials, civil society, international bureaucrats, business leaders) and contextualize internet policy developments at the ITU them in the broader IG debate.
Relevance of the Session:
The IGF’s mandate includes facilitating discourse between bodies dealing with different cross-cutting international public policies regarding the internet and interfacing with appropriate intergovernmental organizations and other institutions on matters under their purview (Tunis Agenda para 72 b and c). As such, this session proposes to facilitate a dialogue amongst different stakeholders to exchange views on internet policy developments at ITU, and to enables the different stakeholders to understand the contextualize them within the broader of internet governance debate.
The objective of the session is not to debate the ITU’s role in internet governance, but to improve transparency around ongoing work and to discuss the ITU’s work on internet policy in an open, multi-stakeholder environments at the IGF.
Tag 1: Internet Governance
Tag 2: Internet of Things
Tag 3: Cybersecurity
Interventions:
Each speaker brings the perspective of a different stakeholder involved or affected by ITU decisions.
Mehwish, Deborah, and Gus contribute with the vision of civil society.
Thomas Schneider, Swiss Diplomat
Benedicto Fonseca, Brazilian Diplomat
Robert Pepper, Facebook
Diversity:
Two of the confirmed panelists are women: Deborah, and Mehwish.
Two have been born in the Global South: Gus (Argentina), Benedicto
One is an immigrant: Gus (Argentina) living in US.
Three work in civil society: Gus, Deborah, Mehwish
One works in private sector: Robert (Facebook)
Two work for Governments: Benedicto Fonseca (Brasil), Thomas Schneider (Switzerland)
Onsite Moderator: Deborah Brown
Online Moderator: Melanie Penagos
Rapporteur: Gus Rossi
Online Participation:
The onsite and online moderators will be in permanent contact during the session. The input (questions, comments) of online participants will be prioritized onsite and incorporated constantly in the normal flow of the conversation.
Discussion facilitation:
The first 30min of the roundtable will be for the speakers to introduce the issues being treated at ITU. The rest of the time will be for debate and q&a with onsite and online participants. The goal of the session is to inform the participants of the different policy developments at ITU, and encourage dialogue among different stakeholders to deal with these issues.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/4118/336
Agenda:
The workshop will be run as a roundtable discussion. Participants will be required to consider jointly a number of generic issues proposed to them by the moderators. This approach will make for a dynamic exchange, conducive to creative collective thinking on the issues at stake. Audience participation with on-site discussants will also be actively encouraged, both in-room and remotely.
(10 min) Scene setting: what is the mandate and scope of ITU for Internet Governance issues?
(20 min) What are the ongoing efforts at ITU on Internet Governance?
(10 min) Why should the different IG stakeholders care?
(20 min) What are the most pressing issues? Plenipot 2018? OTT re-regulation?
(30 min) Q&As and discussion
Proposer's Name: Ms. Vanessa Berning
Proposer's Organization: Young NL IGF
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Marjolijn Bonthuis-Krijger
Co-Proposer's Organization: NL IGF
Co-Organizers:
Mrs., Vanessa, BERNING, Civiel Society, Young NL IGF
Mrs., Marjolijn, BONTHUIS-KRIJGER, Civiel Society, NL IGF
Session Format: Debate - 60 Min
Proposer:
Country: Netherlands
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: Netherlands
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Florian Daniel
Speaker: Su Sonia Hering
Speaker: Krishna Kumar
Speaker: Michael Joseph Oghia
Speaker: Elolo Emmanuel Agbenonwossi
Speaker: Yolanda Mlonzi
Speaker: Mariana de Vasconcellos
Speaker: David Krystof
Speaker: Arda Gerkens
Speaker: Wilma Westenberg
Speaker: Jacob Boersma
Content of the Session:
Fake news is not a recent issue and has been around for years, but the scope is scope is rising rapidly since the rise of social media. Algorithms determine what news we can see on social media, for example on Facebook. This creates the so called ‘filter bubble’, which means we only see news related to our interests and blocks out other news and opinions. Such a bubble prevents us from seeing the whole picture and makes us susceptible to manipulation. We consume news through various channels and cannot see the difference between fact and fiction. Our view of the world is therefore strongly influenced. Will this result in a world where we no longer believe in news shared on social media? Do we have to accept this or do we have to look for solutions to fight against fake news? In concrete terms, there is a fundamental trust problem.
There is a growing need for fact-checkers, currently we are mainly looking at journalists. But should we not address the readers themselves here? What measures should be taken to combat fake news from professional journalist, news sites and user generated news in an efficient manner?
In Germany, the Minister of Justice, Heiko Maas, wants to hand out fines to social networking sites that do not remove threatening online postings quickly. In addition, Heiko Maas wants to appoint one person within the relevant company responsible for all complaints. Is this the solution against user generated news? Can we even design a system in which we are collectively responsible for filtering truths? Or can Blockchain be part of the solution?
Blockchain is a system in which confidential data is distributed across the chain. No longer are authorities responsible for monitoring the truth: the whole network is responsible. In this IGF panel session we will discuss possible solutions and whether such new developments as Blockchain can help to fight against fake news. In the Netherlands, DUIC, design research bureau's CAPADA, DIG and MILVUM have already established a pilot around Utrechts news, where they using blockchain to exchange confidential information and to assess information. DUIC wants to see how a system of trust can be established with the use of blockchain. Their insights and knowledge are also taken to the IGF and serve as input for the discussion.
Tag 1: Fakenews
Tag 2: Blockchain
Tag 3: Youth
Interventions:
The organizers invite sprekers actively and prepare them for the questions to come. The moderator invites those present to share their meaning and have them respond to each other. This leads up to formulations of possible solutions and recommendations by the room.
Diversity:
The divisiveness of the session has been fully considered. The current list of organizers and speakers is significantly mixed based on gender, age, background and country of origin. The debate is organized by and for young (expert) people. With this we try to involve more young people in socially relevant subjects and give them the opportunity to let hear their voice and talk about topics that determine their future. Furthermore, the discussed issue concerns an urgent social issue, that enhances a multi-stakeholder cooperation. During the session, we create a 'mini-ecosystem panel' to crystallize idea's from multiple points of view into possible solutions against fake news. Participants from the following backgrounds are confirmed: academia, business, government staff, experts, technician and youth.
Onsite Moderator: Walid Al-Saqaf
Online Moderator: Sophie Veraart
Reporter: Marjolijn Bonthhuis
Youth participation
The voice of young people will play a particular role. A Young NL IGF debate will be organized in collaboration with youngsters, students and researchers from the University of Amsterdam as preparation of the IGF. Complementary to this, a social media campaign will help to give further visibility to the panel session both prior, during and after the event, opening the discussion to a wider online audience.
Online Participation:
Remote participation will be ensured through prior involvement of various stakeholders from across the world. We will make sure the faciltiy and assistance is available for those who would like to attend online. Our online moderators will take the responsibility of frequently communication with online participants and get the feedback from them simultaneoulsy. Questions and comments from online attendees will be included in the workshop session on an equal basis with those from in-room participants. A microphone will be provided for the online participants, and the remote moderator will coordinate the overall queue with the in-room moderator.
Discussion facilitation:
The session will be an open discussion. First, the moderator Walid Al-Saqaf will give a brief introduction and outline the issues. Next, the moderator actively invites the speakers to briefly outline their views on how to address these issues. Our panel consists is a mix of a mini ecosystems: youth, government, experts, business, lawyer, technicus, academia. This will give a broad look at the social issue that we face globally. After this round, there will be a discussion with the visitors, online audience and speakers. During the debate we focus on 3 main topics:
The moderator coordinates the process and ensures that people are actively involved in asking open questions. These will be prepared in advance. There is also the possibility for external and online audiences to ask questions. Depending on the room, either microphones will be available for participants to queue, or one or two persons will circulate with roving mics. The moderator actively asks panelists to respond to questions from the (online) audience.
Program
- Opening by moderator (5 min)
- Statement panel members (2 min each = 12 min)
- Open discussion:
1. How can we create a system in which the whole network is responsible for monitoring the truth? (12 min)
2. Which possible solutions are there for reducing fake news? (12 min)
3. How can Blockchain be part of the solution of fake news? (12 min)
- Wrap up by the moderator (10 min)
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: https://www.nligf.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Report-workshop-153-Let27s-break-down-silos.pdf
Additional Speakers:
As we had too many speakers, we skipped a few names on the list. This is the new list of speakers:
Moderator: Walid Al-Saqaf
Youth: Su Sonia Hering
Government/Politics: Arda Gerkens
Expert: Emmanuel Elolo
Business: MIchael J. Oghia
Lawyer: Mariana de Vasconcellos
Technicus: Florian Daniel
Academia: Michel van Eetem
Agenda:
Program
- Opening and introduction by moderator (5 min)
- Statement panel members (2 min each = 12 min)
- Open discussion:
1. How can we create a system in which the whole network is responsible for monitoring the truth? (12 min)
2. Which possible solutions are the
Proposer's Name: Ms. Karen McCabe
Proposer's Organization: IEEE
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Justin Caso
Co-Proposer's Organization: IEEE
Co-Organizers:
1 World Connected Mr., Christopher, Yoo, Technical Community, 1 World Connected, and University of Pennsylvania
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: United States
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Co-Proposer:
Country: United States
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Speaker: Christopher Yoo
Speaker: Jane Coffin
Speaker: Sonia Jorge
Speaker: Roger Baig
Speaker: Samar Baba
Content of the Session:
From a collective of initiatives and programs dedicated to an internet for all, we see definitive opportunities to accelerate progress in connecting the estimated 60 percent of the global population who remains unconnected around the world. We also see that closing the gap of the digital access divide is multi-faceted and requires working across various domains, as well as locally, so that the digital future of communities and citizens is meaningful, impactful and sustainable.
Online access is a main channel to connect to services, learning, entrepreneurship and opportunity that leads to social and economic growth and development. But in working to make the internet for all vibrant, affordable and valuable, there is a mix of inter-related aspects and needs that must be holistically and locally addressed. These include helping communities remove barriers, improving communications infrastructure and services, determining what technologies to deploy, new innovative business models, building skills and capacity, education, effective policy making, trust and privacy protection and empowering people.
At this interactive roundtable, speakers will share and discuss regional perspectives and current, real-world case studies on meaningful and sustainable internet inclusion solutions that are shaping the digital future of communities. The speakers will openly dialogue on what worked and what did not, lessons learned, the importance of networks of communities, and what needed to initiate, launch, build and sustain projects that ultimately transition to and are integrated into a local community’s daily life.
Relevance of the Session:
Bringing the unconnected online, specifically in developing and underserved regions of the work, requires not only a collection of issues and needs that must be addressed on a regional and local level, it also requires empowerment of community citizens to enable skill development and capacity building, development of content that is relevant to their communities and culture and understanding local business and social needs. These elements are vital to help sustain meaningful access for social and economic growth, but also for the members of the communities to shape their digital futures.
Tag 1: community empowerment
Tag 2: community networks
Tag 3: internet inclusion
Interventions:
In an interactive roundtable, the speakers will provide their perspectives and insights rooted in real-world connectivity projects and initiatives in which they are engaged. Initially led from a moderated question and answer segment, the roundtable will be open to all attendees of the session to join the discussion, to enrich an deepen the content of the session.
Diversity:
The proposed roundtable includes a young woman and student from Tunisia. It includes a gentleman from Spain who has help built and sustains a robust community network and is pursuing a PhD on community networks. It includes a woman with deep knowledge of the internet governance and who advocates for policies for affordable internet access and provides ICT policy and regulatory advice on a global scale. It includes a professor who is spearheading significant work on internet inclusion projects around the world, and a women from an organization dedicated to an internet for all, who works collaboratively across local communities and organizations for expanding internet infrastructure, access and related capacities in emerging economies.
Onsite Moderator: Karen McCabe
Online Moderator: Justin Caso
Rapporteur: Christopher Jannuzzi
Online Participation:
In this type of session, the online moderator will act as the voice of the online participants by actively intervening on their behalf to allow them to make their own statements or ask their questions over audio/video or by intervening on their behalf. The session moderator will work closely with the online moderator to ensure that the online participants have full, active and meaningful participation during the entire duration of the session.
Discussion facilitation:
In this interactive roundtable, a moderator will facilitate the discussion amongst the speakers where they will initially briefly provide their perspectives and insights that are based on real-world connectivity projects and initiatives in which they are engaged. The session will open with a moderated question and answer segment that will ask thought provoking open-ended questions to get at and discuss the issues surrounding the topics. The focus of this session is to be an open dialogue amongst the speakers and the audience. The roundtable discussants will directly engage the in situ and online attendees as they address the questions and as the dialogue progresses--as the participant engagement and inclusion in the dialogue is of upmost importance.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/4098/224
Additional Reference Document Link: http://internetinitiative.ieee.org/images/files/resources/white_papers/universal_access_feb2017.pdf
In this interactive roundtable, a moderator will facilitate the discussion amongst the speakers where they will initially briefly provide their perspectives and insights that are based on real-world connectivity projects and initiatives in which they are engaged. The session will open with a moderated question and answer segment that will ask thought provoking open-ended questions to get at and discuss the issues surrounding the topics. The focus of this session is to be an open dialogue amongst the speakers and the audience. The roundtable discussants will directly engage the in situ and online attendees as they address the questions and as the dialogue progresses--as the participant engagement and inclusion in the dialogue is of upmost importance.
Proposer's Name: Mr. Juan Carlos Hernández Wocker
Proposer's Organization: Federal Telecommunications Institute
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Víctor Manuel Martínez Vanegas
Co-Proposer's Organization: Federal Telecommunications Institute
Co-Organizers:
Miss. Jimena SIERRA, Technical Community, Federal Telecommunications Institute,Mexico
Miss. Diana GOMEZ, Technical Community, Federal Telecommunications Institute,Mexico
Session Format: Break-out Group Discussions - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: Mexico
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Co-Proposer:
Country: Mexico
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Speaker: Javier Juarez
Speaker: Diaz Cesar
Speaker: Leon Sanchez
Speaker: Fred Baker
III. Proposer
Mrs, Jimena Sierra, Technical Community, Federal Telecommunications Institute (México)
Mrs, Diana Gomez, Technical Community, Federal Telecommunications Institute (México)
Co-organizers
Mr., Kevon, SWIFT, Technical Community, LACNIC
Ms., Carolina, CAEIRO, Technical Community, LACNIC
VII. Content of the Session
The session will focus on how public policies that promote IPv6 deployment contribute to the full development of IoT, particularly in the context of developing economies. Specifically, the session will seek to:
- Introduce major pillars of IoT development including taxonomy, communication requirements under discussion in various spaces and prominent IoT projects;
- Discuss the importance of IPv6 deployment to promote the development of IoT;
- Showcase successful case studies in IPv6 deployment, and IoT applications, with special focus on developing economies;
- Debate about the future of IPv4 addresses once IPv6 deployment is widely underway.
Session Dynamics
The session will begin with opening remarks by Moderator Mr. León Felipe Sanchez who will introduce the topic of the workshop, dynamics and speakers (10 mins).
Workshop participants will break into four discussion groups, each of which will be co-chaired by one or two speakers. Discussion topics will include:
- Main pillars of IoT development
- Importance of IPv6 deployment for the proper development of IoT
- Successul experiences for IPv6 Deployment
- The future of IPv4 addresses
Prior to breaking into discussion groups –and to facilitate the participation of remote participants-- the workshop will commence with firestarter remarks by each speaker based on the four discussion topics (30 mins total). Ines Robles from Ericson, Fred Baker from ISOC and Carolina Aguerre from UdeSA/UBA will address main pillars of IoT development introducing respectively the perspective of the Mobile Industry, the technical community and considerations from an Internet Governance perspective. Laura Kaplan from LACNIC and Paul Wilson APNIC will discuss the importance of IPv6 Deployment; Paul Wilson will also tackle the future of IPv4 addresses, while Laura Kaplan will address some successful experiences of IPv6 Deployment in the LAC region.
Following the debate, one panelist/ facilitator from each discussion group will be asked to present main conclusions to the audience.
VIII. Relevance of the Session
This session explores identification and addressing needs for the IoT with special attention paid to the linkages between IoT development and IPv6. For this reason, the session will also explore the successful experiences for the deployment of IPv6, especially in the developing countries.
This topic is extremely important considering that Gartner, Inc. predicts that there will be up to 20.8 billion connected things by 2020, as millions of new things are being connected every day. While estimates vary among sources, exponentially within the Internet of Things (IoT) is certain.
For this reason, it is important to comprehend IoT development and, in particular, its network models and communications protocols. It must also be acknowledged that IoT debate is not new. The preeminence of identification and addressing within IoT comes at a time where there is a confluence of several trends including the rise of, inter alia, IP use (and the effects of IPv4 exhaustion in particular), ubiquitous connectivity, miniaturization, data analytics and cloud computing.
Furthermore, there are pragmatic considerations within IoT development that are largely focused on the technopolitical paradigm (e.g. security and privacy concerns; proprietary addressing schemes; current deployment/ubiquity of IPv6 across industries; cost implications in designing the architecture of devices and sensors; etc.). In the wake of IPv4 exhaustion, and given the existing range of IoT interventions, enhanced bottom-up dialogue among interest groups will be beneficial to all spaces that are concerned by the identification and addressing of ‘things’.
Taking into account the aforementioned, the transition from IPV4 to IPV6 require more discussion and collaboration between stakeholders about the principles, methods and means to face such issues. However, developing and less developed countries and more even regions as Latin America and the Caribbean are experiencing a mixed situation regarding the adoption of the last Internet protocol, IPv6, despite greater efforts by LACNIC and its community to accelerate its expansion and use in the continent. On the one hand there are countries that have advanced and already have up to 9% of their traffic with this technology, and on the other, there are territories that have not even deployed IPv6.
There is a serious risk that less developed countries will not be able to communicate with each other because of the lack of adoption of this Internet protocol, which offers great advantages over IPv4. For that reason, it is important to promote the coordination with all the stakeholders such as technical community, academy, private sector, civil Society, but specifically governments have to take a relatively firm stand on this in order to internally encourage the adoption of IPv6 in their countries. ISPs, users, Internet users and universities can also help in the dissemination of the protocol.
In this regard, the workshop will look for sharing the experiences of successful stories of IPv6 deployment and the international reference to promote this deployment, especially by the governments.
Finally, it is important to highlighted the Internet’s sustainable growth depends on IPv6 adoption. The booming mobile market and the Internet of Things (IoT), alone, will require much more IP address space than is available with IPv4.
Anyone running the old protocol needs to adopt the new one in order to support the increasing demand on the global network as more people – and more machines and “things” – come online. IPv4 and IPv6 are two different protocols. IPv6 is not backwards compatible with IPv4. Devices that communicate using only IPv6 cannot communicate with devices that communicate using only IPv4.
The two protocols are not directly compatible and the idea is that both can operate until all systems have IPv6 capability, at which time the IPv4 version will be unnecessary. However, the IPv4 system could still be used privately, especially in networks that are not connected to the public Internet. Meanwhile, the connectivity of the IPv6 universe raises an important problem. In this point, it is convenient to point out that the countries that have made a successful deployment or transition may consider that their IPv4 addresses be distributed in developing or less developed countries or start discussing what will happen with the IPV4 addresses once the IPv6 is completely deployed.
Tags: Internet of Things, IPv6 deployment
Additional Speakers: Speakers
1. Javier Juarez (IFT Mexico)
2. Cristina Monti (European Union)
3. María Ines Robles (ERICSON)
4. Paul Wilson (APNIC)
5. Laura Kaplan (LACNIC)
6. Carolina Aguerre (UdeSA/UBA)
Agenda
10 mins. Opening Remarks by Moderator Mr. León Felipe Sanchez. Introduction to session topic, format and speakers.
30 mins. Fire starter remarks by workshop speakers on four discussion topics. 1. Main pillars of IoT development: Ines Robles (Ericson), Javier Juarez (IFT) and Carolina Aguerre (UdeSA/UBA); 2. IPv6 Deployment for IoT: Laura Kaplan (LACNIC) and Paul Wilson (APNIC); 3. Successful experiences for IPv6 Deployment: Laura Kaplan (LACNIC), Cristina Monti (European Union); and 4. The future of IPv4 addresses: Paul Wilson (APNIC).
30 mins. Break-out group discussion. Remote participants to submit questions and or comments to discussion groups. Facilitators from organizing entities will tweet highlights of the discussion so that remote participants may follow it live.
20 mins. Presentations of concluding remarks by each discussion group.
...Proposer's Name: Mr. Carlos Alberto Afonso
Proposer's Organization: Instituto Nupef
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Hartmut Glaser
Co-Proposer's Organization: CGI.br
Co-Organizers:
Mr., Carlos, AFONSO,Civil Society, Instituto Nupef
Mr. Hartmut, GLASER, Technical Community, CGI.br
Ms. Jamila, VENTURINI,Technical Community, NIC.br
Mr. Diego, CANABARRO, Technical Community, NIC.br
Session Format: Other - 90 Min
Format description: The session is designed to host a dialectic debate segment followed by a traditional round-table segment structured around a Q&A format.
Proposer:
Country: Brazil
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: Brazil
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Participants:
Moderators
Cristine Hoepers (Technical Communinty, CERT.br, Brazil)
Carlos A. Afonso (Civil Society, Instituto Nupef, Brazil)
Roundtable
Christoph Steck (Private Sector, Telefonica, Spain)
Demi Getschko (Technical Community, NIC.br, Brazil)
Diego Aranha (Technical Community, Unicamp, Brazil) [Remote participation]
Estelle Masse (Civil Society, Access Now, Belgium)
Monica Guise Rosina (Private Sector, Facebook, Brazil)
Neide Oliveira (Government Sector, Federal Prosecution Service, Brazil)
Riana Pfefferkorn (Technical Community, Stanford CIS, EUA)
Seth Bouvier (Government Sector, U.S. State Department)
Sunil Abraham (Civil Society, CIS India)
Policy presentations
Elinor Buxton (Government of the United Kingdom)
Nina Leemhuis Janssen (Government of The Netherlands)
Content of the Session:
The workshop is built around a policy question that approaches some historical controversies inherent to the widespread use and availability of encryption in the Internet, with a special focus on the tension between the increasing use of cryptography after Snowden and the supposed challenges it poses to public and national security in a digital era. The session promotes a space for multistakeholder debate on: the state of the art in the development and employment of cryptography; different attitudes towards the freedom to use encryption in different jurisdictions; modes of state-led interference in/with encrypted systems; and the limits posed by national and international law to such interference, as well as the impacts it might have to the protection and promotion fundamental human rights and shared values, to permission-less innovation on the Internet and the open architecture of the network. The session will host two segments: one will consist of two presentations made by government officials from the UK and the Netherlands that will detail different policy approaches for dealing with the use of encryption. The second comprises a multistakeholder round-table that gathers comments and questions about the previous presentations. In the end, moderators will summarize discussions and an overarching and documented report of the session will be made available for the session. The unorthodox format chosen for this session allows public scrutiny over some very practical policy-oriented approaches. The bulk of discussions registered during the workshop can provide dialogued feedback into policy development processes elsewhere.
Relevance of the Session:
The development and use of encryption to protect information and communication dates back to ancient times. Encryption has been mainly employed over the centuries to protect personal data, business information, governmental classified information, etc. Attempts to break encryption in general as well as the notion of inserting vulnerabilities (such as backdoors) in systems that rely on encryption have been a parallel phenomenon to (and also an integral part of) the longstanding efforts of cryptography. One might even say that those two processes function as the two different sides of the same coin.
The advent and the great pace of development of computing and networking technologies boosted the science behind cryptography to unprecedented levels of relevance for society in general. More recently, after the Snowden affairs, cryptography has been perceived as a necessary condition (not a sufficient one though) for Internet users to curb the abuses entailed by massive digital surveillance and espionage by an ever growing number of countries. In parallel, together with other measures, the deployment of encryption to commercial applications seems to have become a, somehow, sine qua non condition for some Internet companies to regain consumer trust and retain competitive advantages in relation to other players in the market.
The widespread use and availability of encryption tools however refueled tensions and entailed policy responses in a myriad of countries (e.g.: the Apple vs FBI case in the context of the San Bernadino Shooting; the announcement made by some European countries of their willingness to outlaw some uses of encryption as well as the public commitment of the Netherlands government to support encryption and oppose the development of backdoors; and the successive orders by Brazilian courts that aimed at blocking Whatsapp in the country due to the company’s denial to delivery communication records from some of its users). Those tensions generally revolve around the fact that as general-purpose technology, encryption can be also employed to conceal irregular and/or illicit activities, which would justify the creation of some narrow but allegedly needed exceptions to the constitutional limits built over the last century in several countries to impose limits to criminal investigation in order to uphold privacy and personal data protection. The cases mentioned above gave rise to fierce discussions on whether or not the use of encryption increases by itself the likelihood of and facilitate the occurrence of crime and other illicit activities (most notably organized crime of all sorts and terrorism). Some law enforcement agencies and security forces have argued that encryption impairs crime investigation and the prosecution of criminals, and therefore the development of technology with embedded backdoors might be needed. Other actors, including representatives from the technical community, however, argue that such interference might disrupt regularly protected flows of information and communication as well as compromise privacy and the protection of other fundamental human rights. At this point, we are in a stage in which the trade-off between those two perspectives have to be settled through democratic means and public participation and that is why this workshop was submitted for the IGF 2017.
Besides dealing with several different topics that comprise the overarching agenda of Internet governance (human rights, cybersecurity, openness and permission-less innovation, economic development, infrastructure governance, etc), the topic of this workshop is directly connected to two different goals comprised in the UN SDGs: sound institutions and innovation. Discussions on the contours of sound political institutions and on challenges and incentives for innovation are integral components of any sort of political agenda that aims at reflecting upon the “digital future”, which is the case of the 2017 IGF and highlight the importance of adding this proposal to the overall agenda of the event.
Tag 1: Encryption
Tag 2: Law Enforcement
Tag 3: Human Rights
Interventions:
The format chosen to this session enables both interventions from selected experts representing the full range of the multistakholder Internet community as well as for the general audience in Geneva.
The list of participants (all confirmed) is:
Moderators
Cristine Hoepers (Technical Communinty, CERT.br, Brazil)
Carlos A. Afonso (Civil Society, Instituto Nupef, Brazil)
Roundtable
Christoph Steck (Private Sector, Telefonica, Spain)
Demi Getschko (Technical Community, NIC.br, Brazil)
Diego Aranha (Technical Community, Unicamp, Brazil) [Remote participation]
Estelle Masse (Civil Society, Access Now, Belgium)
Monica Guise Rosina (Private Sector, Facebook, Brazil)
Neide Oliveira (Government Sector, Federal Prosecution Service, Brazil)
Riana Pfefferkorn (Technical Community, Stanford CIS, EUA)
Seth Bouvier (Government Sector, U.S. State Department)
Sunil Abraham (Civil Society, CIS India)
Policy presentations
Elinor Buxton (Government of the United Kingdom)
Nina Leemhuis Janssen (Government of The Netherlands)
The onsite moderators will start the workshop by explaining the flow of the session. They will then grant the floor for the chosen speakers during the first segment of the session, in which two government representatives will present different policy approaches to the use of encryption. After that, onsite and online moderation will entertain a 30-minute Q&A segment, giving the floor in a random fashion to eight selected specialists (two representatives of governments and/or intergovernmental organizations; two representatives of the business community; two representatives of technical communities; and two representatives of civil society), who will be able to pose questions and comments to the speakers of the first segment. Moderators will gather blocks of three questions and comments at a time. Each block of questions will then be approached by the debaters. The final segment repeats the f
...‘Dynamic Coalitions: Contribute to the Digital Future!’
[90 minutes – Wednesday 20 December, 10.00-11.30 – Room XVII, UNOG]
Dynamic Coalitions (DCs) are some of the IGF’s longest-standing community groups that do continuous work around a chosen theme in Internet Governance, during and between the IGFs. They were first formed at the IGF in Athens in 2006 with the aim of organizing discussion groups around Internet governance themes, both of particular interest to members and with a wider public significance. Starting out with a small number, there are now 17 active DCs whose work has evolved to encompass a range of activities and outputs.
Building on their successful main session held in 2016, DCs have agreed to come together again at IGF 2017 to discuss the topics they cover – from Accessibility and Disability, Internet of Things and Blockchain Technologies, to Child Online Safety, Community Connectivity and Gender and Internet Governance, Publicness and Core Internet Values.
The main session will strive to be as inclusive as possible of DCs’ wide variety of themes and issues. Each of the participating coalitions will make brief interventions. These will be prompted by a moderator who, acting as an ‘agent provocateur’, will ask questions to challenge DCs and stimulate a defense or explanation of the major points in their work. A discussion with participants will follow. DCs will bring into this session substantive output papers, available online as background reading for IGF participants.
Agenda
I. Introduction on DCs and their Role within the IGF [~5 mins]
II. Q&A between Moderator and DC Speakers [~4 mins x 13 DCs, 55 mins total]
III. Interaction with Participants In-Room and Online [~30 mins]
Policy Questions
Policy questions will be wide-ranging and relate to the work of each of the DCs represented in the main session. The issues will be as diverse as the topics to which DCs have dedicated themselves, whether technical, rights-related or related to broader questions of “Internet values”.
Specific questions will be identified by each DC and drawn from the following output papers:
DCAD Substantive Paper for IGF 2017 DCs Main Session (DC on Accessibility and Disability)
IGF 2017 Substantive Paper (DC on Blockchain Technologies)
Community Networks: the Internet by the People for the People (DC on Community Connectivity)
DC Core Internet Values discussion paper 2017: Focus on Freedom from Harm (DC on Core Internet Values)
An Internet For #YesAllWomen?: Women's rights, gender and equality in digital spaces (DC on Gender and Internet Governance)
Input Document for the DCs Main Session at the Internet Governance Forum 2017 (DC on Innovative Approaches to Connecting the Unconnected)
Internet of Things Good Practice Policies (DC on Internet of Things)
Zero rating Map (DC on Network Neutrality)
Preview of the 2017 DCPR Outcome: Platform Regulations (DC on Platform Responsibility)
Dynamic Coalition on Public Access in Libraries: Summary (DC on Public Access in Libraries)
Open Digital Trade: Background Paper [Full Report] (DC on Trade)
The Charter of Human Rights and Principles for the Internet Educational Resource Guide (v2) (Internet Rights and Principles Coalition)
Chair(s) and/or Moderator(s)
Moderator: Tatiana Tropina, Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute
Panellists/Speakers
There will be one speaker from each of the participating DCs. The designated speakers have been agreed upon within each DC, as follows:
-Mr. Shadi Abou-Zahra, Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability (DCAD)
-Mr. Benedikt Schuppli, Dynamic Coalition on Blockchain Technologies (DC-Blockchain)
-Mr. John Carr, Dynamic Coalition on Child Online Safety (DC-COS)
-Dr. Luca Belli, Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity (DC3)
-Mr. Olivier Crépin-Leblond, Dynamic Coalition on Core Internet Values (DC-CIV)
-Ms. Bishakha Datta, Dynamic Coalition on Gender and Internet Governance (DC-GIG)
-Prof. Christopher Yoo, Dynamic Coalition on Innovative Approaches to Connecting the Unconnected (DC-Connecting the Unconnected)
-Mr. Maarten Botterman, Dynamic Coalition on Internet of Things (DC-IoT)
-Dr. Luca Belli, Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality (DCNN)
-Dr. Nicolo Zingales, Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility (DCPR)
-Ms. Esmeralda Moscatelli, Dynamic Coalition on Public Access in Libraries (DCPAL)
-Mr. Jeremy Malcolm, Dynamic Coalition on Trade (DC-Trade)
-Ms. Minda Moreira, Internet Rights and Principles Coalition (IRPC)
In-room participant engagement/interaction
The participants will be informed at the outset that questions and open discussion will take place after all DCs have intervened. Participants will be encouraged to put themselves in a ‘questions queue’ while interventions are in process, by indicating this to a designated person in the room. This person will be on standby to write them into the queue. After DCs have spoken, the moderator will call on the participants in the queue to ask their questions from the floor.
Online interaction
A designated remote moderator will queue questions from online participants during the interventions and feed them into the discussion segment.
Connections with other sessions
DCs have individual sessions in the programme that will help shape their interventions in this main session. The majority of DCs’ individual sessions are scheduled before the main session so as to facilitate this.
Desired results/outputs & Possible next steps
This session will be an opportunity for DCs to raise the profiles of new or under-the-radar issues, particularly ones that have been little discussed at the IGF, like blockchain technologies, or are seldom even discussed in the IG context, like increased accessibility for persons with disabilities. New DCs, such as the DC on Trade, will also have the chance to brief on their respective topics and work. After the session, participants should be inspired to take these issues back into their own communities for further discussion.
Feedback in this session will also be valuable in helping each DC determine the future course of its work. Participants may confirm, question or challenge any of the conclusions and assertions put forward by DCs, as well as introduce new ideas that could be formative for their discussions. At the same time, DCs will have the chance to illustrate why engagement in their work is important. Greater membership in DCs and their wider exposure to the IGF community is a secondary key objective of the session.
...WSIS Forum 2018: 1st Physical Meeting of the Open Consultation Process
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum represents the world's largest annual gathering of the ‘ICT for development’ community. The annual WSIS Forum is a global multi-stakeholder platform facilitating the implementation of the WSIS Action Lines for advancing sustainable development. The Forum is co-organized by ITU, UNESCO, UNDP and UNCTAD, in close collaboration with all WSIS Action Line co-/facilitators and other UN organizations (UNDESA, FAO, UNEP, WHO, UN Women, WIPO, WFP, ILO, WMO, ITC, UPU, UNODC, UNIDO, UNHCR, UNICEF and UN Regional Commissions). It provides an opportunity for information exchange, knowledge creation and sharing of best practices, while identifying emerging trends and fostering partnerships, taking into account the evolving Information and Knowledge Societies.
In follow up to the outcomes of the UN General Assembly Overall Review of the Implementation of WSIS Outcomes (Res. A/70/125) and with the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Res. A/70/1), the WSIS Forum is constantly evolving and strengthening the alignment between the WSIS Action Lines and the Sustainable Development Goals. The WSIS Forum will therefore serve as a key forum for discussing the role of ICTs as a means of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and targets, with due regard to the global mechanism for follow-up and review of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The WSIS Forum is the only event of its kind where the programme and agenda are completely crowdsourced and build during the open consultation process. The inputs received during this meeting will be integrated in the outcomes of the Open Consultation Process of WSIS Forum 2018.
This session will provide an opportunity for the participants to learn more about the WSIS Process, in particular, the implementation of WSIS Action Lines for the Achievement of SDGs, the WSIS Forum 2018 Open Consultation Process, WSIS Prizes 2018, WSIS Forum 2018: Photography Contest, Hackathon, VR for Development and other special tracks.
Agenda:
10:10-10:22: Welcoming Remarks by the co-organizers of the WSIS Forum:
10:22-10:30 Update on the Preparations for WSIS Forum 2018: Ms Gitanjali Sah, Coordinator, WSIS
10:30-11:10 - Q&A/Multistakeholder input, 2018 Open Consultation Process
Remote Participation link: https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2017-online-participation-registration
Proposer's Name: Ms. Sophie Tomlinson
Proposer's Organization: ICC BASIS
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Timea Suto
Co-Proposer's Organization: ICC BASIS
Co-Organizers:
Mr Virat Bhatia, Private Sector, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry
Ms Cristina Cárdenas, Government, Government of Mexico
Mr Lorenzo Pupillo, Civil Society, Centre for European Policy Studies
Ms Sophie Tomlinson, Private Sector, ICC BASIS
Session Format: Break-out Group Discussions - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: France
Stakeholder Group: Private Sector
Co-Proposer:
Country: France
Stakeholder Group: Private Sector
Speaker: Kenta Mochizuki
Speaker: Virat Bhatia
Speaker: Jianne Soriano
Speaker: Lorenzo Pupillo
Speaker: Samar Baba
Speaker: Udoh Moni
Speaker: Cristina Cardenas
Speaker: Jon Chippindall, Barefoot Computing Project
Speaker: Edward Choi, Netmission Ambassador
Content of the Session:
Internet Governance issue:
Information communication technology (ICT) is recognised as an important tool to facilitate many of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, yet there is also recognition that populations must be equipped with the necessary skills (literacy, technical, soft) to meaningfully use and reap the benefits of ICT. As ICT becomes an innate aspect of daily life for many, cyber awareness and online safety are also becoming increasingly important.
In developed countries greater use of digital technologies increases demand for new skills and fuels new and traditional occupations’ growing reliance on ICT skills. At the same time, the OECD’s Survey of Adult Skills suggests that more than 50% of the adult population in 28 OECD countries can only carry out the simplest set of computer tasks, such as writing an email and browsing the web, or have no ICT skills at all. In developing countries, digital technology is creating new learning opportunities for local communities by providing access to education and enhancing basic literacy skills. However, a report from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics has found that, despite the development of ICT in education policies, the integration of technology in classrooms across sub-Saharan Africa remains insufficient to meet the needs of the 21st century labour market. This workshop aims to address these paradoxes which are leading to an increasing global interest in encouraging digital literacy to help manage impacts of digital dislocation.
The purpose of this workshop is to take stock of the activities different stakeholders in developed and developing countries are pursuing to empower populations with the skills needed for success in the digital economy. By surveying the global trends which are impacting and amplifying the growing need for a broader digital literacy culture, participants will analyse where opportunities lie and gaps persist to help overcome challenges.
