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IGF 2020 Pre-Event #1 GigaNet 2020 Symposium

Time
Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (13:35 UTC) - Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (18:35 UTC)
Room
Room 2
About this Session
The Global Internet Governance Academic Network annual symposium features cutting-edge research on Internet & data governance, regulation, COVID-19 responses and more. Full program available at https://www.giga-net.org/2020-annual-giganet-symposium-program-katowice-poland-remote/
Join the debate on our live tweeting-> #GigaNet2020

Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet)

Roxana Radu, GigaNet 2020 Program Chair

Description

The Global Internet Governance Academic Network annual symposium features cutting-edge research on Internet & data governance, regulation, COVID-19 responses and more.

To attend, please register here AND complete your IGF registration by adding the GigaNet session to your Personal Schedule on the IGF platform.

The full program is available at: https://www.giga-net.org/2020-annual-giganet-symposium-program-katowice-poland-remote/ .It consists of 23 presentations on the latest academic research on Internet governance topics, clustered around 6 panels (ran in parallel): 

(A1) Platform governance;

(B1) Internet Governance and the COVID-19 Pandemic;

(A2) Data governance;

(B2) Stakeholders and their role in Internet Governance;

(A3) Governing standards and infrastructure;

(B3) Cyberconflict and cybersecurity.

You are kindly invited to join us for a half-day of inspiring academic and policy discussions!

 

2020 GIGANET SYMPOSIUM -  PROGRAM (updated 1 November)

13:40-13:55 UTC – Welcome and Introductory Remarks

Dmitry Epstein, GigaNet Chair
Roxana Radu, GigaNet Program Chair 2020

14:00-15:15 UTC – parallel sessions 1

PANEL A1: PLATFORM GOVERNANCE

Chair: Meri Baghdasaryan, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (United States)
Discussant: Peng Hwa Ang, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)

PANEL B1: INTERNET GOVERNANCE AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Chair: Yik Chan Chin, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (China)
Discussant:  Alejandro Pisanty, National Autonomous University of Mexico

15:20-16:35 UTC – parallel sessions 2

PANEL A2: DATA GOVERNANCE

Chair:  Ioana Stupariu, Central European University (Austria)
Discussant: Claudio Lucena, Paraiba State University (Brazil) & FCT (Portugal) 

PANEL B2: STAKEHOLDERS AND THEIR ROLE IN INTERNET GOVERNANCE

Chair: Alison Gillwald, Research ICT Africa & University of Cape Town, Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance (South Africa)
Discussant: Rasha Abdulla, American University in Cairo (Egypt)

16:40-17:55 UTC – parallel sessions 3

PANEL A3 – GOVERNING STANDARDS & INFRASTRUCTURE

Chair: Bruna Santos, Coalizão Direitos na Rede (Brazil) 
Discussant: Farzaneh Badii, Yale University (United States)

PANEL B3: CYBERCONFLICT & CYBERSECURITY

Chair: Amit Sheniak, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Discussant:  Carolina Ines Aguerre, GCR21-UniDUE (Germany) and CETYS UDESA (Argentina)

18:00-19:00 UTC – GigaNet business meeting

Join the debate on our live tweeting-> #GigaNet2020

 

 

 

 

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #2 Bridging Stakeholder Gaps to Eliminating barriers to participation in Internet Governance Processes.

Time
Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (06:30 UTC) - Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (08:00 UTC)
Room
Room 1

Mauritius IGF

Description

Mauritius IGF has held its IGF forum in 2017, 18, 19. We have acknowledged during the recommendations, how it is difficult to involve people with disabilities, marginalised population and difficult to reach rural population. This year, Mauritius IGF has embarked on a research study to look into the barriers to participation in IGF. The recommendations, which will be out in April, will be used to finalise and involve participants from Mauritius IGF 2020 and the Africa-Indian Ocean Island States. Participants will be shared the study's recommendations and the ways Mauritius IGF is looking to take this challenging issue.

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #4 North Africa Stockholders Coordination meeting

Time
Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (15:10 UTC) - Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (16:10 UTC)
Room
Room 3

ICT Foundation for Development - Libya

Description

After 14 IGF, still, the representation of the North African is weak, which leads to weakness of the on-ground work in the region when it comes to the internet governance sector, this session comes here to provide the venue for the stockholders from North Africa to meet and coordinate their efforts with the IGF 2020 and after.

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #7 Innovations and Synergies Across Data Ecosystems for the SDGs

Time
Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (06:30 UTC) - Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (07:30 UTC)
Room
Room 2

HACEP-Ghana

Description

The event is aimed at producing an accelerated pathways to increasing public-private partnerships to enable the use of big data and other non-traditional data sources in policymaking by mainstreaming their use in official statistics. The focus of the event will be exploring ways to enable the possibility of how various institutional arrangements, including in-house production of statistics by data providers, direct transfer of private data to end users, the transfer of private data to a trusted third party and the outsourcing of certain functions. It is crucial that national statistical offices, supported by international organizations, continue to advance the design and implementation of incentives and business models that encourage effective partnerships for improving the availability and quality of data for sustainable development. The event will also among others explore how Data innovation projects can be implemented by a broad range of public and private actors in many parts of the world, including Africa, Asia and Latin America. The results are promising. For instance, crowdsourcing exercises can be employed for the collection and analysis of data for Intentional Design of programmes for girls and women and data on climate change. That said, the use of innovative technologies and new data sources for the public good is not without risk. It also presents institutional challenges: merging new data sources with traditional ones requires the modernization of data governance and quality frameworks to ensure national ownership and the establishment of transparent mechanisms. Such mechanisms allow partners from the private sector, academia and civil society to contribute their data, expertise and technology to achieving the SDGs.

Session Time

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #8 EuroDIG - Open Forum

Time
Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (07:40 UTC) - Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (11:10 UTC)
Room
Room 2
About this Session
EuroDIG - Open Forum is a chance to meet and exchange with European stakeholder. Participants from other regions are most welcome!

European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG)

Description

We would like to reflect on this year’s EuroDIG, which was being held as a fully virtual ‎meeting and highlight the topics that have been discussed - our Messages 2020. We will focus on the messages from the plenaries. (See list of presenters below.)

Thereafter we would like to exchange on how these Messages can become more influential and relevant to stakeholder also in the light of the discussion on the IGF+ Model. Concettina Cassa, AgID (Agency for Digital Italy of Prime Minister Office) and Co-Chair of the Working Group on IGF strengthening and strategy will provide an update on the work of this group.

If time allows, we would like to explore which challenges virtual meetings bear and which role they ‎will play in the light of climate change and emerging situations (like the corona virus spread). ‎

After a 30 min break we invite, in the context of a virtual booth activity, to an informal gathering and brain storming on the continuation of the discussion on "Greening Internet governance - Environmental sustainability and digital transformation".

Everyone is invited to join!

Resources:

Agenda:

  • 7:30 – 9:00 (UTC) the actual Open Forum
  • 30 min break
  • 9:30 – 10:45 (UTC) brain storming on how to continue the discussion on the topic "Greening Internet governance - Environmental sustainability and digital transformation"

Presenters of EuroDIG 2020 Messages:

Moderator: Sandra Hoferichter, EuroDIG Secretariat

 

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #9 IGF LAC Space

Time
Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (19:10 UTC) - Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (20:10 UTC)
Room
Room 3
About this Session
IGF LAC Space is a session to gather all participants from the LAC region in an attempt to share their achievements of the present year and their plans for the following year. It started in 2016 in Guadalajara and this would be the 4th.

LACTLD

Description

IGF LAC Space is a session to gather all participants from the LAC region in an attempt to share their achievements of the present year and their plans for the following year. It started in 2016 in Guadalajara and this would be the 4th edition.

 

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #10 An open discussion about tackling terrorist and violent extremist content with the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism.

Time
Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (18:45 UTC) - Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (19:45 UTC)
Room
Room 2
About this Session
Join GIFCT Executive Director Nick Rasmussen as he shares the latest trends in how terrorism and extremism are manifesting themselves in online environments. He will discuss GIFCT Goals and strategic pillars that guide our work. Members of the Independent Advisory Committee will also discuss the role they play in shaping the future of this organization.
Significant time will be reserved for discussion with the audience.

Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)

Description

The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) was established in July 2017 as a group of companies, dedicated to disrupting terrorist abuse of members’ digital platforms. The original Forum was led by a rotating chair drawn from the founding companies—Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube—and managed a program of knowledge-sharing, technical collaboration and shared research. Building on that early success, cognizant of terrorists’ determined and increasingly sophisticated efforts to abuse digital platforms, as exemplified by the Christchurch attack, and inspired by the multi-stakeholder approach of the Christchurch Call, the founders decided it is time to establish GIFCT as an independent organization capable of sustaining and deepening industry collaboration and capacity, while incorporating the advice of key civil society and government stakeholders.

Nick Rasmussen recently joined GIFCT as the first fulltime Executive Director and the Independent Advisory Committee comprised of representatives from government and civil society understood broadly to include, among others, advocacy groups, human rights specialists, foundations, researchers and technical experts has been launched.

