IGF 2016: Enabling Inclusive and Sustainable Growth

The Open Forum of the global multistakeholder policy network Internet & Jurisdiction will report on the outcomes of the first Global Internet and Jurisdiction Conference (November 14-16, 2016). The Conference will gather, for the first time, more than 200 senior representatives of governments, Internet platforms, technical operators, civil society, academia and international organizations to discuss the future of jurisdiction on the cross-border Internet and avenues for operational multistakeholder cooperation to ensure due process across borders and legal interoperability. Developing legal mechanisms that are as transnational as the Internet itself is crucial to ensure the inclusive and sustainable growth of the Internet and preserve its cross-border nature. The Open Forum will be an opportunity for members the high level Advisory Group of the Global Internet and Jurisdiction Conference to present outcomes and to engage participants at the IGF into the Internet & Jurisdiction process.

Name of Speaker(s)

Internet & Jurisdiction will invite the members of the Global Internet and Jurisdiction Conference’s international Advisory Group from six different stakeholder groups to speak at the Open Forum : ANNE CARBLANC — Head, Digital Economy Policy Division, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development BENEDICTO FONSECA FILHO — Director, Scientific and Technological Affairs, Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs CARLOS AFFONSO PEREIRA DE SOUZA — Director, Institute for Technology and Society Rio CHINMAYI ARUN — Executive Director, Centre for Communications Governance, National Law University Delhi DAVID KAYE — Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, United Nations EILEEN DONAHOE — Director of Global Affairs, Human Rights Watch FIONA ALEXANDER — Associate Administrator NTIA, U.S. Department of Commerce GEORGE SADOWSKY — Board Member, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers GULSHAN RAI — National Cybersecurity Coordinator, Indian Prime Minister’s Office JOHN FRANK — Vice President, EU Government Affairs, Microsoft MADAN OBEROI — Director of Cyber Innovation and Outreach Directorate, Interpol MATT PERRAULT — Head of Policy Development, Facebook MEGAN RICHARDS — Principal Advisor, DG Connect, European Commission NII QUAYNOR — Chairman, Ghana National Information Technology Agency PATRICK PENNINCKX — Head of Department, Information Society, Council of Europe SALLY SHIPMAN WENTWORTH — Vice President Global Policy Development, Internet Society SUNIL ABRAHAM — Executive Director, Centre for Internet and Society India VINT CERF — Chief Internet Evangelist, Google

What exactly is gender and internet governance all about? Is it about bringing more women's voices and perspectives into internet governance? Yes, of course. (But it's about much more than that). Is it about bringing more women online or bridging the gender gap in access to ICTs? Yes, of course. (But it's about much more than that). Is it about preventing gendered online abuse, harassment and violence? Yes, of course. (But it's about much more than that too). 

At this interactive meeting, the Dynamic Coalition on Gender and Internet Governance (DC-GIG) will present a draft sexual harassment policy for the IGF - as agreed at last year's DC-GIG meeting. We'll present the findings from the latest edition of the Gender Report Cards measuring gender diversity at IGF 2015, AprIGF 2016 (for the first time), and the African IGF (for the first time). How many women participated in these regional IGFs and the global one? How many women moderated or presented at sessions? How much was gender mentioned at sessions? These are some of the things we'll discuss.

And we'll end with a discussion on what participants view as the latest trends in Gender and Internet Governance. What's still missing? What are the key issues?

Background paper
http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/3680/137

Presenters
Bishakha Datta, Executive Director, Point of View, India (sexual harassment policy)
Jac SM Kee, APC, Malaysia (new trends in gender & Internet governance)
Smita Vanniyar, Second Lead - Digital Projects, Point of View, India (gender report cards)

Description

The idea for enhanced efforts of academic research and training in Internet Governance was discussed within WGIG in 2004 and in Tunis in 2005. Two international recognized academic organisations - IAMCR & ICA - took the various ideas and developed two concrete proposals:

1. The establishment of a Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GIGANET) and the
2. The launch of Schools on Internet Governance (SIG).