Session format:
Through break-out group discussion, by answering the question: How can we equip populations with the skills needed to shape and secure their digital future?, participants from business, civil society, technical community, government, youth groups and education will evaluate how initiatives by different stakeholders can support the development of skills and promote a culture of tech literacy and cyber awareness so citizens of both developed and developing countries can meaningfully participate in the digital economy, reap the sustainable benefits of ICT and shape their digital future.
Agenda:
• The workshop will open with an ice-breaker which will involve all participants (10 minutes). This will entail polling participants on short questions related to the barriers/stereotypes social groups face in equipping themselves with the skills to use and apply ICT. The game aims to create an inclusive engaging environment and raise some of the key issues for discussion.
• Following the interactive ice-breaker, participants will hear insights from a diverse range of experts from civil society, education, business, government, including youth speakers from developed and developing countries on their experience managing or participating in initiatives that promote digital literacy and or use of ICT in education (20 minutes).
• The third part of the workshop will involve break-out group discussion and participants will form several groups (amount dependent on participation numbers). Diverse experts will be assigned to each break-out group and an activity sheet will be prepared in advance with questions for the groups to discuss. The questions will be related to the overarching workshop question and how stakeholders can work together to equip populations with the skills needed to shape and secure their digital future (30 minutes).
• Following the break-out group discussion the groups will report back on discussion and the workshop will conclude with interaction between all participants to define key takeaways (30 minutes).
Relevance of the Session:
The workshop will explore the challenges and opportunities developing and developed countries face when seeking to empower their populations with the necessary skills to reap the benefits of ICT and excel in the digital economy. The workshop relates directly to the main theme of IGF 2017 as it will provide an opportunity for stakeholders to discuss how proactive efforts can equip populations with the skills required to shape and secure their digital future. The workshop will hear from youth speakers and present examples and lessons learnt from initiatives around the world that are driving education, supporting digital skilling and promoting online safety/security awareness to help young people and underrepresented groups succeed in a digitalized environment.
Tag 1: Digital Literacy
Tag 2: Digital Future
Tag 3: Digital Work
Interventions:
Kenta Mochizuki of Yahoo Japan will share private sector perspectives on steps business can take to encourage digital skilling. Mr Mochizuki has experience working with youth participants in Internet governance and other spheres to bring to the discussion.
Virat Bhatia, Chair of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry digital economy committee, will share updates on efforts in India to drive digital literacy and share his experience in the private sector of opportunities and challenges faced.
Edward Choi is a Youth representative from NetMission.Asia based in Hong Kong and will share unique perspectives on how young people are equipping themselves with skills for their digital futures.
Lorenzo Pupillo of the Centre for European Policy Studies with share perspectives on activities undertaken by civil society and the opportunities and challenges the Centre for European Policy Studies have noted when providing education initiatives on security and cyber awareness skills.
Samar Baba is the president of the Tunisian section of the Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT). The Tunisian programme seeks to leverage technology for sustainable development in underserved communities. Ms Baba will share her experience managing projects that support use of ICT in schools in Tunisia.
Moni Udoh of the Government of Nigeria will share her experience of the opportunities and challenges faced during the implementation of programmes in schools and use of ICT to facilitate education in Nigeria.
Cristina Cárdenas of the Government of Mexico will share Mexico’s experiences in encouraging the population to be computer literate and prepare citizens across age groups on the skills and knowledge needed to participate in the digital economy.
Jon Chippindall, Barefoot Computing Project, is one of the Barefoot Computing Teaching and Learning Resource Developers currently on secondment to the project. Prior to this he was a Year 5 teacher and the Computing Leader at Crumpsall Lane Primary School in North Manchester. Jon is a CAS Master Teacher working to support other teachers across the region in developing and delivering their computing curriculum and works with trainee teachers at The University of Manchester.
Diversity:
This workshop aims to gather a variety of perspectives to address the question: How can we equip populations with the skills needed to shape and secure their digital future? Each stakeholder group will be represented and speakers will represent different geographies (including developing countries), cultures and policy perspectives.
Organizers will also make an effort to secure participants from youth and the education sector who may not be involved in Internet governance activities but to whom this topic relates. This will ensure introduction of new perspectives which have not been heard previously at IGF.
For example, ICC BASIS is working to identify a speaker from the BT Barefoot programme which is a programme set up by British Telecom (BT) and the British government to provide training for primary school teachers on computer classes for children. The barefoot teacher will provide unique and important insights into the experience of an education practitioner working in computer science and directly with children to build their digital skills. ICC BASIS is also in the process of identifying a speaker from a user company to
Session Format: Debate - 90 Min
Instigators:
Madeline Carr
Pablo Hinojosa
Duncan Hollis
Experts:
Academia: Leonie Tanczer and Louise Marie Huriel
CERT/CSIRT community: Adli Wahid and Marten Van Horenbeeck
Discussants:
Government: Tobias Feakin, Gavin Willis, Karsten Geier
International Relations/Diplomacy: Elina Noor, Vladimir Radunovic, Marilia Maciel, Camino Kavanagh
Private Sector: Jan Neutze
Content of the Session:
During IGF 2016, at “WS132 - NetGov, please meet Cybernorms”, we opened the debate. An increased commitment from state actors to coordinate on cybersecurity at the regional and international level (e.g. UNGGE, OSCE, Budapest Convention), has reached a point where future development of international norms that aim to regulate State behavior with regards to cyber operations need necessarily other stakeholders to give input or advice. At this workshop, we discussed the extent to which the technical community can support implementation of the GGE agreed norms and whether the IGF can serve as a platform to facilitate these engagements. Given the ongoing difficulties of negotiating global agreements on cybersecurity between state actors, we propose to continue this debate at the IGF 2017, this time focusing on the question of whether the increased regional and international cooperation that happens between CERTs and CSIRTs – both national and private – can support and advance current diplomatic endeavours to establish international norms of responsible state behavior in cyberspace.
Relevance of the Session:
There are many norms that are well established in the technical community. A good example of these technical norms are the practices by which CERT/CSIRT communities exchange technical expertise and share information on risk management and incident response. By establishing trusted networks for exchanging technical expertise, the CERT/CSIRT communities are indirectly engaging in what is referred to as 'science diplomacy'. This proposal aims to continue the debate, started during WS132 of IGF 2016, to understand how ongoing cooperative behaviors around the development of technical norms in the CERT/CSIRT community can help to reveal unrecognized common ground among states and, ultimately, help to improve international cooperation on cybersecurity.
Tag 1: Cybersecurity Norms
Tag 2: Internet Governance
Tag 3: Multistakeholder Cooperation
Interventions:
Dr. Madeline Carr and Prof. Duncan Hollis have been involved in academic research exploring the International cooperation system and studying the feasibility of treaty-based solutions for ruling state behavior on cyberspace. The Internet technical community has been solving cybersecurity incidents by establishing circles of trust for information sharing, and cooperating in emergency response and towards problem resolution. The IGF has provided a unique platform where the technical community and government representatives converge in useful dialogue to improve understanding of their particular norms and behaviors. This proposal to have a 90 minute debate, will continue the discussion from last year in WS132 on Cybernorms, for UNGGE followers and participants, together with the Internet and security ecosystems, mediated by academic research, to answer questions on International security cooperation, and advance towards better understanding of current and possible cybernorms that can possibly result in more responsible state and technical behaviors. A prospective agenda of the debate is:
1. Setting the scene. New research on "science diplomacy" and CERT cooperation. (Academia).
2. Discussion.
2.1. Technical community. How CERT cooperation works. (Tech/CERT community)
2.2. Update on UNGGE and state cooperation. GCCS. And more. (Government)
2.3. A civil society view on this. (Academia/Civil society)
3. Debate
3.1. Whether CERT cooperation is (or not) a form of diplomacy
3.2. Whether CERT cooperation can (or cannot) help improve responsible cyber behaviors
3.3. Whether existing technical cybernorms are to be recognised formally by states
4. Conclusion
4.1. Key take-aways
4.2. Follow-up questions
Diversity:
Last year, Workshop 132 on Cybernorms, successfully brought to the IGF participants from UNGGE and NATO, together with world renowned academics in the field of cybersecurity. These were new participants to the IGF, and one of the key agreements of the session was that there could be a mutually constructive way forward for the UNGGE to be more open and transparent and for Internet governance stakeholders to be more aware and involved in the UNGGE discussions. This proposal is a continuation of that effort, to bring into direct conversation the parallel worlds of the Internet governance multistakeholder community and the more formal, state-centric processes, such as UNGGE. In the lead towards the debate at IGF 2017, the organizers will take into consideration geographical diversity and gender balance.
Online Participation:
The rapporteur of UNGGE participated last year, remotely through WebEx, in workshop 132 on Cybernorms, asking an important question that influenced the outcome and facilitated agreements at the workshop. There were other remote participants through WebEx and also a wide audience through YouTube. We expect a similar if not a more active participation through online means, in terms of questions and comments being raised remotely by those that are not able to be physically present at the next IGF in Geneva.
Discussion facilitation:
There will be two co-moderators of the debate, each fostering the discussion on basically two sides: the UNGGE/governmental perspective, and the technical community/CERT perspective. These two co-moderators will first, help to set the scene by referring to new academic research on CERT diplomacy. Also by calling participants to provide updates on the UNGGE process and the GCCS event. The technical community will explain processes and networks of trust that are the basis of CERT collaboration. The co-moderators will foster a conversation, mainly by distinguishing things that were unknown to each party that merit better understanding and will help discover those issues that can help both parties increase mutual understanding. The co-moderators will lead the participants of the debate towards finding feasible paths for collaboration, which are the key expected outcomes of the workshop.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/filedepot_download/4098/246
Proposer's Name: Mr. James Howe
Proposer's Organization: International Trade Centre
Organizer:
Mr. James HOWE, Senior Adviser, International Trade Centre
Session Format: Panel - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: Switzerland
Stakeholder Group: Intergovernmental Organizations
Content of the Session:
The 90 minute panel discussion will consider how technical, legal and social factors are interconnected in building trust for online trade - and the specificities of this challenge for developing countries. We will review the barriers to adoption of e-commerce and how insufficient trust is a significant barrier in both developed and developing countries.
Recommendations will be made for how greater trust can be achieved at the national and international level for small businesses operating out of developing countries.
Panelists will present complementary perspectives on the challenges, opportunities and potential solutions in five short opening presentations. This will be followed by a debate which will address questions from the attending public and selected questions received from online participants.
Relevance of the Session:
Building trust is perhaps the key barrier for small business to conduct international trade. This is not a new problem - trade has always involved trust - but in the digital age there is an acute issue with respect to enabling access to e-commerce in developing countries. Small firms in poor countries wish to "shape their digital future" in trade but are prevented from doing so by barriers to trust among customers in developed countries, even where these countries have in place consumer protection and secure transaction technologies.
Tag 1: Confidence Building Measures
Tag 2: Capacity Building
Tag 3: e-commerce
Interventions:
Mr. James HOWE, Senior Adviser, International Trade Centre, Switzerland
Will set the scene with findings from the field relating to the challenges for SMEs in developing countries to get online and build trust
Madame Korotoum DIABATE – Secrétaire Général – La Poste de Côte d’Ivoire,
Will share with the audience her vision of Trust on the Internet, and roles that Posts play on the tangible and intangible benefits and psychology of trust.
Based on her previous experience and background within the National regulator and her legal background, she will explore synergies between the mode of governance of the Internet and Postal regulations, the role of post in the Internet eco-system and Post as key player for the Internet infrastructure in developing countries. To illustrate that, she will explain the e-Commerce strategy of La Poste de Cote d’Ivoire and the concrete deliverable with the project Sanlishop.ci online now
Maria Umoren - Alumnus of Judge School of Management (and formerly Relationship Manager at Zenith Bank in Nigeria) will present the issues of trust as experience in Africa
Onsite Moderator: James Howe
Online Moderator: Judith Ueberschaer
Rapporteur: Sibylle Neuhaus
Online Participation:
Online participation will be through a platform to be agreed with the IGF organisers (ITC has WEBEX access if necessary), and will be moderated by Judith Ueberschaer. A summary of key questions will be shared with the moderator to pose to the panel and for reaction from the floor and online during the interactive part of the session.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: No
Link to Report:
Additional Speakers:
Mme. Korotoum DIABATE, Secétaire Général - Las Poste de Côte d'Ivoire, (en français)
Hanne Melin Olbe, Director Global Public Policy, eBay (7 minutes)
Session format: Panel Discussion
Time: 90 Mins
BPF Gender and Access
Over the past three years, the IGF’s Best Practice Forum (BPF) on Gender has been investigating various challenges pertinent to women’s ability to access and use the Internet. In 2016, it looked at the barriers that women face in not only accessing but also using the Internet, along with mapping initiatives and methods that have been used in diverse jurisdictions to overcome these barriers (see the report here). In 2015, it investigated online abuse and gender-based violence (see the outcome report here), which has been shown to form a significant barrier for women wanting to access and use the Internet in certain regions.
The BPF’s work has indicated that much of the initiatives and literature available on women’s ability to access and use the Internet tend to approach women as a homogenous group and fails to truly account for the unique way in which contexts and circumstances might impact women’s ability to access and use the Internet. As a result, the BPF community in 2017 decided to look at the specific barriers faced by specific communities of women - including women with disabilities, refugee women, young women, elderly women, LGBTQI women, women in rural areas, and indigenous women.
The survey inputs received from women working, representing or advocating for the various sub-groups brought out the specific needs and challenges in social and economic development facilitated by Internet access. It also detailed various initiatives at regional and national levels that are addressing some of these challenges. Connecting with the community, accessing information, and promoting educational opportunities were some of the key needs for the various sub-groups. The survey highlighted lack of infrastructure, insufficient local and relevant content, and social and cultural norms as major hindrances to Internet access for refugee women, indigenous women, queer women and young women. It also stressed the need for gender-focused policies and the sustainable grassroot-level initiatives to enhance inclusivity.
Join the BPF and its panel at this working session to discuss the BPF’s preliminary findings and recommendations for further exploration, and the ways in which stakeholders can support the work in addressing barriers to meaningful access faced by specific communities of women.
Moderator: Jac SM Kee
BPF Rapporteur: Mili Semlani
Discussants: Anri van der Spuy (RIA/ISOC, South Africa), Bruna Santos (Youth Observatory, Brazil), Smita Vanniyar (Point of View, India), Chenai Chair (Research ICT Africa, South Africa), Samantha Eisenhauer (UNHCR), Doreen Bogan-Martin (ITU/EQUALS)
Proposer's Name: Mr. David NG
Proposer's Organization: NetMission.Asia [Asia Pacific | Civil Society]
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Hans Martens
Co-Proposer's Organization: European Schoolnet (EUN) [Europe | Civil Society]
Co-Organizers:
Mr. David NG, Civil Society, NetMission.Asia
Mr. Hans MARTENS, Civil Society, European Schoolnet
Session Format: Break-out Group Discussions - 90 Min
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Session Moderator: Ms. Jianne Soriano, NetMission.Asia (Asia Pacific)
Facilitators:
Mr. David Ng, eHelp Association (Asia Pacific)
Ms. Sabrina Vorbau, European Schoolnet (WEOG)
Mr. Michael J. Oghia, Steering Committee of YCIG (MENA)
Ms. Heiki Tsang, NetMission.Asia (Asia Pacific)
Mr. Guilherme Alves da Silva, Youth Observatory (LAC)
Rapporteur: Ms. Yannis Li, DotAsia Organisation
Remote Moderator: Mr. Sam Kong, DotAsia Organisation
Content of the Session:
The current data from “Digital in 2017 Global Overview” shows that among the 3.773 billion internet users, there are 73.91% who actively use social media. According to a study from Pew Research Center in 2015, American teens ages 13 to 17 with 76% of all teens already using social media platforms.
In July 2017, YIGF in Asia Pacific will organize a session with the theme “How does social media shape our minds?”. Youth from the Asia Pacific region will join the event to discuss how social media influence their daily lives and more importantly, how it shapes their online behaviour and mindset. Taking the discussion outcome from the Asia Pacific perspective forward, and hoping to gather the global opinion, the proposed workshop will address the following key issues regarding social media.
Break-out Groups:1) Methods of receiving information (Co-Facilitators & Rapporteur: David & Sabrina)
News feeds on social media accounts usually show the information with users’ preference automatically, which may lead to users being limited to a single source of information. Meanwhile, fake news is widely spread on the social media platform. The different ways of how users access information is worth discussing. Collaboration of different stakeholders is needed to improve the situation.
2) Communication pattern (Co-Facilitators & Rapporteur: Michael & Jianne)
On one hand, social media provides a channel for people to express themselves. On the other hand, cyberbullying and hate speech appear more frequently in cyberspace. There should be a balance to draw the line between freedom of speech and the responsibilities of netizens. How we draw the line is the concern.
3) New innovations on social media (Co-Facilitators & Rapporteur: Guilherme & Heiki)
Social media creates a new platform for people to start new initiatives for social good such as instant fact check during elections, forums and the live function to report emergencies. Best practices on new innovations should be shared for the community as reference.
The purpose of the session is not only to reflect the facts about the influence of social media mentioned above. It also provides a chance to raise suggestions to modify current policies of social media platforms and solutions to the discussed issues. Moreover, it aims to create a guide and tips on social media usage for youth and general internet users.
Agenda
8 mins - [Background introduction] Setting the scene by session moderator
40 mins - [Breakout group discussion] Facilitators will be assigned to each group to facilitate the discussion on the topic
15 mins - [Report session] Break-out group rapporteurs will present the summary of each group, and online moderator will also recap the discussion in the chat room
25 mins - [Open Mic / Roundtable discussion] Suggestions on solution to the issues as well as modification of current policies of social media platforms will be discussed
2 mins - [Wrap up] Follow-up items and key take aways of the workshop
Relevance of the Session:
According to the “Digital in 2017 Global Overview”, there is 2.789 billion active social media users in Jan 2017, a dramatic rise of 21 % compared to Jan 2016. The issues related to social media surely shape the digital world of our future.
The discourse is leaded by youth (NetMission Ambassadors) with reference to the discussion outcomes in Asia Pacific Youth IGF. It provides a channel not only to engage young people in the Internet Governance discussion, it also empowers our next generation to raise topics of their concern, which facilitates the development of upcoming digital policy discourse environment and better shape the future multistakeholder discussion method on online issues.
Tag 1: Youth Engagement
Tag 2: Social Media
Tag 3: Future Internet
Interventions:
Instead of having keynote speakers to share their point of view, the workshop aims to collect and encourage voices from all participants. All participants with experience of using social media are welcome to share their views and concerns. The workshop will be in 3 different breakout groups on the following topics: 1) Methods of receiving information; 2) Communication pattern; and 3) New innovations on social media. Facilitators will be assigned to each group to facilitate discussion and recap the main ideas raised within the group. The workshop aims to synthesize a best practices and tips guide on social media usage for youth and general internet users, and guide will be published online after the IGF.
Diversity:
In the format of breakout group discussion, onsite and remote participants regardless of gender, geography, stakeholder group, age, disabilities or policy perspectives can join the onsite group or online chat room to express their views freely. The purpose of choosing this format is hoping to collect the voice from various background on the issue.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: https://www.intgovforum.org/cms/igf2016/index.php/proposal/view_public/84
Proposer's Name: Ms. Maria Paz Canales
Proposer's Organization: Derechos Digitales
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Marianne Diaz
Co-Proposer's Organization: Derechos Digitales
Co-Organizers:
Maria Paz Canales, Civil Society, Derechos Digitales
Marianne Diaz, Civil Society, Derechos Digitales
Session Format: Debate - 60 Min
Proposer:
Country: Chile
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: Venezuela
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Marianne Diaz
Speaker: Leandro Ucciferri
Speaker: Martin Borgioli
Speaker: Moses Karanja
Speaker: Chinmayi Arun
Content of the Session:
Biometric technology has grown steadily in use for the most different purposes, by governments and private actors, without a proper discussion about its impacts, without sufficient transparency of its providers and the conditions of security of the information, and without discussion about the impacts the individuals whose data goes in the machine (beyond the enthusiasm for larger amounts of data). From national identity cards and airport controls, to health service providers and retail vendors, biometry has become synonymous with identification. All in contexts where data protection laws and privacy safeguards are nonexistent or ineffective, where governments are eager to gather "data" for any purpose, and where foreign companies easily gain the attention of local governments to provide these technologies as "solutions".
In this session, we will address the human right issues surrounding the implementation of biometric technologies for identification in developing countries, in order to discuss how its deployment could affect privacy and freedom of expression, and how it already may be affecting it. We will bring together digital rights activists from different countries, who will discuss implementation cases from their own countries, along with actual and potential consequences and implications regarding their specific context.
Relevance of the Session:
Biometrics solutions imply a huge amount of lost of control form the subject of their ability to manage their own identities in the physical and digital realm. Panelists will address the possible advantages and the oft-ignored disadvantages to the use of these technologies, and will exchange their approaches and experiences to contribute to a debate of the most appropiate policies to allow empowerment of the people in the managing of their own identities in the digital future.
Tag 1: Privacy
Tag 2: Human Rights
Tag 3: Digital Rights
Interventions:
Each speaker will have opportunity to briefly present her experience in the research of biometric technology implementation in their own countries by public or private entities and the risks and challenges that that implementation has possed to the human rights exercises in the local context.
We will ask them to share the obstacle and challenges confronted in their research and the policy and advocacy alternatives that can be develop to confront the use of biometric solutions.
Diversity:
The proposed speakers include some leading researcher women on the topic in the Global South. The proposed speakers are representatives of Global South countries with different levels of development, working on Civil Society organisations and academic institutions. Some of them will be for the first time speakers at an IGF session.
Onsite Moderator: Gisela Perez de Acha
Online Moderator: Vladimir Garay
Rapporteur: Maria Paz Canales
Online Participation:
The workshop moderator will have the online participation session open, and will be in close communication with the workshop’s trained online moderator, to make any adaptations necessary as they arise. The online moderator will intermediate the questions and comments provided by the online attendees, by each question in the room, it will be one question selected by the online moderator from the ones formulated by online attendees.
Discussion facilitation:
The aim is to have a multistakeholder discussion around the use of biometric technology in the Global South. We will achieve so by inviting several experts to represent different and diverse points of view. A set of questions, tailor-made for each speaker by the moderator, will aim to foster debate and get some answers on the topic. Each panelist will have two rounds to present their topics, and at the end questions will be opened to the public and to online participants.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: No
Link to Report:
Speakers:
Opening. The moderator will briefly introduce the topic and the panel members. The moderator will address each of the panelist using these talking points to lead the discussion; we will devote about ten minutes to each question:
Question-and-answer: we will take questions from the audience, and we will turn to our panelist for their closing remarks.
...Proposer's Name: Ms. Deepti Bharthur
Proposer's Organization: IT for Change
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Nicolo Zingales
Co-Proposer's Organization: Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility
Co-Organizers:
Dr.,Deepti,BHARTHUR,Civil Society,IT for Change
Dr.,Nicolo,ZINGALES,Civil Society,Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility
Session Format: Birds of a Feather - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: India
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: United Kingdom
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Viviana Munoz
Speaker: Mark Graham
Speaker: Luca Belli
Speaker: Anita Gurumurthy
Speaker: Mohammad Amir Anwar
Content of the Session:
Digital platforms are re-structuring the DNA of the global economy. By creating new peer-to-peer marketplaces for goods and services and enabling the emergence of 'virtual' economic opportunities in the form of micro-work and game labour, they potentially open up job opportunities for a new generation of workers. This flux in many ways, is a time of great promise, but is often presented through a singular narrative -- of a sharing economy that ostensibly allows the unimpeded flow of digital and material goods, services and data flows over platform marketplaces. There is a need to unpack this narrative and its production models so that the implications for practice and policy, towards egalitarian economic futures, can be understood.
This calls for careful attention to the situated experiences of platformisation in the global South, a debate that is neglected. What are the emerging opportunities for informal sector labour in the gig economy? How is platformisation transforming the supply chain for small producers? What could be the impact of platforms' terms of service and algorithmic regulation on user rights? The proposed session will examine these questions, from the standpoint of rights -- labour rights, digital and data rights of citizens, rights of small producers etc. For instance, free digital flows may not work for developing economies where domestic policies with respect to digital rights or digital dimensions of traditional rights are not sorted out. Further, developing countries may lack the power to enforce compliance or stipulate standards for big platform intermediaries from outside their jurisdiction. Local models based on cooperativism may not find mooring given the extraordinary clout of monopolies like Uber, who control large platforms. Appropriate sectoral and digital policy and regulation may be nascent. It is also unclear how consumer data is used by platforms for data analytics and market consolidation, and what this means for the economic autonomy and futures of developing countries. The proposed workshop aims to bring together interested actors to deliberate upon this issue, by engaging with the following questions
(a) What are the platform models in countries of the global South? What opportunities and challenges do they open up for individual and collective rights (as citizens, workers, producers and consumers)?
(b) What are the building blocks of a conducive policy environment to promote egalitarian platform models? What could be the impact of platforms' terms of service and algorithmic regulation on users' rights?
(c) What is the impact of platformisation on inequalities within and between countries?
(d) What are the good practices of cooperative platform-based models, and policy measures towards encouraging inclusive economies in the platform era?
Relevance of the Session:
The social, economic and cultural impact of platforms has been significant and only continues to grow. In many ways, they are remaking the Internet as we know it, bearing directly on this year’s IGF theme, “Shape Your Digital Future.” As a key digital phenomenon, platforms have critical implications for Internet Governance issues. Interesting developments in recent times, in regulating Uber in UK and Chile for example, have brought such governance issues to the table. The French Digital Council submitted a report on Platform Neutrality in 2015. It is in this context of the rising significance of appropriate policy development (digital sector and other sectors) to regulate platforms that we seek to propose this session. The regulatory environment in developing countries is still nascent and governance challenges in these contexts tied in with other geo-political issues. We believe that this workshop is highly relevant to the IGF venue and can bring value both to the forum and its participants. It is also the hope of this workshop that a committed work track can be evolved towards research and deliberation on policy issues around platform economies.
Tag 1: Platforms
Tag 2: Digital Economy
Tag 3: Digital Future
Interventions:
The workshop brings together speakers who will approach the question of the platform economy from various lenses and stand-points, thus allowing for a diverse range of deliberations on the topic. Instead of following a traditional ‘talking heads’ panel format, the workshop will bring in speakers’ research and policy expertise to the fore through short lightning talks. Audiences will then engage with the issues and the discussion moderated to include responses from speakers.
-Viviana Munoz – will examine key policy challenges in the area of furthering right to knowledge and right to development in the context of platformisation.
-Mark Graham – will discuss the emerging digital work and enterprise models in the platform economy, and reflect on the key issues and challenges they open up for the rights and inclusion agenda.
-Luca Belli – will discuss the need for platform regulation through an examination of the ‘Terms of Service’ framework.
-Anita Gurumurthy - will outline the sweep of issues concerning platform governance. She will frame the geo-political context of platformization, flagging the new issues and new policy venues (such as the WTO) where significant debates are taking shape.
-Mohammad Amir Anwar will speak to the growth of the knowledge economy in the global South and its developmental outcomes.
Diversity:
The proposed workshop reflects diversity in both its composition and its focus. Our workshop panel – where we have ensured to achieve a gender balance – comprises speakers and scholars from varying contexts, whose work is rooted firmly in social justice and rights frameworks, working on empirical aspects of policy in Latin America, Asia and Africa.
The panel itself aims at unpacking the many dimensions of the political economy of platforms primarily from a global South standpoint, thus bringing to bear on the platform discourse viewpoints and voices from outside the first world.
Onsite Moderator: Anita Gurumurthy
Online Moderator: Parminder Jeet Singh
Rapporteur: Nandini Chami
Online Participation:
The workshop will be made open to online participation, which we will actively seek through reaching out on our mailing lists and networks, and the use of social media in the time leading up to IGF. At the workshop, we will facilitate remote participation through a designated moderator to facilitate questions and comments via WebEx through live audio/video and chat. We will also live-blog the proceedings of the workshop to allow remote participants to follow along in case of bandwidth issues.
Discussion facilitation:
The choice of a ‘Birds of a Feather’ format for the proposed workshop allows for a highly interactive and issue-centred participation, while still retaining the advantages of minimal structure and facilitation. The tentative schedule for the workshop is provided below with details of how discussions will be facilitated;
Context setting
-Introductory remarks by Anita Gurumurthy (moderator) – 5 mins
-Lightning talks by speakers - (4 x 5) 20 mins
Speakers will briefly address the issues outlined in the session description, drawing upon their respective work in the areas of data, platforms, digital labour, and regulatory/governance issue.
Brainstorming exercise – 15 mins
In this activity, the attendees will respond to the lightning talks and contribute questions on platform economy through post-its which will be put on a bulletin board. Online questions will also be collated in a similar manner.
Open floor discussion - 40 mins
Aided by facilitation from the onsite and online moderator, panelists will engage with the questions generated through the brain storming exercise. Audience members will also be able to respond, comment and raise counter questions.
Concluding remarks by panel - 5 mins
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: https://www.intgovforum.org/cms/wks2015/index.php/proposal/view_public/134
Vahini Naidu, South African Permanent Mission, Geneva
Agenda:
1. Context setting: 25 minutes
Speakers will briefly address the issues outlined in the session description, drawing upon their respective work in the areas of data, platforms, digital labour and regulatory and governance issues.
Proposer's Name: Mr. Danilo Bakovic
Proposer's Organization: Counterpart International
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Dominic Bellone
Co-Proposer's Organization: Counterpart International
Co-Organizers:
Mr. Dominic BELLONE Civil Society, Counterpart International
Mr. Robert GUERRA, Special Advisor, Technical Community, Counterpart International
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
The internet’s promise as an open civic space for democratic participation has increasingly come under assault, whether by government laws targeting political dissent online, censorship, and network disruptions, to the sophisticated use of troll farms, gender-based hate speech, and propaganda to poison public discourse. Moreover, civil society elements most concerned with the ever increasing erosion of online rights - - investigative journalists, digital rights activists, and academic policy analysts -- are often under-resourced, and suffer from a lack of unity and direction necessary for effective counter advocacy.A seasoned panel of activists, academic researchers, press and media specialists report out dispatches from the front lines of four countries facing unique challenges and threats to online civic spaces and democratic engagement: Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe. We’ll cover everything from “hybrid warfare” and gender based harassment online, to a new ministry of cybersecurity, threat detection and mitigation, and attempts to use hate speech codes to stifle free expression.
This collaborative and multidisciplinary effort aims to highlight and present traditionally under-represented stakeholders and issues in this forum, and encourages audience participation.Moderator: Dominic Bellone, Sr. Program Officer, Counterpart International
Speaker: Guy Berger, UNESCO
Speaker: Nalaka Gunawardene, science writer, journalist and development communication specialist (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Speaker: Andrii Paziuk Taras Shevchenko University (Kyiv, Ukraine), Hubert Humphrey Fellow, American University Washington College of Law.
Speaker: Iria Puyosa, Researcher and consultant on political communication, stakeholders relations, internet policies and digital strategy, (Quito, Ecuador)
Speaker: Earnest Mudzengi, Executive Director, Media Centre (Harare, Zimbabwe)
Speaker: Vitaliy Moroz, Director of New Media Development, Internews-Ukraine (Kyiv)
Speaker: Sachini Perera is a Sri Lankan feminist activist currently based in Malaysia. She has a background in law, journalism and international relations, and has worked in strategic communications and advocacy with feminist and women’s rights organizations for the last decade.Tag 1: Future Internet Governance
Tag 2: IGF
Tag 3:
Name: Mr. Peter StentzlerOrganizational Affiliation: Federal Foreign Office of Germany
The IGF as mandated by the General Assembly is the most diverse, inclusive and effective global platform for an open multi-stakeholder dialogue on all questions related to Internet Governance. We believe that this form of a global dialogue with all involved stakeholders is indispensable for a free, open, secure and accessible Internet in accordance with the IGF’s mandate of the United Nations.
Therefore the German IGF community as prospective host of the IGF 2019 invites the international IGF community to an open discussion on possibilities to strengthen the IGF further.
The discussion is hosted by the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and German Federal Foreign Office jointly with the German IGF community.
Moderators:
Dr. Thomas Fitschen, Director for the United Nations, Cyber Foreign Policy and Counterterrorism, Federal Foreign Office
Dr. Rudolf Gridl, Head of Division Internet Governance and International Digital Dialogue, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
Wednesday, 20 December Room XVII
First Segment: 11:30-13.00
Lunch Break: 13:00-15:00
Second Segment: 15:00-16:00
More than 95 countries and regions have established succesful IGF processes for their respective communities. At their annual IGF meetings, a number of the national, regional and Youth IGF initiatives (NRIs) have been discussing extensively the notion of rights in the digital world, its importance and current practices in different countries and regions of the world, as well as the global policies and practices and its implications to their respective communities.
Session structure and format:
The first segment will be 90 minutes long, followed by a 120 minutes lunch break. After that, the session will be continued with 60 minutes as the second segment slot.
The initial 90-minutes segment will focus on an interactive discussion on the topic as addressed by the participating NRIs, across and between the national, regional, subregional and Youth IGFs, while the second 60-minutes long segment will be a continuation of an interactive discussion with the audience, both remotely and in the room, then engaging appointed rapporteurs delivering major conclusions and recommendations for the wider community and final wrap up comments from the co-moderators.
Agenda
Each of the NRIs who have committed to participate whether onsite or remotely will identify their designated representative to speak at the NRIs main session.
The session will be opened with a short and comprehensive presentation of the NRIs Network Overview and Evolution, delivered by the NRIs Focal Point, in collaboration with the NRIs.
The co-moderators will introduce the session concept, and open the floor for the NRIs interventions. NRIs will be invited to respond to one of the developed policy questions (presented below), with an effort to achieve geographical balance across five IGF regions.
Confirmed NRIs that will speak onsite:
The session will be moderated across these five policy guiding questions:
Onsite co-moderators:
Janis Karklins, Ambassador of Latvia to UNOG
Anja Gengo, IGF Secretariat
Online co-moderators:
Lianna Galstyan, Armenia IGF, SEEDIG
Oksana Prykhodko, Ukraine IGF
Rapporteurs:
Dustin Phillips, ICANNWiki/IGF-USA
Sajia Yarmal, IGF Afghanistan
Proposer's Name: Mr. Satish Babu
Proposer's Organization: ISOC-TRV
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Judith Okite
Co-Proposer's Organization: FOSS Foundation for Africa
Co-Organizers:
Mr.Satish, Babu, Civil Society, ISOC Trivandrum Chapter, India
Ms.Judith, Okite, Civil Society, FOSSFA, Kenya
Ms.Mishi, Choudhary, Civil Society, SFLC New York, USA
Session Format: Break-out Group Discussions - 90 Min
Location: Room XXII E
Proposer:
Country: India
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: Kenya
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Mishi Choudhary
Speaker: Glenn McKnight
Speaker: Sarah Kiden
Speaker: Olivier Crepin-Leblond
Speaker: Panayotis Antoniadis
Speaker: Oktavia Hrund
Speaker: Nicolás Echániz
Content of the Session:
In the last two decades, the Internet--and digital technologies in general--were perceived to be the "great liberator" that would protect individual rights, preserve democracy, promote free speech, empower communities/ persons with disabilities, and enable innovation. Certainly, a great deal of success have been achieved in these areas, and there is still significant promise for the future.
At the same time, there are several emerging threats to Digital Future of the world including, but not limited to including Fake News, post-Truth politics, surveillance & censorship, data & identify theft, and online hate & abuse threaten the very premises that were perceived as the unique to the Internet. Our freedoms and rights are challenged by these threats, raising questions on the integrity of the Internet.
Free and Open Source Software offers a powerful set of responses to address these issues and to defend the Digital Future, particularly from the perspective of communities. These can be examined under the following broad heads:
- Technology & tools for secure, anonymous use of the Internet
- Possible Safeguards that address the processes of content generation, validation and distribution
- Enabling Policy Frameworks
The session, organized as a Breakout Group Discussion, will address these three challenges and the role of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in addressing them.
The session will take stock of the existing and emerging tools, technologies, platforms and methodologies that can protect end-users and user communities from developments that undermine the credibility and trust that users repose on the Internet.
Relevance of the Session:
A significant challenge that the Internet faces today--particularly of relevance to the IGF Theme of "Shape Your Digital Future"--is that the public trust in the Internet is being undermined by a number of new developments. Unless there are co-ordinated, comprehensive responses from civil society, it is possible that the credibility of the Internet will diminsh, thus threatening our common digital future. In turn, this may cause over-responses from other actors, such as national Governments to further limit access, monitor & restrict Internet use.
This session will discuss following aspects in three breakout groups:
1. Tools and Technologies provided by FOSS that help in different ways such as safe & secure use of the Internet including operating systems, access tools, anonymizers, productivity tools, and content management systems, to emerging developments and the Blockchain for decentralized, peer-to-peer, un-tamperable record-keeping. Developments such as IoT and Algorithms & Machine Learning that have negative and positive sides will also be discussed.
2. Methodologies, processes and best practices in dealing with the processes of content generation, validation and distribution, that can address the challenges of providing authenticated content in appropriate forms and languages in multiple delivery modes (desktop, mobile, audio etc) including decentralized, democratized knowledge creation and dissemination.