During the IGF pre-event, Nick will share the latest trends in how terrorism and extremism are manifesting themselves in online environments. We will briefly discuss the 4 GIFCT Goals and 3 strategic pillars found at https://www.gifct.org/about/. Finally, members of the Independent Advisory Committee will discuss the role they hope to play in shaping the next version of this organization.

Most of the time will be reserved for discussion with the audience. Are we on the right track? Are there concerns about this approach? What are we missing? What else could we be doing to strengthen collaboration?

We realize that not all agree with our approach. There are concerns about the impact on freedom of expression and human rights and we will use this session to engage in constructive conversations about how we can better understand each other and find ways to work together. It could be that because of feedback from this session, GIFCT incorporates additional efforts, refines messaging and even changes strategies. We will not know until we engage in actual conversations, but we are open to the feedback because, in the end, countering terrorist and violent extremist content is a shared goal for everyone.

 

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #11 Digital Cooperation and Children’s Rights

Time
Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (09:20 UTC) - Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (10:50 UTC)
Room
Room 1
About this Session
Speakers:
* Baroness Beeban Kidron
* Prof. Sonia Livingstone, OBE
* Dr Amanda Third
* Jutta Croll
* Tarique Kenny
* Prof. Olga Khazova & Amal Aldoseri, members of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, co-chairs of the Working Group

5Rights Foundation

Description

In June 2019 the UN’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation released their report “The Age of Digital Interdependence” which makes 5 sets of recommendations, among those to “Protect human rights and human agency”. The High-level Panel dedicates a reasonable part of its report to the rights and the safety of children in the digital environment, particularly referring to under 18s as making up one-third of all internet users worldwide. Since January 2019, concurrently to the HLPDC, a group of child rights advocates led by the UK-based 5Rights Foundation has been working on General Comment No 25, which will outline the relevance of the UNCRC with regard to children’s rights in the digital environment. In this session we will discuss the interrelatedness between the General Comment and the HLPDC’s recommendation 3B: “In the face of growing threats to human rights and safety, including those of children, we call on social media enterprises to work with governments, international and local civil society organisations and human rights experts around the world to fully understand and respond to concerns about existing or potential human rights violations.” Together with experts from the UN, government representatives and representatives from national coalitions on children’s rights, we will elaborate on practical steps as to how the recommendations from the HLPDC can be operationalized in order to respect, protect and fulfil children’s rights in the digital environment.

Speakers:
* Baroness Beeban Kidron
* Prof. Sonia Livingstone, OBE
* Dr Amanda Third
* Jutta Croll
* Tarique Kenny
* Prof. Olga Khazova & Amal Aldoseri, members of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, co-chairs of the Working Group 

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #12 Stop stalkerware: tackling digital stalking helps victims of domestic violence

Time
Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (16:15 UTC) - Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (17:15 UTC)
Room
Room 3
About this Session
Stalkerware are commercial software that enables a remote user to monitor the activities on another user’s device without that user’s consent. Mostly used in domestic violence, it is growing issue at global level. Join the discussion with the Coalition against Stalkerware and other international stakeholders working with victims and perpetrators to identify ways to act together against this developing cyberthreat.

Kaspersky

Description

Background: Stalkerware is 'software made available directly to individuals, that enables a remote user to monitor the activities on another user’s device without that user’s consent and without explicit, persistent notification to that user in order to intentionally or unintentionally facilitate intimate partner surveillance, harassment, abuse, stalking, and/or violence’. Stalkerware seems to be an underestimated global problem: actually, it is a very serious and growing issue. Based on Kaspersky statistics, stalkerware is of growing interest to malicious users. The number of our users facing stalkerware rose by 67% in 2019, a trend that concerned a large number of countries. Although there is a need for more research on the gender nature of stalkerware use, the available data paints a clear picture that the main victims of technology-facilitated abuse are women, while those doing the abusing are mainly men. To tackle this issue, 10 organizations launched in November 2019 a global initiative called the Coalition Against Stalkerware: www.stopstalkerware.org.

Objectives: In this IGF 2020 session, members of Coalition Against Stalkerware and stakeholders from other organizations will discuss the problem of stalkerware, and how it might be addressed by all actors including the civil society, researchers, government authorities and law enforcement agencies. The event aims to inform about the problem of stalkerware, discuss possibilities to raise awareness toward it, but also help users protect themselves, and identify new fields for multistakeholder activities.

Format: The event will be marked by a high-level panel gathering stakeholders from different regions and different horizons, including:

  • Private Sector: Christina Jankowski; Kaspersky (Germany)
  • Civil Society: Rachel Gibson, Senior Technology Safety Specialist, National Network to End Domestic Violence (USA)
  • Tech Community: Sanjana Rathi, Research Analyst, Cyber Peace Foundation (India)
  • Intergovernmental organization: Philipp Amann, Head of Strategy, Europol European Cybercrime Center EC3 (Netherlands)
  • Moderator: Arnaud Dechoux, Kaspersky (France)
  • Demo: Felix Aimé, Kaspersky GReAT (France)

Through the use of interactive tools, participants will have the opportunity to raise questions and share thoughts. The expected outcome of the session is to have concrete ideas for future activities to mitigate the risks arising from stalkerware, to attract possible partners for cooperation, and to create awareness raising activities.

We look forward to discussing with you this important topic on November 2!

1. Key Policy Questions and related issues
How to raise awareness of users regarding the threat of stalkerware, in order to mobilize stakeholders and therefore better protect victims?
What are the intersections between the issue the issue of stalkerware with domestic violence in general?
What could be the new fields for multi-stakeholder activities at international and local level to bring coordinated response to the stalkerware issue?
2. Summary of Issues Discussed

The session discussed the following issues related to digital stalking and domestic violence:

  • The lack of awareness regarding stalkerware: a vast majority of people would not be aware of the existence of such spyware and the associated risks. Awareness campaigns and materials should be developed and made available to all local stakeholders (broad agreement)
  • The need for coordinated response: law enforcement agencies, governments, associations supporting victims as well as cybersecurity companies should act together to bring an effective response to the stalkerware cyberthreat. For instance by supporting the work of the Coalition Against Stalkerware (www.stopstalkerware.org) and by offering technical trainings to the actors involved in the fight against digital stalking (broad agreement)
  • The unclear legal framework of stalkerware: while a majority seem to agree stalkerware should be prohibited by law, some assess this is not the right way to go forward and their misuse is to be sanctioned. In-depth discussions are needed at international and national levels on this key issue (needing further discussion)
3. Key Takeaways

An increasing number of IT users are the object of digital stalking, especially through widely accessible commercial spyware, also known as “stalkerware” or “spouseware”. Statistics from cybersecurity company Kaspersky show an increase of 67% in the detection of stalkerware with mobile users globally in 2019. While feedback from local associations show women are the main victims of such malicious spyware, further studies would be needed to better assess who the victims are and how their life is impacted.

Despite this growing trend, on all continents and in all countries, awareness of the stalkerware threat remains too low. Therefore, we need to act together to bring efficient response to this developing issue. The international Coalition Against Stalkerware was born in 2019 with this clear objective. One obvious way to go forward is to offer awareness materials to local stakeholders, and develop trainings for both support associations working with survivors, law enforcement officers and judiciary authorities.

Finally, there is a clear need to address the legal status of stalkerware in each country in order to discourage abusers to use such spywares. As stalkerware remain legal, their use without the consent of the victim is definitely illegal: national authorities and international bodies have adapt legal frameworks to tackle the issue more efficiently.

6. Final Speakers
  • Private Sector: Christina Jankowski; Kaspersky (Germany)
  • Civil Society: Rachel Gibson, Senior Technology Safety Specialist, National Network to End Domestic Violence (USA)
  • Tech Community: Sanjana Rathi, Research Analyst, Cyber Peace Foundation (India)
  • Intergovernmental organization: Philipp Amann, Head of Strategy, Europol European Cybercrime Center EC3 (Netherlands)
  • Moderator: Arnaud Dechoux, Kaspersky (France)
  • Demo: Felix Aimé, Kaspersky GReAT (France)
7. Reflection to Gender Issues

An important part of the session addressed gender issues as stalkerware are often used in domestic violence. Local feedback from stakeholders involved in the fight against domestic violence show women are often targeted by such commercial spyware. It is necessary to raise awareness in targeted user groups, better support victims and work with both survivors and perpetrators to bring an efficient response to this worldwide issue.

