IGF 2016: Enabling Inclusive and Sustainable Growth

The Collaborative Leadership Exchange (CLX) on ‘Enabling Inclusive and Sustainable Growth’ is part of the official IGF schedule, and will be held on Monday, 5 December from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm in Workshop Room 1 at PALCCO.

This one-day session is 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), and João Pessoa (2015). 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.

NOTE: Pre-registration is required for this event as there is limited seating capacity available. A pre-registration form is available at: http://bit.ly/2fID2ea

 

UNESCO proposal on a pre-event at IGF on Internet Governance Forum

Title: Protecting safety of journalists online and offline in global Internet Governance ecosystem

Date:  December 5, 2016   Time: 16.00-18.00                   Duration: 120 minutes

Venue: Workshop Room 1

Description:

Recent years have seen an accelerated global political momentum to protect the safety of journalists online and offline, including recognition in the WSIS+10 Outcome Document, and it is appropriate for global Internet Governance stakeholders to address this crucial issue as a pre-event of the forthcoming 11th Internet Governance Forum in Mexico.

UNESCO has spearheaded the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity since 2012, as the first systematic mechanism with a multi-stakeholder approach to address the issue of safety of journalists and impunity in digital age.  UNESCO seeks to present the UN Plan at IGF as a platform to exchange and coordinate and encourage further co-operation between UN agencies governments, private sector, civil society, media institutions and others on both the international and national levels. On top of this overarching theme, the Session is designed to shed light on four issues:

1. Building digital safety for journalism

 UNESCO will take the occasion to launch the Spanish version of its Internet freedom publication “Building Digital Safety for Journalism”, following UNESCO Assistant Director General Mr Frank La Rue’s recent presentation of the book during his visit in Mexico in August 2016. This report analyses key digital threats to journalism, ranging from hacking of journalistic communications, through to denial-of-service attacks on media websites. It takes an inclusive approach that is relevant to any actor who is in danger of being targeted for doing journalism.

In examining cases worldwide, this publication surveys the evolving security threats, and assesses preventive and protective measures. It shows that digital security for journalism encompasses, but also goes beyond, the technical dimension. The report gives an overview of actors and initiatives working to address digital safety, and makes a set of recommendations for governments, journalism contributors, news organizations, trainers, corporations and international organizations.

2. UNESCO’s International Programme for the Development of Communication has developed the Journalists’ Safety Indicators, which have been implemented in three Latin American countries. The results of this experience, and how to improve the collection of information for monitoring digital safety will also be examined.

3. Combating gender based threats to women journalists and media actors:  The session will particularly examine the gender aspect of the safety of journalists, as the UN Plan of Action explicitly recognises the risks that female journalists face and both the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council have acknowledged “the specific risks faced by women journalists in the exercise of their work”, and have underlined” the importance of taking a gender-sensitive approach when considering measures to address the safety of journalists”.

 The session will discuss the multiple root causes in countering the proliferation of hate speech and harassment towards female media workers, referring also the UNESCO publications on  Journalism sources in the Digital Age , Building Digital Safety for Journalism and Countering Online hate speech, which all cover a strong analysis from gender aspect and can provide food for thought in the session.

4. Sharing Good practice: Ending impunity and empowering the judiciary system by online courses such as MOOCs

In order to tackle the unacceptably high rate of impunity, where 9 out of 10 cases of killings of journalists are never resolved, the session can also share good practices in empowering journalists, media professionals, policy makers, judiciary system through comprehensive training courses. For example, since beginning in 2013, UNESCO had begun collaborating with the Supreme Courts in Latin America including Brazil and Mexico to create training programmes for judges and lawyers.  More than 3000 judicial sector actors have taken this course in past two years. The course has also been adapted for journalists and lawyers in the Mexican state of Coahuila.