3. Policy initiatives that support and enable communities to use the Internet safely, securely and reliably, upholding rights and freedoms, and considering aspects such as access, equitable digital opportunities, language issues, risk reduction and child safety.
Interventions:
The interventions by speakers are planned on the following lines:
1. Welcome,introduction, Session Objectives and Format: 5 min
2. Initial presentation of Issues: The moderator will provide the overall context of the session, particularly the Challenges faced (10 min)
3. Overview of the Breakout Group Discussions: The Co-Moderator will provide an Overview of the Breakout Group discussions (including remote participation)
4. Breakout Group Discussions: Participants will divide themselves into 3 groups, taking up discussions on the above themes. (35 minutes)
Discussions will be led by the speakers identified a-priori, who will also present the group reports in the following session.
5. Group Presentations, Discussions and Summing Up (30 min)
The Group Leaders will present the report of the discussions in the group.
Diversity:
Diversity considerations for the session would be fully met. The current list of organizers and speakers are significantly diverse from gender and geographic considerations. Since the prime target of the session is Civil Society, particularly communities in developed regions as well as emerging economies, there is a definite emphasis on civil society and technical community participation. However, the organizers are confirming participation from Academia, Business and Government as this is a topic that enhances Multi-stakeholder cooperation.
Online Moderator: Ms. Maureen Hilyard
Rapporteur: Mr. Satish Babu
Online Participation:
Our Remote Moderator is Ms. Maureen Hilyard, a veteran IGF participant and a former MAG Member. Ms. Okite is an avid promoter of not only online participation but accessible online participation tools.
with this background we are certain that the online presenters/participants will be given priority and made to feel like they are in-person at the workshop.
The online moderator will ensure that:
(a) Remote participation is open during the initial presentations as well as during the group report presentations/discussions, and any comments or questions from the remote participants are raised during the presentations
(b) During the Breakout Session, remote participants are connected to one of the three/four breakout groups, and that there is two-way sharing with remote participants and get feedback .
In addition to Remote Participation using the host-provided tools, we would also be using Twitter as a live medium to solicit questions, comments or suggestions.
Discussion facilitation:
The Breakout Group Discussion format has been chosen specifically to encourage participant interaction. This will be away from the norm Q & A sessions, but encourage knowledge sharing and further network ,that would birth future projects under the same topic.
The overall objective of the session organizers is to striving for a balance between Speakers, Local Participants and Remote Participants.
This will be communicated in all invitations to the workshop through various networks and also during the Welcome as part of the format of the session, so that everyone is aware of the fairness aspect of division of time.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2016-day-2-room-7-w...
1. Ms. Sarah Kiden, Academia,
skiden@gmail.com; +256 782467074
Lecturer, Virtual University of Uganda.
2. Mr. Mwendwa Kivuva , Technical , AFRINIC, Kenya
Contact: lordmwesh@gmail.com
3. Mr. Ojedeji, Seun , Technical/Academia (Remote Speaker)
contact : seun.odejedi@gmail.com
Chief Network Engineer, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria
1. Welcome, Introduction, Session Objectives and Format (Mr. Satish Babu, 5 min)
2. Initial presentation of Issues (Ms. Mishi Choudhary, 10 min)
3. Overview of the Breakout Group Discussions (Ms. Judy Okite, 5 min)
4. Breakout Group Discussions in Three Groups (35 minutes)
Group Leaders: Glenn McKnight, Sarah Kiden, Olivier Crepin-Leblond
5. Group Presentations and Discussions (Group Leaders: 15 min + 15 min discussions)
6. Closing comments (Judy Okite, 5 min)
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Proposer's Name: Mr. Gregory Mounier
Proposer's Organization: EUROPOL - European Cybercrime Centre
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Richard Leaning
Co-Proposer's Organization: RIPE NCC
Co-Organizers:
Mr Gregory MOUNIER, Government, EUROPOL
Mr Richard LEANING, International Organisation, RIPE NCC
Session Format: Panel - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: Netherlands
Stakeholder Group: Government
Co-Proposer:
Country: Netherlands
Stakeholder Group: Intergovernmental Organizations
Speaker: Daniel Obam (National Communication Secretariat of Kenya)
Speaker: Ron Dasilva (ICANN Board member)
Speaker: Paul Wilson (APNIC)
Speaker: Ronny Vanningh (Proximus)
Speaker: Gregory Mounier (Europol -EC3)
Speaker: Jan Zorz (ISOC)
Content of the Session:
The Internet's extraordinary growth has resulted in the exhaustion of IP addresses in their current version (IPv4). This has been anticipated by the Internet community and IETF created a new format of the Protocol which has been ready for adoption since 2011. Yet, the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 takes a long time because it requires heavy investments to upgrade applications, electronic devices and network. During the transition phase, networks are running with both with IPv4 and IPv6. This means that network operators must find a way to maximise the use of available IPv4 addresses.
Carrier Grade NAT (CGN) or Large Scale NAT are technologies adopted by the Internet Service Providers to allow them to share IPv4 addresses among a large pool of Internet users, therefore reducing the demands on scarce IPv4.
However, the widespread and growing use of CGN technologies by ISPs, seems to indicate that from an IPv4-to-IPv6 transition mechanism, CGN has become a substitute to the IPv6 transition. A recent study showed that in 2016, 90% of mobile internet network operators (GSM providers) and 38% of fixed line internet access providers (cable, fibre and ADSL) were using CGN technologies, while 12% are planning to deploy it in the coming months (http://www.icir.org/christian/publications/2016-imc-cgnat.pdf).
CGNs have many technical and policy drawbacks. It raise security and privacy issues but most importantly it degrades the quality of Internet access services, curtail innovation and alter user experience for applications such as gaming, video streaming and downloading large files.
But to what extent are CGNs also responsible for the slow transition to IPv6? What incentives can efficiently encourage ISPs to reduce the use of CGN and invest in IPv6 transition? Should the regulator propose voluntary agreements to ISPs or should it regulate the phasing out of CGN technologies?
Speakers will provide different views on the role of CGN on the IPv6 transition. They will explore different alternatives solutions, from different perspectives: from that of a Regional Internet Registry, from a large ISP, from the perspective of the technical community, the regulator and from the law enforcement community.
The emphasis will be put on the Belgium case where the telecom regulator entered in a voluntary agreement with the 4 biggest ISPs in
2012 for them to limit the number of end-users behind each IPv4 addresses for security purposes (to help to identify end-users when served with a legal order in the framework of a criminal investigation). This led to the unintended positive consequence that major Belgium-based ISPs have made strategic business decision to transition quickly to IPv6. As a result, today Belgium has the highest IPv6 adoption rate in the world.
Relevance of the Session:
One need to explore all alternative options to promote the deployment of IPv6. CGN technologies seem to hinder that deployment. There are innovative solutions that can be translated in public policies that will help citizens and States to contribute to shape their digital future towards innovation and growth.
Tag 1: #IPV6deployment
Tag 2: Critical Internet Resources
Tag 3: Cybercrime
Interventions:
Speakers will provide different views on the role of CGN on the IPv6 transition. They will explore different alternatives solutions, from different perspectives: from that of a Regional Internet Registry (APNIC), from a large ISP (Proximus), from the perspective of the technical community (Jan Zorz ISOC), the regulator (Belgian Regulator BIPT) and from the law enforcement community (Europol).
The emphasis will be put on the Belgium case where the telecom regulator entered in a voluntary agreement with the 4 biggest ISPs in
2012 for them to limit the number of end-users behind each IPv4 addresses for security purposes (to help to identify end-users when served with a legal order in the framework of a criminal investigation). This led to the unintended positive consequence that major Belgium-based ISPs have made strategic business decision to transition quickly to IPv6. As a result, today Belgium has the highest IPv6 adoption rate in the world.
Diversity:
APNIC (Australia). However, the case study is based on the Belgian model so other speakers will come from Western Europe.
Onsite Moderator: Richard Leaning RIPE NCC
Online Moderator:
Rapporteur: Richard Leaning RIPE NCC
Online Participation:
Online attendees will have a separate queue and microphone, which will rotate equally with the mics in the room; the workshop moderator will have the online participation session open, and will be in close communication with the workshop’s online moderator.
Discussion facilitation:
The workshop will be organized as a facilitated dialogue. Led by the moderator, subject experts will debate and discuss the key questions and issues. Subject experts will give opening comments, after which the moderator will turn to those attending the session and invited experts in the audience to engage in facilitated dialogue.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: No
Link to Report:
Ron da Silva is an executive leader, international board member and internet technology expert. He brings extensive experience leading network architecture & engineering, internet backbones, broadband networks, cloud infrastructure, and corporate and internet governance. Over twenty (20+) years of proven business experience, culminating in senior executive leadership. NACD certified Board Governance Fellow. Ron is CEO and Founder of Network Technologies Global LLC, providing Internet, broadband and telecommunications advice and expertise. He currently serves on the Board of the Internet Association for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Ron brings to the Board extensive experience in Internet governance and policy development, financial discipline, broad business acumen and an understanding of cyber-security risk.
Zorz Jan: ISOC - Operational Engagement Programme Manager. Jan Žorž started his professional career in RS-232/VAX VMS world in 1992 and continued through Novell and Windows environments all the way to Solaris and other UNIX derivatives that today represent the native environment for the majority of his projects. Jan is the Internet Society's Operational Engagement Programme Manager. He works on operational initiatives to ease the deployment of IPv6 and other technologies. He is also working to help the industry document best-current operational practices and to improve operator feedback to the IETF.
Jan is one of the pioneers of SiOL, the Slovenian national ISP, and has been involved in the organization from the beginning. Among other activities, he began experimenting in 1997 with Internet streaming multimedia content. Based on these experiments, he successfully accomplished projects such as "Dhaulagiri '99 Live" (an Internet multimedia transmission of Tomaz Humar's solo climb of the south wall of Dhaulagiri (called Death Zone in the Himalayas), "Ski Everest Live 2000" (an Internet live-video transmission and monitoring of extreme skiing from the summit of Mt. Everest by Davo Karnicar) and other similar projects. Together with two other members of the team "Dhaulagiri '99 Live", Jan received a media award/statue "Victor" for special achievement.
For the last seven years, Jan has been working as a consultant in the IT field, specializing in IPv6. He co-founded the Go6 institute (not-for-profit), a Slovenian IPv6 initiative whose main objective is to raise IPv6 awareness in Slovenia and alert the community to the fact that we are approaching extensive changes on the Internet.
Due to the success of Go6 Institute, Slovenia is currently leading the EU as the country most prepared for IPv6 (according to the RIPE NCC's IPv6 RIPEness study). Jan has been invited to present around the world on his work, the model of the Go6 platform, IPv6 awareness raising and deployment at the national level. These speaking engagements have included conferences such as RIPE Meetings, Google IPv6 Implementors Conference 2010, Internet Governance Forum meetings, OECD meeting, World IPv6 Congresses (Paris and London), as well as national forums in Germany, Greece, Norway, Macedonia, Oman, Brazil and many others.
Jan is also primary co-author of a very successful procurement (specification) paper, published as official RIPE Best Current Practice document RIPE-501, titled "Requirements For IPv6 in ICT Equipment".
Proposer's Name: Mr. Gonzalo Navarro
Proposer's Organization: Asociación Latinoamericana de Internet (ALAI)
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Adela Goberna
Co-Proposer's Organization: Asociación Latinoamericana de Internet (ALAI)
Co-Organizers:
Ms., Carolina, AGUERRE, Academia, Centro de Tecnología y Sociedad - CETyS- (University of San Andrés)
Ms., Adela, GOBERNA, Private Sector, Asociación Latinoamericana de Internet - ALAI -
Mr., Gonzalo, NAVARRO, Private Sector, Asociación Latinoamericana de Internet - ALAI -
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: Chile
Stakeholder Group: Private Sector
Co-Proposer:
Country: Uruguay
Stakeholder Group: Private Sector
Speaker: Andrew Harris
Speaker: Marietje Schaake
Speaker: Paulina Nazal
Speaker: Carlos Correa
Speaker: Maciel Marília
Speaker: Kati Suominen
Content of the Session:
As the digitalization of the economy advances firmly and steadily in many fronts, where online services and products are shaking a wide range of traditional economic areas and sectors, it seems also to be unquestionable the increasing connection that exists between this phenomena and transnational trade.
Only during this year will we expect to see several regional and global processes where the symbiosis of trade, the digital economy, and the Internet will play a key role, such as; the new WTO negotiation round (Buenos Aires, December 2017); the efforts deployed by several Latin American countries promoting the Pacific Alliance as a regional trade area, the recently announced revision of the NAFTA treaty or the possible continuation of the TPP saga. And these are just a handful of examples of a trend that surely will have a profound impact in the way we understand trade in a digital era.
At the same time, language is a powerful tool. It is not only a cultural manifestation but it also reflects how societies are established and how they evolve and develop over the time. However, the importance of a multilingual approach on trade negotiations is often underestimated and reduced to the use of the English language (or other predominant languages) as an entry barrier, not considering also its cultural dimension, in which a clear manifestation is the lack of common understanding on how different legal traditions and institutions around the globe must be harmonized in order to create, at least, minimum standards for the negotiations.
Now, these considerations are even more urgent in our digital era in which Internet plays and it will play a key role in ongoing and future trade negotiations, where also a large number of technical issues and concepts that should be understood also in their own linguistic and cultural dimensions, will have to be reconciled with traditional sectors and areas of negotiations, in order to secure a balanced implementation of basic principles that have nurtured the development of the Internet over the last years, such as: net neutrality, free flow of information, common intermediary liability rules; the avoidance of forced data localization rules, the irruption of electronic commerce rules, etc.
Therefore, this workshop will seek to explore how these and others Internet principles and rules should be calibrated, from a linguistic and legal cultural angle on trade negotiations, taking the examples of what we have learnt from process like the proliferation and later implementation of Bilateral and Multilateral Trade Agreements experienced over the past two decades, in an effort to find common grounds of understanding of the impact for ongoing and future trade negotiations.
Issues: Multiligualism, Internet regulation, cross-border exchange, trade, Internet development, Internet economy.
Intended agenda:
Introduction: 2 minutes introduction delivered by the in-presence moderator, who will briefly introduce the topic and the debates around this area.
First round of key speakers: 3-4 minutes max. per key speaker, six speakers. As the idea of this roundtable is to make the audience participants, each key speaker will count with 5 minutes to introduce their perspectives on the topic. The presentations will be short but concise, what will allow a better understanding of each speaker opinions on the subject. After this first round, 2 minutes will be granted to the speakers, in case they want to reply any of their colleagues speakers.(Total time: 26 minutes).
Moderator will open the floor for comments/questions
First round of opentable: 3-4 minutes max. per participant (total time allocated: 17 minutes). The microphone will be open to other intervention delivered by the participants. After one in-presence participant speech or question, the in-presence moderator will ask the remote moderator if any remote participant would like to post a question or comment.
Moderator will announce when first opentable is over and deliver the microphone to the next key speaker.
Second round of key speakers: 3-4 minutes max. per key speaker, six speakers. Same dynamic as in the first round will be applied (Total time: 26 minutes)
Moderator will open the floor for comments/questions.
Second round of opentable: 3-4 minutes max. per participant. Same dynamic as in the second round will be applied (Total time: 17 minutes)
Moderator will announce when second opentable is over
Final remarks: the moderator will close the table, by reading some final remarks, stating all the positions argued during the workshop (total time: 2 minutes)
Total time distribution:
Introduction: 2 minutes
Total time speakers: 52 minutes (divided into two rounds of 26 minutes each).
Total time participants (remote and in person): 34 minutes (divided into two rounds of 17 minutes each).
Closing: 2 minutes
Total time: 90 minutes.
Relevance of the Session:
This workshop helds a vital importance, as it will seek to bring to the table the ongoing discussion in many countries and sectors: how can trade boost the progress of the digital economy and of local content, seen as a key element that can produce great benefit and empower communities, allowing a broader access to knowledge and tools for development. Moreover, this workshop will address how trade can generate policies that enhances and fosters understanding on how the multilingualism and how cross-border exchange can be a key element to promote local content.
Tag 1: Internet Economy
Tag 2: Multilingualism and Local Content
Tag 3:
Interventions:
Marietje Schaake is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from the Netherlands. She is a member of Democrats 66, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party. Ms. Schaake is deeply involved with digital issues within the European Union, connecting these issues with international trade. This makes Ms. Schaake a key speaker for our panel, since she will provide the input not only of the government, but also how digital issues and trade are combined, also focusing in language, a barrier that the European Parliament effectively tackled.
Paulina Nazal is the General Director of International Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile. Ms. Nazal is a leading expert in the chilean government regarding trade, where Chile is playing a major role in promoting trade spaces such as the Pacific Alliance. Therefore, these two elements makes Ms. Nazal of great value for sharing her perspectives regarding trade.
Carlos M. Correa is Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Industrial Property and Economics and of the Post-graduate Course on Intellectual Property at the Law Faculty, University of Buenos Aires and professor of the Master Program on Science and Technology Policy and Management of the same university. He is Special Advisor on Trade and Intellectual Property of the South Centre and has been a visiting professor in post-graduate courses of several universities and consultant to UNCTAD, UNIDO, UNDP, WHO, FAO, IDB, INTAL, World Bank, SELA, ECLA, UNDP, and other regional and international organizations. Mr. Correa’s vast experience in international trade spaces will definitely add key elements that are vital for trade negotiations.
Marilia Maciel, works as Digital Policy Senior Researcher at DiploFoundation. Previously, she was a researcher and coordinator of the Center for Technology and Society of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (CTS/FGV) in Rio de Janeiro. Ms. Maciel counts with a deep understanding of the Internet ecosystem, counting with knowledge in such precise issues such as language, trade and other main areas that make the core of this workshop. Therefore, we believe Ms. Maciel will bring to the table the perspective of the civil society, helping to build a more comprehensive result of this workshop.
Kati Suominen is founder and CEO of the Nextrade Group and also serves as founder and CEO of TradeUp, a new crowd investment platform for export-driven small and mid-size companies, as Founder of U.S. Export Capital, and aspiring fund for SME exporters. Mr. Suominen counts with a vast experience regarding in international trade and regional integration. She chairs a 25-member global expert commission on regional trade agreements for the E15 Initiative of the International Center for Trad
...Proposer's Name: Ms. Bruna Santos
Proposer's Organization: GenderYouth/Youth Observatory
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Louise Marie Hurel
Co-Proposer's Organization: Gender Youth/Youth Observatory
Co-Organizers:
Ms Angelica, CONTRERAS, Civil Society, Youth Observatory
Ms Evelyn, NAMARA, Civil Society, Africa Civil Society on Information Society (ACSIS)
Session Format: Break-out Group Discussions - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: Brazil
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: Brazil
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Treiber Jackie
Speaker: Jennifer Chung
Speaker: Louise Marie Hurel
Speaker: Barbara Wanner
Speaker: Heshadharani Poornima
Content of the Session:
The Internet is today a community of over 3 billion users. For the Internet to enable growth, women and men should have equal opportunities. Even though this topic has been more than discussed by all stakeholders, women and girls are still facing challenges either to access Internet, to be part of the technical community and barriers when they already have internet access.
This workshop will consist on a Narrative-based approach to promote a discussion between generations of female internet users. By telling stories and sharing experiences, the idea is to solve questions such as 'How women access the Internet?' or 'What is the content that women create on the Internet?' in order to provide meaningful insights on the way we see/perceive the relationship between women and tech.
The idea is to build an empathetic environment to promote a collective comprehension on different realities and points of view that women from different regions in the world have. There are different ways of communicating challenges among women. Reaching out to fellow women in the field is a way of exchanging views and harnessing a trust-based collaborative relationship between generations, regions and stakeholder groups. (There are different ways of communicating with women, so being able to reach out to female fellows in the field can hopefully achieve some sort of mentorship through the exchange between generations, with women from different places, cultures and stakeholder groups).
From the more intimate and informal conversation environment that the groups would provide us, we would like to share stories and hear from the audience the different forms of approaches to the Internet they had and how they feel with that. In addition, as young women we would like to hear from the groundbreaking female leaders who are already working on the ICT field and learn from their experiences. And from this conversation we would able to verify whether our barriers are the same and the better ways of defying these challenges.
As for the format of the workshop, and given the fact that we want to bridge not only generations but also the relationship between onsite/remote audience and speakers, the general audience will be separated into groups according to the number of proposed speakers. Each speaker will be assigned to a group and will be responsible to lead the conversation/debate following this scheme.
1. Narratives of the Leaders
2. Narratives of the Youth
3. Barriers encountered by women on the ICT field.
4. Questions:
(a) What could be done in order to bridge the generations and to engage the ones that are still to come?
(b) What are the main barriers encountered by women on the ICT field? and what should be done to empower and engage young women regarding the Use of ICTs ?
(c) How do women engage with and in with the Internet in order to provide meaningful insights on the way we see/perceive the relationship between women and tech?
(d) How can we create a safer Internet for women? How can we reassure the importance of freedom of expression online?
(e) Why the gender digital divide is still so pronounced even though all stakeholders know that it exists?
(f) Bearing in mind the Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) no 5:, “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls", is it possible to achieve this goal by 2033 knowing that we just do not need to bridge the divide, but we also need to get greater numbers of women online?
Since we strongly believe on this work as an ongoing project for (a) empowering Young female leaders and (b) engaging the different leaders, we would like to come up with solutions regarding ways of enhancing approaches, how women can be inserted in the tech field, what could be done to improve our profits in this relation with the Internet. Therefore, the main outcome of the session would be a decalogue of rights for women on Internet.
Relevance of the Session:
This workshop will:
Promote the guidance for the younger generations by navigating through the experiences of different leaders, whether they are new ones or the rock star pioneers that first explored the Internet governance land.
Enable a safe and empathetic environment for women to discuss their diverse views and narratives with the internet.
Reassure the importance of the freedom of expression by encouraging women to speak their voices and find their paths.
Allow participants to learn from women who already have a trajectory of life and work on how to deal with all kinds of barriers, in order to reduce inequality and build strategies as a person and as a group.
Help women realize how they can shape their digital future with testimonies and experiences from other female leaders on the ICT field. It should be noted that the break out group format emphasizes that, even though we might refer to them as leaders, the session is a collective effort of humanizing trajectories, voicing challenges and sharing pathways through diverse and multi stakeholder approaches.
Also, Gender Youth is a collective that has emerged from the Youth Observatory participation in the BPF gender and Access as some of us were engaged in the best practice forum as independent researchers and/or participants.
Young Latin American women declaration: Enabling Access to Empower Young Women and Build a Feminist Internet Governance - we took on a narrative approach to write out input document for the BPF Gender & Access and agreed that having the same strategy for reaching out to more women through our experiences would be a liberating thing to do.
This session seeks to give continuity to the work set forth by the Young Latin American Women Declaration and thus engage with different visions and experiences -- both in terms of sectors and regions -- of the relationship between gender, youth and technology.
Tag 1: Gender Issues
Tag 2: Freedom of Expression Online
Tag 3: Youth Engagement
Interventions:
- Barbara Wanner, USCIB, What could be done in order to bridge the generations and to engage the ones that are still to come?
- Jennifer Chung, DotAsia, What are the main barriers encountered by women on the ICT field? and what should be done to empower and engage young women regarding the Use of ICTs ?
- Jackie Treiber, IcannWiki, How do women engage with and in with the Internet in order to provide meaningful insights on the way we see/perceive the relationship between women and tech?
- Louise Marie Hurel, Gender Youth, Why the gender digital divide is still so pronounced even though all stakeholders know that it exists?
- Heshadharani Poornima, 25 under 25 awardee, How can we create a safer Internet for women? How can we reassure the importance of freedom of expression online?
Question to the audience: Bearing in mind the Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) no 5:, “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls", is it possible to achieve this goal by 2033 knowing that we just do not need to bridge the divide, but we also need to get greater numbers of women online?
We think it is of utter importance to give women the opportunity to tell their stories, experiences and cases of success in the walk towards a violence-free, accessible and egalitarian Internet in order to provide the new generations with narratives regarding the work that has been carried out up until today and the barriers encountered by many of the actresses working on the subject.
Having said that, the present workshop proposal includes representatives of different stakeholder groups. It is also important to note that when selecting our prospective speakers we took into consideration the generation, age and geographical diversity, the importance of giving the floor to new voices to be heard and also how we could explore the relationship between gender and youth through the proposal. Given the session is focused on Gender Issues, we thought it would be better to have an all women panel with diversity between them.
Onsite Moderator: Bruna Martins dos Santos
Online Moderator: Angelica Contreras
Rapporteur: Sara Fratti
Online Participation:
Prior to the IGF a survey will be shared in order to outreach women online and to gather ideas and narratives on their online journeys and perceptions of the Internet. Some of the narratives collected will serve as a basic literature for the workshop.
Also, we plan on collecting comments and questions from prospective attendees which may enrich the debate through the hashtags #genderyouthIGF2017 #GYnarratives, before and during the workshop consisting on a
...Proposer's Name: Mr. Martin Fischer
Proposer's Organization: IGF Academy
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Lorena Jaume Palasi
Co-Proposer's Organization: iRights e.V.
Co-Organizers:
Mr. Martin Fischer, Civil Society, IGF Academy
Ms. Lorena Jaume-Palasí, Civil Society, iRights e.V.
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: Germany
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: Germany
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Juuso Moisander
Speaker: Frederico Links
Speaker: Natasha Tibinyane
Speaker: Gabriel Ramokotjo
Content of the Session:
In the light of the new consultation process to define the concept of enhanced cooperation, it is useful to look at existing practices and the roles assumed by governments active within Internet governance structures, in particular at a local level, and extract best practices. The round table will focus on exchanging experiences among long existing IGF initiatives and incipient IGFs. It will show examples of meaningful governmental involvement and discuss both incentives, challenges and outputs. The speakers will point out the benefits of government involvement, judging from their own national experiences. Risk factors and obstructions (capturing, blocking of the process, process delay, incompatibilities with democratic due process etc.) will be presented, where applicable, and the speakers will share their strategies to mitigate and resolve such situations.
Relevance of the Session:
There are 195 countries in the world and 80+ NRIs under current development. They face similar obstacles to implement a full-fledged multi-stakeholder process, and they are all still in the process of defining the roles and forms of contribution of each of their stakeholder groups. Governments are a key stakeholder to allow transition from Internet governance debates into policy and to embed the multistakeholder model within their political structure in an efficient way for the growth and benefit of their societies.
Tag 1: NRIs
Tag 2: Decision makers
Tag 3: Multistakeholderism
Interventions:
Each speaker will have a brief intervention laying out their approach to involve governments in their NRIs and comment on challenges, outputs and recommendations.
Mr. Hasanul Haq Inu, Information Minister, People's Republic of Bangladesh, Chair IGF Bangladesh,
Marjolijn Bonthuis, civil society, Netherlands IGF
Gabriel Ramokotjo, technical community, South Africa
Juuso Moisander, MAG member, government, Finland
Olga Cavalli, academia, South School on Internet Governance, Argentina
Frederico Links, Natasha Tibinyane, media, Namibia
Diversity:
The speakers will be composed of representatives from all geographic regions and stakeholders. It will ensure gender balance and present a diversity of opinions and approaches.
Onsite Moderator: Helani Galpaya, LIRNEasia
Online Moderator: Martin Fischer, IGF Academy
Rapporteur: Lorena Jaume-Palasí, iRights e.V.
Online Participation:
Particular attention will be given to online participation as the panel is especially catering for the needs of lesser developed NRIs, who might not have the means to attend the IGF in person. Therefore a proactive online moderator will encourage remote attendees to contribute with questions and experiences.
Discussion facilitation:
The focus will lie on interaction with the attendees and online participation in order to respond to specific interventions and to support developing NRIs.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: No
Link to Report:
Proposer's Name: Ms. Xianhong Hu
Proposer's Organization: UNESCO
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Hara Padhy
Co-Proposer's Organization: UNESCO
Co-Organizers:
Ms Constance Bommelaer, Technical Community; ISOC
Ms Anriette Esterhuysen, Civil Society, Association for Progressive Communication
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: France
Stakeholder Group: Intergovernmental Organizations
Content of the Session:
UNESCO takes the occasion to present its first draft of “Internet Universality Indicators” and engage with global stakeholders for their inputs and contributions. This is a kick-off of UNESCO’s phase 2 global consultation to develop a set of Internet Universality Indicators. The project is an immediate response following UNESCO’s adoption of the ‘CONNECTing the Dots’ Outcome document in 2015, where UNESCO put the concept of ‘Internet Universality’ at the heart of its work to promote an Internet that works for all. Internet Universality points to four fundamental norms – known for short as the ROAM principles – which are the guiding framework that promotes an Internet based on human rights, and the principles of openness, accessibility, and multi-stakeholder participation.
The project aims to elaborate five categories of appropriate Internet Indicators, which can serve to enrich the stakeholders’ capacity for assessing Internet development, broaden international consensus, and foster online democracy and human rights towards knowledge societies engaged in sustainable development. These Indicators will help governments and other stakeholders to assess their own national Internet environments and to promote the values associated with Internet Universality. There will be a mix of quantitative and qualitative Indicators. The work on the project to define Internet Universality Indicators is being led for UNESCO by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC).
The session will be an interactive roundtable discussion. It will start with a brief presentation of the draft Indicators to be followed by comments by participants in each category of indicators of ROAMX as above.
An online platform for Phase 2 of the consultation is for online comments (closes 15 March 2018), and participants are encouraged to engage with this:
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/internetuniversality
In-Person Moderator and Opening Remarks (5’): Mr. Guy Berger, UNESCO Director for Freedom of Expression and Media Development.
Presenter:
10’ Presentation on the first draft of Internet Universality Indicators: Mr. David Souter, APC Consortium
Contributors:
3’ Ms. Anriette Esterhuysen, APC (Rights and Gender)
3’ Ms Anja Kovacs, the Internet Democracy project (Rights)
3’ Prof Xue Hong, China Normal University (Openness)
3’ Mr. Stephen Wyber, Manager of Policy and Advocacy IFLA (Access)
3’ Ms Dorothy Gordan, UNESCO IFAP Chair on information literacy (Access)
3’ Ms. Jasmina Byrne, UNICEF (Youth and Children)
3’ Mr. Raul Echeberria, ISOC (Multi-stakeholder)
3’ Mr. Ridha Guellouz, President of Tunisian Association of ICTs-ATTIC (Multi-stakeholder)
3’ Mr. Indrajit Banerjee, UNESCO Director Knowledge Societies Division
48’ Discussion
Rapporteur : Ms. Xianhong Hu, UNESCO
Remote moderator: Mr Guilherme Canela, UNESCO
Notes and photos: Mr. Zhaocan Li, UNESCO
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2016-day-2-room-6-ws159-encryption-and-safety-of-journalists-in-digital-age
Additional Reference Document Link: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/internetstudy/
Proposer's Name: Ms. Malavika Jayaram
Proposer's Organization: Digital Asia Hub
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Julianne Chan
Co-Proposer's Organization: Digital Asia Hub
Co-Organizers:
Mr. Kyung Sin Park, Civil Society, Open Net Korea
Ms. Vidushi Marda, Civil Society, Centre for Internet and Society
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: China
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: China
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Vidushi Marda
Speaker: KS Park
Speaker: Malavika Jayaram
Content of the Session: (updated Dec 20th with refined session description and complete speaker list)
Ideas about the future and about what progress means are heavily contested, and context-specific. Digital Asia Hub set out to investigate whether the future of artificial intelligence - heralded as a game changing technology - was constructed and implemented differently in Asia, and to explore whether the problems that AI was deployed in service of signalled different socioeconomic aspirations and fears. Was the focus on health, ageing and augmentation uniquely Asian? Was the lack of a “creep factor” about machine intelligence unremarkable in cultures accustomed to mythical creatures and legendary spirits ? Was the lack of legal safeguards a competitive advantage that spurred innovation in this field, or a regulatory gap that needed attention? We also wanted to kick-start a deeper conversation about ethics and governance, before policies and regulations baked in the business case for AI without factoring in the potential human costs and collateral effects. We felt this was particularly crucial in this region, where commerce can trump dignity, autonomy and inalienable human rights by stealth.
We conducted a 3-city "AI in Asia" conference series in Hong Kong, Seoul and Tokyo between November 2016 and March 2017. The 3 events covered themes such as ethics, security, privacy, innovation, healthcare, urban planning, automation and the future of labour, legal implications, authorship and creativity, and AI for social good. This series unearthed critical lessons in a region that many AI researchers are only now setting their sights on. We will share insights from that multistakeholder, interdisciplinary conference series. We will also share some insights from an event on AI and Trust, which we convened during the 39th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, which took place in Hong Kong in September.
Building on the lessons from our AI series, we will be convening deep dives into the research questions that have particular salience in the developing world when it comes to the AI. We will be collaborating with partners in Asia, such as the Centre for Internet and Society, India, on reseraching issues such as autonomy, discrimination, privacy, and the replication of existing societal disparities and bias. We will also examine the question of how to optimize the positive benefits of AI for societal gain, without harming individuals (especially marginalised and digitally unsophisticated users in the Global South). In this session, Elonnai Hickock from CIS will share their new work in this area, particulalry focused on healthcare as a use case.
Our agenda is to present a synthesis of the key findings from these 2 projects, especially of themes that are distinct from the (so far largely western-focused) narrative about the promise and perils of AI. We will then open up the discussion to include insights from others working with AI in Asia:
Vidushi Marda, Article 19
KS Park, OpenNet Korea and Korea University Law School
Jac sm Kee, lead, Women's Rights Programme at APC
Jake Lucchi, Head of Content and AI, Public Policy, Google Asia Pacific, Hong Kong
Danit Gal, Yenching Scholar, Peking University, China, & Chair, Outreach Committee, The IEEE Global AI Ethics Initiative
Relevance of the Session:
Relevance of the Issue:
Our session has particular relevance for the following Internet Governance (IG) issues:
- the governance of infrastructure: The technologies and platforms that AI is built on and in turn shapes (through machine learning and deep learning) have huge implications for how search, browsing, tracking, surveillance, advertising and other activities are carried out
- the question of inclusion and multistakeholder governance: Many technologies are developed in Silicon Valley or in a western technological paradigm, then "exported" fully-formed to the rest of the world, leaving little room for other interests and perspectives. For example, it has taken a while for the Internet to be governed in a more inclusive and global way, thanks to efforts like the IGF which promote diversity and multistakeholder problem-solving. We want AI not to be another game changing technology that is deployed without the input of global perspectives and diverse, lived experiences
- the issue of transparency and scrutability - AI poses particular risks to the idea of understanding and controlling the systems that we create, given that - by design - it is not coded upfront, and learns on the go, from real life datasets. The idea of transparency and accountability of systems that seem opaque and inscrutable is particularly key to the governance of AI.
Our session is also extremely relevant for the construction of a Digital Future: AI will shape, and is itself shaped, by human behaviour, and has implications for everything from the future of work to informational self determination to the costs of inclusion and exclusion. AI is already “under the hood” in many of the world’s most popular technologies, including browsers, mobile phones, apps, telephone communication with banks and service providers, decision making about credit and benefits, policing and law enforcement, and other aspects affecting citizenship and participation. If we don’t get this right, the social contract between individuals on the one hand, and governments and companies on the other, will be severely imbalanced. If our Digital Future is to be an inclusive, just, transparent and equitable one, a discussion of AI in Asia, not just the western tech hubs, is hugely important.
Tag 1: Artificial Intelligence
Tag 2: Inclusive Digital Futures
Tag 3: Emerging Tech
[Original proposal follows, slightly updated as above]
Interventions:
3 of us, myself, Prof. Park and Vidushi Marda, will present a synthesis about AI in Asia based on the findings from our 2 reports, as described. We will prepare a joint presentation, with each of us highlighting aspects of the findings based on our individual expertise. My perspective, as the Executive Director of a regional hub that organized these events to build capacity about AI; Prof. Park's perspective on how the more developed Asian economies see and implement AI, and what legal or regulatory safeguards might be needed; and Ms. Marda's thoughts on how developing economies approach AI and which angles are different from that of the prevailing western narrative.
Diversity:
Our session has 3 primary presenters, of which 2 are women. I am based in Hong Kong, of Indian ethnicity and British citizenship, running an organization with a regional mandate for Asia, incubated by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Ms. Marda is also female, is based in India, and is the youngest and freshest to the field, out of our group. She represents the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, which has done great work in the field of internet governance and digital rights. She is the next generation of policy advocates in this 10 year old organization. Prof Park is male, based in Seoul, and is a reputed law professor and advocate, as a co-founder of Open Net Korea. He is well known to the IGF world.
I am a first time IGF session organizer, Ms. Marda has never attended an IGF before this one, and Prof. Park has significant experience with the IGF system and the internet governance space. We therefore represent developing and developed perspectives within Asia, a geographic mix, and policy perspectives.
We will invite people from the technical, governmental and private sector worlds to participate in our roundtable, especially those who participated in our AI in Asia series and our Indian capacity building workshop. We have named them here, given the roundtable format, as we wish to treat all prospective attendees voices as equally valuable. However, we will exert considerable efforts to generate a multistakeholder universe within the room, to better engage with the issues. We will especially reach out to young persons whose experience of AI might be very different, to persons with disabilities, and to different geographies.