8. Session Outputs

Results of online polls carried out during the IGF Pre-Event:

  • Have you suspected of being affected by stalkerware? Yes, myself: 20% / Yes, a friend or relative: 20% / No, never: 60%
  • Do you think the legal framework efficiently protects victims against stalkerware? Yes: 6% / No: 67% / I don’t know: 28%
  • Do you think stalkerware should be legally prohibited? Yes: 82% / No: 14% / I don’t know: 5%
  • What are your ideas for multi-stakeholder activities? What do you think could be useful?
    • Digital literacy would matter a lot in this regard especially in the developing countries where the digital penetration is far too low and the potential impact of harms is very high.
    • Awareness raising for survivors - warning signs of stalkerware on your device.  Trainings for law enforcement.
    • "multiagency work awareness"
    • Community based victim support groups
    • To create a legal framework in truly multistakeholder environment
    • Legal recourse against companies that develop stalkerwares
    • Partnership between tech companies and non profit organisations in order to train workers on the issue and how to act against it.
    • Underdeveloped and developing countries needs more orientation.
    • Safety-by-design, encouraging tech companies to build safety protections into the products they develop before the release them to the market
    • Law enforcement needs trained on how to access the evidence to hold abusers accountable.  This includes prosecutors and judges.
    • Manufacturers of IoT devices should consider how their products can be misused
    • Stalkers need to be prosecuted not technology. Raising awareness amongst end-users, law enforcement community, security professionals about the malicious use of such software is the key to tackle the problem.

 

Other useful resources:

9. Group Photo
Stop Stalkerware Pre-Event IGF 2020
10. Voluntary Commitment

Kaspersky, as other members of the Coalition Against Stalkerware, has committed to fighting domestic violence, stalking, and harassment by addressing the use of stalkerware and raising public awareness about this issue.

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #13 Internet Society's Collaborative Leadership Exchange (CLX)

Time
Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (11:00 UTC) - Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (14:00 UTC)
Room
Room 1
About this Session
The Internet Society's 'Collaborative Leadership Exchange (CLX)’ will bring together experts and newcomers in an 'unconference' style to dialogue on how we can altogether grow and strengthen the Internet.
Register to the session: https://internetsociety.wufoo.com/forms/igf2020isoc-collaborative-leadership-exchange/

Internet Society

Description

The objective of the Internet Society's 'Collaborative Leadership Exchange (CLX)’ is to bring together experts and newcomers in an 'unconference' style to dialogue about the Future of the Internet. All IGF participants are welcome to network, build relationships, exchange ideas, discuss key local / regional Internet governance issues, and explore applicable solutions to IG issues.  

The 2020 CLX is focused on Internet Society's projects on growing and strengthening the Internet.

The session will facilitate the integration of the inputs and experiences of different stakeholder groups, and contribute to building communities of learning and fostering relationships that create a multiplier effect on that cascades throughout the IGF week of activities, and beyond. 

This CLX builds on a successful model launched at the 2012 Global INET, and then replicated at all Global IGF meetings since 2013. 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 between actors in the Internet ecosystem.

After this session, participants will be more than prepared for he IGF week! 

We look forward to seeing you among the attendees! 

Note: Pre-registration is required as we need to know the number of people participating in advance to successfully organized the session: https://internetsociety.wufoo.com/forms/igf2020isoc-collaborative-leadership-exchange/

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #14 The corona virus pandemic: A global crisis is showing us how to live online

Time
Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (15:10 UTC) - Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (16:10 UTC)
Room
Room 1
About this Session
The Covid-19 pandemic has completely changed our work routines and has touched the lives of many. SICs have reacted by providing timely resources to keep the online space as safe as possible. Helplines across the network have seen a drastic increase in calls related to online abuse. We will explore best practices, helpline data, online trends & most popular apps used by youth. Youth ambassadors will give their perspective on how the pandemic has affected their life.

European Schoolnet - Insafe

Description

We have always hoped that our digital tools would create connections, not conflict. In unprecedented times - such as during the global corona virus pandemic – we are using the internet and online services more than perhaps ever before. Being online is providing a lifeline for everyone in society from the old to the young, workers and learners, and the vulnerable and curious.

While the ways we are substituting for in-person interaction are not perfect, we are seeing an explosion of creativity (e.g. virtual yoga classes, church services or dinner parties) as people try to use technology as a bridge across physical distance.

While the corona virus pandemic is teaching us to use the internet as it was always meant to be used: to connect with one another, share information and resources it is also important to remind ourselves of a few key points to keep safe online.

During this day 0 event participants together with experts from the Insafe- INHOPE network of Safer Internet Centres will discuss issues such as:

- Talking with children and young people about the pandemic. - Talking with vulnerable groups (e.g. minors, older people and people with disabilities) about their technology use. - Embracing the benefits of social media to help us get through difficult times. - Online learning. - Being mindful of online contacts and connections. Keeping personal information private. - Choosing online tools carefully and thinking before sharing content. - Disinformation and scams.

Hence, discussion during this pre-event will go in line with the IGF 2020 thematic tracks: (1) Data, (3) Inclusion and (4) Trust and to wider extend (2) Environment.

Format: - Introductory panel discussion with online safety and educational experts from the Insafe-INHOPE network of Safer Internet Centres, Better Internet for Kids Youth Ambassadors and representatives from social media companies/internet service providers.(30 minutes). - Feedback and questions from the audience.(20 minutes). - Conclusion and ways to move forward.(10 minutes).

Hosts: 

  • Sabrina Vorbau, European Schoolnet - Insafe 
  • Sofia Rasgado, Portuguese Safer Internet Centre | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia 
  • Deborah Vassallo, Foundation for Social Welfare Services 
  • Evangelia Daskalaki, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas 

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #15 Why Plan for Broadband?: A4AI Affordability Report 2020 Teaser & Discussion

Time
Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (11:20 UTC) - Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (13:20 UTC)
Room
Room 2
About this Session
Although just over half of the world’s population has come online, how are governments setting the targets required to get us to universal access? In many cases, they aren’t.
This session will serve as a teaser for the forthcoming release of A4AI’s Affordability Report, and focus on the importance of national broadband plans in driving progress in affordable and meaningful access for everyone, especially those in low- and middle-income countries.

Alliance for Affordable Internet (Web Foundation)

Description

Although just over half of the world’s population has come online, how are governments setting the targets required to get us to universal access? In many cases, they aren’t.

This session will serve as a teaser for the forthcoming release of A4AI’s annual flagship publication, the Affordability Report, and focus on the importance of national broadband plans in driving progress in affordable and meaningful access for everyone, especially those in low- and middle-income countries.

The launch will include a panel discussion, bringing together voices from the ITU, the Government of Bangladesh, UNESCAP, ATCON in Nigeria, and Smart Africa, to illustrate the importance of broadband plans for all stakeholders involved in internet governance. From this panel discussion, the session will turn to a participatory workshop on strategies to raise the importance of broadband plans and encourage an inclusive, evidence-based process for setting out future plans.

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #16 UNESCO’s launch of IGF Dynamic Coalition on Internet Universality ROAM-X Indicators and presentation of national assessments

Time
Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (10:00 UTC) - Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (16:05 UTC)
Room
Room 3
About this Session
For each session, Q and A is reserved for audiences. pls type your questions in the chat and/or take the floor directly.

UNESCO

Description

UNESCO is organizing a 5-hour special  pre-event on Internet Universality ROAM-X Indicators (IUIs) at IGF 2020 from 11 am to 5 pm CET on Day 0, Monday November 2nd, to showcase the national assessment results from 21 countries across the five continents, in order to share cases of good practice and the lessons learned from conducting assessments of IUIs at a national level. UNESCO also takes the occasion of this pre-event to launch a Dynamic Coalition on Internet Universality ROAM-X indicators. In addition to this event and as invited by MAG, UNESCO is welcome to report to the IGF plenary on the major outcomes of the IUis assessments event to inform the national policy makers for fostering policy changes. 

Objective 1: Presentation of the national assessments in 21 countries

The list of countries of IUIs is as follows with the assessment in Brazil, Benin, Senegal and Kenya completed and the rest ongoing: 

  • Benin, Senegal, Kenya, Ghana, Niger, Ethiopia in Africa,   
  • Thailand, Nepal, Pakistan, Uzbekistan in Asia,   
  • Tunisia, Sudan Jordan, Palestine in the Arab region,  
  •  Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay and Uruguay in Latin America,   
  • Germany, France and Serbia in Europe

 

Objective 2: Launch of the Dynamic Coalition on Internet Universality ROAM-X indicators

 

Based on its deep engagement with IGF community in the past 15 years, UNESCO is launching this Dynamic Coalition on Internet Universality ROAM-X indicators at the IGF 2020, as a new shared space for advocating ROAM principles worldwide, sharing experiences and raising awareness of the value of these ROAM-X indicators and good practice in applying them in more countries. This Dynamic Coalition will also be used to strengthen UNESCO’s synergies and partnership with IGF MAG and all stakeholders, National and Regional IGFs (NRIs), Best Practice Platforms (BPP) and other DCs to jointly advance the evidence-based Internet and policies at national, regional and global levels. 

 

The Dynamic Coalition seeks to engage with all countries and all stakeholders worldwide to promote free, open and accessible Internet for all and provide a space for multi-stakeholder dialogue and collaboration. The coalition will serve an umbrella platform for facilitating collaboration on countries’ alignment to UNESCO’s ROAM principles via national assessments and implementation of recommendations to harness Internet and advanced technologies’ potential to achieve the 2030 sustainable development agenda.  