Speakers:

 

Moderator: Mr Carlos Tejada, UNESCO Mexico Office

 

1. Mr Guy Berger, UNESCO Director for Freedom of Expression and Media Development

2. Mr. Liberto Hernández Ortiz, Subprocurador de Investigaciones Especiales para la Atención y Protección  a Víctimas del Delito

3. Ms Patricia Colchero Aragonés, head of the Unity for the Defense of Human Rights at SEGOB

4. Mr Edison Lanza, Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

5. Ms. Marta Duran, a journalist and expert of the national mechanism on defense of journalists in Mexico

6. Ms Erika Smith, Women's Rights team of Association for Progressive Communication

7. Mr Kim Pham, Deputy Program Director, IREX

8. Ms Courtney Radsch, Committee of Protecting Journalists

9. Mr David Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression

 

 

 Contact: Ms Xianhong Hu, UNESCO. (Email: x.hu@unesco.org)

 Related links and publications:

UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity

Journalism sources in the Digital Age

Building Digital Safety for Journalism  

Countering Online hate speech 

Keystones to foster inclusive Knowledge Societies 

UNESCO 38th GC Resolution on the Outcome Document of the “Connecting the Dots: Options for Future Action” Conference 

 UNESCO Series Publication on Internet Freedom

 Connecting the Dots Outcome Document

 

 Concept paper of Internet Universality Concept 

 Agenda

 Preparation  meeting with panelists, 15 mins before the session

5’ Opening remarks from the Chair:  Mr Carlos Tejada, UNESCO Mexico Office 

Remarks by panelists

15’ Introduction by Mr Guy Berger, UNESCO Director for Freedom of Expression and Media Development

8' Mr. Liberto Hernández Ortiz, Subprocurador de Investigaciones Especiales para la Atención y Protección  a Víctimas del Delito

8’ Ms Patricia Colchero Aragonés, head of the Unity for the Defense of Human Rights at SEGOB

8’ Mr Edison Lanza, Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

8’ Ms. Marta Duran, a journalist and expert of the national mechanism on defense of journalists in Mexico

8’ Ms Erika Smith, Women's Rights team of Association for Progressive Communication

8’ Mr Kim Pham, Deputy Program Director, IREX

8’ Ms Courtney Radsch, Committee of Protecting Journalists

8’ Mr David Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression

Open floor to other stakeholders at present

36’

Q&A

 

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Last year’s WSIS+10 Review culminated in an Outcome Document which recognizes the extraordinary extent to which the Internet and ICTs have been instrumental in realizing the WSIS vision of building a people-centered, inclusive, and development-oriented Information Society. But the Outcome Document also acknowledges a troubling reality. Despite the past 10 years of technological and connectivity advancements, a significant gender digital divides persists. This has hampered the ability of women to become active and productive members of the digital economy and realize a more rewarding, empowered, and improved quality of life for themselves, their families, and their communities. The Outcome Document calls for immediate measures to achieve gender equality in Internet users by 2020 through educational and other initiatives across all female age groups. 

Stakeholders have long been aware of this digital gender gap and during the past decade have launched digital/computer literacy and other capacity-building efforts to bridge this divide. Some of these initiatives have yielded impressive results, while others have encountered obstacles. Workshop speakers from all stakeholder groups will explore these challenges and how they have tackled them, putting us on track to realize the WSIS 2020 goal. In particular, we will provide a research-based context for barriers women of all ages face in becoming digitally connected. Speakers will then explore specific stakeholder efforts aimed at improving technical literacy, shaping entrepreneurial talent through internships and mentoring programs, creating a safe online environment for women, leadership training, and other initiatives building capacity. 

Speakers provisionally confirmed:

Bogdan-Martin, Doreen
Hafkin, Nancy
Lemineur, Marie-Laure
Muthoni, Dorcas
Nguyen, Carolyn

The Internet is a global force for growth. After few years of necessary adaptation, the creative industries are benefiting from the technological revolution and are becoming an essential asset for sustainable growth. 
According to PWC, the global revenues of online services delivering filmed content will grow by 19% in the years 2015 to 2018. In Mexico, the host country for IGF 2016, digital home video growth has been buoyant and is set to overtake the market for physical videos (DVD and Bluray) by 2017. Broadband over-the-top and streaming services will lead this evolution, with a 105.5% growth predicted in the 4 years to 2018.
This session will give voice to key players in film and TV content production and distribution, who will discuss the challenges of ensuring that the development of Internet video services benefits sustainable growth and local content production. Participants will discuss what legislative, regulatory and economic frameworks will be needed in order to ensure that the online digital evolution can be harnessed to help make local content industries sustainable and support their contribution to national and regional GDPs, job creation, innovation and cultural diversity. In particular, the session will look at the enabling role of communications regulation, rules to ensure a competitive level playing field and the role of copyright as an incentive for local film and video producers, creators and performers.