Onsite Moderator: Malavika Jayaram
Online Moderator: Julianne Chan
Rapporteur: Julianne Chan
Online Participation:
We would be very happy to permit online participation. We have use of the Berkman Klein Center and Harvard Law School's "Question Tool" platform, and will set up an instance in advance of the event to solicit questions during our presentations. Our online moderator will raise them during the interactive part of our 90 minute session (we will present for 30 minutes amongst 3 of
Luca Belli, PhD is Senior Researcher at the Center for Technology and Society (CTS) of Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School, Rio de Janeiro, where he heads the Internet Governance @ FGV project. Luca is also associated researcher at the Centre de Droit Public Comparé of Paris 2 University. Before joining CTS, Luca worked as an agent for the Council of Europe Internet Governance Unit, as a consultant for the Internet Society and served as a Network Neutrality Expert for the Council of Europe.
Amongst other publications, Luca has recently authored De la gouvernance à la régulation de l’Internet, edited by Berger-Levrault, Paris, he has co-authored the Net Neutrality Compendium, edited by Springer, and six reports and other official outcomes of UN Internet Governance Forum, amongst which Community connectivity: building the Internet from scratch. Luca’s works have been i.a. published by Springer, Routledge and the Council of Europe, quoted by the Report on Freedom of expression and the Internet of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Organization of American States and used by the Council of Europe to elaborate the Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers on Network Neutrality.
Luca’s analyses have been published by a variety of media outlets, including Le Monde, The Hill, O Globo and La Stampa. Luca is the co-chair of the IGF Dynamic Coalitions (DCs) on Community Connectivity, on Platform Responsibility and on Network Neutrality. Lastly, he is co-editor of Medialaws.eu and of the Law, State and Telecommunications Review as well as former Board member of the Alliance for Affordable Internet.
UK Government representative (speaker tbc)
Stephen Turner, Twitter EMEA, Head of Public Policy for Belgium. As Head of Public Policy for Belgium, Stephen manages the company's relations with regulatory bodies, lawmakers, policymakers and civil society organisations. Prior to joining Twitter, Stephen worked with the trade association EDiMA, and as a consultant focusing on tech. Stephen is Canadian born with Italian blood. He is @sturner .
Niels Lestrade leads the Internet Referral Unit (NL IRU) at the National Police Intelligence Division of the Dutch Police. Previously he worked as Seconded National Expert at Europol’s Internet Referral Unit in the European Counter Terrorism Centre (ECTC). He has gained wide experience in terrorism investigation and intelligence strategy development. Niels graduated with a Master of Criminal Investigation at the Dutch Police Academy (2015), and a LLM degree in International & European Law (2009) at the University of Amsterdam.
Jamila Venturini is a Brazilian journalist and researcher with experience in Internet governance and human rights. She has done research on privacy and data protection – having analyzed the legal frameworks of Brazil and Costa Rica - and participated in the project Terms of Service & Human Rights as a researcher, having published articles on the topic and co-authored the book "Terms of Service and Human Rights: an Analysis of Online Platforms Contracts". In 2014, Jamila coordinated a national research on Open Educational Resources and since then she is an expert consultant for the annual research on ICT and Education developed by CETIC.br. In 2016, she was a Google Policy Fellow working with Access Now in Costa Rica and now she is a member of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) Advisory Team. Jamila holds a degree in Social Communications from the University of São Paulo and is a master candidate at Flacso Argentina.
Estelle Massé is a Senior Policy Analyst at our Brussels office. Her work focuses on Data Protection, Privacy, Surveillance, Net Neutrality and Trade. Prior to joining Access Now, Estelle interned with European Digital Rights (EDRi), an association of 31 privacy and civil rights groups across Europe and at the UNESCO in Barcelona. Estelle graduated a Master in European Law from the University of Granada, Spain.
Maryant Fernández Pérez is a Senior Policy Advisor at European Digital Rights (EDRi) and a lawyer admitted to the Madrid Bar association since 2012. Maryant defends human rights and fundamental freedoms online in the European Union. She works on intermediary liability (e-commerce, hate speech, counter-terrorism, child protection), digital trade, network neutrality, transparency and internet governance. Maryant is the author of several publications and speaker at multiple conferences in Europe and around the world.
Prior to joining EDRi in 2014, she gained experience at the law firm CCA-ONTIER, Décathlon, the Spanish Ministry of Public Works, the European Law Moot Court Society and the CEU San Pablo University. Maryant received her education from the CEU San Pablo University, the Université Catholique de Lille, the Instituto de Empresa and the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. She holds an LLM in Law in a European and Global Context. Maryant is fluent in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese.
Global Information Society Watch 2017 on National and Regional Internet Governance Forums will be launched in Geneva
Together with a special companion edition: “Internet governance from the edges: NRIs in their own words”
A groundbreaking report analysing National and Regional Internet Governance Forums will be released at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Geneva, Switzerland, on 20 December 2017.
The latest edition of the Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) report will look at local Internet Governance Forums (called NRIs), which are now widely recognised as a vital element of the IGF process. In fact, they are seen to be the key to the sustainability and ongoing evolution of collaborative, inclusive and multistakeholder approaches to internet and ICT policy development and its implementation.
To develop this report we asked researchers in 40 countries from contexts as diverse as the United States, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Pakistan, the Republic of Korea and Colombia to reflect on their local processes – or lack thereof. Authors shed light on the diversity and impact of NRIs over the decade of existence of the IGF, and the challenges experienced in making sure they are fully inclusive. GISWatch also looks at how they have influenced national and regional internet policy and governance processes and spaces.
“Whether you are a veteran or a new participant or simply interested in NRIs, we hope that this edition provokes debate, sparks new ideas and affirms our collective commitment to the internet governance project,” expressed Chat Garcia Ramilo, APC executive director.
Apart from the GISWatch annual report with civil society perspectives on NRIs, this year we also worked with the IGF Secretariat and the organisers of NRIs on a special edition based on data gathered from the NRIs themselves. The two publications provide complementary views on the evolution, current situation and impact of NRIs.
Several of the report authors will be presenting their research at the launch event.
When and where will the report be launched?
Wednesday, 20 December 2017, 13:30 hours (GMT+1), at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Geneva, Switzerland, in Room XXV-E.
https://igf2017.sched.com/event/Co1W
Can it be followed remotely?
You can follow the launch through the #IGF2017 and #GISWatch2017 hashtags. After the launch, we will make the report available for download at the GISWatch website https://www.giswatch.org/2017-national-and-regional-internet-governance-forums
Meanwhile, follow @APC_News and #GISWatch2017 for teasers and insights on the process, and stay tuned!
For press interviews, please contact Valeria Betancourt at valeriab@apc.org.
About GISWatch
GISWatch is collaborative community committed to building an open, inclusive and sustainable information society. The GISWatch reports are a series of yearly reports covering the state of the information society from the perspectives of civil society, but GISWatch is not only a publication, it is a process. The long-term goal of the project is to build policy analysis skills and “habits” into the work of civil society organisations that work in the areas of ICT for development, democracy and social justice.
This year’s GISWatch marks the 10th anniversary of this project, which represents a significant milestone in a process that has evolved in line with the challenges and tensions of internet rights, generating increased attention to and impact of the GISWatch publications. Previous reports have explored such themes as Participation, Access to Infrastructure, Access to Online Information and Knowledge, ICTs and Environmental Sustainability, Internet Rights and Democratisation, The Internet and Corruption, Communications Rights Ten Years after WSIS, Women’s Rights, Gender and ICTs, Communications Surveillance, Sexual Rights and the Internet and Economic, Cultural and Social Rights and the Internet.
http://www.giswatch.org
http://www.apc.org
Launch of the Handbook on Data Protection in Humanitarian Action
Safeguarding the personal data of individuals, particularly in testing conditions, such as armed conflicts and other humanitarian emergencies, is an essential aspect of protecting people's lives, their physical and mental integrity, and their dignity – which makes it a matter of fundamental importance for humanitarian organisations.
This Handbook was published as part of the Brussels Privacy Hub and ICRC’s Data Protection in Humanitarian Action project.
The project brought together humanitarian organisations, the Data Protection Authorities and Privacy Commissioners of the Working Group of the International Conference of Privacy and Data Protection Commissioners' Resolution on Privacy and International Humanitarian Action, academics, companies involved as third party stakeholders, and civil society.
The focus of the Handbook on the application of data protection and privacy principles in humanitarian action, and the implications of these principles in the adoption of new technologies in the humanitarian sphere, such as biometrics, big data and data analytics, cash transfer programming, instant messaging applications, cloud based solutions, and drones.
Tag 1: Data protectionTag 2:Tag 3:Name(s) of Speaker(s):
Chair: Jean Philippe Walter, Deputy Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (Switzerland)
Moderator: Jacobo Quintanilla, Community Engagement Adviser, ICRC
Speakers:
Alessandra Pierucci, Chair of the Consultative Comittee of Convention 108
Massimo Marelli, Head of Data Protection Office, ICRC
Marie-Charlotte Roques-Bonnet, Director of Privacy EMEA, Microsoft
Bryan Ford, Associate Professor, EPFL
Alexandrine Pirlot De Corbion, Advocacy Officer, Privacy International
Name of Online Moderator: Mr. Victorien Hanché, Legal Adviser, ICRC Data Protection OfficeBackground Paper:Past IGF Participation: NoReport Link:Name: Mr. Massimo MarelliOrganizational Affiliation: International Committee of the Red Cross
Wednesday, 20 December Room XVII
First Segment: 11:30-13.00
Lunch Break: 13:00-15:00
Second Segment: 15:00-16:00
More than 95 countries and regions have established succesful IGF processes for their respective communities. At their annual IGF meetings, a number of the national, regional and Youth IGF initiatives (NRIs) have been discussing extensively the notion of rights in the digital world, its importance and current practices in different countries and regions of the world, as well as the global policies and practices and its implications to their respective communities.
Session structure and format:
The first segment will be 90 minutes long, followed by a 120 minutes lunch break. After that, the session will be continued with 60 minutes as the second segment slot.
The initial 90-minutes segment will focus on an interactive discussion on the topic as addressed by the participating NRIs, across and between the national, regional, subregional and Youth IGFs, while the second 60-minutes long segment will be a continuation of an interactive discussion with the audience, both remotely and in the room, then engaging appointed rapporteurs delivering major conclusions and recommendations for the wider community and final wrap up comments from the co-moderators.
Agenda
Each of the NRIs who have committed to participate whether onsite or remotely will identify their designated representative to speak at the NRIs main session.
The session will be opened with a short and comprehensive presentation of the NRIs Network Overview and Evolution, delivered by the NRIs Focal Point, in collaboration with the NRIs.
The co-moderators will introduce the session concept, and open the floor for the NRIs interventions. NRIs will be invited to respond to one of the developed policy questions (presented below), with an effort to achieve geographical balance across five IGF regions.
Confirmed NRIs that will speak onsite:
The session will be moderated across these five policy guiding questions:
Onsite co-moderators:
Janis Karklins, Ambassador of Latvia to UNOG
Anja Gengo, IGF Secretariat
Online co-moderators:
Lianna Galstyan, Armenia IGF, SEEDIG
Oksana Prykhodko, Ukraine IGF
Rapporteurs:
Dustin Phillips, ICANNWiki/IGF-USA
Sajia Yarmal, IGF Afghanistan
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Moderator: Dr Farzaneh Badii, Internet Governance Project
Speaker: Dr Milton Mueller, Professor, Georgia Tech
Speaker: Dr Tatiana Tropina, Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute
Speaker: Brian Cute, CEO, Public Interest Registry
Speaker: Becky Burr, Board Member, ICANN
Speaker: Tim Smith, General Manager, Canadian International Pharmacy Association (remote)
Speaker: Dr Annemarie Bridy, Professor of Law, University of Idaho (remote)
Rapporteur: Ayden Férdeline, ICANN Non-Commercial Users Constituency
Content of the Session:
Private ordering is common in the field of Internet governance, cybersecurity, and cybercrime. Private ordering refers to governance by means of contracts, markets, or voluntary cooperative networks of non-state actors. The Internet relies heavily on private ordering because it is difficult for territorial governments to regulate effectively by traditional methods of intervention.
Private ordering is used in Internet governance institutions such as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). ICANN implements policies through contractual agreements and develops policies via a multistakeholder process rooted in non-state actors. Nevertheless, ICANN’s control of the root of the Domain Name System (DNS) creates a centralized “choke point” where control over website content and Internet expression can be exerted by regulating domain name registries and registrars (for instance, by taking down domains or withdrawing licenses to register names). Most stakeholders believe that ICANN’s authority to coordinate and make policy for the DNS should not be leveraged to make ICANN a content regulator on the Internet.
As part of ICANN’s reform process, a new mission statement was adopted which expressly forbids ICANN from engaging in content regulation. Some interest groups, however, often put pressure on ICANN to use its power over domains to become an Internet regulator. Most notably, this pressure comes from copyright and trademark interests, law enforcement agencies, and some governments.
This workshop will address the following issues:
Tag 1: Domain Name System
Tag 2: Content
Interventions:
The roundtable discussion will bring together different stakeholders participating in ICANN policy-making processes to discuss the issues and the relevance for the wider Internet governance community.
Diversity:
The roundtable format will allow addressing the issues from different perspectives: there will be a gender balance of participants, speakers from all UN-recognised geographic regions, youth participation, and speakers from a wide array of stakeholder groups.
Onsite Moderator: Dr Farzaneh Badii
Online Moderator: Dr Renata Aquino Ribeiro
Rapporteur: Ayden Férdeline
Online Participation:
A remote moderator will enlist questions and comments from the audience during the workshop. Prior to the workshop, the hashtags #NCUC and #InternetPolicy will be used to bring in questions and comments from prospective attendees with the aim of enriching the debate. A collaborative document will gather these questions and comments prior to, during, and after the workshop, and they will be integrated into the report. A variety of media will serve as background material for this debate, based on our previous workshops done at the IGF. We will utilise remote participation tools to ensure an inclusive, accessible, and global audience.
Discussion facilitation:
We will have a virtual hub set-up through Skype to engage the NCUC's globally-dispersed membership in this workshop, we will use Twitter and other social media platforms extensively, and we will give equal priority to both in-person and remote participants when making interventions.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/4098/297
Proposer's Name: Ms. Lorrayne Porciuncula
Proposer's Organization: OECD
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Phillippa Biggs
Co-Proposer's Organization: Broadband Commission for Sustainable Developement
Co-Organizers:
Ms.,Lorrayne,Porciuncula,Intergovernmental Organisation,OECD
Ms.,Phillippa,Biggs,Intergovernmental Organisation,Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development
Session Format: Panel - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: France
Stakeholder Group: Intergovernmental Organizations
Co-Proposer:
Country: Switzerland
Stakeholder Group: Intergovernmental Organizations
Speaker: Lorrayne Porciuncula
Speaker: Phillippa Biggs
Speaker: Sebastián Bellagamba
Speaker: Helani Galpaya
Speaker: Bengt Mölleryd
Speaker: Robert Pepper
Speaker: Amrita Choudhury
Speaker: Michael Ginguld
Content of the Session:
The Agenda for Sustainable Development specifically acknowledges the role of ICTs and the Internet as horizontal enabler for development or as cross-cutting ‘means of implementation’. However, with over half (an estimated 53%) of the world’s population was still not using the Internet by the end of 2016, with only 49% penetration of mobile broadband subscriptions and 12% with fixed broadband access. While there are a number of initiatives at the local, regional and global levels, much needs to be done to expand broadband services in rural and remote areas.
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together representatives from diverse stakeholder groups to explore the new policy and technology approaches to provide universal and meaningful access to these underserved areas. This topic matches the overarching theme of IGF “Shaping Your Digital Future” as it will address how innovative approaches from both the public and private sectors are shaping how we will connect the unconnected. It builds on the IGF’s Best Practice Forum on Policy Options for Connecting and Enabling the Next Billion by presenting new research on different policy approaches being implemented by the public sector and on technology trends being developed by the private sector.
On policy approaches the workshop will discuss issues such as setting national targets of connectivity, universal service policies, rural infrastructure projects, municipal and community networks, public tenders for competitive bidding and open access policies. On emerging technologies to fill the gaps in broadband services, different technological developments will be discussed, including fibre optics, coaxial cable, copper, fixed and mobile wireless, satellites and hybrid approaches. Through an interactive multistakeholder discussion, participants will consider the challenges and solutions for connecting rural and remote areas.
Relevance of the Session:
The Internet is crucial to the important transformations that are happening now and that will continue to take place in the future changing the ways in which humans interact with each other. However, over half the world’s citizens remain unable to benefit from this transformation and the sustainable development potentially enabled by it. The challenge of connecting rural and remote areas cannot be overlooked when addressing the challenges and transformation ahead.
Tag 1: Broadband
Tag 2: Digital Inclusion
Tag 3: Emerging Issues
Interventions:
Speakers for this workshop were selected in terms of their expertise in the subject and on the different perspectives they will bring to this multi-faceted discussion. The moderator will make sure that they present their views in a way to contribute to the objective of the workshop:
Diversity:
This workshop is designed to provide diverse perspectives. It is balanced in terms of stakeholder groups (with intergovernmental organisation, technical community, academia, civil society, government and private sector representation), gender (with a balance of 4 out 8 speakers being women), age (with below 30 representative) and, also geographic representation (European, African, North American, Latin America and Asian).
Onsite Moderator: Lorrayne Porciuncula (OECD)
Online Moderator: Anna Polomska (ITU)
Rapporteur: Verena Weber (OECD)
Online Participation:
Remote participation will be facilitated by the remote moderator who will be involved throughout workshop planning to advise on where remote participation will need to be facilitated. The moderator will frequently communicate with the remote moderator throughout the session to ensure remote participants’ views/questions are reflected. The workshop will be promoted in advance to the wider community to give remote participants the opportunity to prepare questions and interventions and to generate interest in the workshop. We will also ensure the workshop is promoted on OECD’s and Broadband Commission’s websites and via social media, through the hashtag #IGFruralbroadband.
Discussion facilitation:
The moderator will set the stage by providing a context to the workshop, with the latest statistics on rural and remote connectivity in the world.
Through an interactive, multistakeholder dialogue, the workshop will then be structured in two parts guided by the following questions:
1) What are the main existing challenges to expand broadband services to rural and remote areas?
2) Which new policy and technology approaches are already assisting to expand broadband access and which new trends are on the horizon?
After the first and second round of questions, the moderator will open the floor for participation of the audience (remote and on-site). Specific questions which the moderator can pose to speakers will be prepared in advance to aid discussion and debate only if necessary as all participants will be encouraged to contribute to the discussion.The moderator will summarise the main takeaways of the session.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: https://www.intgovforum.org/cms/wks2015/index.php/proposal/view_public/154
Additional Reference Document Link: http://broadbandcommission.org/Documents/reports/bb-annualreport2016.pdf
Additional Speakers:1. Setting the scene (5 minutes) - The moderator will explain the purpose of the workshop, present statistics regarding connectivity in the world and share some of key questions related to policy and technology approaches to expanding broadband to rural and remote areas around the world.
2. Challenges (20 minutes) - The moderator will invite the main panellists to answer the question “What are the main existing challenges to expand broadband services to rural and remote areas?”. Each panellist will have a maximum of 6 minutes to provide their remarks, after which the floor will be opened for the audience or other panellists to add to or discuss the list of challenges identified.
3. New approaches (40 minutes) - The moderator will invite the main panellists to answer the question “Which new policy and technology approaches are already assisting to expand broadband access and which new trends are on the horizon?”. Each panellist will have a maximum of 6 minutes to provide their remarks, after which the floor will be opened for the audience or other panellists to add to or discuss the list of approaches identified.
Policy
Technology
4. Questions and answers (10 minutes): The moderator will open the floor for questions.
5. Summing up (5 minutes): The moderator will summarize the main takeaways of the session.
...Report of the Cybersecurity Main Session
Policy options
Walkthrough of all policy options identified
Highlighting of two policy areas and discussion with panelists and attendees
Areas to develop further stakeholder conversation
Walkthrough of areas to develop further stakeholder conversation identified
Highlighting of the top area we determine and discussion with panelists and attendees on how the BPF can support it in future years
Closing
Agreement on proposals for 2018 topics
Proposer's Name: Mr. Alexandru Frunza-Nicolescu
Proposer's Organization: Council of Europe
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Christian Borggreen
Co-Proposer's Organization: Computer & Communication Industry Association (CCIA)
Co-Organizers:
Mr., Alexandru,Frunza-Nicolescu, Intergovernmental Organisation, Council of Europe
Mr., Christian, BORGGREEN, Private Sector, Computer & Communication Industry Association (CCIA)
Session Format: Panel - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: France
Stakeholder Group: Intergovernmental Organizations
Co-Proposer:
Country: Belgium
Stakeholder Group: Private Sector
Speaker: Paul Fehlinger
Speaker: Gregory Nojeim
Speaker: Alexandru Frunza-Nicolescu
Speaker: Cathrin BAUER-BULST
Speaker: Priscila Costa Schreiner
Speaker: Paul Mitchel
Content of the Session:
Evidence not only in relation to cybercrime, but in relation to any type of crime is nowadays available – often only available – in the form of electronic evidence on a computer system, that is, increasingly on servers stored remotely in the cloud. This raises complex question regarding applicable law and jurisdiction and has major implications on the rule of law and security but also human rights in cyberspace.
The session will start with a brief recap of the discussions in Workshop 87 at IGF 2016 and of the challenge of crime and jurisdiction in cyberspace.
Speakers from law enforcement, industry, academia, international organistations and civil society will then present different solutions from their respective perspectives followed by an inclusive discussion with audience in the room and online.
For example,
• the Council of Europe will present the results of its “cloud evidence working group”, including the solutions recently adopted by the Parties to the Budapest Convention (currently 54 States from all regions of the world) as well as the proposal for an additional Protocol to this treaty on criminal justice access to evidence in the cloud. A common and accepted international solution with human rights and rule of law safeguards is preferable to a jungle of unilateral solutions with risks to state to state relations and the rights of individuals.
• The European Union (EU) is currently seeking to create a common legal framework across the 28 EU Member States. Specifically, the EU is trying to streamline mutual legal assistance (MLA) proceedings, enhance cooperation with service providers and review the rules on enforcing jurisdiction in cyberspace.
• Service providers have taken practical measures to more effectively respond to lawful requests from law enforcement officials, e.g. trainings, transparency reports and establishment of points of contacts.
Presentations will be followed by an exchange of views with the audience on the feasibility of practical and legal solutions, including their implications on human rights and the rule of law in cyberspace.
Relevance of the Session:
Securing electronic evidence in specific criminal investigations is a major challenge for criminal justice authorities as increasingly such evidence in stored on or moving between foreign, multiple or unknown jurisdictions. This has serious implications on the ability of governments to protect the rights of individuals and the rule of law in cyberspace. Common and widely accepted solutions to this challenge help shape the digital future.
Tag 1: Cybercrime
Tag 2: Jurisdiction
Tag 3: Rule of Law
Interventions:
Speakers will provide industry, civil society as well as criminal justice or international organisations perspectives to this question. They have confronted with these challenges in their practical work and have been involved in the shaping of solutions.
Diversity:
The proposed panel includes speakers from different stakeholder groups (civil society, industry, Government), gender and regions (Africa, Americas and Europe).
Onsite Moderator: Christian Borggreen – Director, International Policy, Computer & Communication Industry Association (CCIA)
Online Moderator: Pierluigi Perri, Programme Officer, Council of Europe
Rapporteur: Andrea Candrian, Stv. Chef, International Criminal Law Unit, Federal Office of Justice
Online Participation:
There will be a ratio of ½ between time allocated for interventions of online participants and time allocated to on site participants. There will be a close communication between the online moderator and the on spot moderator. The online moderator proposed for the workshop is experienced and undertook similar positions in other workshops.
Discussion facilitation:
Short three to five minutes presentations made by the speakers will open the discussions and encourage contributions. 80 % of the time of the workshop will be allocated to open discussions. On spot and online participants will be encouraged to present their views and possible solutions.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2016-day-2-room-3-ws87-law-enforcement-cyberspace-jurisdiction
Evidence not only in relation to cybercrime, but in relation to any type of crime is nowadays available – often only available – in the form of electronic evidence on a computer system, that is, increasingly on servers stored remotely in the cloud. This raises complex question regarding applicable law and jurisdiction and has major implications on the rule of law and security but also human rights in cyberspace.
The session will start with a brief recap of the discussions in Workshop 87 at IGF 2016 and of the challenge of crime and jurisdiction in cyberspace.
Speakers from law enforcement, industry, academia, international organistations and civil society will then present different solutions from their respective perspectives followed by an inclusive discussion with audience in the room and online.
For example,
Presentations will be followed by an exchange of views with the audience on the feasibility of practical and legal solutions, including their implications on human rights and the rule of law in cyberspace.
Proposer's Name: Ms. Agustina Callegari
Proposer's Organization: Independent
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Michael Oghia
Co-Proposer's Organization: Independent
Co-Organizers:
Ms., Agustina, CALLEGARI, Civil Society, Independent
Mr., Michael, OGHIA, Civil Society, Independent
Ms. Jelena, Technical community, RNIDS
Session Format: Break-out Group Discussions - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: Argentina
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: Serbia
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Jaifa Margarita Mezher Arango
Speaker: Daniel OMaley
Speaker: Michael Joseph Oghia
Speaker: FRANCISCO CARVALHO DE CRUZ
Speaker: Jelena Ozegovic
Speaker: Evelyn Namara
Content of the Session:
For those who work on Internet policy issues, talking about Internet governance is part of our daily routine. Yet, when we move the discussion outside of the community and into our routine spheres of life, it can often be difficult to explain it and/or difficult to comprehend. As such, the impact of the topics on someone’s life who is not involved in Internet governance processes tends to be less clear. How many of our parent and friends can explain what we do to someone else, for instance?
Since the IGF is a multistakeholder platform that facilitates the discussion of public policy issues pertaining to the Internet, it is important to discuss how we approach those individuals who are not as familiar with Internet policy or involved in the matter – especially if they are end users themselves – and also how to receive more and better attention from the media regarding topics that affect Internet users worldwide. Even though in cases such as the Snowden revelations the attention to the importance of the Internet was more prominent, generally speaking, Internet policy issues are not well understood by people outside the Internet governance ecosystem. This is particularly important as National and Regional IGF Initiatives (NRIs) expand and grow. More, often non-traditional, stakeholders and individual actors will be engaged, many for the first time, and ensuring they understand Internet governance is critical. This also relates to the availability of content relevant to their local context and in local languages, as well as technical matters such as Universal Acceptance.
This session aims to bring together different stakeholders who are working in positions and fields that communicate Internet governance issues to the public in order to identify better practices and new ways of telling engaging stories on the matter. In addition, it seeks to provide a platform for further cooperation and the exchange of ideas between various stakeholders.
During the preparatory process before the IGF will be held, an online questionnaire targeting both Internet governance professionals and the general public will be created by the session organizers and distributed across various channels, such as email lists and social media channels. It aims to gather information on the existing practices and challenges, and to investigate how the general public understands Internet governance-related topics. The results of the questionnaire will be presented in the introduction part of the session.
The session outcome will include a guide with recommendations we plan to publish based on the results of the discussion, along with related links and resources, which we will disseminate by February 2018 as a post-IGF report.
Relevance of the Session:
The issue is relevant for most IGF topics as the idea of the workshop is to discuss how to improve communication about internet governance. The workshop is important to the programme as it is a topic has never been fully addressed before. If we identify better communication practices, we will be able to reach a broader public highlighting why is important for them to shape their digital future.
Tag 1: Multistakeholder Cooperation
Tag 2: Digital Literacy
Tag 3: Multilingualism and Local Content
Interventions:
Breakout sessions are ideal for this type of workshop since we want to brainstorm solutions and recommendations. The workshop will open by an introduction by the moderator, and then facilitators will split the in-person attendees into smaller groups that will then report back (the same will be done for remote participants by the remote moderator).
The small-group facilitators will lead the discussion as well as offer their own insights and suggestions.
List of facilitators.
Luna Madi, Sr Communication Manager, ICANN (EMEA) - technical community
Jelena Ozegovic, Communication Associate at the Serbian national Internet domain registry (RNIDS) (Europe) - technical community
Michael Oghia, independent consultant (Europe) - civil society
Jennifer Chung, dotAsia (Asia) - technical community
Francisco Brito Cruz, InternetLab (LAC) -civil society
Evelyn Namara, Africa Civil Society on Information Society (ACSIS) (Africa) - civil society
Jaifa Margarita Mezher Arango - Government of Colombia (LAC) - government
Dan O’Malley, Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA), North America
Diversity:
The session will have speakers/facilitators from different regions (North America, LAC, Europe, Mena region Asia, Africa) and from different sectors (technical community, civil society, government). In addition, the session has more than 50% of female participants.
Onsite Moderator: Agustina Callegari
Online Moderator: Krishna Kumar
Rapporteur: Mark Datysgeld
Online Participation:
During the session, online participants will also abide by the same format as the on-site participants. The remote moderator will facilitate discussions in the group chat using the IGF platform for remote participation, and report about their discussion. We will invite online journalists already involved in technology and Internet issues to participate and share their opinions as well. Also, social media channels will be important to promote the topic and to reach communication specialist who may be interested in the topics.
Discussion facilitation:
As the session will be a break out discussion, the idea is that there are not speakers at the session. People list as speakers will be leading the discussion as facilitators. After a short introduction of the topic, we propose to divide the audience into four different groups. Each group will have two facilitators of different backgrounds and will be assigned with one of the four main topics (see below). In each group, each facilitator will have no more than five minutes to give an opening statement regarding one of the kicks off questions. After that, everybody will be able to take the mic as will aim to have different perspectives and create a more vibrant discussion. The facilitators will be also in charge of documenting the main points of the discussion, which will be share with others groups in the last part of the session.
Agenda:
Introduction - Welcome, purpose and objective of the discussion with short presentation of the results of the questionnaire - 10 minutes
Break out discussion in 4 groups: 60 minutes
Topics for a break out discussion:
Reaching a broader public: does IG community really needs it or it is a general mantra?
The relationship with the traditional media and journalists: have we given up trying to reach them unless we have some exclusive info?
Local content: good practices and lessons learned
Why should people care about IG topics? How can we make them care?
Share and conclusion- 20 minutes
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: No
Link to Report:
Luna Madi, Sr Communication Manager, ICANN (EMEA) - luna.madi@icann.org
Luna serves ICANN as Director, EMEA Communication.
Jennifer Chung, dotAsia (Asia) - jen@registry.asia
Jennifer is the Director of Corporate Knowledge for DotAsia Organisation and oversees
the knowledge and policy development for DotAsia in the region and in the community.
Topics for a break out discussion:
Proposer's Name: Mr. Parminder Jeet Singh
Proposer's Organization: Just Net Coalition
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Roberto Bissio
Co-Proposer's Organization: Social Watch
Co-Organizers:
Mr. Parminder Jeet, SINGH, civil society, Just Net Coalition,
Mr. Roberto, BISSIO, civil society, Social Watch,
Mr. Hans KLIEN, academic community, Georgia Tech
Valeria BETANCOURT, civil society, Association for Progressive Communications
Mishi CHOUDHARY, Technical community, Software Freedom Law Centre of India
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: India
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: Uruguay
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Pretam Maloor
Speaker: Mishi Choudhary
Speaker: Hans Klein
Content of the Session:
The world had not yet gotten over its shock and awe at the power of open information flows, networking and then big data, that just within the last year or two we see that it will be artificial intelligence (AI) that could be the real game changer. AI hits at the very model of knowledge making that human civilisation has developed over millennia, which is at the base of all its evolution and development. Knowledge building was based on studying empirical facts, developing hypothesis, testing them and building theories and models of general action and prediction. Continuous micro digital mapping of human and allied activities puts so much data or 'facts' in the hands of machines that they can correlate them and find patterns that defy the most sophisticated existing model building practices. Correlation trumps causation and provides much greater predictive value, which can thus be used to control social and natural phenomenon. Whole systems of society can work pretty autonomously based on AI, which for the first time represents a wholesale disembodiment of intelligence as happened with mechanical power with the advent of the industrial revolution.
Those who control AI would be able to exert control across whole sectors, and whole of society, in ways that are unprecedented. Almost all of it is currently owned by corporation, and thus as the trends stand, AI powered society may represent a new level of corporatist re-organisation of society. A society requires both economic efficiency to maximise production as it requires political processes enforcing equity and social justice, for a just distribution of its productive outputs. AI may well solve the issue of production forever, which makes us need to focus on the processes for equity and justice. However, with near complete control over AI by a few corporates, and little political and regulatory advances in this area, it is not clear how AI will helps us more to a more equal rather than unequal society. With AI, where even the machine cannot spell out the basis of its actions other than justifying it with efficient results, the issues of ethics, equity and justice need to addressed anew, starting from conceptual levels, and building political processes and regulatory practices upon them.
This workshop will address these fundamental issues. How can human beings keep track of what AI systems are up to, what is the basis of their actions, which is necessary to anticipate and “control” them? Can some kind of ethical and regulatory super-instructions be built into all AI systems, as a politically enforced requirement, which overwrite all AI actions, however efficient they may otherwise it, and even “controls” its learning? How can these social and political imperatives override straightforward efficiency (and corporate interest) driven AI systems?
These are of course complex issues and questions that stand at the intersection of the socio-political realm and technology developments, which however, in our view, must be begun to be addressed right away as we stand at the cusp of a new technology wave, that could redefine social organisation.
Relevance of the Session:
Almost all big digital corporations have declared that AI will be core to their strategies. We are seeing corporations begin to dominate different social sectors, like transportation, e-commerce etc, increasingly employing AI. Governments like those of the US, UK, and EU have developed policy documents that begin to outline the significant issues regarding regulating AI, but these mostly only acknowledge that there are important social and political issues at hand, and yet do no more than nibble at the margins of the problem. There are alarming instances of AI making racially and gender-based prejudiced decisions on issues as diverse as whether a prisoner gets parole or not, to eligibility for social benefits, credit, employment etc. And of course AI is responsible for increasing displacement of labour, even at the white collar levels. Most of these issues have surfaced in the last two years or so, but the trend is such that massive changes in the next few years are predicted. The issues and questions that the proposal seeks to address therefore are both extremely important as well as urgent. We need a sustained process of dialogue among civil society groups, governments, businesses and the technical community in this regard.
Tag 1: Artificial Intelligence
Tag 2: Social Justice
Tag 3: Regulation
Interventions:
The listed speakers will make some opening remarks and the discussion will then be taken to the round table where everyone will be able to give their views, in two rounds, responding to two sets of questions posed by the moderator. Remote participants will be given an equal chance.
Diversity:
The list of initial speakers have a gender and geopolitical diversity. Since a round table format is being employed, we expect to hear a great diversity of views and perspectives.
Onsite Moderator: Parminder Jeet Singh
Online Moderator: Norbert Bollow
Rapporteur: Nandini Chami
Online Participation:
Online participation will be provided and facilitated, and remote participants given an equal chance to intervene as the physically present ones.
Discussion facilitation:
As mentioned, the subject will first be introduced very briefly by three speakers, and then the moderator will list two set of questions for two rounds of open participation by round table participants.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/wks2014/index.php/proposal/view_public/198
Additional Speakers:
Agenda:
The onsite moderator will open the session with a statement on the intention of workshop organisers. He will also provide a state of play on what is already being done in the area to ensure that artificial intelligence works for and not against equity and social justice, as is often the fear from many accounts of AI's impact.
Time assigned for the introduction is 5 minutes.
Following the moderator, the 5 subject-matter experts will be given 5 minutes each to give their views and perspectives on the issue described above.
Time assigned for the expert statements is 25 minutes
Following the introduction of the subject, and expert statements, interested persons from the attendees of the workshop will be given the opportunity to make short and focused interventions on the precise statement of the problem. They can also make suggestions/ prescribe directions to be taken to ensure that AI actually works for equity and social justice These proceedings will follow a round-table format and the moderator shall make sure that that interventions do not stray from these two avenues detailed above.
Time assigned for interventions is 50 minutes.
The session will conclude with each panelist detailing key take-aways from the session and indicating how it will influence their work going forward. Each speaker will be given 2 minutes.
Time assigned for the conclusion is 10 minutes
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Internet governance discussions and processes have always strived for Inclusion, diversity and participation as their core principles. This ranges from key and emerging issues, to stakeholder groups to regional diversity. Intersecting within and between them are issues of gender, both as an analytical lens, as well as basic equality in participation.
Topics related to gender have formed part of the debates at IGF from the beginning. Different stakeholder groups have brought to the process a gendered focus and lens to policy issues on gender and internet governance; sexuality and freedom of expression; addressing online-gender based violence; access to the internet and the gender digital divide; the importance of fostering women’s leadership in innovation and STEM fields; economic, social and cultural rights including education; privacy and surveillance and its gendered impact; to name a few.
The Geneva Declaration of 2003 committed all stakeholders to ensuring that the Information Society enables women's empowerment and their full participation on the basis of equality in all spheres of society and in all decision-making processes. That gender remains a challenge was affirmed in the December 2015 WSIS+10 resolution of the General Assembly: “We express concern, however, that there are still significant digital divides, such as between and within countries and between women and men, which need to be addressed through, among other actions, strengthened enabling policy environments and international cooperation to improve affordability, access, education, capacity-building, multilingualism, cultural preservation, investment and appropriate financing. Further, we acknowledge that a gender divide exists as part of the digital divides, and encourage all stakeholders to ensure the full participation of women in the information society and women’s access to new technologies, especially information and communications technologies for development.” (para 6 A /70/L.33)
In the past 5 years, there has also been a growing number of workshop proposals that aim to facilitate more focussed discussions on specific issues related to gender, as well as a stronger integration of gender into key and emerging themes. The IGF Gender Report Card – introduced by APC and the Gender DC in 2012 – have been a sustained effort to monitor inclusion in terms of issues as well as numbers, supported by the IGF Secretariat since 2014.