 

Overall Facilitator: Xianhong Hu, Project Focal Point of Internet Universality Project, UNESCO.

Rapporteurs: Karen Landa and Octavio Lara (UNESCO)

 

 

Agenda

 

Time : 11:00 – 13:15 CET / 14:35 – 17:05 CET

Time

Sessions

11:00 – 11:15

 

15’

5’ Welcome remarks by Guy Berger

10’ Project presentation: Launch of Internet Universality Indicators and implementation process

 by Xianhong Hu and David Souter

 

Moderator: Guy Berger

 

11:15 – 12:15

 

60’

Country assessments in Africa

(Benin, Sénégal, Kenya, Ghana, Niger in Africa)

 

Speakers:

 

10’ – Kenya: Grace Githaiga, KICTAnet

10’ – Senegal: Elvis Michel Kenmoe, UNESCO Office in Dakar

10’ – Benin and Niger: Alain Kiyindou, Université Bordeaux Montaigne   

5’ – Ghana:  Dorothy Gordon, IFAP Chair of UNESCO

5’ – Ethiopia: Lydia Gachungi, UNESCO regional advisor in Addis Office

 

15’ – Q&A

 

Moderator:  Guy Berger

 

12:15 - 13:15

 

 

 

60’

Country assessment in Asia Pacific and Arab States

(Thailand, Nepal, Pakistan, Uzbekistan in Asia;

Tunisia, Sudan Jordan, Palestine in the Arab region)

 

Speakers:

 

10’ – Tunisia: Karima Mahmoudi, Instance Nationale des Télécommunications

10’ – Thailand: Simon Ellis, Independent Consultant

5’ – Sudan: Paul Hector, UNESCO Cairo

5’ – Nepal: Nirjana Sharma, UNESCO

5’ - Pakistan - Sadaf Khan, Media Matters for Democracy (MMFD)

5’ - Uzbekistan: Emil Faxreyev, Modern Journalism Development Centre

5’- Jordan: Issa Mahasneh, Jordan Open Source Association (JOSA)

5’ – Palestine :  Ms. Mona Shtayya, 7Amleh

 

10’ – Q&A

 

Moderator: Xianhong Hu

 

13:25 – 14:25

Break

14:35 – 15h20

45’

Inaugural session of the Dynamic Coalition of Internet Universality Indicators

 

5’ Introduction remarks of the DC and Online Platform by Guy Berger

 

Speakers from multi-stakeholder partners:

5’ - Minister of Telecommunications and Information Society of Ecuador (TBC) or Miguel Martins, Vice-Minister of Paraguay (TBC) and Virginia Pardo, Director of Information Society of AGESIC

5’- Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology of Palestine (TBC)

5’ - Christine M. Merkel, Head of the Division of Culture, Communication, Memory of the World at the German Commission for UNESCO and Andreas Salz, Programme Specialist, Division of Culture, Communication, Memory of the World at the German Commission for UNESCO

5’ - Constance Bommelaer, The Internet Society

5’ - Anriette Esterhuysen, MAG Chair

5’ - Anja Gengo, Secretariat for the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) (TBC)

5’- Antoine Vergne, Missions publique (TBC)

5- Mira Milosevic, Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)

 

Moderator: Guy Berger

15:20-16:20

 

60’

Country assessments in Latin America

(Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay and Uruguay in Latin America)

 

Speakers:

 

10’ – Brazil: Alexandre Barbosa and Fabio Senne, CETIC.br

10’ – Paraguay: Maricarmen Sequera, TEDIC (TBC)

10’ – Uruguay: Juan Bertón, Digital Agenda division and SIC Observator

10’ – Ecuador: Roberto Roggiero, Nuevared.org

 

20’ – Q&A

 

Moderator:  Guilherme Canela de Souza Godoi

 

16:20-16:50

 

 

30’

Country assessments in Europe

(Germany, France and Serbia in Europe)

 

Speakers:

 

10’ – Germany: Wolfgang Schulz and Matthias C. Kettemann, Leibniz Institute for Media Research, Hans-Bredow-Institut, Germany 

5’ – France: Lucien Castex, Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle

5’ – Serbia: Miroslav Jankovic, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

 

10’- Q&A

 

Moderator: Xianhong Hu

 

16:50 -17:05

 

15’

Thematic debates on methodology and implementation process, lessons learned

 

Discussants

 

Moderators: Xianhong Hu and David Souter

 

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #17 We the Internet - Experiencing the Global Deliberation

Time
Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (06:30 UTC) - Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (08:00 UTC)
Room
Room 3
About this Session
Humanity deserves and asks for better governance. The Global Citizens’ Dialogue on the future of Internet (https://www.wetheinternet.org) aims at addressing core questions of the future of Internet with ordinary citizens and stakeholders around the world.

Missions Publiques with a coalition of over 70 partners from all over the world: https://wetheinternet.org/who-are-we/

Description

---------------------- Goal of the Open Forum ----------------------

The Pre-event aims at:

1. Presenting Global Citizens’ Dialogue on the Future of Internet (http://www.wetheinternet.org).

2. Permitting vIGF participants to experience the Dialogue.

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The Day 0 event will be shaped as the Global Deliberation Day of the Global Dialogue (see below): Participants will experience a session of the Dialogue and will see the results produced by the citizens in comparison.

1. Opening (15’) Short presentation of project and process (Missions Publiques).

2. Break-out rooms (45’) Participants are randomly split into groups of 5 (maximum diversity). In each group, a facilitator and a note taker guide the discussion. They experience the session of the Dialogue on the Digital Public Sphere.

3. Presentation of results of the groups and conclusion (20’) Participants gather in plenary, note takers present the key results of their group.

Organizers: Nota Bene: The pre-event is coordinated by Missions Publiques with the backing of a global Coalition of Stakeholder and national partners. see wetheinternet.org

----------- Background: Internet Governance with and for the Citizens -----------

Humanity deserves and asks for better governance. Both citizens and decision-makers are ready to experiment with new approaches. Decisions taken on behalf of 7+ billion human beings require to augment the traditional expertise with the vision and experience of ordinary citizens that will enrich, legitimize, and strengthen the decisions. New forms of political non-partisan dialogue between citizens, decision-makers and experts are one of the most promising solutions to improve governance towards a more inclusive, more trustful, and less divided society, at all levels, from local to global. By relying on such processes, decisions become more in tune with the complexity of our age, more legitimate and more sustainable. Decision-makers gain in legitimacy, insights, and transparency. Citizens enter the realm of complexity of decision making and get the feeling of being respected and considered by the political sphere. Both are strengthened by this unique interaction. The recent global COVID crisis has shown that Internet and they way we govern it has an impact on all humanity. There is a profound need to discuss its future with everyone.

----------------- Bringing Citizens into Internet Governance -----------------------------------

The Global Citizens’ Dialogue on the future of Internet (https://www.wetheinternet.org) aims at addressing core questions of the future of Internet with ordinary citizens and stakeholder around the world. It supports the decision-making process on the future of this common good of Humanity. In 2018 and 2019, and with the support of a global coalition of partners, we prepared and tested the approach in 17 Dialogues around the world. In 2020, it’s time to scale the process:

We will consolidate and extend the coalition and work with the Advisory Board, the Scientific committee and the community in order to design the dialogues and how they will interact with policy making.

Deliberation Day: Together with a group of 60+ national partners we will implement a series of at least 50 Citizens’ Dialogues on October 10th, 2020. Citizens will address following topics: Internet and me, Building a strong Digital Identity, shaping the digital public sphere, governing artificial intelligence.

Session Time

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #18 High Way or Wrong Way? Discussing chances and challenges of a global data governance framework

Time
Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (06:00 UTC) - Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (07:15 UTC)
Room
Room 2
About this Session
!!! IF YOU HAVE MISSED OUR PANEL, YOU CAN WATCH THE RECORDED SESSION STARTING AT 20:00MIN HERE: https://youtu.be/oL0ArEibR-g?t=1198 --- Join our panel, to discuss the future of global data governance and data protection. We are glad to welcome: Axel Voss MEP (Europe), Fiona Alexander (USA), Natalie Pang (Singapore), Clàudio Lucena (Brazil) and Eduardo Magrani (Brazil / Europe).

Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation

https://www.kas.de/en/home

 

Description

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Description of our Panel

The digital age is an age of data. Thanks to accelerating digitization, cross-border data flows are increasingly shaping social and economic life. The opportunities of a data-centric world are tremendous. Increased eonomic growth, better public services, sustainable mobility solutions and more development are only some of the promises that could be realized by using data in a beneficial way. At the same time the new data centric age poses also new risks to states, companies, NGO`s and individuals that are caused by the misuse and/or abuse of data. These threats include e.g. identity theft and violation of privacy, algorithmic unfairness, theft of intellectual property, mass surveillance, and far reaching cyber attacks.