GIGANET is now well established and has annual events before each IGF and also regional meetings.

For training the EuroSSIG was the pilot project, followed by the South School on IG. Over the years the concepts has evolved. We had a first SIG in 2009 in Cairo. We saw the start of the African Summer School. Now we see this concept growing in Asia and we see a lot of national initiatives (Brazil, Pakistan, India, Kenya, US etc.). These initiatives more or less take the original SIG concept as a source of inspiration and adjust it to their regional needs.

Taking all this into consideration we should reflect on the concept and its further development. What kind of education do governments expect? What people are needed for the business sector and how can SIG’s help to get a deeper understanding how technical aspects influence human rights and security.

A platform for collaboration among all schools can help to guarantee the high quality of all schools. Establishing an IGF Dynamic Coalition to enhance communication, coordination and collaboration among the various initiatives seams a viable option.

The workshop should serve to explore the following topics:

1. Identification of stakeholder needs for future IG capacity building
2. Identification of ways for collaboration among SIG’s
3. Exchange of experiences among the various SIGs (good practice),
4. Discussion of the feasibility of the formation of an IGF Dynamic Coalition on Schools for Internet Governance (DC-SIG)

Representatives from all stakeholder groups will have the chance share their views. Coordinators of SIG initiatives will provide input and talk about their regional experiences. The floor will be opened to the audience to help us identifying stakeholder needs for future IG capacity building. A discussion about the need and feasibility of a Dynamic Coalition will follow.

Session flow:

1. Opening (10 minutes)

• Ten years of teaching Internet Governance, Wolfgang Kleinwächter, EuroSSIG
• Why we need Internet Governance capacity building, Jörg Schweiger, DENIC

2. Lessons learned / Reports from SIGs (25 minutes)

• Jungbae An, Asia Pacific
• Olga Cavalli, Latin America
• Baher Esmat, Arabic Region
• Anriette Esterhuysen, Africa
• Nick Cull, North America (TBC)
• Hartmut Glaser, Brazil

3. Experiences from the faculty (15 minutes)

• Avri Doria, Independent Researcher
• William Drake, University of Zurich
• Milton Mueller, Georgia Technology Institute
• Bertrand de la Chapelle, Internet & Jurisdiction Project

4. What we need / Expectations from stakeholders (15 minutes)

• Business: N.N., Amazon & Christoph Steck, Telefonica
• Government: Thomas Schneider, GAG Chair & Mocta Yedelay, African Union
• Technical Community: Keith Drazek, VeriSign & Leonid Todorov, APTLD

5. Open discussion (25 minutes)

Moderator: Sandra Hoferichter, EuroSSIG Manager

Online Moderator: Renata Aquino Ribeiro, E.I. Research

Rapporteur: joint effort among all active contributors to this session

Internet policy and governance is attracting increasing interest, but it is an extremely complex area. Thanks to the use of advanced IT technologies, the Global Internet Policy Observatory (GIPO) provides a practical and automated tool to navigate through the maze of issues and documents related to Internet policy and governance. 
GIPO is a tool to help stakeholders, in particular those with limited resources, to understand and engage in these issues, and is an effective and efficient tool to build capacity and increase inclusiveness in discussions. 
GIPO performs real-time monitoring, analysis and information-sharing functions and represents a useful and practical contribution of the European Commission to capacity building for the global community.

The meeting will predominantly focus on the growth, reach and ownership of the Observatory, initially established as a tool to share information about internet governance topics to a broad base of stakeholders.

Name of Speaker(s)

European Commission's representative

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
BPF Rapporteur: Anri van der Spuy
Discussants: Alison Gillwald (Research ICT Africa, South Africa), Claire Sibthorbe (GSMA, UK), Nanjira Sambuli (Web Foundation, Kenya), Ritu Strivastava (Digital Empowerment Foundation, India), Angie Contreras (Youth Observatory, Mexico) & Louise Marie Hurel (Youth Observatory, Brazil), Peter Bloom (Rizomática), Representative from UN Women/ ITU's EQUALS campaign (TBC).