This clearly demonstrates investment and interest by the IGF community to both deepen and broaden the integration and inclusion of gender in the process.
The SDG Goal 5 that looks at a range of targets related to gender equality and empowerment of women and girls specifically cites ICTs as an important area for policy development. This provides an opportunity as well as a clear impetus for to seriously consider gender in current developments that will impact on the future of the internet.
This main session aims to foreground a discussion on gender and internet governance and policy. It will provide a space for stock-taking and discussion on key issues that have emerged and are emerging, including challenges and recommendations for ways forward; as well as specifically, what does it mean to integrate gender into internet governance processes?
Agenda
The session will be divided into two segments and aims to be lively and participatory in approach, helmed by two dynamic moderators who have rich knowledge and experience in this area.
The first segment will discuss key issues related to gender and internet policy, including access, intersectionality, new and emerging technologies and addressing online gender-based violence. The second segment will facilitate a discussion on internet governance processes, mechanisms and structures, and aim to surface some recommendations on improvements to better integrate gender.
Moderators
Discussants
TITLE: Moderating illegal content online and staff welfare – Where do the responsibilities lie?
The price others pay for digital dumping – Aspects of online child protection. Huge volumes, unknowable quantities, of unambiguously illegal or profoundly harmful materials are circulating on the Internet. Child sex abuse materials (CSAM) and terrorist propaganda are the types of content most frequently mentioned in this context but there are several others.
There has been an entirely proper focus on the supply chain companies use to manufacture or deliver their products or services. Typically, these initiatives have been designed to eliminate child labour, slavery or environmental harms. Isn’t it time internet businesses and institutions were pressed to do something for those who daily have to face the unfaceable on our behalf?
Already we are aware of at least one case that is being brought in a US court by ex moderators who claim their former employer did not do enough to shield them from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Whatever the eventual outcome of that case might be it seems a portent of other actions that could be brought. However, our aim should be to avoid the possibility of such suits by insisting on high standards.
INHOPE co-ordinates a global network of hotlines that receive reports of CSAM. To be a member of INHOPE a hotline has to sign up to several commitments in terms of staff welfare needs e.g. access to counsellors, safe spaces and secure places.
Any company or institution/platforms employing moderators, either in-house or via third parties, should sign up to something similar to the standards that institutions like INHOPE and IWF use for their own analysts who review CSAM all day long, something similar and there should be a mechanism to reassure the public that its terms are being honoured in practice, not just in theory.
Speakers:
Proposer's Name: Ms. Gisella Gori
Proposer's Organization: Council of Europe
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Lee Hibbard
Co-Proposer's Organization: Council of Europe
Co-Organizers: Ms. Gisella Gori, International organisation, Council of Europe
Session Format: Flash Session - 30 Min
Proposer:
Country:
Stakeholder Group: Intergovernmental Organizations
Co-Proposer:
Country:
Stakeholder Group: Intergovernmental Organizations
Chair: Corina Calugaru, Main speaker: Janice Richardson, Speakers: Elizabeth Milovidov and Martin Schmalzried
Content of the Session:
Launch of the new edition of the Council of Europe Internet Literacy Handbook. Since the first edition of the Internet Literacy Handbook was issued in 2003 the world of the Internet has changed tremendously. The number of Internet users has risen; users are increasingly younger, trends in how people use the Internet and what they are looking for evolve, and new risks, for example, in relation to personal security arise seemingly overnight. Through a quiz for the audience and related short presentations of sections of the Handbook, the speakers of the session will cover how the new edition of the Internet Literacy Handbook takes into account the many changes and challenges of internet. The Handbook's goal is to continue offering young people, families, educators and policy-makers sufficient and up-to-date technical know-how to allow them to navigate through communication technology.
Relevance of the Session:
The Internet Literacy Handbook is a tool for children, parents, teachers and policy makers to be able to make the most of Internet and prepare future generations to use the Internet safely an confidently by being aware of opportunities and risks. The Internet Literacy Handbook sets out to provide information and promote reflection on some of the more complex ethical, sociological and cultural issues that are intrinsically linked to digital- and media-related activities which have taken on such a large role in the lives of a majority of people in many parts of the world. Although this edition proposes a similar structure, the content has been completely updated and new Fact sheets added, with special focus also on the technology of tomorrow.
Tag 1: Human Rights Online
Tag 2: Child Online Protection
Tag 3: Child Safety
Interventions:
Following a brief introduction by Janice Richardson, creator of Safer Internet Day and Senior consultant on children’s rights, education and awareness (Insight), Elizabeth Milovidov, Consultant and Coach on Digital Parenting, will animate an interactive dialogue alternating quizzing the audience with short presentations of the Handbook related to the quiz questions. Janice, Elisabeth and the third author of the Handbook, Martin Schmalzried, Senior Policy Officer, COFACE (Confederation of Family Organizations in the EU) will participate in the dialogue and the Q&A session.
Diversity:
Diversity is ensured by gender and regional origin of the speakers (Canada, Europe, USA). The speakers are child protection experts from civil society. The session will bring together international organisations, government, civil society and youth. Internet companies are being approached to bring their perspectives.
Onsite Moderator: Elizabeth Milovidov
Online Moderator: Susie.morgan@coe.int
Rapporteur: Gisella Gori
Online Participation:
The session will mobilise government representatives from the Pan-European region responsible for child protection at the national level. Tweets and social media coverage will be covered by Council of Europe colleagues responsible for communications.
Discussion facilitation:
Balancing quiz questions and presentations, the moderator will ensure the interactive dialogue between the on-site audience and those connecting remotely.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: No
Link to Report:
Additional Reference Document Link: https://rm.coe.int/internet-literacy-handbook/168075debb
Proposer's Name: Mr. Garland McCoy
Proposer's Organization: Technology Education Institute
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Bill Ash
Co-Proposer's Organization: IEEE
Co-Organizers:
Mr. Garland T. McCoy, Civil Society, Technology Education Institute
Mr. Bill Ash, Technical Community, IEEE
Session Format: 90 minute Round Table with moderated flash presenations by key speakers, audience interaction and final suming up by Moderators and Rapporteurs
Proposer:
Country: United States
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: United States
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Speaker: Bill Ash
Speaker: Nilmini Rubin
Speaker: Omar Ansari
Speaker: Vint Cerf
Speaker: Manu Bhardwaj
Speaker: Kristopher Haag
Speaker: Wisdom Donkor
Content of the Session:
According to the World Atlas 67% of the developing world is still without household electricity in 2017. This translates into roughly 1.3 billion citizens in the world today lack access to reliable power/electricity to serve their daily needs, power healthcare facilities, education, and home/personal uses. The Internet is viewed as a “right”, and the world recognizes the importance of creating affordable access to the Internet and the online world, yet the role of power/electricity is often ignored. To date, at the IGF, there has been significant focus on addressing the digital divide. Yet, the role of power/electricity is just now being put on the front burner at the IGF2017.
This is a critical opportunity, and this workshop will bring together experts who can speak to how they are addressing solving the power challenges in different situations – some in rural areas, and some in smart villages and smart cities.
Advancements in technology have provided the opportunity to generate and store power/electricity in small mobile units suitable for deployment in rural areas in developing countries at affordable price. These units can, for example, serve the increasing power needs of communications towers and do so with clean renewable power as well as serve the needs of the local communities setting up business opportunities with established anchor tenants. Additionally, technology advancements hold the promise of delivering much needed baseload generation to stand up industrial development, education, healthcare, major infrastructure projects, information/content processing, storage (caching), transit, etc. Delivering electricity and access will help advance work on the UN’s SDGs (see link to UN SDGs site … https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs)
Format: 90-minute Roundtable
Setting the Stage:
Moderator: Marilyn Cade, President, ICT Strategies, Private Sector, USA
Key Speakers:
Kristopher Haag, Director, New Business Development & Emerging Technologies, EMI Advisors, Private Sector, USA
Manu Bhardwaj, Vice President for Research and Insight, MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth, Private Sector, USA
Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Global Policy Development, Google, Private Sector, USA
Nilmini Rubin, Vice President, International Development, Tetra Tech, Private Sector, USA
Bill Ash, Strategic Program Manager for the IEEE Standards Association, Technical Community, USA
Wisdom Donkor, National Information Technology Agency Ghana, Government, Ghana
Omar Mansoor Ansari, President, TechNation, Technical Community, Afghanistan
Following the speakers 20 minutes will be devoted to moderated interactive participation with the speakers and the audience (live and remote)
The final 10 minutes of the program will be devoted to key points and messages of the roundtable talks and discussions captured by the moderator and rapporteur and delivered as a summation of the workshop.
Rapporteurs:
Lee McKnight, Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, Technical Community, USA (remote hub)
Garland McCoy, President, Technology Education Institute, Private Sector, USA
Contact: Garland McCoy, President, Technology Education Institute
gmccoy@technologyeducationinstitute.org
Relevance of the Session:
The Internet is "fueled"/ enabled by electricity and this fact is taken for granted and rarely discussed in developing countries where it is ubiquitous, reliable and affordable. This is not the case in developing countries where it is often the "elephant in the room" when discussing the challenges of providing access in remote/rural areas. This workshop will deal with recent technologies that have both merged the Internet and electricity with the introduction of IoT (Internet of Things) enabled electrical machines, appliances and devices that are both connected to the electricity grid/network and the Internet bringing unimagined synergistic benefits in energy efficiencies and have brought down prices such that electricity generation/ capture and storage can be done remotely to provide both reliable and affordable power that will greatly enable and leverage the benefits of Internet access. This issue is relatively new to the IGF but critically important to addressing the UN's SDGs and are important topics to begin to discuss at the IGF. The synergy of access and electricity will "Shape our Digital Future"
Tag 1: Critical Internet Resources
Tag 2: #sustainabledevelopment
Tag 3: Emerging Tech
Interventions:
I will have an excellent moderator with Marilyn Cade who was part of the IGF MAG and is very knowledgeable in managing IGF workshop and diverse issues. She will be joined by officials from Government, professional standards groups, the private sector and other parties. We will be aggressive in assuring participation from both the in room and online participants.
Diversity:
Of the seven speakers and one moderator invited we will have two females. We will have experts from Government, private sector, professional standards setting group, an NGO, and Civil Society. We will have speakers from the US, Africa, and Asia represented. We will reach out to the University Community through Mastercard's Foundation and their affiliation with Colleges and Universities world wide as well as through Syracuse Universitiy.
Onsite Moderator:
Rapporteur: Garland McCoy (onsite) Lee McKnight (remote hub)
Online Participation:
Lee McKnight, Associate Professor, School of Information Studies will be handling an online hub for participaiton from Syracuse University. Professor Lee has participated in numerous IGF conferences in the the past both in person and online and has already lined up a number of students and falculty to participate.
This will be the eleventh IGF workshop that I have hosted and everyone has enjoyed robust online and remote participation. I am very confident we will have robust online participation. In addition to Professor Lee at Syracuse University we have Bill Ash who is with IEEE and their global membership base is impressive and will be encouraged to get online and participate.
Discussion facilitation:
The moderator will solicit questions from both the in-room and online attendees and have ready to go questions that will keep the audience engaged and the speakers on their toes. We will be in a round table format but will stager the chairs to give a sense on openness and accessibility. My eleven years of hosting workshops has taught me the importance of makeing the venue as inviting to attendees as possible. We will make this workshop fun, and educational.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2016-day-3-room-8-ws271-civil-society-and-private-sector-build-ict-support-for-sdgs
Proposer's Name: Ms. Isabel Skierka
Proposer's Organization: Digital Society Institute
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Sven Herpig
Co-Proposer's Organization: Stiftung Neue Verantwortung
Co-Organizers:
Isabel SKIERKA, Civil Society,Digital Society Institute
Sven HERPIG, Civil Society, Stiftung Neue Verantwortung
Session Format: Debate - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: Germany
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: Germany
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Tatiana Tropina
Speaker: Zahid Jamil
Speaker: Maarten van Horenbeeck
Speaker: Msonza Natasha
Content of the Session:
This workshop will debate the motion „This house believes that governments should have authority, under certain circumstances, to ‘hack back’ devices which serve as attack tools in order to neutralize the threat posed to systems within their jurisdiction.”
Two teams of two speakers will each present statements favoring either very strict or loose safeguards concerning the motion. They will address government hacking, cyber security and related issues, such as civil liberties and human rights, encryption, technology vulnerability handling, and the future of internet security.
Consider the following cases:
- A peer-to-peer botnet consisting of hundreds of thousands of internet of things (IoT) devices is mounting unprecedented distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against critical infrastructure. They have already brought down a DNS service provider and threaten to attack hospital networks. The botnet can be rendered ineffective by remotely accessing and ‘hacking’ the IoT devices to make them unresponsive to the botnet malware.
- An online child pornography network is operating with Tor-hidden services in the dark net. The perpetrators’ identity and location are not known. The only way to identify them, break the child pornography network and put the perpetrators on trial is to indiscriminately and automatically install software on computers of all platform users worldwide through an unknown and unpatched exploit in the Tor browser bundle.
- A command and control server with an unknown location, probably on foreign territory, is spreading malware attacking critical infrastructure in a country.
These situations are not hypothetical. Similar cases have occurred over the past months and years, and will continue to occur in the future. In response to these new challenges, a growing number of governments are considering or already taking steps to authorize ‘hack backs’ by their law enforcement agencies (and the military) – albeit mostly under specific circumstances and with a warrant only. These steps are met with fierce resistance from experts, civil society, and politicians, who warn that the collateral damage in terms of security (e.g. through stockpiling of exploits) as well as a potential abuse of civil liberties and privacy through unauthorized access on individuals’ devices will outweigh any possible benefits.
Hence, the core question of this workshop is: should law enforcement agencies have the authority to hack back computer systems that pose a severe threat to individual and public safety, no matter where they are located, in order to protect their citizens’ and others’ security?
What would be the consequences for users, critical internet infrastructure operators and service providers, if governments start adopting rules allowing them to hack back more easily? Would this mean more or less collective security? What would it mean for international relations if governments across the world start hacking back without regard to jurisdictions? What could be an alternative?
AGENDA
5 minutes: The Chair introduces the speakers, context, and format of the debate. The Chair will pose the questions throughout the debate which each speaker has 4 minutes to respond to. The questions are provisional for now.
Question 1: Will an expanded practice of government hack backs result in more or less collective security?
16 minutes: Each of the four speakers has 3-4 minutes to respond to the question.
Question 2: Should governments refrain from expanding hack back authorizations and adopt alternative measures, if so, which ones?
16 minutes: Each of the four speakers has 3-4 minutes to respond to the question.
10 minutes: Speakers will respond to each other and specific points made throughout the debate. The Chair will facilitate the discussion.
20 minutes: The Chair opens the debate to all workshop participants. Participants can address questions to speakers which speakers have a maximum of 2 minutes to respond to. After 15 minutes, one speaker of each team will summarize the results in 1 or 2 minutes.
20 minutes: The Chair will open and moderate the debate among everyone. Each participant can make an intervention (original point or response) of a maximum of 2 minutes.
3 minutes: The Chair will briefly summarize and close the debate.
Relevance of the Session:
Cyber security is becoming an increasingly relevant Internet governance issue. Debates about 'hard' cyber security issues, including when governments launch computer based attacks against each other or third parties, have usually taken place behind closed doors. However, decisions about cyber security affect everyone, especially users, and the architecture of the internet as a whole. With this workshop, we aim to open up the debate about cyber security and specifically about the role of governments in the digital realm. We believe this debate is necessary in a multistakeholder format, as decisions taken about hacking today will affect the future online experience of every user on the internet, and the openness and security of the internet as a whole.
Tag 1: Cybersecurity
Tag 2: Human Rights
Tag 3: Cybersecurity Norms
Interventions:
The speakers will pair into two teams of two or three speakers each and present statements favoring either very strict or loose safeguards concerning the motion. All speakers are highly experienced in the field of cyber security and cross-border challenges for law enforcement, in particular, from their respective perspectives. The debate format allows speakers to frame their arguments as precisely and pointedly as possible from their respective perspective, but also keeping in mind more general aspects of the debate. Moreover, speakers will address both ‘pro’ and ‘contra’ aspects of the subject in question (expansion of government hacking authorities). Additional representatives from government or international organizations will be invited to join the debate.
The opening up of the debate after half of the workshop will ensure that speakers will actively discuss with workshop participants and be part of the broader debate.
Diversity:
The four speakers are renowned experts on cyber security, including human rights and technical security, and have written, spoken and consulted on this issue extensively. Coming from civil society, academia, the technical community and the private sector, and originating from Europe, Africa and Asia, they represent diversity in terms of stakeholder group and geography, as well as gender (with 2 female and 2 male speakers). Additional representatives particularly from government will be invited to join the debate.
Hence, the speakers will present diverse arguments and perspectives on the different and complex angles of the debate about government hack backs.
Onsite Moderator: Isabel Skierka
Online Moderator: David Krystof
Rapporteur: Lorena Jaume-Palasi
Online Participation:
The debate will be moderated by an on-site and by an online moderator. The event will also be promoted online in advance, including instructions on how to join the conversation remotely. The online moderator will ensure that online participants can directly communicate questions and statements to the Chair. The Chair will communicate via a laptop with internet connection. In the second part of the debate, every second or third question or intervention will come from a remote participant. The discussion will also be live-tweeted and remote participants can also join the discussion via Twitter.
Discussion facilitation:
The debate will be facilitated by the Chair of the debate. The Chair will first introduce the format, speakers and then actively moderate the debate. The Chair will also manage the allocated time among the two sides (see agenda). The first part of the workshop will be dedicated to a debate among speakers, inspired by the Oxford debating format. The second part of the debate will be ‘open floor’ among all participants of the workshop.
In the first part, speakers will answer to two questions, one after another and within pre-defined time slots of 3 to 4 minutes. Afterwards, the Chair will facilitate a 10 minute discussion among speakers in which they can respond to points made by the other teams in speeches of a maximum of 2 minutes. In the second section of the workshop, the debate will be opened to the floor. In the first 20 minutes of this part, workshop participants (on site and online) can address questions to speakers which speakers have a maximum of 2 minutes to respond to. During the last 20 minutes, the Chair will open and moderate the debat
Proposer's Name: Mr. Menno Ettema
Proposer's Organization: Council of Europe - No Hate Speech Movement
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Ruxandra Pandea
Co-Proposer's Organization: Youth Department - Council of Europe
Co-Organizers:
Ruxandra Pandea, Youth Department - Council of Europe
Gisella Gori, Council of Europe, Children’s Rights Division
Session Format: Break-out Group Discussions - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: France
Stakeholder Group: Intergovernmental Organizations
Co-Proposer:
Country: Hungary
Stakeholder Group: Intergovernmental Organizations
Speaker: Milosh Ristovski
Speaker: Gisella Gori
Speaker: Ambassador Corina Calugaru
Content of the Session:
Overview
Participation of young people in decision making is a structured process which, if done meaningfully and ethically, can bring social inclusion of young people and further support society develop. Youth participation in society at all levels and in all its areas has been always at the core of the mission of the youth sector of the Council of Europe as also reflected in the recent Recommendation CM/Rec(2016)7 on access to rights of young people.
The ladder of youth participation developed by Richard Hart proposes 9 stages of participation ranking from manipulation and tokenism to young people’s initiative and co-decision making with adults (authorities).
In order for young people to be able to participate they should have the rights, the means, the space, the opportunity and the support to participate (RMSOS model).
When shaping the future of the internet, often enough those who participate are media and politically literate and they can navigate the circles that involve governments, businesses and civil society in shaping the Internet. However, a much broader array of young people are using the internet and are affected by the ways it is regulated and they do not have the means or the support to participate. Equally, the internet through its nature also allowed for new forms of participation and organisation of young people to emerge, along with new means for reaching out to young people otherwise remote from centres of decision making.
The “workshop” will explore how participation of young people in shaping the internet can be ensured without reproducing and creating new patterns of discrimination and equally how can the internet support further youth participation, association and expression in society.
The Council of Europe youth sector has a unique model of youth participation in decision making at political and programme level, the co-management where representatives of youth organisation (gathered in a body called Advisory Council on Youth) and representatives of the states-party to the European Cultural Convention (European Steering Committee on Youth) take decisions together by consensus.
The Youth Department has also explored through its No Hate Speech Movement Campaign, as well as through its work on participation the potential offered by the Internet and the ways young people can be involved in decision making in Internet governance. In October 2017, a seminar entitled “Youth participation in Internet governance” will have produced recommendations on how youth participation can be enhanced. The recommendations will also be presented and discussed in the workshop.
Programme
16:40 Introduction to the workshop and of participants
16:45 Introduction to the RMSOS model and the conclusions of the seminar on youth participation.
17:00 Exploring with participants the RMSOS model in terms of Internet Governance and the recommendations
17:30 Discussion on youth participation in Internet Governance based on participants’ recommendations with:
18:00 Conclusions, wrapping up the session
Relevance of the Session:
The theme of the Internet Governance Forum as well as the Forum in general are concerned with the role different stakeholders take in shaping the digital future be it individual or collective. Young people are active users of the Internet and they also shape it by the way they use it, they are target of marketing campaign, developers, policy makers. But not all young people can take part in the discussion and these processes, often scattered and confusing, in the same way. Some do not understand the political meaning of their participation, while others have more insight and take part in discussions about the way the internet is regulated, the ways various stakeholders as well as technological developments are brought to use, some are initiators. However, they are all impacted by all these decisions and developments.
The workshop is concerned on how to make this process fair and accessible to everyone, how to increase the opportunities, means and support young people have in order to meaningfully engage, along with raising the awareness of various stakeholders of their role in ensuring these processes.
Tag 1: Youth Participation
Tag 2: Human Rights Online
Tag 3: Democracy
Interventions:
Milosh Ristovski, represents Centre for Intercultural Dialogue in the Advisory Council on Youth. He has extensive experience in the co-management and youth participation (European Youth Forum, national youth council, international organisations) and has been involved in advocating for better youth participation in Internet governance, backed by proper media and political literacy.
Gisella Gori, Policy officer of the Children’s Rights Division of the Council of Europe. The division has been instrumental in setting up such programmes Building a Europe with and for Chidren,
Ambassador Corina Calugaru, Thematic Coordinator on Information Policy (TC-INF), Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Republic of Moldova to the Council of Europe
Diversity:
All speakers are new to IGF. The speakers also represent a diversity regarding gender, regional representation (Canada, Europe, Africa) and come from Intergovermental organisations, civil Society, internet startups and have been involved in national governmental processes regarding internet governance.
Onsite Moderator: Ruxandra Pandea
Online Moderator: Ron Salaj
Rapporteur: Irina Drexler
Online Participation:
The session will be announced through the social media channels of the No Hate Speech Movement (outreach Europe, Morocco, Mexico, Canada, India, United States of America), as well as through the youth organisations and states authorities responsible for youth that are partners with the Council of Europe.
The participants in the Council of Europe seminar “Youth participation in Internet Governance” will take part online and introduce the results of their seminar to the participants in the workshop. The recommendations elaborated in the seminar would have been by the time of the Forum also consulted with other stakeholders such as the local communities and organisations/institutions/ of the participants in the seminar, the Joint Council on Youth. This will be a chance to get a final feedback.
Online participation will be secured with the support of the online moderator. Discussions onsite will also be carried online with the participants (considered a working group of their own), as well as questions are to be brought in.
The session will be either livestreamed via video or a live twitter with a share of slides prepared in advance to ensure everyone can equally participate.
Discussion facilitation:
The session consist of 6 steps
1. Plenary introduction, this intends to give a quick baseline for all participants to start from.
2. Round table with 2 speakers to introduce the topic of youth participation in Internet governance
3. Exploring youth participation in the realities of the participants in the breakout session and critical reflection (working groups)
4. Introduction of the recommendations of the seminar
5. Discussion, completion of the recommendations (in small groups).
6. Conclusions and closure.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: No
Link to Report:
16:40 Introduction to the workshop and of participants
16:45 Introduction to the RMSOS model and the conclusions of the seminar on youth participation.
17:00 Exploring with participants the RMSOS model in terms of Internet Governance and the recommendations
17:30 Discussion on youth participation in Internet Governance based on participants’ recommendations with:
18:00 Conclusions, wrapping up the session
...90 Min Panel co-organised by the OECD and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication (MIC) of Japan.The panel considered some of the social and economic policy considerations raised by Artificial Intelligence (AI), notably its implications for productivity, jobs, skills and education, but also issues related to ethics, safety and responsibility.
Workshop contacts: Karine Perset, Nobu Nishigata, Yuki Yokomori
Speakers : Wonki Min Masahiko Tominaga Karine Perset Joanna Bryson Carolyn Nguyen Karen McCabe Jean-Marc Rickli
Key themes that emerged from the presentations were that:
AI is a dual-use technology that holds considerable promise but that raises new economic, social, ethical and governance challenges.
AI is created by people who must take responsibility for shaping AI’s development and for deciding on AI’s place in society.
A partnership between technologists and policy makers is needed: technological choices increasingly carry policy implications.
There is a need for international best practice analysis and benchmarking of social and ethical implications of AI technologies.
A multi-stakeholder approach to policymaking for AI is essential to ensure a human-centric, positive, effective and inclusive digital future.
Each speaker gave a short presentation.
Wonki Min, Chair of the OECD’s Committee on Digital Economy Policy (CDEP), introduced the issues and speakers and moderated the discussion. The workshop was co-organised by the OECD and Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) and focused on identifying priorities for public policy in relation to artificial intelligence and discussing the role of different stakeholders.
Masahiko Tominaga, Vice Minister for Policy Coordination at the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) presented the work conducted by MIC’s “Conference toward AI Network Society”, which was established to investigate social, economic, ethical and legal issues of AI that require international attention. The study assessed the impact and risks of AI networked systems, such as malfunction, leakage of sensitive data or bias in AI decision-making. It also formulated “AI R&D Guidelines” with five core values; human-centered, non-binding, balancing benefits & risks, technologically neutral and constantly reviewed and revised as necessary. It provided nine principles that AI researchers and developers should pay attention to: 1) collaboration; 2) transparency, 3) controllability, 4) safety, 5) security, 6) privacy, 7) ethics, 8) user assistance and 9) accountability.
Karine Perset, Economist/Policy Analyst, Digital Economy Policy Division at the OECD, introduced the OECD’s work on AI. The OECD Committee on Digital Economy – or CDEP – is beginning its analytical work on AI, taking stock of opportunities and challenges raised by AI and of national and international AI initiatives by governments and by stakeholder groups. The OECD also plans to look at ways to measure some of the impacts of AI and to consider high-level principles for AI to help guide the development of AI. She gave an overview of main findings of a recent OECD event that is informing the work going forward (http://oe.cd/ai) that involves the parts of the OECD that handle employment policy, education policy, consumer policy, privacy policy as well as science and technology policy and space policy, because AI impacts so many different economic and social areas.
Joanna Bryson, reader at the University of Bath in the UK and Affiliate at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University provided a high-level overview of the ethical dimensions of AI. Defining intelligence as doing the right thing at the right time in a dynamic environment, she said that intelligence requires: i) a set of contexts that can be perceived; ii) a set of actions that can be performed; and iii) associations between the detected contexts and the actions. She argued that Artificial General Intelligence is a myth, because AI, like natural intelligence, is constrained by what computer scientists term combinatorics (the inconceivably vast number of things an intelligent system might think or do) and because AI systems are constructed using architectures that limit AI to the knowledge and potential actions that make sense for a given application. She stressed that both humans and machine intelligence exploit existing knowledge and search that is shared via language. She added that both machines and reality tends to replicate biases. Defining ethics as the way a society defines and governs itself to ensure group-level stability, she said that AI and ethics are both authored by people who are responsible for deciding AI’s place. Unlike people, AI cannot be a moral subject or be liable as it cannot suffer / be punished.
Carolyn Nguyen, Director of Technology Policy at Microsoft recalled the economic promise of AI that could double economic growth by 2035, boost labor productivity and accelerate attainment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. She said that AI works by searching for patterns in large data sets and then by using these patterns to make predictions or recommendations. AI can help enable new leapfrogging when used by subject matter experts e.g. in healthcare. She highlighted that the OECD’s October 2017 conference (oe.cd/ai) had agreed on the need for: a human-centered AI that amplifies human ingenuity and earns the trust of all the stakeholders involved. She emphasised the importance of multi-stakeholder dialogue in order to shape the development of AI and introduced the ‘Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society,’ a major initiative formed in September 2016 originally by the private sector that now has over 50 partner organisations.
Karen McCabe, Senior Director of Technology Policy and International Affairs at the IEEE Standards Association presented the IEEE’s “Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems”. She explained that the IEEE had started discussing ethical design in 2015 and now had close to 300 experts worldwide engaged in this initiative which was composed of 13 working groups. She encouraged participants to have a look at the recently launched ethically aligned design principles version 2 that contains a set of recommendations, primarily for technologists and developers. She said that the IEEE standardization ecosystem is evolving to account for social issues such as transparency of autonomous system, data privacy process and well-being metrics and that IEEE is working on standards to integrate ethics, trust and privacy by design into technical standards.
Mark Rickli, Global Risk and Resilience Cluster Leader, Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP) presented a global civic debate initiative on AI entitled the “AI Initiative for Society” that was established by the Future Society of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. This initiative has created an online platform that lets individuals contribute their thoughts on issues related to AI and extracts issues for further discussion online. The Initiative has identified six major issues of AI: i) reinventing the man/machine relationship; ii) security and safety; iii) governance of AI, iv) adapting the workforce for the age of AI; v) driving AI for public good; vi) imageries of AI. He explained that the Initiative would hold discussions of increasing depth, the result of which would be distilled into policy recommendations.
An active discussion among the participants focussed on the following topics:
AI as a computational intelligence tool that leverages past learnings: Workshop participants explained that AI works by searching for patterns in large data sets and then by using these patterns to make predictions or recommendations; i.e. that it is a computational intelligence tool to make predictions or provide insights based on past learnings. They said that AI was akin to machines that could ‘do the right thing at the right time in a dynamic environment’ but that AI systems are constructed using architectures that limit AI to the knowledge and potential actions that make sense for a given application.
Income inequality and work: Participants discussed AI’s potential impact on inequality and on the future of work. They said that AI is poised to change the future of work, in terms of both the nature of work and the required skills. Some participants felt that, without policy action, AI is likely to worsen inequality of income and wealth distribution, which they said may call for strengthening and broadening social protection nets and perhaps considering policy options such as basic income. Another priority highlighted in the workshop was to help people develop AI skills, including digital skills and lifelong skills, and to ensure broad access to AI technology.
The man/machine relationship and human self-determination: Workshop participants discussed the importance of AI supporting humans and of people maintaining self-determination a
...Proposer's Name: Mr. MINGLEI SHE
Proposer's Organization: China Association for Science and Technology
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Xu ZHAO
Co-Proposer's Organization: China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT)
Co-Organizers:
Prof.Mr Xiaofeng TAO,Civil Society,Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT)
Ms. Xu ZHAO,Civil Society,China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT)
Session Format: Panel - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: China
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: China
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Speaker: Xiaofeng Tao
Speaker: Cai Chen
Speaker: Otieno Omondi
Speaker: Abdelkarim Benabdallah
Speaker: Mikhail Komarov
Content of the Session:
The smart city is the future of urbanization; A city whose foundation is information technology especially integrating IoT is known as smart city. The innovative technologies (IoT, big data, cloud computing, AI etc.) developed over the last five years start to draw a picture of what smart cities will look like within the next decade. Smart City is about smart technology, but it is also about smart governance, smart people and smart economy. This session will bring a full view of how to improve quality of life, foster economic growth, and deliver on eco- sustainability initiatives utilizing IoT for smart cities. It will present smart city framework, development tools and policies in different filed, such as smart transportation, smart Energy and water management, smart environment, smart health care etc. Besides, considerations for regulation & management for smart cities will be displayed through some best practices, and those practices in different perspectives from different nations, department and stakeholders and the challenges of future smart cities would be addressed and discussed.
Relevance of the Session:
The purpose of this workshop is to highlight how the IoT is playing a key role in supporting local and global communities to achieve smart management and operation, and provide a series of policy options to utilize the Internet of things to realize the goal of sustainable development (SDGs). The session will be directly related to the theme of IGF2017: “Shape Your Digital Future”, which promotes a strong emphasis on creating technical solutions smart management and sustainable form of governance. Smart city gives us a better glimpse of embracing new technologies and innovations for shaping a digital future, also raises a point about what regulations and governance methods suit for the newly created. Smart cities use IoT devices to collect and analyze data, connect everything in city. The cities then use this data to improve infrastructure, public utilities, services, and more. The power of IoT connectivity allowing city governments, businesses, and citizens to interact in new ways that make cities more efficient, safer, cleaner, and more livable.
This discussion will bring together participants from both the established IG technical and academic and those in working in the evolving IoT space to consider the interaction of the existing structures of Internet governance and technical and administrative, which adapt to the requirements of the IoT, including openness, transparency, security and continuity of Internet service and multistakeholder cooperation for smart city.
Tag 1: Internet of Things
Tag 2: Internet & ICTs for the Sustainable Development Goals
Tag 3: Multistakeholder Cooperation
Interventions:
Professor Xiaofeng TAO will make an opening speech introducing the agenda of the workshop. After that he will give a presentation on the overview of the IoT development worldwide, technologies currently available or being released into the market, strategic IoT solutions for smarter cities, and how to create successful international collaboration among multi-stakeholders.
Doctor Cai CHEN will talk about 'Policy and Regulation' on innovative forms of smart city, especially focus on rapid deployment of new IoT devices and applications in smart cities. Examples of Chinese best practice in building green and sustainable infrastructure and the services in the future of smart cities will also be discussed.
Karim Benabdallah will talk about the application of information and communication technologies in smart city projects. How can the IoTs-based technologies improve and reshape our future city in an environment-friendly manner.
Daniel Omondi is going to give his apprehension of the smart city in nature and present on how private sectors can actively participate in the smart city initiatives. How developing countries can learn from the experiences from the developed countries in the process of urbanization.
Dr. Mikhail Komarov will discuss IoT and behavior change with the use of IoT and energy-saving solutions. how default settings in smart devices change our behavior
Diversity:
Proposers, Co-organizers and Speakers have been chosen to ensure Geographic, gender, and stakeholder group diversity. Each speaker will bring a unique perspective and experience to the ways in which IoT can realize a better digital future and green and sustainable life. For gender diversity, there are 1 female co-organizer, Ms. Xu ZHAO, who has proposed the session jointly and coordinated the content with the experts. 2 female speaker, Ms. AiHua Wang and Ms.Helani Galpaya, who are senior experts in the research and planning division of IoT and smart city. For geographic diversity, there are 2 from Africa, 3 from Asia Pacific, 1 from Europe; the moderator is from Asia Pacific as well. For stakeholder diversity, there are 2 from technical community,4 from civil society, 1 from ICANN GAC(government). Here, Ms. Aihua Wang comes from technical community, but she is involved in the IoT and smart city research and planning for enterprises and private sectors for many years.
Onsite Moderator: Prof.Mr Xiaofeng TAO
Online Moderator: Prof.Mr Xiang Zhou
Rapporteur: Mr Minglei SHE
Online Participation:
Online participation will be led by a facilitated dialogue. Online attendee will get involved in the workshop during the whole session and have separate queue and microphone which rotate equally with the mics in the room and is entitled to raise questions after each presentation of the speaker and engage during the panel discussion.
Discussion facilitation:
The moderator will open the session by welcoming all the participants, introducing the topic about to be discussed and the speakers onsite and online. (10 minutes)
Speakers make their presentation respectively.After each presentation, the moderator probably make comments and engage the audiences and online participants in a quick Q&A session.(40 minutes)
Then the moderator will engage the panelists in a lively conversation to get their perspectives on topic related questions.(20 minutes).
The moderator will elicit what panelists find most insightful from the discussion and build on them by asking questions to create active flow of conversation with both panelists and experts in the audience.(10 minutes)
The last ten minutes, the moderator will warp up the discussion by summarizing the consensus of the facilitated dialogue and pointing out the challenges we are confronting.(10 minutes)
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/4098/230
1.Helani Galpaya,
Helani Galpaya is CEO of LIRNEasia, a pro-poor, pro-market think tank working across the emerging Asia Pacific on ICT policy and regulatory issues. She assumed the CEO role in Jan 2013. Prior to that, she was LIRNEasia’s Chief Operating Officer.
She researches, does consulting work and engages in public discourse on issues related to net neutrality, policy and regulatory barriers in Internet access, e-Government, broadband quality of service, and how knowledge and information disseminated via ICTs can improve inclusiveness SMMEs (small, medium and micro enterprises) in agriculture and micro-work markets. She is currently conducting research on digital labor in Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia, looking at online platforms that enable freelancing and micro-work. She is also carrying out nationally representative surveys of Internet use by households and individuals in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Myanmar and Nepal. In Myanmar, she’s continuing ongoing with a new initiative to examine how experiences and perceptions of harassment, surveillance and privacy impact how people of Myanmar experience the Internet.
Prior to LIRNEasia, she worked on at the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka implementing e-Government projects under the World Bank’s e-Sri Lanka initiative. She was a management consultant at Booz&Co.(now Strategy&) in New York and has also worked at Citibank and Merrill Lynch in the USA. She has an MS in Technology & Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA and a BA in Computer Science from Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA.