To set up a global framework that allows harnessing the potential of data and adressing the risks appropriately, Japan initiated the so called “Osaka Track” at the G20 Summit in January 2019. The idea of the track was to set a global data governance framework for how governments, companies, academic institutions and other relevant entities collect data, use it to generate insights, produce value of it and how they store and protect it. Based on the model “Data Free Flow with Trust” and aiming at the benefit of different stakeholders, such a global data governance framework should promote cross-border data flows and simultaneously provide safeguards against the misuse oder abuse of data, whether personal or non-personal data. With its effort to establish a global data governance framework, Japan has launched a major project for the digital age that is to be welcomed. If such a global norm setting process shall gain any momentum, a number of fundamental questions must be answered and challenges overcome. It is nothing less than an attempt to reach a binding consensus across countries, cultures and different stakeholders not only on a very broad range of issues (e.g. access to data, the protection of privacy, cybersecurity) but on the rules defining who should “control” data and harness their value.

After the EU first established a comprehensive and strict framework for the protection of personal data of EU citizens with the GDPR, many actors followed the EU's example and adopted regulatory frameworks. These include countries such as Brazil, Japan, India and the state of California. In addition, the decision of the EU Court of Justice to invalidate the US-EU Privacy Shield has also created a dynamic for transatlantic relations on data protection issues. Against this background the Konrad Adenauer Foundation would like to contribute to the IGF 2020 with a international multi-stakeholder panel discussing the opportunities and challenges of a global data governance framework with a special focus on data protection.

We are glad to welcome to our session:

 

1) Axel Voss

Member of the European Parliament (EPP / CDU) and Member of the Juri Committee and the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age

2) Natalie Pang

Senior Lecturer and Principal Investigator at National University of Singapore and Head of the “Global Citizen`s Dialogue “We the Internet”

3) Fiona Alexander

Distinguished Policy Strategist, School of International Service American University and former Associate Administrator for the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) Office of International Affairs (OIA)

4) Clàudio Lucena

Professor at the Law Faculty at Paraíba State University in Brazil UEPB and researcher for the Portuguese Government Agency Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

5) Eduardo Magrani (Moderator)

President of the National Institute for Data Protection in Brazil / Senior Researcher at TU Munich / Affiliated at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Former KAS Fellow

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Organizer:

Sebastian Weise

Advisor for Global Innovation Policy, Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation

Mail: [email protected] //

HP: https://www.kas.de/en/mitarbeiter/detail/-/content/weise-sebastian-1

1. Key Policy Questions and related issues
A global data protection framework is needed.
Such a framework should be developed through a multi-institutional approach.
Europe together wit its partners could be a forerunner
2. Summary of Issues Discussed

- Why is a general data protection framework needed? - broad consensus for: it is needed to exploit the potential of the digital age and adress some of the urgent risks.

- Is there a window of opportunity for such a norm setting process? yes because in the aftermath of the GDPR a global process of harmonising data protection frameworks has been started.

- How and by whom could such a process be pushed forward? Europe could be a forerunner with like-minded partners, a multi-institutional approach is needed, first steps should be undertaken in the G7 and G20, multistakeholer institutions need to be integrated in the process as well

3. Key Takeaways

1) The GDPR has opened a window of opportunity for a global data protection framework. 2) Even though the specific implementation is always embedded in a distinct political/cultural context. 3) An open question is: which international institutions can integrate divergent perspectives as well as the expertise of various stakeholders.

6. Final Speakers

all expected speakers (see description) have joined the session

 

8. Session Outputs

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #19 Let's work. Deployment of internet standards and secure ICT products and services

Time
Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (18:35 UTC) - Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (20:05 UTC)
Room
Room 1
About this Session
Internet security is a pivotal topic for all users. Deployment of Internet standards, secure ICT-products and -services can contribute significantly to security. Deployment is the focus of this workshop. You can make a difference by joining the session and co-determine the priorities the DC-ISSS has to focus on in its first year. You're opinions and future contributions matter.

Wout de Natris

Mark Carvell

Marten Porte

Description

Welcome to the IGF 2020 Pre-Event #19 ‘Let's work. Deployment of Internet standards and secure ICT products and services’.  A workshop with an active and inclusive goal: to make the Internet more secure and safer by ensuring the swift deployment of Internet standards and ICT best practices. Anyone with an interest in deploying security -related Internet standards and ICT best practices is invited to join and contribute views, ideas and proposals in this multi-stakeholder forum.

You can find further information on the DC and on how to join through the mailing list here: https://www.intgovforum.org/content/dynamic-coalition-on-internet-standards-security-and-safety-dc-isss.

Session Update 2

This session focuses on a few questions in relation to pre-work undertaken by experts over the past weeks. Their suggestion have led to the forming of three working groups. This following texts are the basis on which this workshop is based. The DC-ISSS is in search of your ideas, knowledge and vision, in person or through the chat function to debate there.

DC-ISSS WG1 Security by Design – Internet of Things Sub-group presentation 04-11-2020

Members of the IOT Sub-group met on 27 October.  The group first discussed potential topics that would add value to the current work already taking place in other fora and processes relating to IoT standards and policies. The following actions were identified that will produce added value to current initiatives:

i. Guidelines

  • Comparison of current guidelines;
  • Provision by DC-ISSS of best practices;
  • Creation of an Observatory of best practices.

ii. Solutions to Barriers

  • Identification of current barriers to deployment;
  • Creation of solutions and implementation of actions to overcome these barriers;
  • Identification of ways to provide solutions for SMEs.

iii. Regulatory considerations

  • Avoidance of barriers created by divergent national legislation and regulations;
  • Promotion of harmonisation through alignment of legislative proposals.

iv. Specific IoT issues 

  • Definition of attack vectors and threats for IoT;
  • Creation of best practice solutions for legacy IoT devices.

The IoT sub-group also discussed end goals and agreed that the first sign of success will be participation and diversity. Outreach to users in economic sectors will therefore be important, e.g. gas and electricity network operators.

The second sign will be concrete outcomes of the actions listed above.  

To be effective, priorities will have to be made on which IoT sub-topics to work on first.

It is important to define potential roles of other stakeholders, e.g. consumer advocacy, trade organisations, regulators, standardisation bodies, etc., who may not be involved in Internet governance on a regular basis and invite them to either join or to consider consultations with the IoT subgroup.

Responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities in IoT was identified as an important early issue for consideration by the IoT sub-group. This could lead to activating the DC-ISSS WG to propose solutions towards responsible disclosure and to detect vulnerabilities by way of suggesting forms of global gaming systems to detect vulnerabilities through constant testing and instituting reporting options. This WG will be wider than IoT and will include all relevant ICTs.

Yuri Kargapolov will present a document on attack and threat vectors, that can start a discussion for this part of potential work.

DC-ISSS WG2 Education and Skills presentation 04-11-2020

Members of Working Group 2 Education and Skills met on 26 October.  The following issues were identified as priorities for the WG:

  • A diverse range of programmes exists world-wide in the field of ICT education, skills and careers, including government initiatives, private sector programmes, and government-led programmes involving ICT companies;
  • Curricula are often set by the individual school and university making them difficult to change in a coordinated approach, while it is important to allow for national and regional differences;
  • The security of online education platforms is an important issue for educational establishments to understand and make provision for. (A topic for WG1 Security by Design - Platforms);

The goals of WG2 should include:

  • Identifying and reviewing current practices;
  • Creating an observatory of global  best practices;
  • Examining whether curricula include Internet security, safety, governance and architecture. Each depending of course, on the level of ICT education programmes / schools;
  • Bringing together experts with the aim of establishing collaboration;
  • Identifying deficiencies and gaps in current educational programmes and curricula and making recommendations for additions;
  • Agreement on how to disseminate and promote the outcomes of the WG, taking into account national and regional differences;
  • Wider adoption of global best practices for developing ICT education and skills in national educational programmes;
  • Provision of guidance for vocational training programs, e.g. relating to procurement decisions and deployment generally of Internet standards and ICT best practices.

 

It was agreed that WG2 should not focus on wider public awareness-raising for which many diverse  programmes already exist.

The WG will have been deemed successful if global best practices have been collated and the main outcomes and key messages of the WG have been communicated to relevant organisations, e.g. ministries of education, universities and schools through national programs. To achieve this, it was suggested that the WG should be represented in existing events where ICT education issues are discussed, and that it might also convene its own IGF session / workshop in 2021 / 2022 or an international event on this theme if resources were available.

DC-ISSS WG3: Procurement, Supply Chain Management and Business Case – presentation 4 November 2020

 

 

Members of WG3 met for a first discussion on 27 October 2020. Concerning the scope of WG3’s work programme, in addition to focussing on public sector procurement as a driver for adoption and deployment of security-related standards, there was also support for including wider private sector supply chain management opportunities for deploying security standards. The meeting agreed the following intended goals and priority actions for WG3’s work.