The BPF's second draft of its outcome document was published on the IGF's review platform on 3 December 2016. It will remain open for public comment until 18 December. It can also be downloaded in PDF format here. 

 

DC3 Annual Meeting

The Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity (DC3) explores the potential of community networks in order to promote sustainable Internet connectivity and foster the full enjoyment of fundamental rights such as freedom of expression and self-determination. This session will propose a selection of analyses aimed at moving forward the discussion on Internet connectivity and debate, in an inclusive fashion, the ways in which community networks may help create sustainable Internet connectivity while empowering Internet users. The panelists will explore the various technical, governance and policy aspects of community connectivity as well as a number of case studies, included in the DC3 Report Community Connectivity: Building the Internet from Scratch. The DC3 Report and the Guadalajara Declaration on Community Connectivity are the DC3 annual outcomes. Free hard copies of the Report will be distributed at the DC3 session (courtesy of Internet Governance @ FGV project).

Keynote presentation by Bob Frankston, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society  

Panelists include:

• Luca Belli, Center for Technology and Society at FGV
• Nicolas Echaniz, Altermundi
• Roger Baig, ISOC-CAT
• Maureen Hernandez, Independent researcher
• Leandro Navarro, Technical University of Catalonia
• Anya Orlova, UNESP/Fonias Jurua Project
• Carlos Rey-Moreno, University of the Western Cape
• Ritu Srivastava, Digital Empowerment Foundation  

The ICANN Open Forum aims to update participants on progress ICANN has made in key areas of its work since last year’s IGF in João Pessoa. 

This is one of the most well attended and interactive sessions at IGF meetings, where participants get the opportunity to engage in an open dialogue with ICANN’s leadership and exchange views on various issues. In particular, the session will provide updates and seek feedback on key projects and processes such as the implementation of the IANA Stewardship Transition, the on-going work on Accountability, ICANN’s strategic planning, and ICANN’s global stakeholder engagement efforts. 

The Open Forum is also an opportunity for ICANN to expand beyond its regular community and reach out to new audience to help them become more acquainted with ICANN related work. 

Speakers:

• Steve Crocker, Chairman of the ICANN Board
• Göran Marby, President and CEO
• Other staff / community to be invited 

Moderator:

• Chris Disspain, ICANN Board Director

The purpose of this workshop is to highlight how the Internet of things (IoT) is playing a key role in supporting local and global initiatives aimed at catalyzing inclusive and sustainable growth and offer a list of policy options on how the global community can harness IoT to realize the sustainable development goals (SDGs).

This workshop will be directly related to the overarching IGF theme Enabling Inclusive and Sustainable Growth as it will evaluate the technical and policy conditions needed to generate innovation and expand access and use of IoT technology for sustainable development. The workshop will answer the question: How can we harness IoT to realize the SDGs?

Through an interactive, multistakeholder dialogue, discussion will be guided by the following questions: 
1.)How is emerging technology such as IoT driving sustainable growth and what impact could this technology have of the UN 2030 development agenda? 
2.) How can we support the back end analytics and systems of IoT including big data and cloud computing and why is this important?
3.) What policy approaches are needed to address the challenges and opportunities IoT will bring to reaching the SDG targets? 

Perspectives from developing countries, governments, technical community, private sector and civil society will be shared and participants will collectively contribute their ideas and present examples from their own stakeholder group/country perspectives. 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 encourage to contribute.

Speakers provisionally confirmed:

Casasbuenas, Julian
Chung, Jennifer 
Francesca De Guzman, Noelle
Pedraza-Barrios , Ricardo
Rowney, Paul 
Ruff, Jackie

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.

Next, we'll have about one hour of discussion on the topic. Each of the speakers will have a few minutes to make a short opening statement. After that, we'll roughly try to cover the following areas, and any others raised by attendees or speakers:

• Definition: We identified that Cybersecurity has different meaning to different stakeholder groups. Do you believe we need a universal definition, perhaps some type of document that covers areas, roles and responsibilities? Or is the lack of formal and agreed-upon definition an opportunity for ongoing conversation and improving each other's understanding of the space?
  