Speakers provisionally confirmed:

Gallego, Cristina

Guerra Zamarro, Manuel

Nicole Artemifio

Muñoz de Cote, Gerardo

Bobby Bedi 

In recent years, the number of demands to governments pressing to start regulating OTTs have increased significantly. These demands aim to extend the traditional regulation applied to telecommunications and broadcasting services to these new Internet-based OTTs. But the concept of OTT is an open typology, with no clear nor precise definition, that can justify the regulation of any activity performed on the Internet, and even the Internet itself.

In this sense, this workshop aims to bring to the table the discussion about the existing regulation on Internet service providers, leaving behind the old fashioned debate on “competitive services vs. complementary”. The discussion will be lead with a clear objective: moving towards a precise definition of what are the service providers on the Internet, if the term OTT is indicated to refer to these and also it will seek to clearly demarcate the consequences of moving forward on specific regulations for this sector. Thus, this global and not just regional issue, will be on the IGF agenda, allowing us to deliver a clear message about how specific regulation can harm the sector and its inside competition, a key element to attract innovation.

Speakers:

• Raúl Echeberría- ISOC
• Joshua Levy  - Access Now
• Natasha Jackson - GSMA
• Vinton Cerf - Google
• Bertrand De la Chapelle -  ‎Internet & Jurisdiction
• Eric Loeb - AT&T
• Shita Laskami - Hivos
• Alexander Riobó - Telefónica
• Robert Pepper - Facebook

Moderator: Gonzalo Navarro - ALAI

Remote moderator: Javier Pallero - Access Now

The session will look at how the copyright system can enhance inclusiveness and participation of people with disabilities in cultural and social life on the Internet. Accessibility of content is a pre-condition for education of people with disabilities in our knowledge societies. In this respect, the international community adopted the Marrakesh Visually Impaired Treaty in June 2013. WIPO is engaged in activities in this area, such as has the Accessible Books Consortium (ABC), so that once the Marrakesh Treaty comes into force there should be a tremendous increase in the production and distribution of accessible books worldwide. In addition Member States have started discussions on the broader challenge of facilitating access to works for all persons with disabilities, other than those already covered by the Marrakesh Treaty. These activities have a clear humanitarian and social development dimension and a direct link to the sub-theme “Access and Diversity”.

Name of Speaker(s)

Mr. Scott LaBarre, World Blind Union; Mr. Stuart Hamilton, IFLA; Mr. Manuel Guerra, Government of Mexico; Mr. Nicolas Suzor, QUT Law School; Ms. Michele Woods, WIPO.

For the internet to enable inclusive and sustainable growth, it is essential that individual internet users can create and access content and have software tools in their own languages. In 2016, more than 90% of the global internet population is outside of North America, yet English remains the language of more than 50% of web content. The session will address the following questions:

- How are the major web platforms encouraging diversity in cultural and linguistic expression?
- What are the trends in cultural and linguistic diversity from major studies such as UNESCO's Globalisation of Cultural Trade (2016), UNESCO Atlas of Languages in Danger or the Internet Society's Global Internet Report
- What are the links between internationalised domain names and multilingual content, and what work is taking place to overcome barriers to large-scale IDN adoption?
- What are the implications for inclusive and sustainable growth of failure to take positive steps to enhance cultural and linguistic diversity?
- How can the policy process be made more inclusive in order to prioritise issues such as enhancing cultural and linguistic diversity?

The Birds of a Feather session will bring together actors from government, private sector, civil society and the technical community who are engaged in promoting online cultural and linguistic diversity.  Participants will be drawn from Latin America, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and North America. Gender balance will be observed. Partners who have already committed support include UNESCO, ICANN, the ccTLD organisations CENTR and LACTLD, global platform providers Google and Microsoft, and Chatham House.