 

i. Guidelines

 

  • Preparation of effective and comprehensive practical guidance on incorporating relevant and up-to-date security standards in procurement objectives and negotiations.
  • Compilation of best practice guidelines supported by a set of recommendations that will enable purchasers to make better decisions in support of security and safety.
  • Promotion of a framework approach for procurement that creates greater consistency amongst national public sector purchasers and regulators in the deployment of standards for security.

ii. Addressing Gaps and Inconsistencies   

  • Resolution of the widespread gaps in knowledge and lack of expertise in security standards at national level.
  • Reduction in the major variations in national practices that create failures to address security vulnerabilities.
  • Advocacy of inclusion of security-based procurement in national and regional digitalisation strategies.
  • Consideration of liability regimes with penalties would contribute to strengthening compliance with security standards recommendations.

iii. Review of outcomes

  • Establishing a continuous role for the IGF as a multi-stakeholder observatory to monitor and review security standards deployment, and to update the DC-ISSS guidance and recommendations where necessary in order to take account of technology innovation and development of new standards. 

 

In considering how to achieve the goals, the WG3 discussion took note of the following:

  • Multi-stakeholder collaboration through WG3 as the best means for identifying mechanisms and tools for achieving greater awareness amongst government procurement agencies of how to deploy secure standards.
  • The importance of keeping uppermost in mind the interests and needs of the end-user.
  • The need to take into account the differing requirements of individual Internet users, businesses, larger corporate users, institutional and public sector requirements.

The following questions will be put to you:

Questions DC-ISSS Working Groups

 

1) WG Security by design

Many topics can and probably should be tackled during the time the DC-ISSS has available, (more) secure: IoT; websites; data storage; privacy; software; identity management; platforms; etc. The one that has been mentioned most leading up to this work and currently holds the most experts, is IoT security. At the same time a lot of work on IoT security is carried out already around the globe. An important question to answer here, is where and in what way can the DC-ISSS be of added value? When we establish that, the question that needs answering is: what is our end goal and how do we propose to get there? When is it opportune to focus on the next topic(s) in this WG?

 

2) WG Education & Skills

The focus presented on the topic so far has been on changing ICT curricula so that students studying ICT, leave their schools and universities with a more up to date knowledge of cyber security, Internet standards and ICT best practices, as well as an understanding of Internet governance and architecture. Education and skills insufficiently match demands and the level of knowledge needed, where security (by design) is concerned, from vocational schooling to universities.

 

We have also heard of the need to protect children being educated online. It is important to understand whether: a) this fits the goal of the DC-ISSS and this WG. (It is e.g. possible it fits better under “platforms/ICT services” above.) and b) if so, to establish whether the topic can be incorporated into the curricula theme or becomes a second track within the WG.

 

Main questions are also: What should be the end goal of this WG and how to get there? It will be important to provide examples of what needs to become part of curricula.

 

3) WG Procurement and business case

Through procurement a business case for faster deployment of Internet standards and ICT best practices can be created. There are a few examples around the globe of procurement demands/advice for governments. These could be starting points, but first we need to determine what is our end goal? and how to get there? What constitutes a business case allowing for secure products and services? What elements do procurement demands need to contain, to create a business case and deliver secure products and services?

 

 

If we can present on this on 6 November we have our launch. After we have established where we want to go, the next step after the IGF is to establish a timeline. From there we’ll go through the crunch of inviting experts, to gather and analyse relevant data on existing initiatives and take it from there. We are looking forward to your input.

Session update:

The objective of the IGF's new Dynamic Coalition on Internet Standards, Security and Safety (DC-ISSS) is to achieve rapid and more widespread deployment of Internet standards and ICT best practices relating to online security and safety. It takes forward the recommendations of the IGF’s Pilot Project Implementing standards for a safer Internet in 2018-19 which were published in the report Setting the Standard for a More Secure and Trustworthy Internet.

 

Achieving greater online security and safety is a priority for many governments and business organisations, and for the technical community, civil society and individual personal and corporate users of digital technologies and services. The vulnerability of many existing and future Internet-related devices and applications to security threats and the spread of online harms and criminal misuse, is widely recognised as largely due to relevant standards and practices not being effectively deployed worldwide in order to mitigate and prevent these risks. This undermines the trust of private, corporate and public sector users in the Internet and its related digital technologies and applications, and has created the serious risk that the positive social, economic and development benefits of transformative digital technologies will not be fully realised for all communities worldwide. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the criticality and urgency of addressing these challenges.

 

Under the leadership team of Wout de Natris, Mark Carvell and Marten Porte , the DC-ISSS brings together experts from all the relevant stakeholder communities who are committed to making online activity and interaction more secure, trusted and safer through ensuring that standards and best practices play their full role in addressing these challenges. The Coalition aims to achieve this by delivering recommendations and evaluating their adoption by decision-takers.  

 

This session is meant to be a workshop, including three breakout sessions to determine the objectives and goals and the participating stakeholder experts will finalise the overall workplan and first year priorities.

 

Following recent preparatory stakeholder consultations, the session will also confirm the establishment of three thematic working groups for the first phase of the coalition’s work during 2020-21. These will examine and develop policy recommendations on i) security by design; ii) education and skills; and iii) procurement models for driving the deployment of security standards. Stakeholders are invited to join these working groups. Self-nominations for chairing the three working groups are currently being invited. Expressions of interest should be addressed by e-mail to the leadership team at denatrisconsult (at) hotmail (dot) com.

If you are not only interested in this workshop but also in the ensuing work that will follow it, please join the D.C. by signing up to the mailing list at https://intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/dc-isss_intgovforum.org

The outcomes of this session will be presented on at the formal launch of the DC-ISSS on Firday 6 November at 09.10 UTC.

 

Older information:

The workshop is the final phase of the constitution of the Dynamic Coalition Internet Standards, Security and Safety (DC-ISSS) when the outcomes of the online stakeholder survey held in September-October for defining the coalition's priorities and the topics for the first year of the DC’s work programme will be presented and discussed. The workshop will then proceed to decide on the constitution of the Coalition’s Working Groups based on the outcome of this discussion of the survey results. The topics with the highest priority will be announced at this session and there will be the opportunity for additional Working Groups for addressing other issues to be established in 2021 – 2022.

 

To summarise, the following topics have been scored in the survey:

1) Security and standards by design;

2) Procurement and business case;

3) Human rights and consumer protection;

4) Skills and education;

5) Role of policymakers and regulators;

6) The creation of a global testing and reporting programme.

 

We welcome participants from all stakeholder groups to join the pre-event and the Coalition’s Working Groups that will be announced at this IGF. We will also encourage  working methodologies that allow for liaisons to be established on behalf of specific stakeholder communities who would ensure their input is provided and taken into account, to distribute content, questions for consultation and outputs, and secure the necessary  commitments to implementing the outcomes of the working groups.

 

To achieve success, many stakeholders will have to join who may not be familiar with the IGF, Internet governance and technical aspects of Internet standards. It will require  concerted action from all involved to make sure that the level of participation is fully inclusive, that achievable goals are set, that the necessary work in support of  these goals takes place, and most importantly to create and initiate a concrete action plan leading to effective universal implementation and deployment of security and safety-related standards.

 

The proposed management structure, role of the D.C.’s leadership and funding requirement will also be explained in the session. It will be emphasised that the success of the Coalition will be dependent on sufficient financial resources being sourced from participating stakeholders that will ensure that the leadership team is able to fulfil its role in providing strategic management oversight, supported by a small secretariat in order to coordinate and sustain a quite complex work programme that adheres to the goals of making the Internet more secure and safer for users, related timelines for the work programme and its key milestones.

 

A survey has been opened to prepare the workshop. Please join in. It is open until 7 October: DC-ISSS survey link

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #20 Automating Society - we'll show the evidence

Time
Wednesday, 4th November, 2020 (13:30 UTC) - Wednesday, 4th November, 2020 (14:30 UTC)
Room
Room 1
About this Session
We will share state-of-the-art evidence about algorithmic decision-making (ADM) processes already in use, taken from our brand new Automating Society 2020 report, covering 16 European countries: Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK. Our partners from Centrum Cyfrowe, authors of the Poland chapter, will provide detail on the situation in Poland.

AlgorithmWatch

Description

Thank to all who joined!

Here's the info about the mailing list we talked about:

Algorithmic Accountability Reporting mailing list launched

Predictive video surveillance to prevent suicides in German jails; algorithmic risk assessment of domestic violence in Spain; predictive justice systems helping Italian courts decide whether a complaint is algorithmically sound or not. An automated decision-making system that suggests treatments for cancer patients in Switzerland, while others help profiling the unemployed and provide payments of welfare system benefits in Denmark. Sounds (France), smiles (Poland), faces (increasingly, everywhere): nothing seems to escape the realm of automated analysis and decision.

And yet, much of the debate in the field of algorithmic decision-making systems (ADMS) and so-called Artificial Intelligence privileges discourses of lofty ethical norms. Too little is known about the many ways in which these systems are already being used in practice.