SpecialtyICTs, Digital Trade, and Development
2.Aihua Wang
Ms. Aihua WANG, the Chief Engineer of Planning & De
...Proposer's Name: Ms. Qendresa Hoxha
Proposer's Organization: Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Laura Crespo
Co-Proposer's Organization: Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
Co-Organizers:
Ms.,Qendresa,HOXHA,Government,Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
Ms., Laura,CRESPO,Government,Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
Session Format: Panel - 60 Min
Proposer:
Country: Switzerland
Stakeholder Group: Government
Speakers:
Content of the Session:
UNGGE and norm building - future global arrangements in cybersecurity field?
The aim of this Session is to discuss global arrangements in the field of cybersecurity. Through international cooperation we can achieve our common global goal of an open, free and secure cyberspace. In order for this cooperation to function in a realm that is characterized by uncertainty and mistrust, a framework providing a set of common rules is needed. Since 2004 the UN General Assembly has mandated Groups of Governmental Experts (UNGGE) on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security. The UNGGE has made considerable progress on establishing certain international standards with its reports in 2013 and 2015. These reports state that international law is applicable in cyberspace and provide recommendations for responsible state behaviour in cyberspace.
The UNGGE 2016-2017 was expected to clarify how international law applies and how the recommendations can be implemented in practice. The inability of the UNGGE 2016-2017 to reach consensus on a further report has raised many questions. What does this development mean for international cybersecurity? Is it time to think of new formats for global cooperation in cybersecurity? Where should discussions on norms, rules and principles for responsible behaviour in cyberspace be held? Where should the priorities lie? Are there any technical solutions that could help manage the many challenges we face?
The IGF with its Multi-Stakeholder environment provides an excellent opportunity to explore these questions. During this workshop panellists will reflect on international cybersecurity from different points of view.
Intended agenda:
1. Opening Remarks and Introduction
2. Panel Discussion answering the following questions:
- How can technology help us?
- Evolution or Innovation? - The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace
- Which new formats and new scenarios for global cooperation in the cybersecurity field?
- UNGGE 2016-2017: What does the inability to adopt a consensus report mean for international cybersecurity?
- The applicability of international law in cyberspace: Do we need more rules?
- How can regional organisations contribute to a free, open and secure cyberspace?
3. Q&A
Proposer's Name: Mr. Carlos Ruiz
Proposer's Organization: Communications Regulatory Commission (CRC)
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Claudia Bustamante
Co-Proposer's Organization: Communications Regulatory Commission (CRC)
Co-Organizers:
Ms., GALPAYA, Helani, Civil Society, LIRNEasia
Session Format: Round Table - 60 Min
Proposer:
Country: Colombia
Stakeholder Group: Government
Co-Proposer:
Country: Colombia
Stakeholder Group: Government
Speaker: Helani Galpaya
Speaker: PABLO HINOJOSA
Speaker: Verena Weber
Speaker: Juan Manuel Wilches
Speaker: Virat Bhatia
Content of the Session:
This session is intended to provide a broad vision of the landscape involving the digital economy, the importance to innovate and to learn the main challenges we are facing in this regard.
A group of experts will debate the future of Economies in the digital age, and other attendants may share their views on the matter. Also, speakers will share their views on how the race between technology and regulation/policy is likely to play out in the near future.
Relevance of the Session:
The Internet is an ecosystem where infrastructure, users, and services must be backed by good public policies. Such policies must take into account all multiple stakeholders (civil society, governments, entrepreneurs, and the technical community), a key aspect of Internet Governance. Hence the importance of having an Internet governance that promotes and leverages the development of the Internet and the digital economy.
Without a strong Internet Governance, there is no favorable framework for the economy to continue growing and it risk losing its benefits in terms of economic growth and job creation. The relationship between Internet Governance and Digital Economy is such, that the OECD Declaration of Cancún (signed by the Colombian government in June 2016), emphasized the need to support "(...) the free circulation of information, with the intention of fostering innovation and creativity, through policies based on respect for human rights and the rule of law that reinforce the openness of the Internet, in particular its distributed and interconnected nature, while respecting the privacy and data protection and strengthening digital security".
The Declaration also mentions that "(...) the management of digital security risk and the protection of privacy at the highest decision-making level" will contribute to "(...) maintaining the essentially open nature of the Internet, while at the same time, achieving certain public policy objectives, such as the protection of privacy, security, intellectual property and minors on the Internet, as well as strengthening trust in the Internet"
Trust is a key issue in order to foster the digital economy. The panel will also analyze the importance of digital security and privacy by design.
The outcome of the panel is to clarify the relation between Internet Governance and the Digital Economy and to learn what specific topics of IG must not be forgotten in the digital economy.
Tag 1: Digital Future
Tag 2: Digital Economy
Tag 3: Internet-based Innovation
Interventions:
Colombian Commissioner Mr. Juan Manuel Wilches, as the moderator, will start providing some general ideas about the way Internet Governance and Digital Economy work together in order to promote development; this intervention would seek to briefly point out the main drivers of the interaction between Internet Governance and Digital Economy. After that, Ms. Helani Galpaya (CEO of LIRNEasia), Ms. Verena Weber (Policy Analyst from OECD), Mr. Pablo Hinojosa (Strategic Engagement Director from APNIC) and Mr. Virat Bhatia (Chair of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industries FICCI) will have 5 minutes each for giving their views on the matter, and will invite attendants to share their opinions, also answering their questions. Remaining time should be used for interaction within the round table. According to each stakeholder viewpoint, each speaker will elaborate on the way Internet Governance empowers development and consolidation of the Digital Economy, with specific forms of digital labor, remarked success cases, policy barriers, investment promotion, etc.
The following questions will be proposed as drivers of each speaker’s intervention in order to stimulate the debate:
Diversity:
1. Diversity of speakers: we have invited experts from civil society (LIRNEasia) , private sector (FICCI), intergovernmental organization (OECD), technical community (APNIC) and government (Colombia´s Communications Regulatory Commission).
2. Diversity of regions: Our participants brings together representatives from Asia Pacific (APNIC, LIRNEasia, FICCI India), Europe (OECD) and Latin America regions. Please see Background paper, which include an ilustration of this geographic representation.
3. Genre participation: Two panelists and the rapporteur are women. Two other panelists and the moderator are men.
Onsite Moderator: Juan Manuel Wilches Durán, CRC
Online Moderator: Alejandro Delgado, CRC
Rapporteur: Lorrayne Porciuncula, OECD
Online Participation:
We will have an online moderator, who will remind the remote participation during the roundtable. From social networks with the hashtag #IGFDigitalEconomy , we will invite community to participate in the workshop transmitted by the IGF WebEX. Also, moderator will follow online questions, looking for answers from both speakers and other attendants.
Discussion facilitation:
Moderator will provide hints about the main subject, i.e., how Internet Governance and Digital Economy work together in order to promote development. After that, each speaker will have 7 minutes for giving their views on the matter. Then the moderator will invite attendants to share their opinions or questions and the panelists will answer these questions. Remaining time should be used for interaction within the round table and closing remarks.
Since the main goal is to enrich interaction of the audience, speakers and moderator will add elements to the discussion from each stakeholder viewpoint.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: https://www.intgovforum.org/cms/wks2015/index.php/proposal/view_public/79
Additional Reference Document Link: http://learn.icann.org/p/digital-trade-and-global-internet-governance
Additional Speakers:Juan Manuel Wilches
Organization: Communications Regulatory Commission (CRC)
Stakeholder Group: Government
Regional Group: Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
Biography: Juan Manuel Wilches has a Bachelors degree in Electronics Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia and an MBA from the Schulich School of Business, York University, in Toronto, Canada, where he graduated with honors in 2009.
His work experience began in Colombia in 2000 as Advisor for the Telecommunications Regulation Commission – CRT where, for a period of almost 7 years, he led and advised several projects on telecom regulation, carrying out activities in the definition of interconnection conditions, termination rates and conflict resolution, as well as performing market analysis, and developing models for fixed and mobile network costing.
During his stay in Canada, he worked at Kazam Group as a consultant in telecommunications, where he specialized in wireless communications.
In 2010 he was contacted to be part of the team that created the National Spectrum Agency (ANE) in Colombia, joining the Agency as Senior Advisor to the Director General. He was subsequently promoted as a Deputy Director for Spectrum Management and Planning, position in which, together with his team, he developed the National Spectrum Management Policy adopted in 2012 and a comprehensive spectrum management and planning framework currently in place in Colombia.
His recognized experience in regulation and spectrum management led him to be appointed by the Minister of Information and Communications Technologies as Commissioner in 2013 and Executive Director in 2014-2015 for the Communications Regulation Commission (CRC), being reelected as Commissioner in 2016.
Specialty: Competition, personal data, ICTs for development, Infrastructure for pr
...The main aim of the Open Forum is to facilitate exchange of good practices between African sub-regional IGFs (Central Africa, North Africa, and West Africa), on their processes, especially the successes and failures and the way forward, taking into account the multistakeholder dimension of IGF and to share the Key achievements of the 6th African IGF, held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, under the theme “Enabling an Inclusive Digital Transformation of Africa”.
The Forum will also be used to discuss implementation of the African IGF Charter, the African Union Declaration on Internet Governance and its project on IG Capacity Building.
Coordinators:
Speakers:
The presentations will be followed by Q & A (25 minutes)
Online moderator:
Wisdom Donkor, IGF MAG & African Charter Working Group member
The Freedom Online Coalition is a group of 30 countries, from all regions of the world, committed to coordinating efforts with each other and with other stakeholders to advance Internet freedom. At this IGF Open Forum, as incoming Chair of the Coalition Germany will outline the FOC’s plan for 2018. The FOC’s new mode of multistakeholder-engagement, the Advisory Network, will be presented and officially launched at this year’s IGF. Coalition members will further give updates on the work of the Coalition since the IGF in Guadalajara, including the outcomes of its strategy meeting on the margins of the Stockholm Internet Forum hosted by Sweden on May 16 and notably explain key provisions of its revised Terms of Reference and the work of the Digital Defenders Partnership to support civil society facing online threats.
We invite the IGF community to engage in a discussion on the work of the Coalition in 2018 and the state of Internet freedom in 2017, in light of the member’s commitments—reiterated in the San Jose Statement in October 2016 to mark the Coalition’s five-year anniversary. This Open Forum will be a platform for all interested members of the IGF community to participate; members of all stakeholder groups are encouraged to attend.
Tag 1: Multistakeholder CooperationAmbassador Thomas Fitschen, Director for the United Nations, Cyber Foreign policy and Counterterrorism, Government of Germany
Piret Urb, Counsellor (FOC, UNESCO, UNAOC, CD, OGP, Internet freedom issues), Division of International Organisations, Political Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia
Katharine Kendrick, Former co-Chair FOC Working Group 3 “Privacy and Transparency Online”; International Public Policy Manager, Airbnb, Inc.
Matthew Shears, Former co-Chair FOC Working Group 1 “An Internet Free and Secure”; Independent policy consultant; ICANN Board
Name of Online Moderator: Aditi GuptaProposer's Name: Mr. Diogo Cortiz da Silva
Proposer's Organization: Ceweb.br
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Caroline Burle
Co-Proposer's Organization: NIC.br
Co-Organizers:
Mr., Hartmut, GLASER, Civil Society, CGI.BR (The Brazilian Internet Steering Committee)
Mr., Vagner, DINIZ, Technical Community, W3C Brazil and Ceweb.br
Mr., Daniel, GATTI, Civil Society, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo
Session Format: Round Table - 60 Min
Proposer:
Country: Brazil
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Co-Proposer:
Country: Brazil
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Speaker: Diogo Cortiz
Speaker: Lorrayne Porciuncula
Speaker: Ana Cristina Azevedo
Speaker: Charith Fernando
Speaker: Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
Onsite Moderator: Mr. Vagner Diniz, Technical Community, Ceweb.br
Online Moderator: Ms. Nathalia Sautchuk, Technical Community, W3c.br and Ceweb.br
Rapporteur: Ms. Jamila Venturini, Technical Community, NIC.br
Content of the Session:
This Workshop aims to identify the opportunities and challenges of virtual reality for the network society, since it will change the way we publish and consume data, socialize and learn, and do science and business. Virtual reality is not a buzzword, it is a research area that has been around since the 60's. Since then, digital technologies have gone through development processes and improvements that have brought us to the current level where we are able to build effective applications of virtual reality. Nowadays, we have the required technologies and processing chips that open new opportunities to develop new environments and platforms to deal with data and social relationships in an unprecedented way. There is a major movement of main technology companies, universities and technical communities to leverage virtual reality a step forward and make it the next computing platform. Web has been essentially the same since its invention, but now virtual reality has the potential to change it due to its implicit characteristics, such as immersion and fluid interaction, which provides a new way of interacting and visualizing data, eliminating the constraints we always have when using a flat screen or a web browser. Despite all the features and promises, virtual reality brings opportunities, but also implementation challenges, such as:
How will it change human perception and the way we work with data and information?
How will it change social relationships?
How will it improve education and science?
How will we make these solutions economically viable?
How will it impact Internet Infrastructure?
How will we ensure security and privacy?
Those emerging questions will give us theoretical and practical background to rethink aspects of Internet governance, security, data protection and even new business models in order to be prepared for this immediate future.
During the session, the speakers will explore the concepts of Virtual Reality (VR) and how it has been improved and developed over time and also show some use cases about the large spectrum of possibilities for the VR user, such as data visualization, social networking, education, healthcare, and entertainment. The impact of VR for online learning will receive special attention in this workshop. They will also discuss the Virtual Reality roadmap development for the next years and how it will bring a significant change to the Web as we know it. Finally, there will be a discussion about new topics that need to be addressed regarding Internet Governance, such as the increase of data traffic over the Internet caused by Virtual Reality, as well as privacy and security issues since those aspects become more sensitive as we are not dealing only with data anymore, but with human perception and experience. A discussion with the audience will be held at the end of the session.
Relevance of the Session:
The search for technologies that bring immersion is not a simple hype, but an old passion: the first projects of VR started in the 60's, when Ivan Sutherland - the father of computer graphics - created the Ultimate Display, a prototype of glasses that projected digital objects to the user's eyes. However, only now the technologies of computer graphics are reached the maturity - thanks to the Advancement of Graphic Processing Unit (GPUs) - to build quality RV projects. Leading technology companies have already identified this trend and are focused on developing their products and services in this area: Facebook has bought Oculus, owner of the Rift; Google has the project Cardboard and Daydream, in addition to Tango for augmented reality; Microsoft bet your chips on Hololens. And the universities and technical communities are strengthening their works and researches in this area. This movement drives even more the development of technologies for virtual reality. To get a sense of the market, a report by Goldman Sachs points out that virtual reality investments have already reached $ 3.5 billion by 2016. Scientists, engineers, designers and programmers are being allocated in large numbers to work specifically in this area. The generation of knowledge and the process of innovation on the subject is only growing.
Virtual reality is becoming a strategic branch in technology companies. It was regarded as almost a synonym of games until a few years ago, and is beginning to gain applications in the most varied spheres. There are several projects in the area of education, health, safety and, of course, entertainment. The possibilities of interaction that this technology brings us are so promising that experts already call it the next computing platform.
The computer allowed us to work with volumes of data that were unthinkable by man. The internet has reconfigured our perceptions of distances on the globe. Cell phones have turned us into digital nomads. Virtual reality, in turn, has the potential to expand our mental capacities and bring ruptures to what we understand as presence.
Unlike other digital technologies, virtual reality manages to effectively engage our senses, which creates an unprecedented scenario for humanity. Until then, we have interacted with technology through controls and screens, knowing how to identify the limits of technology - at least in its physical aspect. When browsing the Web, you just have to look to the side, beyond the computer screen, to understand the boundary between technology and the physical world. Virtual reality comes to change that perspective.
The promise of every researcher in this area has always been to provide an immersive experience for the user. This approach allows you, even if you are physically in one place, to have the sensation and experience of being in another environment simulated by the computer - what we call a sense of presence. This is possible because the technology used involves our senses - mainly vision and hearing - through sensory stimuli that reflect this virtual world - you see and hear everything that happens in it, not caring about what is around you in the physical world. You can physically be in your living room while you enjoy a walk through the streets of Mumbai wearing virtual reality glasses.
The interactions also become more fluid - freedom of movement and immediate response in this environment are important issues for an immersive experience. In our example, turning your head to the right side, you will not fail to look at the screen of a monitor or a television as it normally does. Being in virtual reality glasses will make the world in which you are connected respond to this movement.
These characteristics of virtual reality open new possibilities for interaction with technology. We are near the end paradigm of windows that accompanies us from the beginning of computing. Nevertheless, we continue to investigate closely the rupture that virtual reality, as well as augmented reality, will bring to humanity. We, humans, live physical reality as a three-dimensional space. By using technology with that same approach, we will have a better experience and increase productivity.
A recent study by the Accenture consulting firm in the area of neuroscience gives us evidence that we are better at working with three-dimensional instructions than with two-dimensional ones. In this project, the researchers transformed the instruction manual of a Lego, that simple paper that accompanies the toy box, into a three-dimensional manual for use with augmented reality glasses. The mere fact that a person could move and spin each of the pieces that were in the instructions, instead of looking at a two-dimensional drawing on a paper, greatly increased their productivity.
Social interaction is reconfigured with the arrival of virtual reality, mainly because of the sense of presence that this technology allows us to reach. The Web had already been in charge of connecting people geographically separated, through data, messages and videos. Virtual reality comes to connect them through your senses. It's no wonder that Facebook, the largest social networking platform in the world, bets so much on this approach. So with Google, Microsoft, and the other giants of technology.
The Web as a whole should be impacted in the coming years. And that impact must
UNESCO Open Forum: Exploring implications of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for building inclusive Knowledge Societies and achieving SDGs (0F66)
IGF Day 4: Thursday 21st December 2017, 9:00-10:00 am; Room XXI-E
UNESCO organizes this Open Forum to trigger debates and reflections on the human rights and other implications of big data and Artificial Intelligence on building inclusive knowledge societies and achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
Big data and Open data are evolving and contested concepts, as is the significance of the phenomena they point to. Debates exist over issues such as ownership, accountability and transparency, as well as human rights, evolving techniques, novel applications, reuse and interoperability of data.
Meanwhile, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly progressing. Intelligent machines are gaining the ability to communicate without human mediation via the Internet of things, learn, improve and make calculated decisions in ways that will enable them to perform tasks previously thought to rely solely on human skill and learning, raising issues for the future of learning, experience, creativity, and ingenuity.
All these technological developments may profoundly shape humanity’s access to information and knowledge, impact the mode of communication as well as the practice of journalism, as well as bring multiple ethical and human rights implications particularly rights to freedom of expression, privacy, and association. The implications for open education resources, digital persistence, democracy, peace and the sustainable development goals could be significant.
UNESCO perceives a crucial need to explore these issues and reflect whether it is possible to harness big data and AI technologies as a process to advance human rights, build inclusive knowledge societies and achieve 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
The forum will engage with how these emerging issues impact on the Organisation’s concept of Internet Universality, which promotes online Rights, Openness, Accessibility and Multi-stakeholder participation, and the current project to develop appropriate indicators to assess Internet development as well as global initiatives of promoting media and information literacy.
Moderator: Ms. Xianhong Hu, UNESCO
Welcome Remarks (5’): Mr. Indrajit Banerjee, UNESCO Director Knowledge Societies Division
Speakers:
5’ Ms. Mila Romanoff, UN Global Pulse
5’ Ms. Sophie Kwasny, the Council of Europe
5’ Ms. Nanjira Sambuli, Web Foundation
5’ Ms. Judith Herzog, Conseil national du numérique
5’ Mr. Tijani Ben Jemaa, ICANN/ FMAI
5’ Mr. Frits Bussemaker, Chair of the Institute for Accountability and Internet Democracy
Discussion: 25’
Rapporteur: Ms. Xianhong Hu, UNESCO
Remote moderator: Mr Guilherme Canela, UNESCO
Notes and photos: Mr. Zhaocan Li, UNESCO
Proposer's Name: Mr. Jong Hyuk Ro
Proposer's Organization: Microsoft Korea
Co-Proposer's Name: Dr. Wan S. Yi
Co-Proposer's Organization: Korea Internet & Security Agency
Co-Organizers:
Mr. Jong Hyuk Ro, Private Sector, Microsoft
Dr. Wan S. Yi, Government, Korea Information & Security Agency
Session Format: Panel - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: South Korea
Stakeholder Group: Private Sector
Co-Proposer:
Country: South Korea
Stakeholder Group: Government
Speaker Profile: Attached
Content of the Session:
Internet Governance issue:
The Internet depends on multi-stakeholder governance involving concerted efforts by governments, businesses, technical communities, and civil society. In the same manner, cybersecurity requires collaboration among the key players in public and private sectors, including national governments, computer incident/emergency response teams (CIRTs/CERTs), and technology companies. Regional and global cooperation among organizations is no longer a matter of choice. In this concerted effort to promote cybersecurity and safety, global technology companies are in a unique position as the maker and the operator of the cyberspace as well as the frontline and the first responders to cyber threats and attacks.
The purpose of this workshop is to share the perspectives and learnings of the cybersecurity experts from government, industry and academia regarding the current state and future prospect of their efforts in addressing cybersecurity in country and internationally as well as promoting global partnership.
Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) is the central player of this workshop. Based on its accumulated knowledge and experience over the years as the national CERT of Korea, KISA has had opportunities to work with national governments in other continents, including those of Oman and Rwanda, contributing to establishing and operating national CERTs. KISA also has maintained good relationships with cybersecurity experts in Chinese government/CERT and academia. KISA and Microsoft have worked closely for more than 15 years, sharing information to support one another in protecting people and organizations in cyber space from threats and attacks.
The workshop will be an opportunity for the audience as well as speakers to develop a comprehensive understanding about (i) the workings of national CERTs; (ii) coordinating collaboration among national and regional CERTs; (iii) collaboration among CERTs and global companies in addressing the challenges to protecting security and privacy in cyberspace; and (iv) building cybersecurity capacity and development talent. This process will be reinforced with audience participation in the form of comments and Q&As.
The participants are expected to take away the insights shared and lessons learned, which would contribute to addressing their own challenges and, eventually, promoting international cooperation for Internet governance.
Session format:
The session will take a form of panel in which speakers will share experience and lessons learned in addressing cybersecurity independently and in partnership with key stakeholders including CERTs and businesses, perspectives about the future of cyberspace as well as the partnership among stakeholders.
One-third (1/3) of the time will be allotted to audience and online participants for Q&A. However, the time allocation is only provisional. Moderator will invite and encourage as much participation from the audience as allowable and orchestrate the use of 90 minutes appropriately.
Speakers:
Government (Moderator): Dr. Wan S. Yi, Korea Internet & Security Agency (Asia; male)
Government (Speaker): Ms. Jung Hee Kim, Korea Internet & Security Agency (Asia; female)
Government (Speaker): Oman*
Government (Speaker): Mr. Charles Mugisha, IT Operational Division Manager, Rwanda Development Board (Africa; male)
Technical Community (Speaker): Dr. Jianping Wu, Tsinghua University (Asia; male)
Private Sector (Speaker): Ms. Jing De Jong-Chen, Microsoft Corp (North America; female)
* Unfortunately, the representative from Oman would not be joining.
Agenda:
Length of session: 90 minutes
Presentation by panelists (Part I – 35 minutes, 7 minutes per panelist):
Expert from Oman will present on the experience in partnership with KISA on a project to establish Security Operation Center (SOC) including the education/training program offered in Korea
Mr. Charles Mugisha from Rwanda will present on the experience in partnership with KISA on a project to establish Cyber Forensic Center including the education/training program offered in Korea
Ms. Jung Hee Kim from KISA will present on the status and prospect of threat information sharing with other countries, including the training center established in Nicaragua for training officials from Latin American countries and the Cybersecurity Alliance for Mutual Progress (CAMP).
Dr. Jianping Wu from China will present on the structure of cybersecurity human resources development in China. This person may also discuss China’s experience in helping countries build capacity building in general and in cybersecurity as the world’s largest contributor for developing countries.
Ms. Jing De Jong-Chen from Microsoft Corp will present on the experience from working with national governments/CERTs around the world and the desired framework of partnership among key stakeholders.
Direct questions to each panelist (Part II - Total time 30 minutes):
Expert from Oman:
Mr. Charles Mugisha:
Ms. Jung Hee Kim:
Dr. Jianping Wu:
Ms. Jing De Jong-Chen:
Questions from audience and online participants to each panelist (Total time 25 minutes):
The Moderator will invite the audience to ask questions. He will also select and ask questions on behalf of the online participants. Time allowing, moderator will ask additional questions, based on the preceding discussion.
Relevance of the Session:
In an increasingly more connected world on the verge of the digital transformation heralded by the technological advancement in artificial intelligence and cloud computing, cybersecurity has become an integral part of the economic, social, and cultural changes in people’s lives. Protecting security and privacy of users and critical infrastructure goes hand in hand with Internet governance. The Internet will not be sustainable without the sufficient assurance of security.
Tag 1: Cybersecurity
Tag 2: Multistakeholder Cooperation
Tag 3: Digital Geneva Convention
Interventions:
Each speaker’s views/perspectives/expertise are critical to achieving the purpose of this workshop, which is to share with the audience a comprehensive experience of independent and collective effort in addressing the challenges surrounding cybersecurity via presentations and Q&As. Therefore, all speakers will be given equal opportunity to speak.
Diversity:
The organizers of the workshop planned to highlight the global nature of cybersecurity partnership by staging representatives of various stakeholders from different geographies (Asia, Middle East, Africa, and North America). Ethnic diversity and gender diversity has been considered in speaker choices. Efforts will be made to introduce new and/or different perspectives in discussions.
Onsite Moderator: Dr. Wan S. Yi
Online Moderator: Mr. Jong Hyuk Ro
Rapporteur: Mr. Alex Yudong Yang
Online Participation:
Online Moderator will be designated to guide online participants make comments and raise questions prior to and during the workshop, especially during the Q&A. Moderator will be instructed to communicate frequently with Online Moderator to ensure online participation.
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...Proposer's Name: Ms. Yannis Li
Proposer's Organization: DotAsia Organisation (Secretariat of APrIGF)
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Jennifer Chung
Co-Proposer's Organization: DotAsia Organisation (Secretariat of APrIGF)
Co-Organizers:
Mr. Paul WILSON, Technical Community, APNIC (Chair of APrIGF MSG)
Mr. Edmon CHUNG, Technical Community, DotAsia Organisation (Secretariat of APrIGF)
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: China
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Co-Proposer:
Country: China
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Speaker: Paul Wilson
Speaker: Chat Garcia Ramilo
Speaker: Maureen Hilyard
Speaker: Winston Roberts
Speaker: Jianne Soriano
Content of the Session:
The IGF and the NRIs (National & Regional Initiatives) have been criticized for lacking more concrete “outputs”. While it is a successful feature (not a bug) of IGF (and NRIs) to avoid binding outcomes, and therefore be able to bring together different stakeholders to collaborate and deliberate on emerging issues related to Internet Governance, there is also continuing interest for more substantive outputs beyond simply reporting on workshops convened.
Is it possible to develop a more tangible “output” from IGF (and NRIs) that could better shape the shared global digital future? How can a process to develop such an output be inclusive, non-interruptive to the IGF (and NRI) proceedings themselves and help strengthen the IGF movement?
Since 2015 a Synthesis Document has been produced from the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) (2015: [http://2015.rigf.asia/synthesis-document/] and 2016: [http://igf.asia/syndoc2016]). The documents were developed openly using a participatory document review platform to compile contributions and comments. This process attracted a large number of contributions from many volunteers, and no record of objection to the goal of producing the document, or to the process itself. This roundtable session will explain the process, outputs and thinking of the APrIGF Synthesis Document, from which to consider the prospect and value for similar undertakings at other IGF related meetings.
Agenda:
- APrIGF & the APrIGF Synthesis Document Development Process (~15min)
- Roundtable Discussion:
a. Value & Objectives of an “Output” Document (~20min)
b. Process & Logistical Challenges (~20min)
c. Applicability of Experience for IGF and NRIs (~20min)
- Wrap Up & Summary (~10 min)
Relevance of the Session:
This session is about shaping the future of IGF and NRIs.
Started out as an experiment in APrIGF 2015, the Synthesis Document has become an important part of APrIGF.
The APrIGF Synthesis Document was first raised and discussed at the APrIGF New Delhi 2014 Multi-Stakeholder Steering Group (MSG) meetings, and further refined over the course of MSG deliberations throughout the year. The Synthesis Document aims to identify items of common interest and relevance to Internet governance within the Asia Pacific region. The MSG decided to implement this experimental approach for the first time for the APrIGF Macao 2015 and it became an integral part of the programming for APrIGF from 2016 onwards.
The APrIGF Synthesis Document aims to document the input from participants at the APrIGF (as well as the broader APrIGF community through remote participation and dissemination on the mailing list) and is not intended to be representative of the diverse Asia Pacific region. Nevertheless, it is anticipated by the APrIGF MSG that the development of this Synthesis Document can help drive active participation in the movement, as well as to allow for a platform to voices, views and thoughts in the Asia Pacific region as contribution to relevant global, national, local and international forums on Internet Governance.
This session will share the experience from APrIGF about the development of the Synthesis Document and explore the applicability for similar undertakings at other NRIs and the IGF. While the IGF movement has been successful by avoiding binding outcomes, there is genuine interest from the community for more concrete outputs coming out of IGF (and NRI) meetings. The Synthesis Document is an effort to reshape IGF (and NRI) meetings with a potential to deliver a more tangible output without interrupting the open nature of the IGF movement.
Tag 1: NRIs
Tag 2: Internet & ICTs for the Sustainable Development Goals
Tag 3: Multistakeholder Cooperation
Interventions:
The session is intended to be a roundtable discussion.
Additional discussants, especially from organizers of NRIs and IGF Mag will be sought to engage in a meaningful discussion of the possibility and value of a Synthesis Document like initiative at the respective meetings.
The identified speakers are intended to serve more as discussants to spark the discussion by first describing their experience at APrIGF of the development of the Synthesis Document, and will engage the audience in feedback, discussion and reflection on whether such an undertaking would be useful at their respective IGF meetings.
Diversity:
The initiating group of speakers will include people from different stakeholder groups, including from the industry, technical community, academia, civil society and government. Youth participants will also be included from the Youth IGF Camp organized alongside the APrIGF.
In addition, organizers of NRIs and IGF Mag members will be invited to participate in the roundtable, from which additional geographical diversity and policy perspectives will be integrated into the discussion.
Onsite Moderator: Edmon Chung, DotAsia Organisation
Online Moderator: Yannis Li, Secretariat of APrIGF
Rapporteur: Jennifer Chung, Secretariat of APrIGF
Online Participation:
Online participation will be supported and given the same treatment as participants in the room. Online participants will be able to indicate their interest to speak the same way as participants in the room, and the moderator will manage one integrated queue for speaking.
In addition, chat will be especially encouraged and the remote moderator along with moderators of the session will be prepared to proactively engage in conversations with remote participants.
Furthermore, the development of the APrIGF Synthesis Document itself encourages online and remote participation throughout the development cycle, including multiple public comment periods as well as user-friendly ways to comment on specific language and topics. We therefore believe that many of the participants, especially remote participants would be encouraged to participate in this session.
Discussion facilitation:
In addition to general comments and Q&A, the session intends to be a highly interactive one where discussants proactively engage participants in a dialogue on the three key discussion topics:
a. Value & Objectives of an “Output” Document
b. Process & Logistical Challenges
c. Applicability of Experience for IGF and NRIs
Specific questions will be prepared to invite concrete responses and thoughts from participants, e.g.:
- Do you think something like the APrIGF Synthesis Document will help drive participation at your NRI?
- Do you think the processes developed at APrIGF provides a good framework for engaging broader participation on IG?
- Do you think the processes developed at APrIGF can address issues of competing time and attention at IGF meetings?
Organizers from NRIs will be invited to the session to spark the discussion and provide diverse perspectives. We believe this is a topic of high relevance to all IGF related meetings, and therefore will proactively seek participants' contribution on the issues of applicability, feasibility and potential challenges of implementing a Synthesis Document process at their NRI.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: No
Link to Report:
Proposers' Names: Dr. Stefania Milan & Dr. Arne Hintz
Proposer's Organization: DATACTIVE, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) & Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University (United Kingdom)
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Speaker: Eva Blum-Dumontet (Privacy International)
Speaker: Malavika Jayaram (Asian Digital Hub, Hong Kong)
Speaker: Sunil Abraham (Center for Internet and Society, India)
Speaker: Joana Varon (Coding Rights, Brazil)
Speaker: Sebastián Becker (Datos Protegidos, Chile)
Speaker: Lisa Vermeer (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands)
Speaker: Madeline Carr (University College London, UK)
Content of the Session:
This roundtable will address the current theme of big data analytics and the consequences of datafication on social life, and it will advance our understanding of the implications of these for internet governance. It will survey trends and developments from around the globe, including changes to surveillance policy (such as the UK Investigatory Powers Bill) and citizen registration (such as the Indian Aadhaar system and the planned Chinese social credit scores). While these issues have, so far, been discussed either by scholars in the emerging field of critical data studies or by the business sector in debates over the Internet of Things and smart devices, this session will bring together different stakeholders for a joint discussion on the consequences of datafication for our digital present and future. It will connect the challenges of datafication to the internet governance agenda, and identify shared concerns and policy needs.
The session has four main GOALS:
1. Explore key trends and developments in the area of datafication, and the consequences of ‘big data’ collection and analysis for social justice and human rights
2. Identify the implications of these developments for the broader Internet Governance agenda and for the role of IGF in particular
3. Formulate, through the promotion of a multistakeholder dialogue on the subject matter, recommendations for a management of data which respects human rights and promote social justice
4. Explore the possibility for the emergence of a transnational mobilization connecting issues of datafication (e.g., surveillance, monitoring, sharing, ethics…) with the social justice and human rights agenda.
The expected OUTCOMES include the following:
i. A better, more nuanced understanding of current trend of datafication and its implications for Internet Governance
ii. A transnational, multistakeholder dialogue on the implications of datafication, exploring the possibility for the creation of a Dynamic Coalition or similar discussion space within the IGF process
iii. A multistakeholder commitment to contribute to draft policy recommendations for a management of data which respects human rights and promotes social justice.
The intended AGENDA for the session revolves around two rounds of short (5-8') provocative statements by invited speakers. After a brief introduction to the session by the proposers/organisers, illustrating the main challenges of big data analytics and datafication and their implications for social justice as well as the rational for the session, the speakers will present on the following topics:
- Eva Blum-Dumontet (Privacy International): Overview of the consequences of datafication from the perspective of civil society
- Malavika Jayaram (Digital Asia Hub): The Chinese citizen score system and other developments of datafication in East Asia
- Sunil Abraham (CIS): The Indian Aadhaar system and citizen identification globally
- Joana Varon (Coding Rights): Data-based citizen monitoring in Latin America
- Sebastián Becker (Datos Protegidos): Data protection in the Global South
- Lisa Vermeer (Ministry of ``foreign Affairs, The Netherlands): The need for public policy
- Madeline Carr (University College London): Datafication and the IG agenda
The floor will then be open for discussion, on issues including but not limited to 1. identify key challenges and opportunities; 2. propose policy recommendations; 3. explore the feasibility of a dedicated Dynamic Coalition (or similar space for multistakeholder dialogue).
Relevance of the Session:
The mass collection and processing of data--and its many social, political and economic consequences--is a key debate of our time, central to the way our digital present and future are shaped. The analysis of ‘big data’, and its collection through social media, ‘smart devices’, and the Internet of Things have opened new avenues for economic wealth creation, law enforcement and public administration. The use of this data in governance, however, and the possible consequences for citizen rights and social justice are just starting to be explored. Data about users, consumers and citizens may increase governance efficiency, but putting human activity and behavior into data points may lead to challenges for civic rights and may transform state-corporate-citizen relations.
Data from a variety of both online and offline activities is increasingly used to categorize citizens, allocate services, and predict future behavior. This includes, for example, financial credit scores, education and health scores, data scores used in the criminal justice system, and ‘risk’ scores of refugees and families. The Aadhaar identification system in India and the social credit score currently developed in China represent particularly comprehensive attempts at data-based governance. Beyond initial research and occasional news reports, little is known about the uses of such data in governance and, particularly, what opportunities and challenges it might have for Internet Governance. Moreover, occasions for multistakeholder discussion on these issues are at best rare, so far. This session will therefore explore the facts of this emerging debate and explore common grounds between stakeholders.
Tag 1: Big Data
Tag 2: Surveillance
Tag 3: Social Justice
Diversity:
The organizers strive to have a balanced composition of the speakers both by gender (half/half) and geography (covering Asia, the Americas, and Europe). Participants are expected to embody different policy perspectives.
Onsite Moderator: Stefania Milan
Online Moderator: Arne Hintz
Rapporteur: Vidushi Marda
Online Participation:
Online attendees will have a separate queue and microphone. The online moderator will keep his eyes on the screen, frequently asking questions to the online participants in view of stimulating their participation. After every question from the room, the word will go automatically to online participants, striving to ensure equal opportunities. The online moderator will communicate regularly with the onsite moderator--both have experience in this type of interaction to support online participation.