Speakers provisionally confirmed:

Aguerre, Carolina

Best Practice Forum on IPv6 


Understanding the commercial and economic incentives behind a successful IPv6 deployment


Part I: IPv6 deployment and motivational factors
Sessions leads: MAG coordinators

Part II:  Observations and Challenges - Sectoral & Regional perspectives

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)

Part III: take aways for policy and decision makers
Session leads:  MAG coordinators
Panelists:  open discussion

Session Organizers : Izumi Okutani, Sumon A. Sabir (MAG Coordinators),  Wim Degezelle (IGF BPF IXP consultant)
Remote moderator:  Michael Oghia

Information and documents:
2016 Best Practice Forum IPv6 webpage:
http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/bpf-ipv6

BPF IPv6 Best Practice document: current draft (google docs link)
Comments and suggestions on the document can be made via the IGF public review platform

The Cybersecurity Program of the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE) has been building the cybersecurity capabilities of the members of the Organization of American States (OAS), to prevent and respond to cyber incidents for over a decade, and has built a reputation of trust and competence among member states for the execution of relevant and effective capacity building initiatives both nationally and regionally. The Program’s efforts are geared toward three specific objectives:

1. Increasing access to knowledge and information on cyber threats and risks;
2. Enhancing the technical and policy capacity of governments and critical infrastructure operators to detect cyber threats, respond to cyber incidents, and combat both;
3. Promoting more robust, effective and timely information-sharing, cooperation and coordination among cybersecurity stakeholders at the national, regional and international level.

The CICTE Cybersecurity Program endeavors to help member states strengthen incident response capacities and improve policy frameworks, knowledge regarding cybersecurity issue, and international and regional cooperation, with the aim of helping member state l networks and critical infrastructure achieve security and resilience. 

This open forum will focus on presenting the work of the OAS Cyber Security Program and Its accomplishments 2015-2016 and resources developed that are publicly available.

Name of Speaker(s)

Belisario Contreras, Program Manager, Cyber Security Program OAS-CICTE

Mobile phone data can be used to help solve some of the most pressing public policy needs of our times – from managing traffic in congested and polluted urban environments, to understanding and preventing the spread of diseases. Analysis of mobile data can offer important insights to governments and institutions when making policy decisions, whether it’s about maximising citizen welfare or allocating critical resources in the aftermath of natural disasters. Such insights can not only save people’s lives but also enable inclusive and sustainable growth through the creation of jobs (e.g in data analytics) and lead to economic growth. Public and private organisations, researchers and citizen groups are currently experimenting, innovating and adapting to our increasingly connected world where more and more data are created, faster and more detailed than ever before.

Our proposed ‘Birds of a Feather’ session is aimed at bringing together individuals with a shared interest in the field of Big Data analytics with a view to:
(a) sharing their experiences and real life examples of how aggregated data (including mobile data) are used to benefit citizens and consumers in ‘social good’ contexts (tracking diseases, disaster response, targeting humanitarian aid etc.); 
(b) expressing views on how the various stakeholders in a Big Data value chain can best address privacy challenges where personal data are involved, while maintaining the sustainability of Big Data innovation
This session will be held based on a ‘Birds of a Feather’ format, so, while a few invited speakers will make some remarks we would expect attendees to participate by sharing their thoughts/comments on this topic. Proposed themes/pillars are: Transparency, Algorithms, Anonymity, Impact on Individuals.

Speakers confirmed:

Miguel Calderon Lelo de Larrea (Telefonica)
Reveyrand-de Menthon, Michel (Orange)
Alexandrine de Corbion (Privacy International)
Fernando Sosa (INAI - Mexican Data Protection Authority) 
Romanoff, Mila (UN Global Pulse)
Wojtan, Boris (GSMA) 

The aim of this forum is to highlight the importance of encouraging the development of multi-stakeholder collaboration at the national, regional and international levels to discuss the diffusion of (ICTs) which are considered as cross-cutting enablers of development and are therefore critical to the achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs). The forum will also discuss the challenges that faces the expansion and diffusion of ICTs and building Information Societies at different levels. This will include (but not excluded to): connectivity challenges, building information and communication network infrastructure and applications, making use of innovative technologies for the well-being communities and people. 

Name of Speaker(s)

Tarek Shawki, Secretary General of Presidential Specialized Councils in Egypt

The exhaustion of the IPv4 address supply has been predicted since the end of the 1980s. However, the large scale adoption of mobile devices and their associated IPv4 addressing needs accelerated the exhaustion timetable, and placed increased pressure on network operators to conserve IPv4 addresses

This pressure has resulted in a marked increase in the use of technologies, such as Network Address Translation (NAT), that allow pools of addresses to be shared across multiple endpoints. These mechanisms enable the reuse of the limited pool of available IPv4 addresses, resulting in the number of connected endpoints vastly outnumbering the number of addresses in use in the public internet.

This has three important implications for Internet technology developers, and those who depend on certain behaviors of the technology. 