Within these disparate use-cases, it is very important to ask what constitutes context-specific, fit-for-purpose policies with regards to ADMS. To do this we need evidence that will both inform and shape the needed actions, so that ADMS could be used to increase welfare and liberties, whilst also limiting their abuses through harmful surveillance, discrimination, and control.

We will share state-of-the art evidence about the practice of algorithmic decision-making processes already in use, taken from our brand new Automating Society 2020 report, covering 16 European countries: Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK.

In a first part, we will briefly present excerpts of our evidence-based research on issues of ADMS and lay out our recommendations for policies and government arrangements. In the second part we will discuss these with the audience.

Agenda

  • Introduction: Matthias Spielkamp, Executive Director, AlgorithmWatch
  • Overview: Fabio Chiusi, Editor Automating Society Report 2020
  • Poland: Alek Tarkowski, President of the Board, Centrum Cyfrowe
  • Q&A

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #21 AfICTA - Driving the digital potential of Africa

Time
Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (08:10 UTC) - Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (09:10 UTC)
Room
Room 1

Africa ICT Alliance

Description

The Africa Information & Communication Technologies Alliance (AfICTA) is a concerned private sector led alliance of ICT Associations, Multi-national Corporations, Companies, Organisations and individuals. The intent of our day 0 event is to host a collaborative discussion of interested stakeholders on the needs, challenges, and drivers towards achieving a digital Africa and unlocking the digital potential of the continent.

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #22
The Polish Relish : Fresh Ideas

Internet Voices

Description

We aim to Create a mind exploration journey with young people collectively collaborating to solve problems under a banner of critical and pragmatic solution-oriented outcomes.

This Ideathon will place young people in diverse groups they are unfamiliar with to create synergies , where a series of timed and prepared questions will guide them to create solutions for a presented case.

The modality of this is based on authenticity ,flexibility and interoperability of young minds in the IG community.

The Ideathon will boost incentive participation by awarding and collaborating of the top projects with to its implementation and fruition.

We understand the importance of a young relevant culture, hence our Ideathon will also involve a social media challenge of the best dance/art to support inclusion of the majority in the internet space.

We shall use elements of multimedia and games to easily send messages, and each session shall have entertainment breaks where we shall welcome artists to showcase their work, from poetry performance with quick analysis, music, dance, and paintings.

Example of games: IG/ Tech Jargon Charades, IGF Acronyms challenge

Dancing with The Data: This is a short physical activity that will have balls with messages, the balls will be thrown randomly and the reader will dance and explain the concept as they pass the ball to someone else,

Our session will start with a debate about the IGF themes with debaters who will bring contrasting opinions about the matters with the aim of quenching more questions and solutions. This ideathon will be a safe space of innovation and expression both on-site and virtual.

Outcomes:
A recommendation report
Projects from youth
A new network of attendees
New artistic ways of disseminating Internet Governance themes
A list of the most potent questions seeking answers and solutions in the IG Arena.

This will be a fun driven event that shall end with a dance session ,so we tend to get young people in the spirit of the IGF community.

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #26 Internet Governance challenges in crisis periods: Covid 19

Time
Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (07:25 UTC) - Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (08:25 UTC)
Room
Room 2

Instance Nationale des Télécommunications

Description

The event will be a presentation that shows the importance of the emerging technologies (Artificial intelligence, Big Data, Blockchain, IoT, etc) in preventing, monitoring and managing the effect of the crisis. The event will also highlight how can digital policies (restrict access to the internet, block social media platforms, free access, etc) has helped spread / stop the virus. The last part of the event will present technical approaches taken by the Tunisian telecommunications stakeholders as well as QoS indicators measured during outbreak period.

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #27 National AI Strategies & AI for Sustainable Development

Time
Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (12:40 UTC) - Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (13:55 UTC)
Room
Room 3
About this Session
-Presentation of The Future Society's work developing national AI strategies in the Global South with a focus on achieving inclusive growth and sustainable development (Yolanda Lannquist)
-Presentation of the development of Rwanda's National AI Strategy by Kim Schulte (GIZ FAIR Forward), Yolanda Lannquist and Philip Gasaatura (The Future Society)

The Future Society

Description

The Future Society is a nonprofit 'think-and-do-tank' with the mission to advance the responsible adoption of Artificial Intelligence and other emerging technologies for the benefit of humanity.

In this session we will highlight our work supporting developing countries to harness AI for their development objectives and Sustainable Development Goals. Technological advancements in AI are being enabled by greater digital connectivity, rapidly increasing amounts of data, advanced algorithms, and gains in computing and processing power. While AI development is rapid, adoption across markets is still at an early-stage and much of its value is yet to be tapped. There is a window of opportunity to harness AI in developing contexts. The pace and magnitude of the digital revolution suggest that developing areas cannot afford to lag behind in leveraging AI.

AI and digital technologies offer developing areas significant opportunities and risks in a ‘more to gain, more to lose’ paradigm. Countries can harness AI to address pressing social and economic problems. However, AI can also exacerbate important societal risks. Our program builds frameworks of ‘enabling’ policies and practical implementation roadmaps for emerging and developing countries to build and harness artificial intelligence for their development objectives while mitigating important risks.

Building on our existing work with the World Bank Digital Development Partnership to analyze international AI strategies, The Future Society is launching a new program area to advise national AI strategies with a focus on the Global South. 

In 2020-2021, The Government of Rwanda represented by Ministry of ICT and Innovation (MINICT) and Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) with implementation by GIZ FAIR Forward have engaged The Future Society to support the development of Rwanda’s national artificial intelligence strategy.

The Republic of Rwanda has visionary objectives and a proven track record of achieving development goals and harnessing digital technologies for development. Rwanda aims to harness AI, digital and emerging technologies to support Rwanda’s development goals (including sustainable and inclusive growth), become an ICT and Innovation Hub, and position Rwanda as a leader on the African and global stage.

A comprehensive national AI policy, AI ethical guidelines, and a practical implementation strategy fit for the local context can serve as a powerful roadmap to achieve Rwanda’s national development and sustainable development goals. AI has the potential to dramatically improve lives and livelihoods across Rwanda, as well as make remarkable progress towards achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. However, the socio-economic opportunities are inextricably connected with serious risks which in turn require rigorous planning and design, as well as consideration of and adherence to strong ethical principles throughout the entire lifecycle from strategy inception to operational implementation.

In this session, we look forward to shared dialgoue, your perspectives and interest in supporting AI for human and economic development around the world and the Sustainable Development Goals.

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #28 The Digital Justice Conversations

Time
Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (09:20 UTC) - Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (12:20 UTC)
Room
Room 3
About this Session
This session organized by IT for Change and Just Net Coalition will open with a panel discussion on Global Networking for Digital Justice in the New Age, offering insights into JNC’s evolving strategy. The launch of a compendium on a Digital New Deal will follow. Leading global scholars and activists will present their visions of digital technology that is democratically governed and committed to justice. It will conclude with reflections by Prof. Saskia Sassen and an open interaction.

Just Net Coalition

Description

The Digital Justice Conversations will bring together a series of interactive and exciting dialogues on digital justice. The 3-part session will feature:

1. A panel discussion on ‘Global Networking for Digital Justice in the New Age’

14:50 – 16:00 (IST), 9:20 – 10:30 (UTC)

The digital is on the political agenda today, but is global civil society ready to move it forward in progressive directions? How can we make social and economic rights vis-à-vis the digital a critical part of this agenda? Our opening panel will kick off with these questions and offer directions for the evolving strategy of the Just Net Coalition.

Speakers

Deborah James, Director, International Programs, Center for Economic and Policy Research

Nandini Chami, Deputy Director, IT for Change

Neth Daño, Co-Executive Director, ETC Group

Sofía Scasserra, Professor, UNTREF

Session Moderator: Parminder Jeet Singh, Executive Director, IT for Change

2. The launch of ‘A Digital New Deal: Visions of Justice in a Post-Covid World’

16:00 – 16:50 (IST), 10:30 – 11:20 (UTC)

Join us for the launch of one of our most ambitious intellectual undertakings ever – A Digital New Deal: Visions of Justice in a Post-Covid World. This compendium of essays and interviews from leading global scholars, activists and practitioners takes stock of the digital realm, and constructs alternatives to current frameworks, pathways and institutional arrangements. Hear from visionaries and advocates, engaged in the fight for a fairer world, about their visions of a future where digital technology is democratically governed and committed to justice.

Speakers

Amba Kak, Director of Global Policy & Programs, AI Now Institute

Amber Sinha, Executive Director, Centre for Internet and Society

Anasuya Sengupta, Co-Director and co-founder of Whose Knowledge?