Discussion facilitation:
See above. Interventions from invited speakers will be kept to the bare mimimum, and designed to stimulate reactions from the audience. The speakers will be divided in two groups, and discussion will happen both mid-way and at the end of the presentations. Both the moderators are experiences in this type of format, and able to enforce strict time limits.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: http://igf2015.intgovforum.org/event/12f25d85c2c8b3473ea31697922fe53a
Digital Transformation: How Do We Shape Its Socio-Economic and Labor Impacts for Good?
This session aims to facilitate a thoughtful dialogue on the process of digitization and digital transformation, examining its effect on the global value chain, new business models, and the future workforce.
Cross-border data flow has accelerated economic globalization while the flows of international trade and finance have flattened since 2008. The increase in digital flows is underpinned by a process of statistically-evidenced vertiginous digitization. The digitization of products that were traditionally delivered physically but can also be transmitted electronically over the Internet, plays an important role in this process, opens new possibilities for e-commerce, and is an essential part of achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
The increased use of data will be required to realize the potential of the digital transformation. In the near future, data flows will increase under the pervasive Internet of Things (IoT). Data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI) are perceived to be fundamental to the transformation of both developed and developing economics. Under the ‘sharing economy’, digital platforms enable direct exchanges between service providers and potential customers. They also reshape organizations and the future of the work, necessitating a dialogue about how to enable an inclusive digital transformation which benefits everyone.
[AGENDA]
This session will be divided into two parts: The first part will be dedicated to understanding how digitization is affecting global digital production and commerce, and impacting development. The second part will discuss the impact of the digital economy on the workforce in both developed and developing countries, especially examining a relationship between the consequences of the sharing economy and automation and job creation / destruction, productivity, and labor rights, taking into account the distinct contexts of declining / increasing demographics.
I. Introduction (7 min.)
Mr. Kenta Mochizuki, MAG member (Yahoo Japan Corporation)
II. Part 1: Digitization, global production, and flows of digital commerce (80 min.)
○ Short initial remarks from discussants (20 min.)
○ Discussions (50 min.)
○ The discussion will seamlessly combine initial remarks with interactive reactions from the audience/participants (10 min.)
III. Part 2: Digitization, automation, and employment issues (85 min.)
○ Short initial remarks from key discussants (24 min.)
○ Discussions (50 min.)
○ The discussion will seamlessly combine initial remarks with interactive reactions from the audience/participants (10 min.)
IV: Conclusions and wrap-up (8 min.)
Ms. Renata Aquino Ribeiro, MAG Member (E.I. Consulting)
[POLICY QUESTIONS]
Part 1: Digitization, global production, and flows of digital commerce (60 min.)
1) How is the new digital ecosystem different than the traditional ecosystem? What are considerations for enabling the development of healthy digital ecosystems? What are the main policy issues related to global production value chains in the digital environment?
2) What are the contributions of different types of e-commerce (B2B, B2C, B2G) to the global economy and how is e-commerce distributed worldwide? What is the role of e-commerce marketplaces for the inclusion of SMEs and developing market contenders in global trade chains?
3) How do emerging technologies, such as big data, IoT, and AI affect e-commerce? What are the main policy options that facilitate or create obstacles to global trade flows?
4) How does digitization enable new business models and encourage entrepreneurship?
5) What roles do international organizations play in facilitating the discussion of these policies and how can they work with other actors to promote better coordination in the field of e-commerce?
Part 2: Digitization, automation, and employment issues (90 min.)
1) What are some of the lessons learned from past market transformations, e.g., agricultural to industrial, and how does digitization assist in making the most of the lessons (taking also into account the context of sharing economy)?
2) Are there tools that can better measure and predict the impact of ICT on the labor market? Are there tools that can predict what skills are needed going forward?
3) What are the ways in which the labor market will most likely be affected by digitization and automation? What policies should be considered in an environment of increasing demographics in developing countries? Do ICTs actually assist developed countries in addressing understaffing situation while maintaining the diversity of a career choice as well as mitigating risks to the well-being of the labor force?
4) What will be the necessary professional skills to take advantage of the jobs created in a highly digital society and what are examples of innovative approaches to training by which workers can be more effectively connected to more opportunities? Should different approaches be considered for people at different stages in their career?
5) How can education and capacity development play a role in this new scenario and what kind of efforts would be necessary for public / private stakeholders to promote the education and capacity development in both developed and developing countries?
[CHAIRS AND/OR MODERATORS]
We will have several moderators since moderation should be dynamic, proposing questions and making sure that the “debate-style” flows smoothly, and that the audience has the chance to participate. Because of the importance of this role, we will continue to brainstorm on who the moderators should be based on a pool of names below.
【Part I】
Dr. Makoto Yokozawa, Nomura Research Institute/Kyoto University (*Co-chair of OECD/BIAC Committee on Digital Economic Policy)
【Part II】
1) Ms. Paola Pérez, Vice-President of the ISOC Venezuelan Chapter / Chair of the LACNIC Public Policy Forum (Introductory Part)
2) Dr. Nathalia Foditsch, Research Fellow at Cornell College of Business - Washington, DC (Closing Remarks)
[ONLINE MODERATOR]
Mr. Auke Pals, Student Information Science at the University of Amsterdam, innovation consultant, entrepreneur and chair of the Dutch Digital Youth Counsel
[PANELISTS AND/OR SPEAKERS]
In this regard, we will have at least 2 panelists/speakers from each 5 sector as follows:
【Part I】
Mr. Oscar Gonzalez, Government of Argentina
Mr. Torbjörn Fredriksson, UNCTAD
Ms. Ankhi Das, Facebook
Ms. Farzaneh Badiei, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Walid Al-Saqaf, Södertörn University
【Part II】
Ms. Ana Cristina Amoroso das Neves, Government of Portugal
H.E. Eng. Hossam El Gamal, Government of Egypt
Ms. Valentina Scialpi, EU
Mr. Philip Jennings, UNI Global Union
Mr. Edmon Chung, DotAsia Organization
Ms. Karen McCabe, IEEE
[VIP INTERVENTION FROM THE AUDIENCE]
【Part 2】
Mr. Ndicho Bambo, Samuel, Yaoundé, Foreign Service Officer, Ministry of External Relation, Cameroon
[PLAN FOR IN-ROOM PARTICIPANT ENGAGEMENT/INTERACTION?]
First of all, because our session will be “debate-style”, there will be active interaction among expert speakers/panelists and the mood will be set for audience interventions and questions. To put it another way, we will make every single effort to create an atmosphere for active interaction not only among the panelists/speakers but between the panel and the audience.
Second, in order to foster interactive discussion among all participants, there will be the opportunity of an open mic. We will ask moderators for 2 sub-sessions to pay closer attention to the reaction of the audience during the sessions and involve the audience as much as possible.
[REMOTE MODERATOR/PLAN FOR ONLINE INTERACTION?]
Interventions from online participants will be given equal priority as to those from the physical audience. Onsite and online moderator will coordinate closely. To broaden participation, online interaction will rely on the WebEx platform and will also include social media (Twitter and Facebook). Online moderators will be in charge of browsing social media using some hashtags (to be defined). We will try to have English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish online moderators, and a systematic queue.
In addition, we plan to use a “Twitter wall” which can be either a physical monitor at the session or a tag with a Storify-like interface where people can interact with before, during, and after the session. Since we have ever collaborated with Youth IGFs, we will ask Youth IGF volunteers to be part of our team and support our session on this aspect. We are confident that it will introduce dynamism and reinforce the goal of maximizing the opportunities for the involvement of the audience in situ and remote.
[CONNECTIONS WITH OTHER SESSIONS?]
Our session connects with multiple workshops of IGF 2017 which deal with in some way the topic of digital economy. A workshop titled “WS #141 Equipping populations with the skills to shape and secure their digital future” is one example which directly relates to our session. Since mos
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) now serves as the foundation for the development of every modern and progressive society, allowing for integration into the global information economy. Despite the benefits and opportunities offered by ICTs, cyberspace presents several risks and challenges. Safety, security and resilience are critical for Cyberspace to deliver its potential developmental impact. The CTO is of the view that National Cybersecurity strategies provide the framework to support an all encompassing approach to protect the Cyberspace infrastructure, its content and users. It states national priorities and goals, assigns roles and responsibilities and resources. With robust cybersecurity frameworks in place, countries can better leverage the opportunities offered by ICT for socio economic development. We recognise however that implementation and budget allocation for cybersecurity activities presents a significant challenge for states. This proposed forum will therefore address how countries can allocate resources, especially financial resources for cybersecurity activities, and how such activities can contribute to the UN SDGs such as education, gender equality and innovation. The agenda would entail:
1. Developing and implementing cybersecurity strategies with special attention on financial allocations. Resources to assist in this regard will be shared (the background paper provides more details on strategy development);
2. Discussions from speakers and participants on resource challenges and what can be done to address these. Ideas for financial assistance for strategy implementation will be shared, for instance, feasibility of creating special funds for activities such as training and participation at international events which support overarching goals of coordination and cooperation;
3. Facilitating peer arrangements where less developed countries can be paired with more advanced ones to share ideas and learn best practices based on experience;
4. Cybersecurity as an agenda item for CHOGM 2018.
Tag 1: Cybersecurity
Tag 2: Internet & ICTs for the Sustainable Development Goals
Tag 3:
Name(s) of Speaker(s):
Shola Taylor; Secretary General, CTO
Robert Collett; Head, Capacity Building, Prosperity and Cybercrime, UK FCO
Tracy Hackshaw; ICT & Digital Economy Strategist, Trinidad and Tobago
Gavin Willis, UK National Cybersecurity Centre
Name of Online Moderator: Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation
Background Paper: cto_igf_proposal_2017.pdf
Past IGF Participation: Yes
Report Link:
Name: Ms. Anita Sohan
Organizational Affiliation: Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation
Despite the billions of people accessing the Internet there remain about 4 billion people, mostly in developing world, who still do not have opportunity to access to the Internet-- constituting almost half of the world population (source: Digital Trends). This is among the main barriers to accessing key benefits such as healthcare, education, financial services, causing 58 million children not to have access to education and 783 million people not to have access to clean, safe water. There are several countries that attempt to restrict or control the content that users have access to. In the least developed countries only one in every 10 individuals has regular access to the Internet — there is also more access achieved by men than women, and by the wealthier members of society.
This session aims to bring a discussion around the issue of Access through the sharing of experiences from various National and Regional IGFs (NRIs) and to learn on how Access has been addressed by the NRIs and others in various regions. The session also aims to exchange the outputs of these discussions.
Multiple discussion topics from NRIs have been proposed that includes: a) Concerns about Access in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) by LACIGF b) Access for Inclusion and Development in Colombia by Colombian IGF c) Internet access and broadband gap, competition regulation issues and sharing of experience on the recently completed ISOC Tusheti project on connecting remote areas in Georgia to be discussed by Georgian IGFd); e) Access, price, quality of services (QoS) and diversity in Afghanistan to be discussed by Afghanistan IGF; f).Access to Internet with regards to the affordability and infrastructure development in Malawi by Malawi IGF; g) Internet Shutdown in West Africa by West African IGF h) Rights to Internet access, challenges and way forward in Sri Lanka by Sri Lankan IGF.
The NRIs are aiming to: a) discuss how to better exchange experiences among NRIs to facilitate access to unconnected and barely connected communities; b) promote these important discussions through facilitating a dialogue among diverse stakeholders; c) identify ways that these outputs from the discussions can better be integrated in the global IGF, i.e. getting more involved in policy initiatives and helping connect and enable the Next Billions; d) how to better participate in initiatives from the global IGF in this theme.
Some questions to guide the discussion include: the role of NRIs to promote affordable and equitable Internet access; case studies from the NRIs that are relevant can improve access; NRIs models that are working well to make a real impact ; topics of interest for each the NRI; how NRIs are promoting solutions and best practices i.e. policies are facilitating access, access to spectrum; ways the NRIs engage policymakers in the legislative process of legislating related to the Internet shut down; how Internet shutdown (no-access) hurt the economy.
The speakers will be NRIs representatives by region, Africa, Asia Pacific, Eastern Europe, GRULAC, WEOG. There will be a maximum of seven speakers that will present the NRIs experiences, activities, discussions related to Access. The panel will be sharing their relations with other IGF initiatives and how these interactions are facilitating the evolution of the discussions. It will also evaluate how these discussions are facilitating the implementation of policies that are favorable to improving, in different ways, the Access and other aspects that the NRIs want to highlight from their experiences.
Mary Uduma is the current Managing Director of Jaeno Digital Solutions. Prior to this, she served as the President of the Executive Board of the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), she became President September 2010, after serving as Vice-President since 2009. She has also served as Member of NiRA's Interim Board of Trustees. She is also a Director of Consumer Affairs Bureau with the Nigerian Communications Commission, which is the Nigerian Telecomm Regulator. She has worked for the Regulatory Authority for over 16 years. Uduma is a trained Chartered Accountant.
During her time at NiRA, Uduma was concerned with Telecommunications regulation. She advised the Commission on matters related to Licensing, Policy, and Telecommunications Market competition, Tariff regulation and approvals. She also ensured consumer compliance and managed consumer code of practice issues. Her work also focused on zonal coordination, corporate planning and research. She served as the focal person on International Relations covering the ITU, ICANN, CTO, AUC, ECOWAS, etc.
Mary worked at Deloitte and Touché, before joining NiRA. Her portfolio also includes work at a public accounting firm and a bank. She is also a Member of the WSIS.
Mr. Ansari is a founder, a mobilizer and an innovator. He is an award-winning senior entrepreneur and researcher in Afghanistan’s ICT sector. Since 2010 he has been the full time President of TechNation, a Kabul-based tech and IT consulting firm. Mr. Ansari is a co-founder and Chair of the National ICT Alliance of Afghanistan (NICTAA), the country’s largest consortium of ICT players, board member of the World IT and Services Alliance (WITSA). He is also appointed by the UN Secretary General to the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) of the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF), and Vice Chair of the Internet Society (ISOC) Afghanistan. Mr. Ansari continues building tech startups and communities. Mr. Ansari worked in PR, business accelerators, startup support programs, public policy, research and technology. Most recently, he coordinated the very successful IGF in Afghanistan (http://igf.af).
With more than twenty five years of experience in environmental and information and communication technologies - ICTs. Director of Colnodo www.colnodo.apc.org, a non-profit organization established in 1993 with the main goal of facilitating the communications, the exchange of information and experiences among Colombian organizations at local, national and international level. Colnodo's strategic programs includes: e-government and e-democracy; Citizenship promotion and participation in the use and appropriation of ICTs; ICTs policies; Research, management and development of ICT knowledge. Colnodo works with three transversal axes: Free and Open Source Software, Gender and Sustainable development.
Council member of the Association for Progressive Communications - Apc and of the Executive Board. Member of the Internet Governance Forum IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) since 2016.Member of the Internet Society and Internet Governance Forum Ambassador for the 2007 and 2009 Forum. Member of the Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus.
Has been participating in multiple ICTs events such as the ISOC conferences (1993-1995), Global Internet Governance Forum and their preparatory meetings in Colombia and LAC, Responsible from Colnodo with .CO Internet SAS of the preparation of the Internet Governance Forum LAC preparatory meeting held in Bogotá in 2012, ICANN meetings (2010 Cartagena), Latin American Ministerial Conference on the Information Society (2010 and 2015), Telecenter meetings in Europe and Latin America.
The room will be organized in a circle (or round table) to give all participants an equal weight in the discussion. The moderator can be located in a prominent seating position and may walk around in the middle of the circle to engage participants.
A preparatory meeting will be organized with speakers, co-organisers and moderators so everyone has a chance to share views and prepare for the session.
The moderator will present the questions prepared in advance to encourage interaction among NRIs representatives and between participants, if conversation were to stall. During the group discussion the moderator will make sure that all participants have equal opportunity to intervene.
Moderator, guided questions, online moderator.
Proposer's Name: Ms. Yolanda Mlonzi
Proposer's Organization: Internet Society Gauteng
Co-Proposer's Name: Mr. Joash Moitui
Co-Proposer's Organization: Centre for Human Rights and Policy Studies
Co-Organizers:
Ms.,Yolanda,MLONZI,CivilSociety,Internet Society Mr.,Joash,MOITUI,CivilSociety,Centre for Human Rights and Policy Studies Ms.Aicha,JERIDI,CivilSociety,Hivos-IGMena
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: South Africa
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: Kenya
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Joash Moitui
Speaker: SAMUEL NDICHO BAMBO
Speaker: Aicha Jeridi
Speaker: Evelyn Namara
Content of the Session:
“An internet shutdown is an intentional disruption of internet or electronic communications, rendering them inaccessible or effectively unusable, for a specific population or within a location, often to exert control over the flow of information” (source: AccessNow)
Governments in Africa are increasingly enacting a "kill switch" on the internet. The recent past has witnessed internet shutdowns in several countries ranging from Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya and Uganda. The growing normalization of Internets Shutdowns is increasingly worrying. This beg the critical question, "What type of digital economic future are we anticipating for developing countries?’ The internet has revolutionized the way citizens engage in politics and issues of public of interest, where citizens/netizens are increasingly finding their voices and challenging systems of governance and accountability in their home countries. Moreover, the internet is fast changing the face of employment opportunities and through the internet and ICTs economies are being diversified. The digital economy through the internet and ICTs are becoming the bedrock to translucent trading and economic growth.
With the growing number of occurrences of internet shutdowns in regions like Africa, the regional internet Registry (AfriNIC) community members proposed a policy early this year calling for denial of IP addresses to governments involved in interference of internet access in their countries. The policy also called for bans up to 5-10 years for states involved in persistent internet shutdowns. Whilst there is a strong need to eradicate the persistent culture of internet shutdowns, and traditional methods of signing petitions being no longer impactful in bringing desired results, there is need to reevaluate whether such drastic approaches will be instrumental in providing sustainable solutions that promote a prosperous digital economy in the long run. AfriNIC as an organisation has not endorsed the policy, as it is facing massive opposition from other members within the organisation. The policy suggestion will be further discussed in length in the coming months, nevertheless, the thought to prompt a digital future of a tit for tat basis warrants a turbulent internet ecosystem in Africa.
Therefore, this session will unpack prospects of an internet economy in unstable countries with policy suggestions that tend to be unsustainable in nature. The core of the workshop is twofold:
Addressing the impacts that internet shutdowns and draconian policies in response to shutdowns will have on sustainable goal 9 & the internet economy
How best to mitigate instances where the internet economy is crippled by allowing the normalization of internet shutdowns
Session agenda (subject to minimal changes) will address the following:
1. Effects of internet shutdowns in an internet dependent world and on SDGs
2. Future of the internet economy with internet shutdown
3. Country case study: Cameroon
4. Sustainable methods and strategies to deal with internet shutdowns
5. Open floor discussion
The purpose of the session is to be very interactive yet informative. The duration of the session will be 90mins roundtable, with 6 speakers discussions broken down in the following:
- 10mins opening remarks/introduction from speakers
- 45mins panel discussion with moderator probing
- 35mins open floor discussion with periodic intervals for remote participants
Relevance of the Session:
Around the world, digital technology is seen as vital for economic development. A 2012 World Bank analysis found “a ten percentage point increase in fixed broadband generating a 1.35% increase in per capita GDP for developing countries and a 1.19% increase for developed countries.” Since then, developing countries especially in Africa have become even more reliant on the internet and digital technology has expanded its role in the overall economy. The centrality of the internet to social and economic life recently led the United Nations to enact a resolution supporting the “promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet”. The resolution proposed specifically condemns unequivocally measures to intentionally prevent or disrupt access to or dissemination of information online in violation of international human rights law and calls on all States to refrain from and cease such measures. As such, dimming a possibility of a thriving digital future for Africa and digressing from sustainable developmental goals call for a rise in innovation, reliable infrastructure and an increase in multi-stakeholder cooperation. The shaping of a prosperous digital future in Africa starts today and is further propelled by the type of policies that we wish to put in place. Therefore, greater efforts need to be made secure this future.
Tag 1: Internet Economy
Tag 2: Internet & ICTs for the Sustainable Development Goals
Tag 3: Digital Future
Interventions:
All the speakers invited are range from civil society, technical community, government, academia and business. Additionally, some of the speakers live in countries where internet shutdowns have occurred and they have seen firsthand the type of impacts that shutdowns have had on the internet economy and human rights. This richness will blend into giving accurate and lived experiences, but fundamentally, will try to find suitable and sustainable solutions that aim to protect the digital economic future of Africa.
Diversity:
The session will gear towards a multi-stakeholder representative panel that will bring new voices and dynamic young individuals to the fore. Key stakeholder groups pertaining to the issue of internet shutdowns will be represented, such as civil society (which represents the user views), academia, technical community, government and business. In addition to this, we have found it important that the panel stem from the global south to give an opportunity to under-represented groups and opportunity to make their voice heard and to strategically think of solutions for the internet issue that we are currently facing. Gender, national and age diversity is incorporated, by having young leading females on the panel and representatives from different countries whom will give relevant country contexts on internet shutdowns.
Current speakers (confirmed & unconfirmed) of the session include:
3 females
3 males
6 African countries represented
5 stakeholder groups
80% speaker being youth who are leading in their career and work in internet policy
Onsite Moderator: Yolanda Mlonzi
Online Moderator: Thato Mfikwe
Rapporteur: Chenai Chair
Online Participation:
Remote participation
ISOC Gauteng (South Africa) will host a remote hub. ISOC Gauteng is a non-profit organization that mainly does work in the township areas of South Africa, sharing knowledge and digital skills with marginalized communities.
Discussion facilitation:
Format: Roundtable
The purpose of the session is to be very interactive yet informative. The duration of the session will be 90mins roundtable discussions broken down in the following:
10mins opening remarks/introduction from speakers
45min panel discussion with moderator probing
35min open floor discussion with periodic intervals for remote participants
The roundtable will be in such a way that the audience/participants and the speakers will sit in one large round table with individual microphones per chair on the table. This set up allows for an open and equal space for dialogue and emphasizing that panel speakers are not more important than the audience. Also it will give room for ease of debate and discussions, where audiences will have a microphone near to them.
There will be a dedicated answer and question period, where during this time, participants and panel speakers are free to talk about the content of the session in length. More time will be given to open floor
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: No
Link to Report:
1. Barrack Otieno, General Manager, African Top Level Domains Organization (AFTLD) (Kenya, Technical Community)
Mr. Otieno areas of expertise include Internet and Information and Communications Technology Policy development and advocacy, community based Information and Communications Technology for development work and institutional leadership with emphasis on strategy development and multicountry stakeholder and coalition development. He's expertise is anchored around the role o
...Across the world, freedom of expression and journalism are under fire. Violent extremism, forced migration, and persistent inequality have contributed to a wave of political polarization, nationalism, and identity politics. As Internet intermediaries increasingly become primary platforms for accessing content, traditional media have seen their business models challenged, and some journalists see social media platforms and their algorithms as replacing them as the editors. How have these political, social and technological forces impacted freedom of expression online?
This session will provide a platform for discussion of these issues, building on the findings of the 2017/2018 report of UNESCO's flagship series on World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development. The World Trends Report explores recent developments at the global and regional levels in media freedom, pluralism, independence, and safety, each examined through a gender-sensitive lens and with special attention given to transnational and digital media. The focus of the session will be on emerging digital trends, such as the rise in internet shutdowns, the impact of algorithms on diversity of content, and the production, circulation and responses to so-called ‘fake news’.
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
AGENDA:
Moderator: Ms Rachel Pollack Ichou, Associate Programme Specialist, Executive Office, Communication and Information Sector, UNESCOOpening remarks:
Ms Anna Karefelt, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)
Mr Guilherme Canela Godoi, Advisor for Communication and Information, UNESCO Office in Montevideo
Moderated discussion with subject matter experts
Subject matter experts:
Ms Florence Poznanski, Head of Brazilian Desk, Internet Without Borders, Brazil
Mr Cláudio Lucena, Professor, Paraíba State University, Brazil
Mr Peter Micek, General Counsel, Access Now, USA
Ms Bishakha Datta, Executive Director, Point of View, India
Mr Thomas Schneider, Director of International Relations, OFCOM, Switzerland
Questions and comments from in-person and online participants
Closing remarks by moderator
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Remote Moderator: Ms Olga Kyryliuk, Co-founder and Managing Partner, NGO "Digital Defenders Partners", Ukraine
Rapporteur: Mr Chris Buckridge, External Relations Manager, RIPE NCC, the Netherlands
Relevance of the Session:
The session will provide an opportunity for open dialogue on major trends in freedom of expression online around the world. A universal human right, freedom of expression and access to information have increasingly been recognized as essential for building peaceful, just and inclusive societies (Goal 16 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development). In the context of technological innovation and political polarization, it is essential to bring together a diverse group of stakeholders to discuss shared challenges encountered and possible ways forward in protecting freedom of expression online. This discussion will help all participants and the wider community of global internet users shape their digital futures to enhance their ability to seek, receive and impart information online.
Tag 1: Freedom of Expression
Tag 2: Algorithms
Additional Reference Document Link: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/world-media-trends
Proposer's Name: Ms. Morgan Frost
Proposer's Organization: Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Sarah Moulton
Co-Proposer's Organization: National Democratic Institute (NDI)
Co-Organizers:
Mr.,Daniel,O’MALEY,Civil Society,Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
Ms.,Sarah,MOULTON,Civil Society,National Democratic Institute (NDI)
Ms.,Maiko,NAKAGAKI,Civil Society,Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
Session Format: Panel - 60 Min
Proposer:
Country: United States
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: United States
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Hanane Boujemi
Speaker: Martha Roldos
Speaker: Chris Doten
Speaker: Jehan Ara
Speaker: Mishi Choudhary
Speaker: Matt Chessen
Content of the Session:
This panel will open with brief introductions from each participant highlighting the view from their sector of the threats to democracy caused by the weaponization of information and manipulations of access on the internet. This will include discussions of technical censorship and throttling by ISPs, the legal implications of surveillance and cyber laws, and the challenges posed by digital disinformation, fake news, and online trolling. Panelists will then discuss the solutions: how can stakeholders shape a better internet to invigorate 21st century democracies with inclusive participation, including how to apply the IRPC’s 10 Internet Rights and Principles for global and local advocacy. Panel comments will be held to a maximum of 30 minutes to permit participation from the in-person and online audiences as well as dialogue among panel members.
Relevance of the Session:
During the heady days of the Arab Spring the globalization of the internet seemed to be ushering in a new age of democracy and openness, but instead radical shifts caused by these new communications channels have created the most hostile environment to political institutions and long-standing democracies in decades. The shift of political discourse to online platforms has empowered anti-democratic actors who have created innovative new techniques that turn the attributes of the internet against open institutions, harnessing hyper-partisanship, filter bubbles, and age-old human biases, accelerated with content stolen by hackers or outright fake news, to erode trust and increase hatred and xenophobia. At the same time, authoritarian regimes in control of the structures of the internet are increasingly censoring, throttling, surveilling or otherwise manipulating the internet to silence dissent, promote violence, and perpetuate inequalities. Given these challenges, it is up to the defenders of an open internet to consider how to shape the modern agora into a place for vibrant, open, constructive and democratic dialogue. Ensuring that the future of the internet empowers universal human rights and democratic values will require cooperation from government policymakers, civil society leaders, the technology sector, and multilateral fora like the IGF.
Tag 1: Multistakeholder Cooperation
Tag 2: Human Rights Online
Tag 3: Freedom of Expression Online
Interventions:
We are pleased to have a cross-section of remarkable individuals whose varied experiences will bring important perspectives on the disruptions the internet has brought to democracies around the world. A Department of State technologist will bring an American governmental point of view, while civil society and private sector leaders from the Global South experienced in advocacy, cyber law and political organizing will describe the ways that internet manipulation and digital disinformation are impacting their democracies and ways in which they’ve addressed these challenges. A representative of HIVOS will discuss the response of the donor community, and a leader of the technology community in India will be able to discuss the impacts of policy choices and the response of the corporate sector. Each speaker will share their views on threats or opportunities that the internet has brought to democracy and their personal perspectives in how the future of the internet ought to be shaped.
Diversity:
Modeling the diversity of IGF, this will be a truly global panel with different stakeholder groups, a range of ages, varied viewpoints, and an even split of gender. Many of the participants are from developing countries, and only one has spoken at or organized a panel for IGF in the past. We intend to use the online discussion capabilities to focus on voices from a range of perspectives as well.
Onsite Moderator: Mr.,Daniel,O’MALEY,Civil Society,Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
Online Moderator: Ms.,Maiko,NAKAGAKI,Civil Society,Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
Rapporteur: Ms.,Morgan,FROST,Civil Society,Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
Online Participation:
The livestream for this event will be promoted in advance through the social networks of the participating organizations, and NDI will host an in-person event replaying the content for the DC open internet community. For those connected at the time, our online moderator, Maiko Nakagaki, will share questions from these participants up to the panel in real time to build a global discussion. In addition, the panel will also be advertised and promoted throughout the newly formed Community of Open Internet Advocates facilitated by CIPE, CIMA, and NDI. This community includes representatives from Pakistan, Nigeria, Slovakia, Sri Lanka, India, Mexico, Tunisia, Jordan, Kenya, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Cote D’Ivoire, Venezuela, and Hungary.
Discussion facilitation:
Moderated by Daniel O’Maley, each distinguished speaker will have the opportunity to share their perspectives on the challenges posed by internet-delivered “distributed denial of democracy” attacks and how to shape the future of the internet to protect vibrant democracies. In order to have a compelling discussion among stakeholders, Mr. O’Maley will permit brief statements and inter-panel dialogue held to 30 minutes, after which the floor will belong to questions from the audience within IGF and through online participation.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: No
Link to Report: https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2017-ws-154-the-distributed-denial-of-democracy-threats-to-democratic-processes-online
Background Paper
1. Brief Introduction to the Discussion - 5 minutes
2. Introduction of Panelists - 5 minutes
3. Discussion among Panelists on Threats to Democratic Processes Online - 30 minutes
4. Questions (In person and through online participation) - 15 minutes
5. Wrap Up - 5 minutes
Proposer's Name: Ms. Alison Gillwald
Proposer's Organization: Research ICT Africa/University of Cape Town
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Roxana Barrantes
Co-Proposer's Organization: Instituto Estudios de Peruanos
Co-Organizers:
Helani Galpaya, civil society, LIRNEasia Aileen Aguero, civil society, Instituto Estudios de Peruanos
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: South Africa
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: Peru
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Alison Gillwald
Speaker: Helani Galpaya
Speaker: Helani Galpaya
Speaker: Anriette Esterhuysen
Speaker: Alice Munyua
Speaker: Claire Sibthorpe
Speaker: Alexandre Barbosa
Speaker: Masanori Kondo
Content of the Session:
The roundtable discussion hinges on the ICT access and use surveys undertaken in 2017 across 16 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America that bring to the forum some of the only rigorous and publicly available evidence on the status and determinants of digital inequality. Based on nationally representative surveys the findings provide not only real numbers of Internet access in the Global South but enable the disaggregation of data on the basis of sex, location, income, age and other grounds. The studies look 'beyond access' at the intersectional challenges faced the marginalised in developing countries, providing insights into affordability, digital literacy, gender disparities, urban-rural divides, and unevenness of youth awareness and use. The findings also provide critical insights into the drivers of OTT adoption, mobile money use, the extent of online micro-work, the use of m-and e-government services and social networking as the driver of Internet take-up.
A multistakeholder discussion, with prompted audience and online audience interventions, will explore some of the arising governance and policy implications of the findings if any progress is to be made towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goals and to developing measurements to assess that progress.
The 90 minute roundtable will include:
Introduction: Three 10-minute flash presentations from Africa, Asia and Latin America with a brief comparative overview. (30mins)
Moderator: Questions of clarification on methodology and findings. (5 minutes)
Moderator: Questions to presenters at on critical role of demand side data for evidence-based policy formulation (5 minutes)
Moderator: Questions to national agencies and multilateral agencies on the utility of the findings and remaining/arising gaps and commitment to development of national indicators (10 minutes)
Moderator: Questions to industry associations on complementary role (and commitment to collaboration) of supply-side/big data to demand-side data for evidence-based policy (10 mins)
Moderator: Discussion on factors driving digital inequality - human development (income, education) rural location, age, and intersection of these in relation to gender - policy challenges of state coordination, demand stimulation, + audience participation (10 mins)
Moderator: Discussion of affordability and user strategies to access and USE the Internet, including public wi-fi, zero rated, dynamic and bundled services and OTTs + audience participation (10 mins)
Moderator: Discussion on factors driving Internet take-up and what people use it for - social networking, mobile money, microwork + audience participation (10 mins)
Moderator: Discussion on rights online/offline - creating a trusted environment as demand stimulation strategy - users awareness, experiences and practices of security, privacy, surveillance, censorship, freedom of expression + audience participation (10 mins)
Wrap up.
Relevance of the Session:
The recognition of the imperatives of digital inclusion in the UN Agenda for Sustainable Development and calls for 'significantly increased access to affordable Internet in least developed countries by 2020’ together with 'the enhanced use of enabling technologies to promote women’s empowerment’ is to be welcomed as a mechanism to ameliorate inequality in the 21st century. The problem is that with the patchy, outdated, supply-side data currently being used for global comparison and unable to measure digital inequality in the predominantly prepaid mobile markets in developing countries, we do not know where we stand now nor can we ascertain if, and when, we have progressed toward the goals and targets of the the SDGs. The findings of these demand-side studies go some way to fulling these gaps in a number of developing countries and providing a baseline and some perspective from the global South on how we might shape our digital future in a more equitable way. Besides the socio-economic factors driving and inhibiting internet adoption and use, the research probes user experiences of a range of issues fundamental to Internet governance - user trust, cyber security, privacy, surveillance and censorship and explores them as factors in inhibiting Internet take-up and use. Discussion of the findings in a multistakeholder environment not only provide an opportunity to influence more positive policy outcomes but hopefully highlights the need for political commitment to rigorous, transparent and open public statistics for evidence-based policy.
Tag 1: #accessandinclusion
Tag 2: Policies Enabling Access
Tag 3: Internet & ICTs for the Sustainable Development Goals
Interventions:
This 90-minute session will provide a essential evidence update for decision-makers in the global South through a roundtable discussion between researchers and policy-makers following three flash presentations on Africa (Alison Gillwald), Asia (Helani Galpaya) and Latin America (Roxana Barrantes of 10 minutes each with a brief comparative overview.
The moderator, Alexandre Barbosa who has extensive experience in indicators development as the chair of the ITU Indicator Expert Group and executive director of CETIC in Brazil, will take some audience questions of clarification on the presentations and methodology and will then pose some policy questions to demonstrate how demand side surveys are essential to identifying the exact points of policy intervention that cannot be sourced from supply side data or even big data analytics in the predominantly prepaid mobile markets that characterise the Global South. (10 minutes).
Discussants from regional and national governments and state agencies (Juan Manuel Wilches, Commissioner, Commission for Communications Regulation, Colombia) and Americo Muchanga, Mozambican regulator and Communications Regulatory Association of Southern Africa chairperson) and multilateral agencies (Alice Munya, African Union) will then have an opportunity to respond to the findings, evaluate their utility and contribution to administrative data and identify outstanding research needs from a policy perspective. Roundtable discussion will ensue, with vacant seats at the roundtable for audience participation.
Industry associations (Dr Masanori Kondo, Deputy Secretary General, Asia Pacific Telecommunity, and Claire Sibthorpe from GSMA Connected Women) will then speak about how supply-side (operator) data can be used complementarily with demand-side data for a complete evidence-base for policy formulation.
With the access indicators covered the presentations, the discussions will focus on some of the key findings on digital inequality in relation to income, sex, urban-rural location and education. The remainder of the time will be spent on the 'beyond access' challenges that are constraining Internet take- up, many of which intersect with the factors of inequality described above. As affordability is a major constraint on not only take up of services but use, some time will be spent on the findings on expenditure on communications services but also the findings on the multiple strategies users have developed to access the Internet, including free public wi-fi, zero-rated services and low cost and dynamically bundled products.
The two remaining issues that will be highlighted is the drivers of internet take up and use, particularly social networking, but also some insights into mobile money and online micro-work and the findings from the cyber awareness and practice component which specifically focused on trust issues related to building confidence in coming and remaining online, specifically awareness and practices in relation to online rights, cyber security, privacy, surveillance, freedom of expression, censorship, stalking and sexual harassment. Anriette Esterhysen from APC who is also leading the UNESCO Internet Indicators project will engage with the presenters on public interest governance frameworks to manage these issues on the net and to also, together with Claire Sibthorpe from GSMA Connected Women, Alice Munya from the African Union, who have advocated extensively for gender equality,speak more generally about strategies of digital inclusion.
Wrap up (5 minutes)
Diversity:
The proposed speakers are predominantly women, but there are men represented from each region - Africa, Asia and Latin America. The presenters of the flash presentations are researchers from think tanks in each region. The discussants are from national government agencies, regional multilateral organisations
Proposer's Name: Ms. Vidushi Marda
Proposer's Organization: The Centre for Internet and Society
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Stefania Milan
Co-Proposer's Organization: DATACTIVE, University of Amsterdam
Co-Organizers:
Ms. Vidushi Marda, Civil Society, The Centre for Internet and Society
Ms. Stefania Milan, Civil Society, DATACTIVE
Session Format: Panel - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: India
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: India
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Content of the Session:
This session will take the perspective of the Global South to discuss the content regulation increasingly carried out on and by platforms in response to “fake news”. It will discuss what the “platformization” of the internet, or the increasingly predominant role of social media platforms, means for internet governance frameworks and processes. As much of the internet governance narrative is focussed around Western considerations, the multistakeholder IG community needs urgently to pay attention to the consequences of these moves for the Global South, where often freedom of expression is not adequately protected and supported.