Application designers need to consider the fact that an IP address does not necessarily identify an endpoint.

Law enforcement and forensic functions need to consider that an IP address alone may not be sufficient to correlate Internet activity observations with an endpoint; and even an IP address associated timestamp generally may not suffice.

Data retention mechanisms and policies that record or reference an IP address need to refactor their actions and requirements to consider that in increasingly large parts of the Internet, an IP address is merely a temporary identifier. Potentially large volumes of ancillary data are required to match an IP address to an endpoint.

Speakers provisionally confirmed:

Fernandez, Hernan
Galpaya, Helani 
Molano, Diego
Mulendema, Malenga

Since the first IGF in 2006, several regional, national IGFs, dialogue spaces and capacity building initiatives have been created.

The purpose of this workshop is to exchange ideas about the experiences, outcomes and effectiveness of these debate spaces and capacity building initiatives and if they have an impact in promoting inclusive and sustainable growth. The workshop will review whether these initiatives to see if they accurately reflect the multistakeholder model and its implicit requirements, namely multiculturalism and multilingualism.

All the Internet Governance fundamental documents, since WSIS Tunis Agenda until the WSIS+10 Outcome Document released in 2015, recognize the importance of a multistakeholder dialogue and the value of capacity building initiatives.

But are they being effective? 
Are they mindful of development and inclusiveness?
Are they mindful of local reality and problems?

This debate will be based in these ideas:

How to balance the stakeholder participation in the dialogue spaces? 
Are all stakeholders presently participating in them?
Is remote participation an equal or good way to participate?
Is language a barrier? Does simultaneous interpretation make the difference? 
Within the context of economic barriers, should Internet Governance capacity building programs be paid or should all be available through fellowship programs? 
How can the gender composition of panels and discussions be addressed in these activities? 
How are these programs ensuring equity of voice during these events? 
With regard to language barriers, how to translate Internet governance material(s) into various languages without sacrificing timeliness and accuracy or causing volunteer burn-out?

We have a group of distinguished colleagues who will join us:

Martinez, Cintya
Reyes Krafft, Alfredo
Hibbard, Lee
Vega Gómez, Julio César
Contreras, Belisario
Tapia, Karka
Leonardi, Marcel
Komarov, Mikhail
BEN JEMAA, Tijani
Aguerre, Carolina
Ribeiro, Renata Aquino

Please join us onsite or remotely to share your ideas and views!!

See you all in México

Olga and Dustin

Our workshop will primarily focus the the issue of Implementation of Multilingual Internet through IDN's (Internationalized Domain Names) so that we may connect 

remaining 57% population of the world to the internet in their local/Native language.
Many communities are actively and independently working to realize various components of multilingual internet viz. Support for Indic languages on various browsers and 

operating systems, partial support on email clients and servers, availability of software keypads and fonts for Indic languages, availability of some web content in 

local languages (though not significant), translation option from English to some of the local languages etc. 
However, there are still many challenges that need to be addressed. Broad challenges revolve around the universal acceptance of internationalized domain names, 

lack of awareness about the availability of many language tools like fonts and virtual keypads, the issue of email address internationalization, lack of 

standardization etc.
Hence, it is imperative to bring all these communities together to collectively address the challenges in creation of a multilingual ecosystem, by sharing of 

information and insights from their individual scope of work.
This workshop will ignite the thought amongst the participants to examine opportunities and challenges associated with achieving, goal of Multilingual Internet.

Speakers provisionally confirmed:

Chowdhary, Harish

Batra, Mohit

Elkins, Nalini
Hariharan, Reshmi
Svancarek, Mark
Yao, Jiankang

Today there is a fast increase in numbers of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), open data and educational content (Open Educational Resources (OERs)) on the Internet and the process is getting even faster with emerging technologies: mobile, virtual and augmented reality etc. More and more educational programs depend on Internet resources. And online education services now are major approaches for empowerment people. Access to such a large and unregulated body of information, as exists on the Internet, suggests a need for content quality ranking and critical evaluation of related educational Internet resources as the information there might be both not relevant, not up to date and not scientific. Relevance of the educational content with labour markets is also important and it should be taken into consideration within ranking of the content. Thus, there should be basic principles of quality ranking of education services, and especially educational content discussed during the IGF with representatives of different stakeholders groups. This topic is an emerging issue and is connected to the emerging issues sub-theme of the IGF 2016 together with main topic of the IGF 2016. 
This workshop will be a continuation of 3 workshops from previous IGFs: “Empowering displaced people and migrants through online services” (IGF 2013), “Empowerment displaced people through online educational services” (IGF 2014) and “OERs and empowerment through quality online content” which was held in 2015 at the IGF and was of a high interest by different stakeholders.