  
• Situational awareness: One of the areas which was touched in the initial definition of work for the BPF was that of "situational awareness", a "knowing and influencing of risks and applied mitigations". 
  
  One interesting example raised in the contributions was that of Nigeria, where Whatsapp was used to rapidly disseminate cybersecurity related news across a community of influencers. How do we see this working at an international level? Should each community share amongst themselves, or is there room for a multi-stakeholder body that aids in generating this level of awareness? Would it help address some of the communications issues we've identified around what it is that "cybersecurity" really means?
  
  
• Inclusive spaces of engagement: Several contributors referred to a study by the Freedom Online Coalition, which showed that most cybersecurity policy making spaces are not open to civil society. What are some concrete steps these bodies could take to become more inclusive to other stakeholder groups? Do you believe there are reasons why these spaces are more closed, and what could we expect if they were more open?
  
  
• Unnecessary contradiction: several contributors raised that there is a perceived gap between privacy and cyber security, while other indicators show that there is mutual reinforcement. This leads to the hotly contested debate spaces around encryption and anonymity. What is our way out?
  
  
• Tech vs Diplomacy: Quite often there appears to be a lack of engagement between the technical community and policy makers. At times it can even be dismissive of each other's contribution -- to engineers, code is often law. To policy makers, law helps define what the code should do or look like. A key outcome of the BPF is that stakeholders must understand, respect and trust each other's expertise and competences. When the issues are that basic and black and white, what can be done to meet these goals?
  
  
• Outcomes and next steps: As an outcome this year, we have a set of 10 guiding statements, which may be augmented after this meeting. Should this BPF take a proactive role in defining and implementing solutions for these problems in the future, or can we come up with a concrete set of actions for each stakeholder community, or perhaps even an owner to tackle some of these hard issues?

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:

• Richard Leaning, RIPE NCC (Speaker)
• Isabel Skierka, Digital Society Institute (DSI) (Speaker)

• Kerry-Ann Barrett and Barbara Marchiori, Organization of American States (OAS) (Speakers)

• Grace Githaiga, KICTANet (Speaker)
• Matthew Shears, Freedom Online Coalition (FOC) (Speaker)

• 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.

With the socio-economic development, the environmentalpressures are increased, especially in developing countries. The environmental data in either global scale, reginal or local scales become the important infrastructure to supporting the common understanding and decision making on environment, as well as to achieving the SDGs. 
Most progress of ICT applications in environment during the last decade is the big data. The big data on environmentmeans not only in volumes, but stakeholder and data platforms.. More and more data creators have developed their own data platforms. There is an urgent need to dealing with the challengesin the worldwide how to coordinate and interoperate the distributed data among the multiple platforms.
Another critical issue in big data era is the digital divide. The UN General Assembly 2015 decided that the UN will keep pay more attention to help developing countries in ICT applications. CODATA (Committee on Data for Sciences and Technology, International Council for Sciences) made it in its strategic plan and assigned the CODATA Task Group in Developing Countries, to implement such strategic plan since 2002, 
The proposed discussion will focus on the big data and the environment: a pathway to achieving the SDGs with two break-out group discussions, one is governance of inter-operational platforms of big environmental data; and another one is big data in/for/with developing countries. All of the two groups will draw attention to the principles, openness and IP protections, the role of each stakeholders, capacity buildings, joint actions and practical cases. Three environmental data platforms will be presented for the discussions, they are: UNEP-LIVE, CAS’GCdata, and Ghana-ODIP.