The panel will thus address two key questions: first, whether this platformization of the web is accompanied by adequate safeguards in context of online content regulation in the Global South. Second, how current internet governance frameworks and processes find relevance in the age of platformization of the internet. The panel builds on a well-attended session by the same organizers at RightsCon (Brussels, 2017), entitled ‘Resisting Content Regulation in the Post-
Truth World: How to Fix Fake News and the Algorithmic Curation of Social Media”--where the debate on these issues started.
Goals:
Explore key trends and developments in the area of content regulation on and by platforms with a specific forum on the Global South
analyze the shift in regulation from governments and governance processes to social media platforms, and understand whether these developments are accompanied by adequate safeguards
Identify, through a multistakeholder dialogue, the implications for the internet governance agenda in relation to similar trends towards content regulation within ICANN, and formulate recommendations on the role of the IGF in this debate
Outcomes:
Understanding of trends in content regulation on and by internet platforms with a focus on the Global South
A transnational, multistakeholder dialogue on the relevance of traditional internet governance processes amidst the shift towards the platformization of the internet
Recommendations on possible ways to approach content regulation and platformization of the internet in the Global South, with a focus on advocacy, awareness raising and capacity building
Relevance of the Session:
The Economist (2016) has recently argued that we now live in a “post-truth” world, where public opinion is shaped not by objective facts, but rather by appeals to emotion or personal beliefs. Corporate social media are believed to play a key role in this process, which, it is argued, is detrimental to democracy. Platforms like Facebook have faced extensive criticism for the circulation of “fake news” on its wires, and proposed solutions to this problem include drastic measures like curation and fact checking, which arguably go in the direction of content policing.
These solutions are all, unfortunately, inherently problematic: they advocate for broad and overarching restrictions to the freedom of speech and expression, sometimes in the absence of clear evidence. Yet we know from the history of the internet that touching the plumbing of the internet is hardly a good idea. But are Facebook and its likes merely neutral “pipes” or are they media companies subjected to the existing regulation of the press?
This panel speaks directly to this year’s theme, “Shape your Digital Future” as it aims at facilitating a forward looking, engaging discussion on what the future of freedom of expression and content regulation on the internet should look like from a global south perspective. It will also ask: what does this current fascination for automatized or algorithmic content regulation means for human rights and freedom of expression? What implications does it have for internet governance (IG), where the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has recently been also accused of an “ambivalent drift into online content regulation” through voluntary agreements and private contracting.
Tag 1: Fakenews
Tag 2: Content
Tag 3: Internet Governance
Interventions:
Outline:
Introduction by proposers/organisers, brief background to content regulation, platformization, fake news
Zeenab Aneez (Independent Researcher) - platformisation of digital news,
algorithm as editor, and media diversity
Niels ten Oever (Article19) - Freedom of expression considerations in regulation of content and human rights implications more widely
Malavika Jayaram (Digital Asia Hub) - Conceptions of fake news and unique considerations from the Global South
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (TBC) - The consequences of excessive state regulation
James Losey (Stockholm University) - The political economy of fake news, between the North and the South
Facebook or other industry representative (TBC) - Challenges faced by platforms, approaches taken and ongoing concerns
Each speaker will give a brief (5-minute) presentation, followed by a discussion of all participants in the room, with the goal of identifying common agendas. The speakers will be called on regularly to give further interventions.
Diversity:
The group of presenters will be
Multi-stakeholder, bringing together members of civil society, business and government
Focussed on perspectives from the Global South
Balanced in its gender and geographical distribution
Onsite Moderator: Vidushi Marda
Online Moderator: Stefania Milan
Rapporteur: Amber Sinha
Online Participation:
We will ensure online participation, both in concept, and in practice. For example: online attendees will have a separate queue and microphone, which will rotate equally with the mics in the room; the workshop moderator will have the online participation session open, and will be in close communication with the workshop’s trained online moderator, to make any adaptations necessary as they arise, etc
Discussion facilitation:
Each speaker will be given 5 minutes to make opening remarks, after which the floor will be opened to the audience (both insitu and online) so as to facilitate a lively, engaging conversation. The Panel format will facilitate this well as it will represent diverse views from various stakeholders in an orderly fashion, paving the way for a meaningful debate at the time of participation from the audience and online participants.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: No
Link to Report:
Proposer's Name: Ms. Amrita Choudhury
Proposer's Organization: CCAOI
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Nadira Al-Araj
Co-Proposer's Organization: ISOC Palestine
Co-Organizers:
Ms Maritza Aguero Minano, Academia, AUI Peru / LACRALO Secretariat
Ms Evelyn Namara, Private Sector, Techpreneur Uganda
Ms Nooria Ahmadi, Technical Community, AfIGF, Afghanistan
Ms Sylvia Kanari, Civil Society, Hivos, Kenya
Session Format: Birds of a Feather - 60 Min
Proposer:
Country: India
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: Palestinian Territory
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Speaker: NADIRA AL-ARAJ
Speaker: Nooria Ahmadi
Speaker: Amrita Choudhury
Speaker: Maritza Aguero
Speaker: Evelyn Namara
Speaker: Sylvia Musalagani
Content of the Session:
Realizing the power of Internet being the greatest leveller, most countries of the Global South today, including India are digitizing all services and facilities.
However for benefits to percolate to the bottom of the pyramid, especially women, policies and social environment needs improvement so that women can freely access the internet, in their preferred language, watch content which they want, express themselves online without fear of being trolled, get equal opportunities in the technical fields and encouragement to become social entrepreneurs by generation of business and digital content.
The participants during this session, will share regional and national perspectives on the social, structural and policy challenges to enhance gender inclusiveness for a connected future, highlighting specific concerns and sharing the best practices and initiatives undertaken in their region by various stakeholders, for digitally empowering women, providing them meaningful access, entrepreneurial opportunities and encouraging women in technology.
The speakers will attempt to identify main global challenges related to gender rights, highlighting specific regional or national issues, share best practices adopted to overcome those challenges and highlight areas of public policy or social aspects that need to be addressed along with suggestions, in order to improve digital rights of women.
This would be an interactive session where participants would also be given time to share their perspectives.
Expected Outcome:
At the end of the session we expect participants to get an insight on the,
1. Existing challenges in creating a gender inclusive networked future
Identify the common challenges across Global South nations
Emphasize the unique regional or national challenges if any.
2. Best practices adopted by certain nations or regions to overcome the challenges
3. Areas which need reforms along with suggestions;
Policy related to improving gender rights
Social and Cultural development.
Duration: 60 mins
Tentative Session Schedule:
1. Introduction to the subject 5 mins
2. Outlining the Current Scenario and Challenges by Participants 15 min
3. Discussion on Regional and National Initiatives 10 mins
4. Suggested improvements 10 mins
5. Open Discussion 15 mins
6. Summarizing key take away from the session 5 mins
Relevance of the Session:
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Report 2016[1] indicates that although average human development, improved significantly across all regions over the last fifteen years, one in three people worldwide still continue to live in low levels of human development. Systemic discrimination against women, indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities, among other groups, are the barriers which are leaving them behind.
The ITU Report on ICT Facts and Figures 2016 indicates that the global Internet user gender gap has grown from 11% in 2013 to 12.2% in 2016 and developing nations such as Africa (23%) have a larger access gap than developed nations such as Americas (2%). They had further estimated that by the end of 2016, only one in seven people is expected to be online from Least Developing Nations (LDCs), of which, only 31% of them would be women.[2]
Existing gender disparities, discrimination and inequalities especially of people living in the Global South in developing and least developed countries, have severely impacted the gender digital divide. Therefore, a stronger focus on those excluded and on actions to dismantle these barriers is urgently needed to ensure sustainable human development for all.
Empowering women and other disadvantaged groups, providing them meaningful and affordable access, enabling and rendering a greater voice in decision-making processes, requires a more refined analysis of key data to inform actions such as assessing their participation and autonomy, focussing on the quality of development rather than quantity is the need of the hour.
To enable a networked future, it is important to create a multicultural internet, encouraging autonomy, potentializing the digital economy and valuing local content. All this is possible when women and other disadvantaged groups e empowered not only by meaningful and affordable access but ensuring them their rights and rendering their voice in decision-making processes.
It is therefore important in this digital age that women are not excluded and their rights are protected so that women can be empowered digitally and equipped to “Shape their own Future” which is the overarching theme of IGF 2017.
In this context , at the end of the session, we expect participants to get an insight on the,
1. Existing challenges in creating a gender inclusive networked future
Identify the common challenges across Global South nations
Emphasize the unique regional or national challenges if any.
2, Best practices adopted by certain nations or regions to overcome the challenges
3. Areas which need reforms along with suggestions;
Policy related to improving gender rights
Social and Cultural development.
Tag 1: Gender Issues
Tag 2: Access and Diversity
Tag 3: Digital Rights
Interventions:
Being a BoF session it would be an interactive session where participants would also be given time to share their perspectives.
Apart from the speakers who come from different stakeholder communities, continents and diverse backgrounds sharing their views and experiences on the subject.
The tentative session schedule would be as follows:
1. Introduction to the subject 5 mins
2. Outlining the Current Scenario and Challenges by Participants 15 min
3. Discussion on Regional and National Initiatives 10 mins
4. Suggested improvements 10 mins
5. Open Discussion 15 mins
6. Summarizing key take away from the session 5 mins
Diversity:
To ensure that the proposed session provides an overall unbiased and holistic view of the Global South with respect to "Redefining Rights for a Gender Inclusive Networked Future" , we have attempted to ensure diversity among the speakers.
1. To ensure relevance of discussion, we have ensured that all the speakers are from developing and LDC countries.
2. To ensure geographic diversity, the speakers belong to different continents , Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa, Central America, Latin America.
3. Speakers belong to diverse Stakeholder groups, namely Civil Society, Academia, Technical community, Business
4. Each speaker brings different perspectives, experiences and expertise, which is evident from their resumes.
5. Speakers from different age groups including 3 Youth to get different perspectives.
all this we believe will help to ensure the discussions are not tilted towards a particular stakeholder group, community or economy.
Onsite Moderator: Amrita Choudhury
Online Moderator: Renata Aquino Ribeiro
Rapporteur: Angélica Contreras, Youth Observatory, Mexico
Online Participation:
This workshop will rely on IGF support for remote participation and will also experiment with a variety of tools to bring in multiple views for the debate previously, during and after the presentation. Interactive document-building, intensive use of conversation in instantaneous social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or Weibo can be completed by warm-up sessions to the workshop with short video messages.
Discussion facilitation:
The participants are expected to share regional and national perspectives on the social, structural and policy challenges to enhance gender inclusiveness for a connected future, highlighting specific concerns and sharing on the best practices and initiatives undertaken in their region by various stakeholders, to digitally empower women and those who are left out, providing them meaningful access, entrepreneurial opportunities and encouraging women in technology.
During the discussion the speakers would attempt to try and identify main global challenges related to gender rights, while highlighting specific regional or national issues, share best practices which nations or regions have adopted to overcome those challenges. Then they would attempt to share the areas of public policy or social aspects that need to be addressed along with suggestions, to improve the situation.
This would be an interactive session where participants would also be given time to share their perspectives.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: https://www.i
Proposer's Organization: Mediterranean Federation of Internet Associations (FMAI)
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Roula Mikhael
Co-Proposer's Organization: Maharat Foundation
Co-Organizers:
Prof Abdelaziz Hilali, Civil Society, Mediterranean Federation of Internet Associations (FMAI)
Ms. Roula Mikhael, Civil Society, Maharat Foundation
Mr. Khalid Ibrahim, Civil Society, Gulf Centre for Human Rights
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: Morocco
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: Lebanon
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Roula Mikhael
Speaker: Aziz Hilali
Speaker: Layal Bahnam
Speaker: Khalid Ibrahim
Speaker: Marie Noemie Marques
Speaker: Glenn McKnight
Content of the Session:
The Internet has become a critical enabler of social and economic change, advancing a sustainable information society for all.
However, citizens of developing countries such as the Arab World do not produce digital content in local language that is compatible with grassroots needs of local communities, whereas the content that is most important to people is in their own language and relevant to where they live and work.
This workshop will highlight the main factors impeding the creation of local content in the region from a free flow of information perspective and economic and social development.
The main factors are related to:
One of the possible recommendations of the Workshop would be the adoption of further policies and initiatives to encourage local content creators to develop content tailored for the needs of local communities as well as to create an enabling learning environment in order to improve basic and digital literacy, critical thinking ability, and media and information skills targeting especially youth and women.Agenda:
Introduction of the speakers and the topic by the Moderator – 10 min
Round of short presentations by the 5 speakers – TOTAL – 25 min
Open Debate - All participants attending the Roundtable – 50 min
Wrap up by the Moderator - 5 min
Agenda:
· Introduction of the speakers and the topic by the Moderator – 10 min
· Round of short presentations by the 6 speakers – TOTAL – 30 min
· Open Debate - All participants attending (in person or remotely) the Roundtable – 45 min
. Wrap up - 5 min
Relevance of the Session:
This session will explore the issue of Local content development by local people in local language which is one of the main important ways to make the underserved regions benefit from the technology. How can you shape your digital future if you don't contribute in the digital content production, use, reuse and redistribution, and if your grassroots don't use it for their daily life (basic and digital literacy, critical thinking ability, media and information skills).
Tag 1: Digital Rights
Tag 2: Content
Tag 3: Digital Economy
Interventions:
After the introduction of the topic and the speakers by the moderator, each of the 6 speakers will have 5 minutes to address briefly an aspect of the roundtable topic. Then an open discussion will be launched where every participant (in person or online) will have the same rights to speak and express him/her self. The speakers contribute in this open discussion and give insights and feedback when necessary.
Diversity:
The 6 speakers are from Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. They are gender balanced (3 men and 3 women), from Civil Society, Private Sector, Academia, and media.
Onsite Moderator: Mohamed Tijani BEN JEMAA
Online Moderator: Hussein Elsherif
Rapporteur: Karim Abdulrady
Online Participation:
Remote participation will be an essential channel of participation in our workshop. Our online moderator will be also in charge of following the tweets. We will use the IGF remote participation platform.
For a successful remote participation, the announcement of the workshop will be spread widely, not only among the IGF participants, but also all the other networks highlighting the easy remote participation.
The Remote contributions will be taken alternatively with the in person contributions, and if the remote queue is longer than the one in the room, we will take more remote participants than from the room.
Discussion facilitation:
Speakers will have very short slots (5 minutes) to introduce the various aspects of the topic. This is to free more time for the audience (in the room and online). All attendees have the same rights and are treated equally. Remote participants also will speak when they want, and they will be given the priority in the extreme cases
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: No
Link to Report:
· Introduction of the speakers and the topic by the Moderator – 10 min
· Round of short presentations by the 6 speakers – TOTAL – 30 min
· Open Debate - All participants attending (in person or remotely) the Roundtable – 45 min
. Wrap up - 5 min
Co-proposers/co-organizers
Session title
Working together on national regional level to encourage IPv6 deployment: Experiences and addressing challenges
Session format and timing
Total proposed duration of the session: 90 minutes, divided into two major segments [20 minutes + 70 minutes].
Session format: roundtable, followed by discussions with participants
Moderator will open the floor for 5 minutes as part of PartI.
We take Q& A from the floor in Part II of the session. We have speakers as icebreaker for each question but participants are able to provide inputs for each of the questions. Please see Section 4 Contents of the session for more details.
Content of the session
Part I: 20 minutes
Moderator opens the follow with Introduction (5 minutes)
Overview of Key developments since IGF2016 IPv6 BPF (15 minutes)
- General observations on deployment since IGF2016 output
- Discussions at APrIGF2017
Part II: 70 minutes
Discussions based on key questions (3 questions listed as examples).
1. Any actions taken/further development since IGF IPv6 BPF outputs?
* Mexico:
Share the experiences and observations on how deployment rate has shown rapid increase in the past few months, since IGF IPv6 BPF session in Dec 2016. Candidate speaker (ONE SPEAKER slot): Oscar Robles, the CEO of LACNIC as a speaker from Mexico/Latin America. Other candidates are Manuel Haces (National IP Registry (NIC MX)), Jimena Sierra (IFT as the regulator).
* Japan:
Share experience of mobile deployment, remaining challenges, and other further work by the Japanese community since IGF IPv6 BPF session in Dec 2016. Speaker: Tsuyoshi KINOSHITA (Vice President of Internet Association of Japan)
* Netherlands:
Growing steadily, but there's a long way to go! Share the situation in Netherlands, some challenges, comparison with other countries in Europe. Based on observations share what would be helpful way forward
Erik Huizer (The chair of the Dutch IPv6 Taskforce)
http://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/erik-huizer
2. What is the situation in countries other than where further action was taken? Feedback on how helpful or not helpful the BPF document was. What are the remaining challenges?
* China:
A suggestion to be made from China IGF. Feedback from a perspective of a country which has interests in encouraging IPv6 deployment, what are the additional information or initiatives observed to be helpful, information exchanges among countries on private sector initiatives, soft policies/strategies or community actions.
* Kenya/Africa
Speaker: Alan Barrett (CEO of AFRINIC, Technical Community)
Share the current situation in Kenya, remaining challenges for the African region as a whole, suggestions on a way forward beyond IGF IPv6 BPF documents.
3. What are the common challenges?
What can be key messages to stakeholders such as government, private sectors and community bodies to address these challenges?
* Open discussions with both the panelist and participants
Speakers/Resource persons
- Mr Tsuyoshi KINOSHITA
- Mr. Alain Duran
Relevance of the issue
In IGF2015 and IGF2016, Best Practices Forum produced output documents on IPv6. Outputs of IGF2015 IPv6 BPF was shared at APrIGF2016, with its feedback reflected back to its IPv6 BPF work in IGF2016. There was a further follow up session on IPv6 at APrIGF2017, which introduced outputs of IGF2016.
We would like to now bring back again of feedback on IGF2016 BPF IPv6 from national and regional communities back to the global IGF.
This brings a cycle of discussions on IPv6 at both global, regional and national level as : global (2015) --> regional (2016) --> global (2016) --> regional/national (2017) --> back again to the global IGF2017.
Due to the exhaustion of the unallocated IPv4 address space, the version of technical identifier which has been used from early days of the Internet, the new version of IP addressed called IPv6 has been developed with abundant stocks. The deployment of IPv6 is needed to provide addresses for millions of new internet users in the future; therefore it is a prerequisite for access and growth, relevant to all regions and economies. See section 2 of IGF2016 BPF IPv6 for more details on why deploy IPv6.
The global IGF2016 document clearly describes that there is no correlation with GDP and economies with high IPv6 deployment. i.e., you do not have to be from developing countries to have high deployment rate.
Since the output document was published in Dec 2016, global IPv6 deployment rate has risen from total of 8% to approximately 15% as of Aug 2017. These figures are far much lower in other regions of the world with the African average being less than 1%. There is still more rooms for improvements, for the global Internet to be IPv6 ready, in accommodating access without number resources limitation as in the case of IPv4 and growth.
Based on highlights of key outputs of IGF IPv6 BPF, speakers from different regions share further feedback and actions taken on national and or regional level, including the remaining challenges, and highlighting specific actions where different stakeholders can work together. For example, to bring in more commercial actors who are closer to the market, together with the policy maker to tackle this issue.
Interventions/Engagement with participants (onsite and online)
The speakers listed are for sharing experiences to stimulated discussions with onsite and onsite participants. There will be times secured to have discussions with participants per key questions listed
Geographical, Stakeholder and Gender Diversity
Each of the National IGFs [*]organising the session are based on geographic, stakeholder and gender diversity into considerations. The speaker are from different regions and stakeholders.
China IGF: http://igfcn.news/
Japan IGF: https://japanigf.jp/
Kenya IGF: http://isoc-ke.org/?page_id=173
Netherlands IGF: http://www.nligf.nl/
Onsite moderator(s)
A moderator(s) with knowledge of IPv6 and understanding not limited to technical expertise but also understanding of environment outside technical community with will be chosen based on discussions by China, Keya, Netherlands and Japan IGF.
Online moderator(s)
Call for volunteer at IPv6 BPF mailing list. The online moderator (s) does not have to have deep understanding of IPv6 as long as have interest in the subject and able to use Webex and twitter, read out comments.
Rapporteur(s)
We will commit to appoint a rapporteur but specific name is to be discussed among China, Kenya, Netherlands and Japan IGF
Online participation logistics
Inputs in Webex and twitter hashtag will be read out by online moderator to speakers and onsite participants.
Discussion facilitation
The session will be interactive with participants and speakers. The moderator with knowledge on IPv6 will play a key role in ensuring all inputs are heard and have useful summary on a way forward.
Proposer's Name: Mr. Belisario Contreras
Proposer's Organization: Organization of American States
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Daniela Schnidrig
Co-Proposer's Organization: Global Partners Digital
Co-Organizers:
Mr., Belisario, CONTRERAS, Intergovernmental Organization, Organization of American States (OAS)
Ms., Daniela, SCHNIDRIG, Civil Society, Global Partners Digital
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: United States
Stakeholder Group: Intergovernmental Organizations
Co-Proposer:
Country: United Kingdom
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: Lea Kaspar
Speaker: Alberto Hernandez
Speaker: Chris Painter
Speaker: David Duren
Speaker: Kaja Ciglic
Content of the Session:
With increasing challenges to ensure a free, open and secure online environment, and a growing demand for cyber capacity, it is vital for all stakeholders to work together. Governments are recognising that internet policy issues are increasingly complex and have impacts across society, economy and policy. This makes policy development and capacity building all the more challenging and the considerations more broad and interrelated. This complexity warrants an inclusive and expertise-driven approach to policy development and capacity building in which stakeholders have a critical role. However, involving stakeholders in security-related discussions is still a challenge, and more work remains to be done to ensure their meaningful participation in cybersecurity processes and capacity building initiatives.
This session aims to bring together different stakeholders involved in cybersecurity capacity building efforts to discussion why it’s vital that cybersecurity capacity building is approached in an inclusive way, address the different roles of stakeholders and bring concrete examples of best practices.
Relevance of the Session:
A cyberspace that is free, open and secure is a prerequisite for a digital future that benefits us all and that allows society to fully reap the potential of digital technologies. In that regard, users’ trust in the internet is a central aspect, without which there would be no internet to govern. Building stakeholder capacity to address the many risks posed by increased connectivity is therefore a key internet governance issue and one that urgently needs to be addressed.
Tag 1: Cybersecurity
Tag 2: Capacity Building
Tag 3:
Interventions:
The purpose of the session is to address the relevance of including different stakeholder groups in cybersecurity capacity building efforts and explore best practices. Suggested speakers come from different stakeholder groups, have expertise on this issue and many are participating actively in ongoing cyber capacity building initiatives, therefore bringing unique perspectives to the discussion
Diversity:
The list of proposed speakers is varied and diverse in terms of gender, geography, stakeholder groups, policy perspectives and areas of expertise. Suggested speakers are qualified experts who will bring unique perspectives to the discussion.
Onsite Moderator: Kerry-Ann Barrett, OAS
Online Moderator: Matthew Shears, GDP
Rapporteur: Barbara Marchiori, OAS
Online Participation:
A remote moderator will be in permanent contact with remote participants and update them on the progress of the session. Remote participants will be encouraged to feed into the discussion, and their comments and remarks will be fed back to the room to incorporate them in the discussion.
There will be a specific segment of the session dedicated to receiving questions from remote participants, to make sure they have opportunities to intervene and engage.
Discussion facilitation:
The roundtable format will enable to have a dynamic and interactive conversation with expert speakers. The moderator will make sure to give everyone equal opportunity to participate. Speakers will provide brief interventions to kick off the debate, after which both audience participants and online participants will have the opportunity to comment, ask questions and engage with the experts.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/filedepot_download/4098/255
Co-proposers/co-organizers
Session title
Learning from the NRIs: exchanging experiences and insights on data retention, government access to data, and data literacy.
Session format and timing
This 90-minute session will comprise two main segments. The first segment comprises a 60-minute roundtable that will delve into the following topics related to data protection as explained in detail below (see item 13): (i) government access to data, (ii) data retention and (iii) data literacy. The second segment comprises a 25-minute open-mic session with the participants and a final 5-minute closing remarks by the moderators.
Content of the session
This session will focus on exchanging experiences and best practices from all around the world regarding particular data protection-related topics. It is structured around the following topics: (i) government access to data, (ii) data retention and (iii) data literacy. The first topic will deal with government access to data and the interactions between private and state entities in the rise of several “smart-cities” initiatives. The role of contracts and consent and the limits and conditions for the collection of data are some of the issues that may be discussed in this topic. The second topic will focus on data retention and data localization mechanisms, their limits, best practices and the challenges they might bring to an open Internet. Finally, a segment of the session will be dedicated to the discussion of the current practices on data literacy and different initiatives and approaches related to create capacities on this topic. Although each of these topics could be explored by its own, the idea of putting together in this session is to create an environment for the beginning of focused discussions between NRIs on issues related to data. It is structured to be a moment for sharing experiences and insights, brainstorming ideas and solutions and identifying potential partners for future initiatives.
Speakers
Round “Government access to data”
NRI #1: Lía Hernandez (Panamá IGF)
NRI #2: Maryant Fernandez Perez (EDRI - EuroDIG)
Round “Data retention and data localization”
NRI #1: IGF China (Dr. Shen Yi)
NRI #2: Jacqueline Eggenschwiler (Expert)
NRI #3: Brazilian IGF (Bruno Bioni)
Round “Data Literacy”
NRI #1: Verónica Aroyo (Youth LAC IGF)
NRI #2: Federica Tortorella (IGF Dominican Republic)
Relevance of the issue
The session is organized by three Latin American IGFs which are particularly concerned with the several impacts the massive collection and processing of data can have on their democracies and citizens’ human rights. Particularly, two of the IGFs that are organizing the session -- Brazil and Panama -- are in this moment discussing the adoption of general data protection laws and had strong local discussions regarding the several aspects of this type of regulation. Also, the organizers of Youth LACIGF noticed that there is a lack of awareness on youth people in the region about the consequences of current data treatment. Besides that, several Latin-American countries are also debating reforms of their own legislations and facing several challenges regarding it.
Interventions/Engagement with participants (onsite and online)
Interventions/Engagement with participants is thoroughly described in items “12” and “13” below.
Geographical, Stakeholder and Gender Diversity
The list of participants comprises people from all stakeholder groups and individuals who have convergent and divergent economic, political and social perspectives on the policy question proposed. It also follows a 50/50 gender balance at the time of this submission. They all come from different countries and most of them come from the developing World, some of them being newcomers to the IGF space.
Onsite moderator(s)
Moderator for the first round: Jamila Venturini (Brazilian IGF)
Online moderator(s)
Diego R. Canabarro (Brazilian IGF)
Rapporteur(s)
Bruna Santos (Youth LAC IGF)
Online participation logistics
Online participation and interaction will rely on the WebEx platform. Those joining the session using WebEx (either invited members of the round-table or the general audience) will be granted the floor in the Q&A segment of the workshop. People in charge of the moderation will strive to entertain onsite and remote participation indiscriminately. Social media (twitter and facebook) will also be employed by the online moderators who will be in charge of browsing social media using some hashtags (#IGF2017, #NRISession and #NRIDataSession ).
Discussion facilitation
The session will focus on three topics related to data protection that are particularly relevant for the organizers: (i) government access to data, (ii) data retention and (iii) the right to be forgotten. It will be structured so that the each round have the respective moderator presenting quick interventions about the perspectives of their regions/countries followed by the inputs of selected NRIs dealing with similar problems in their own regions/countries:
Round #1: Government access to data (20’): the round moderator will introduce the question “How does your region/country deals with government access to data and what are the challenges or best practices you observe in this issue?” and will invite until three representatives from other NRIs to comment on her first intervention and bring experiences and best practices from their own regions/countries (5 minutes each).
Round #2: Data retention and data localization (20’): the round moderator will introduce the question “Are there any initiatives for data retention/localization in your country/region? How are they implemented?” and will invite until three representatives from other NRIs to comment on her first intervention and bring experiences and best practices from their own regions/countries (5 minutes each).
Round #3: the round moderator will introduce the question “What are the current practices on Data Literacy? What are the initiatives that are working on capacity building in this topic? What are their approaches?” and will invite until three representatives from other NRIs to comment on her first intervention (5 minutes each).
The mic will be opened for 25 minutes for the public to have an opportunity to engage and bring their own inputs on the topics and will be followed by closing remarks (5 minutes) from the moderators, who will summarize discussions.
Proposer's Name: Ms. Mehwish Ansari
Proposer's Organization: ARTICLE 19
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Corinne Cath
Co-Proposer's Organization: ARTICLE 19
Co-Organizers:
Ms.,Mehwish,ANSARI,Civil Society,ARTICLE 19
Ms.,Corinne,CATH,Civil Society,ARTICLE 19
Session Format: Panel - 60 Min
Proposer:
Country: United States
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Co-Proposer:
Country: United Kingdom
Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
Speaker: David Kaye
Speaker: Cathrine Bloch Veiberg
Speaker: Maarten Simon
Content of the Session:
A range of cornerstone Internet governance documents, including the outcome document of the WSIS+10 Review, the NETmundial Multistakeholder Statement, and the latest reports of UN Special Rapporteur (UNSR) on freedom of expression David Kaye, conclude that the infrastructure of the Internet must be managed such that it enables the exercise of human rights. In recent years, proponents including the UNSR have responded by calling for human rights impact assessments (HRIAs) of the technical work done by the actors responsible for setting Internet standards and managing crucial Internet resources. Various technical actors, including the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and several large Internet registries, are already considering or even implementing HRIAs. They believe that the future of the net fundamentally includes human rights.
And yet, the debate over the impact of the Internet on human rights continues to primarily take place at the political, regulatory, and commercial levels, seemingly ignoring the responsibilities of the technical community and sidelining a robust discussion of HRIAs. This workshop aims to redress this dynamic.
The international human rights legal framework remains a strong tool to protect Internet users, facilitating robust considerations for ensuring freedom of expression, freedom of association, privacy, and other human rights online. However, there arises a clear issue: within the international legal framework, there are no binding obligations for non-state actors. There is therefore a critical accountability gap in ensuring human rights within the policies and activities of technical actors. The 2011 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) present an opportunity to bridge this gap. However, there remains the need to adopt effective methodologies that will operationalize these Principles to identify, prevent, mitigate, and account for any adverse impacts of actors’ policies or practices—specifically, there remains the need to adopt HRIAs.
This session will explore the need for HRIAs and cover the benefits and challenges various technical actors encounter when developing and implementing HRIA models. We will also explore future avenues for technical actors interested in conducting these assessments and how civil society can get involved to facilitate more widespread adoption and implementation. More specifically, we will discuss the following issues: Why are technical actors turning to HRIAs? How can technical actors address certain roadblocks that they may expect to face when implementing HRIA models? Why do HRIAs and the UNGPs matter for the future of the Internet? Expert panelists will foster discussion on how the impact of Internet governance on human rights can be understood and balanced, so that that technical actors can maintain the stability of the Internet’s technical architecture while also enabling human rights.
Relevance of the Session:
The protection of the right to freedom of expression, access to information, and freedom of assembly on the Internet are crucial to the future of the digital civic space. The majority of the Internet’s central infrastructure—as well as the applications running over it—are developed, operated, and maintained by private actors within the Internet governance community. The policies and protocols that define how Internet users interact with this infrastructure are determined within Internet governance bodies themselves, including ICANN and the IETF. Thus, these technical Internet governance actors are key facilitators of the exercise of human rights online; however, most of them have not yet fully engaged with the human rights implications of their actions and decisions.
This workshop is important to include in the IGF program because it speaks to the very heart of the Internet. Without the technical community, there would be no open, interoperable Internet. But as technical actors are increasingly considered to be its gatekeepers, governments have increasingly enlisted and even compelled these intermediaries to filter or block individuals’ access to content online. At the same time, these actors may independently engage in practices that censor or otherwise subvert the rights of Internet users, without transparency, clear guidelines to which users can refer, or appropriate mechanisms for appeal. Incidents of Internet shutdowns and network disruptions are on the rise; Freedom House concludes that Internet censorship has increased for the sixth consecutive year worldwide. If technical actors do not meaningfully take on the responsibility to respect human rights, the trend towards a more restricted Internet will continue. The future of the Internet as a digital civic space for discourse, economic development, and social change is at stake.
HRIAs provide a clear path forward for technical actors to resist these threats to our digital future. However, as of yet there is limited uptake of HRIAs. This panel will get to the root of this reality and present a discussion with the aim of developing clear goals for ensuring that HRIAs gain wider acceptance among the very actors that develop, operate, and manage the infrastructure of the Internet.
Tag 1: Critical Internet Resources
Tag 2: Human Rights Online
Tag 3: Internet Governance
Interventions:
Each speaker will be given approximately 10 minutes for opening remarks, in which they will present a concrete case study of how human rights impact assessments are viewed or undertaken in their organization. These case studies will be the basis for a moderated panel discussion between the various experts, that will bring out their perspectives.
After the initial panel discussion, the floor will be opened for a Q&A with the audience. Remote participants will be given the opportunity to ask questions through online forums such as WebX and Twitter. We will promote a dedicated hashtag (#HRIAGF) so that the panelists, audience members, and online participants can discuss the issues raised in real time.
To ensure the sustainability of this discussion, the various statements and interventions of the panelists and the audience will be collected and condensed into a short paper that will outline the main challenges and benefits and present actionable policy recommendations for other organizations interested in undertaking HRIAs.
Diversity:
The dais will have a 50/50 gender divide including the moderator, who will be a woman. The panel members each represent a different stakeholder type (i.e. civil society, technical community, private sector, international organization), and so will represent differing policy perspectives. Of the panelists, one-third will be 30 years old or younger. Mehwish, the organizer of this panel, is a first-time IGF organizer.
Onsite Moderator: Mehwish Ansari
Online Moderator: Deborah Brown
Rapporteur: Paulina Gutiérrez
Online Participation:
We intend to utilize the IGF’s WebX system and Twitter to include remote participants in the Q&A portion of the discussion. The remote participants will be afforded equal and proportional representation in the discussion. The remote moderator will facilitate the Q&A with the moderator. We would like a screen in the room to display the video questions, remote comments, and tweets.
Discussion facilitation:
We intend to make this an inclusive conversation, both among the panelists and between the panelists and the audience online and offline. This will be done by presenting various case studies that provide concrete hooks to anchor the conversation and ensure that the audience can relate to the ongoing challenges and benefits of conducting human rights impact assessments. We will also specifically ask the audience to share their experiences with HRIAs to bring a wider diversity of views into the conversation. Online participation will be facilitated as mentioned above.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: https://dig.watch/sessions/lightning-session-internet-infrastructure-global-technical-standards-and-sdgs
Additional Speakers:
Alissa Cooper
Agenda:
Length of session: 60 minutes
IGF 2017: NRIs COORDINATION SESSION
Thursday, 21 December, 12:30-13:30, Room XXV
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An open work meeting between the national, regional, and Youth IGF Initiatives, and the UNDESA, IGF MAG Chair and IGF Secretariat.
Format: Roundtable work meeting, open to everyone. Session divided into two segments. First segment will include introductory remarks from the IGF Secretariat, MAG Chair and UNDESA (10 minutes in total).
Second segment will include remarks from the NRIs, as well as interactions between NRIs, UNDESA, MAG Chair and IGF Secretariat; it therefore aims to take the form of an interactive dialogue.
PROPOSED AGENDA
Remarks by MAG Chair
Remarks by UNDESA
Remarks by IGF Secretariat
Remarks by NRIs on the following items:
IGF is based on a multistakeholder model. It allows all stakeholders to equally work together: Governments, Civil Society, Private Sector and Technical Community! Bringing new voices is of critical importance for the IGF's successful work, long term.
During this informal gathering, that we call the Knowledge Cafe, we will discuss the ways of engagement of new comers to the IGF; and especially ways of engagement of young people.
Twelfth Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
Geneva, Switzerland, 18-21 December 2017
Closing Ceremony & ‘Taking Stock’
15:00 to 18:00, Thursday 21 December 2017
Introductory closing speech from Ms. Krystyna Marty Lang, Deputy State Secretary, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Switzerland
‘IGF 2017 Taking Stock & Open Mic’ – led by Amb. Thomas Schneider; Ms. Lynn St. Amour, MAG Chair; Mr. Chengetai Masango, IGF Programme and Technology Manager; and Mr. Armin Plum, Senior Sustainable Development Officer, Division for Sustainable Development (DSD)/UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
Closing remarks
-Mr. Matthew Rantanen, Director of Technology for the Southern California Tribal Chairmen's Association (SCTCA) – representing Civil Society
-Ms. Jianne Soriano, NetMission.Asia Ambassador – representing Youth
-Sundeep Singh Bobby Bedi, International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF) – representing Private Sector
-Raquel Gatto, Manager for Chapter Development in The Americas for Internet Society – representing Technical Community
-Ambassador Thomas Schneider, Vice Director, Federal Office of Communications of Switzerland
-Ms. Lynn St. Amour, Chair of the MAG
-Mr. Armin Plum, Senior Sustainable Development Officer, DSD/DESA