While the Internet has been cited by many as an important enabler of sustainable development, significant discrepancies persist that impact who can actually access and benefit from the Internet. According to recent estimates, for instance, more than half of the world’s population will still be offline by the end of 2016; a large proportion of which is made up of women. The IGF best practice forum (BPF) on Gender and Access harnassed the collaboratory benefits offered by the IGF's multistakeholder community to understand and address not only the barriers to meaningful Internet access women face, but also the initiatives that have been designed in an attempt to overcome these barriers. The community-driven efforts of the BPF were both timely and instructive in gathering more information on how access to the Internet and information and communication technologies (ICTs) can help to support gender equality goals and to promote the empowerment of women and girls - the need for which is also expressed in the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Join the BPF and its panel at this interactive session to discuss not only the BPF’s draft findings and recommendations for further exploration, but also the ways in which stakeholders can help women to overcome barriers they face to meaningful access.
MAG facilitators of the BPF: Jac SM Kee and Renata Aquino Ribeiro
Panel leads: Marco Hogewoning (RIPE NCC), Susan Chalmers (NTIA)
Panelists: Aaron Hughes (ARIN Board, 6connect), Martin Levy (Cloudflare), Lise Fuhr (ETNO/European network operators), Paul Wilson (APNIC), Carlos Martinez (LACNIC), Afifa Hariz (ISET Charguia - remote)
2016 IGF Best Practice Forum (BPF) Cybersecurity: ‘Building Confidence and Security in the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) through Enhanced Cooperation and Collaboration’
Substantive Session
IGF Day 3: Thursday, 8 December 2016, 9:00 - 10:30am - WS Room #9
Title and Date/Length of the Session:
2016 IGF Best Practice Forum (BPF) Cybersecurity: ‘Building Confidence and Security in the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) through Enhanced Cooperation and Collaboration’
IGF Day 3: Thursday, 8 December 2016, 09:00 - 10:30am (90 Minutes)
Brief Description/Objective:
The ongoing work and draft output of the 2016 IGF Best Practice Forum on Cybersecurity emerged based on the general consensus from the community that the BPF might most benefit from addressing cooperation and collaboration between stakeholder groups as a topic.There was agreement that the community would benefit from having a multistakeholder discussion, including each of the major IGF stakeholder groups, on how to engage and communicate with each other on cybersecurity issues and that this work was uniquely fit for an IGF BPF. There was also agreement that the BPF for 2016 should not be seen in isolation, but should rather be seen in a long-term perspective and that capacity building would be an integral component for the work.
This session will present the draft output paper and provide the broader community with an overview of the work that the BPF has carried out over the past 6 months since the BPF was formally initiated in May of 2016. The session will also invite all contributors to the BPF to present and discuss their views on the subject matter and to comment on the contributions of others as reflected in the output. Finally, the discussion will aim to find a way forward for the work of the BPF cybersecurity.
During the meeting, we'll cover the work done so far and comments provided in the review platform.
Agenda:
- Introduce the BPF/Overview of the work and introduce draft output (15 minutes)
- Presentation of BPF work/output (15 mins)
- Interactive discussion with panelists, discussants and other contributors to the work of the BPF on the draft output and way forward for the BPF (1 hour)
Chair(s) and/or Moderator(s) and Speakers/Discussants:
Markus Kummer, Coordinator for 2016 IGF BPF Cybersecurity (Chair)
Segun Olugbile, Co-Coordinator for 2016 IGF BPF Cybersecurity
Maarten Van Horenbeeck, Fastly, FIRST (Moderator)
Panel:
Kerry-Ann Barrett and Barbara Marchiori, Organization of American States (OAS) (Speakers)
Hiroshi Esaki, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo (Speaker)
All contributors to the BPF call for inputs will be invited to speak as discussants from the floor.
Best Practice Forum on IXPs - draft agenda
Contributing to the success and continued development of Internet exchange points (IXPs)
Remote moderator: Michael Oghia