Speakers provisionally confirmed:

Jiang, Yang
Liu, Chuang
Neves, Ana
Pelayo, Ricardo Israel Robles
Spiezia, Vincenzo
Toffa, Florence
Zhou, Xiang

This Workshop aims to identify business models that could leverage the sustainable development of cities, fields, industries and communities.
The implementation of IoT solutions should be seen as a funding not as a cost. Its implementation is expected to bring efficiency in the provision of services by public and private entities. Solutions should be used when they have savings and only then there will be sustainability in the applications and a gain in relation to the whole society.
IoT is at the top of expectations. It ranks as a possible promoter of efficiency processes. Solutions around world are arising to promise to revolutionize our lives and the way we relate to the environment we live in. Dumpsters, sidewalks, streetlights, traffic lights, all receive the smart adjective. Some cities promote a show of diverse technologies. On the other hand, these solutions are pilots or concepts that have not yet proven their sustainability.
Implementation challenges are given:
· How to move from concept to reality?
· How to make these solutions viable economically?
· Do they bring sensitive returns to the citizen?
· Do they improve processes so as to generate savings to the public manager or the private sector?
· How to ensure security and privacy without impact on the financial viability of the solution?
Considering sustainability as the quality of a system to remain viable in activity over its lifetime, we cannot leave the show of new technologies, but it's time to embrace what is economically feasible and the solutions that could be sensitive to citizens.

Speakers provisionally confirmed:

Abou-Zahra, Shadi
Diniz, Vagner
Magas , Michaela
Maló, Pedro
Marçal, Thales
Mvongo , Serge
Ogawa Matsubayashi, Marcia
Paltridge, Sam

Participate Online!

DC Coordination Session

Thursday 8 December, 16.30-18.00

Workshop Room 9

Proposed Guiding Questions

I. Organizational Best Practices

1. What works well in your coalition, what doesn't? 

2. How do your meetings take place throughout the year? Virtually, face-to-face, and how often? 

2. How strong is your participation and output?


 

II. Co-Facilitators and IGF Secretariat Role

1. Are coordination meetings helpful? How could they be done better?

2. Is having a DCs main session and coordinating efforts toward the session valuable to you?

3. Is there an additional role the co-facilitators or Secretariat should play? 

4. The Secretariat maintains/monitors established parameters for forming a DC and for considering it "active": are these adequate and fair? 


 

III. Coordination Moving Forward 

1. Should DCs' terms for coordination be expanded upon? Is the current ToR satisfactory?

2. The ToR mentions identifying synergies and facilitating collaboration. What opportunities could there be for substantive collaboration? Should DCs take on a joint substantive project? 

3. There was support for the issue surveys from DCs in the recently held webinar. Should DCs repeat the survey exercise next year? If so, what could a potential timeline look like?

3. Outside of planning for a possible main session next year, what expectations do DCs have for coordinated work in 2017?

 

Internet amplifies the capacity to understand, communicate and serve communities getting out of poverty. The session will focus on the Internet Community and organizations actively involved in IG roles to achieve SDGs agenda, and how networks and concrete solutions are key to achieve desired outcomes. 
To make the most of what Internet has to offer, an enabling environment where investment, deployment and services rollout are aligned with technical capacity for maintenance and growth is required. So is effective use relevant to local needs, cultural/language diversity and skills to exploit opportunities. Such environment requires effective cooperation as no stakeholder can deliver alone. The session will use the following framework:
▪ Understand: Internet solutions allow to collect, survey, map and analyze data at a scale not seen before. The challenge still remains to deploy computer power and robust networks in developing economies to access data and applications needed for better services in real time.
▪ Communicate: Internet solutions changed how communities engage in political processes, journalism and science. Challenges remain to reach productive dialogue, in-depth analysis and meaningful participation linked to outcomes.
▪ Serve: Internet based solutions allow service delivery, simplify processes and share responsibilities, by enabling the provision of online services, access to information and education, access to government, jobs, facilitating SMEs to reach global markets, among other benefits. However, many communities are not yet connected, or their connectivity is too expensive, precarious or unreliable, or lack the necessary technical and/or commercial skills are required for opportunities to be capitalised upon.

Speakers provisionally confirmed:

Cadena, Sylvia
Cerf, Vint
Chung, Jennifer 
Elder, Laurent
Kovacs, Anja
Kurbalija, Jovan