Speakers provisionally confirmed:

CAVALLI, OLGA
Cárdenas, Cristina
Hfaiedh, Ines
Komarov, Mikhail
Liu, Chuang
Shcherbovich, Andrey

Internet Governance Content:
How to Make and Keep it Multistakeholder, Diverse, Multilingual and & a Means for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth

The purpose of this workshop is to exchange ideas and debate about the challenges related to the creation of Internet Governance Content, in the context of making it diverse, multilingual and truly multistakeholder.

WSIS+10 Outcome Document recognizes that there is a digital divide among developed and developing countries, and a primary dimension of this divide is content accessibility. It also recognizes that the approach to close the digital divide must be multidimensional and should understand quality of access, language and localized content.The creation of high quality, multilingual Internet Governance content is one way to move beyond “information societies” to “knowledge societies”. Internet Governance content can help developing countries and the Internet community at large to understand the complexity of Internet services, and how to address the challenges of regulations, cybersecurity and other technological developments that directly impact their everyday lives.

The debate will be opened under these general ideas:

How to create high quality Internet Governance content?
In which way can this content be created considering the multilingualism?
How can local content be reflected in the creation of Internet Governance content?
What does it mean for content to be truly multistakeholder? 
Who are the gatekeepers of information? How can we democratize information?
How can we create a globalized resources using a decentralized process?
For members from similarly inclined organizations, how do they democratize/translate/share this information?

These are the distinguished colleagues that will share with us their ideas:

Martinez, Cintya
Aquino Ribeiro, Renata
Solis, Cynthia
Carrera, Sergio
Barrett, Kerry-Anne
Maltseva , Svetlana
Chung, Edmond
Alaraj, Nadira
Lucena, Cláudio
Munyua, Alice
Garcia P. van Hoogstraten, Caterine

Join us on site or remotely to share your experience and ideas!!

See you all in México

Olga and Dustin

This workshop identifies new practices in speeding up implementation of standards, through expanding existing practices, exploring new solutions and ways of cooperation to encourage users and providers to use modern standards, as a collaborative exercise by businesses, technical community, civil society, academia and governments. 

Digital technologies have spread rapidly across the world, acknowledges the WorldBank Development Report “Digital Dividends”. In many instances digital technologies have boosted economic growth, expanded job opportunities and improved service delivery. Yet their aggregate impact has fallen short and benefits are unevenly distributed in the world.

Inclusive and sustainable growth can only be accomplished within a trusted and robust internet ecosystem. The Internet infrastructure is its corner stone, operating based upon a set of core standards and protocols, including TCP/IP Protocol Suite, Domain Name System (DNS) and routing protocols. These layers could be regarded global public goods.

As such, the Internet only works properly if its underlying values – openness, universality, interoperability and accessibility – are guaranteed and if it facilitates the main objectives of data security: confidentiality, integrity and availability. For this purpose many standards were developed by the technical community: IPv6, DNSSEC, TLS, DKIM, SPF and DMARC

It is vital that users can rely on the fundamental Internet protocols and standards functioning properly. The problem nowadays is not the lack of those standards, but the effective implementation falling short. Based on good practices in various parts of the world, our ultimate aim is to constitute a community of expertise on implementing these internet standards.

Speakers provisionally confirmed:

Coffin, Jane
Goslings, Bastiaan
Kolkman, Olaf

The collaborative work using internet is a challenge for Cuban education. This experience, to encourage the use of the global network, in line with the principles of the Cuban educational system, is a task that has been carried out since 2011 with the collaborative project “Juntando Aulas”, which has spread for promoting environmental education, not only to our classrooms, but on a collaborative way with students from other countries such as Colombia, Costa Rica, who work together on this issue and with the help of a guide they investigate, communicate and merge their experiences in an exchange with actions with promise to change behavior at the school and the community for the purpose of caring for the environment thanks to the access of Cuban students from their schools to the Internet.

Name of Remote Moderator(s)

Isabel Gutiérrez Pérez