Anita Gurumurthy, Executive Director, IT for Change

Chee Yoke Ling, Director, Third World Network

Christina J. Colclough, The Why Not Lab

Emiliano Trere, Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Culture

François Soulard, Member of the Forum for a New World Governance

Gianluca Iazzolino, LSE Fellow, Department of International Development

Jun-e Tan, Independent Researcher

Kate Lappin, Regional Secretary, Asia and Pacific Region, Public Services International

Mariana Valente, Director, Internet Lab

Neth Daño, Co-Executive Director, ETC Group

Pu Yan, Oxford Internet Institute

Richard Hill, President, The Association for Proper Internet Governance (APIG)

Richard Kozul-Wright, Director of the Globalisation and Development Strategies Division in United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

Roberto Bissio, Executive Director, Third World Institute

3. Reflections by Prof. Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University followed by an open interaction

16:50 – 17:50 (IST), 11:20 – 12:20 (UTC)

 

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #29 How applicable are Human Rights Standards in the Context of COVID-19: A Latin American perspective on surveilling the pandemics

Time
Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (17:25 UTC) - Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (18:25 UTC)
Room
Room 3

Al Sur

Description

Building up on the succesful discussions facilitated by the "IGF 2019 Pre-Event #42 Technology and Surveillance in Latin America: Towards Human Rights Standars" that already identified and discussed topics such as the incremented use of technology for surveillance purposes in Latin America, the aim of the present submission is to promote a reassessment of some monitoring technologies proposed in the context of the COVID-19.

Al Sur is a consortium of 11 organizations from civil society and academia from Latin America that work collectively to strengthen human rights in the digital environment of Latin America and the Caribbean.

On a recent statement*, Al Sur showcased a few cases of abusive use of data being implemented into applications and the need for any emergency response to COVID-19 must be proportionate to the risk assessed, necessary and non-discriminatory. Moreover, Al Sur has started an Observatory of surveillance practices in the context of pandemics, a collective effort to understand the phenomenon and their regional commonalities as well as identify future challenges once the state of emergency is over.

In this session, Latin American representatives from Governments, Civil Society and the Private Sector will discuss strategies aimed to work towards a regional Human Rights framework that regulates the use of technologies for monitoring the advance of the COVID-19 Pandemics. General audiences, even not from the region, will have info to compare situations in different areas of the world and identify common challenges in the digital environment.

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* Al Sur's statement "Civil society from Latin America and the Caribbean demands to respect human rights when governments deploy digital technologies to fight against COVID-19" : https://web.karisma.org.co/en/civil-society-from-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-demands-to-respect-human-rights-when-governments-deploy-digital-technologies-to-fight-against-covid-19/

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #30 From Principles to Practice: Artificial Intelligence and the Role of the Private Sector

Time
Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (16:50 UTC) - Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (18:50 UTC)
Room
Room 2
About this Session
Bringing together international and regional organizations that have developed or are currently in the process of developing AI guidelines, this session will to consider how these policy recommendations can be translated into practice, specifically by private sector counterparts.

The session will also highlight best practices from private sector actors that have developed ethical guidelines for their companies in line with existing frameworks and standards.

Supporting organizations

  • International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
  • Council of Europe
  • European Commission
  • European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
  • IEEE
  • International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
  • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
  • United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Description

AI is a general-purpose technology that holds the potential to increase productivity and build cost-effective, impactful solutions across numerous sectors. It is perceived as a great transformer for both developed and developing economies, promising to enhance any decision-making process through the knowledge gained from applying analytics and machine learning to the data available. At the same time, the design, development and deployment of algorithmic systems and tools also holds challenges, often surrounding the role of human agencies, transparency, and inclusivity.

To harness these benefits and mitigate risks, governments, businesses, intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder organizations, and the technical community have developed or are actively considering guidelines, principles and standards along which AI can or should be developed and deployed. Currently there are an increasing number of policy initiatives spearheaded by (coalitions of) governments or international and regional organizations that could have a direct impact on the developers, deployers and users of these technologies.

As these initiatives are moving from principles to practice, it is of utmost importance to cooperate with those affected by their implementation and involved in their development.

When it comes to the application of these guidelines, the private sector is on the front lines, be it in the design, distribution or utilization of AI. Another highly impacted stakeholder group are the cities and municipalities on their path towards digitalization, especially in crisis situations, such as the one we are currently experiencing. In order to ensure the full consistency in the design of the underlying data processing activities and an effective implementation of the guidelines and also the enforcement of rights that it refers to, data protection supervisory authorities can play an important role.

The IGF is the prime venue to gather input from all these stakeholders, those already active in this space, but especially to bring to the table those who have not yet been heard, in particular participants from the Global South and other marginalized groups.

This session, aims to bring together the various international and regional organizations as well as the technical community that have recently developed or are currently in the process of developing AI guidelines to consider how these policy recommendations can be translated into practice, specifically by private sector counterparts. The discussion will bring together representatives of the African Union, the Council of Europe, the European Union, IEEE, ISO, OECD and UNESCO and business representatives from ICC’s global network. The session will focus on the commonalities and differences of these guidelines and principles and discuss their impact primarily on the private sector, as developers, distributors, and users of these technologies.

The session will focus specifically on the role of the private sector in the development of these frameworks and guidelines. It will look to highlight best practices of private sector counterparts that have developed ethical guidelines for their companies in line with existing frameworks and standards. It will also look to discover barriers of adoption to some of these principles and guidelines, as well as potential incentives or motivators that would encourage more widespread adoption and/or help unify some of these recommendations globally.

The first part of the session will ensure presentations of the above-mentioned initiatives by international and regional organizations and technical bodies and their implications for different stakeholder groups, notably the private sector. The moderator will draw commonalities and differences as well as lessons learned for future implementation. The second part of the session will focus on highlighting best practices and use cases of private sector counterparts that have 1) been involved in the development of these guidelines and frameworks and 2) implemented and developed, based on these guidelines and frameworks, company standards in the field of AI. The third part of the session will be an open roundtable discussion on lessons learned with all participants, based on some guiding questions and questions from the audience, with a focus on how to reinforce platforms for cooperation between the private sector and standard-setting bodies and processes.

The session also aims to act as a convenor for all IGF participants active in the AI space to provide an opportunity for networking and knowledge sharing at the very beginning of the IGF week and provide a common base to be further discussed in various sessions throughout the event.

Panelists:

  • Emmanuel Bloch, Thales
  • Joanna Goodey, FRA
  • Jan Kleijssen, Council of Europe
  • Clara Neppel, IEEE
  • Carolyn Nguyen, Microsoft
  • Sophie Peresson, ICC
  • Audrey Plonk, OECD
  • Golestan (Sally) Radwan, Government of Egypt
  • Sasha Rubel, UNESCO
  • Christoph Steck, Telefonica

Background material

Please find below an overview of participating organisations' work on issues related to Artificial Intelligence:

OECD

In May 2019 the OECD adopted its Principles on Artificial Intelligence, the first international standards agreed by governments for the responsible stewardship of trustworthy AI. The OECD Principles on AI include concrete recommendations for public policy and strategy. The general scope of the Principles ensures they can be applied to AI developments around the world.

In the OECD report Artificial Intelligence and Society, a chapter on public policy considerations reviews salient policy issues that accompany the diffusion of AI. It supports the value-based OECD Principles on AI and outlines national policies to promote trustworthy AI systems. The OECD.AI Policy Observatory, launched in February 2020, aims to help policymakers implement the AI Principles.

UNESCO

UNESCO’s work in the field of artificial intelligence aligns with the Organization’s core functions in the fields of education, sciences, culture and communication and information, notably 1) laboratory of ideas 2) clearing house for knowledge 3) standard setter 4) catalyst for international cooperation, and 5) capacity development. These activities include:

  • Ensuring global dialogue on AI:  Several global and regional conferences have been organized by UNESCO;
  • Undertaking research on emerging trends in AI in the fields of UNESCO’s mandate: Several flagship publications have been launched, including on gender equality and AI in education. 
  • Developing and assessing the future of AI application in the areas of UNESCO’s fields of competence:  Notably,  use of AI in disaster risk reduction, the use of AI in the UNESCO geopark network, AI use to mitigate climate change, AI to promote the preservation of minority and indigenous languages,  AI and open access to scientific information, and AI Commons; 
  • Setting international norms and standards:  UNESCO published the Beijing Consensus on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Educationoffering guidance and recommendations on how best to harness AI technologies for achieving the Education 2030 Agenda. UNESCO is currently elaborating an instrument in the form of a recommendation on the ethics of Artificial Intelligence. 
  • Capacity Development: UNESCO is currently developing an online AI decisionmakers essential platform.  The AI Decision Maker’s Essential is a policy advice toolkit for AI Governance to support decision makers with practical advice on translating AI-related principles into practice across UNESCO's fields of competence. The platform will contain implementation guides, model use cases, capacity building tools, and foresight elements to support AI decision makers across Member States.  Building upon UNESCO's Judges initiative, UNESCO is also developing a MOOC on AI and the Rule of Law for judicial operators in partnership with IEEE and Cetic.br. 

Please see UNESCO's dedicated website on AI for further information.

Council of Europe

The Council of Europe Ad-hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAHAI) was fromed to examine the feasibility and potential elements on the basis of broad multi-stakeholder consultations, of a legal framework for the development, design and application of artificial intelligence, based on Council of Europe’s standards on human rightsdemocracy and the rule of law.

The Council of Europe high-level Conference “Governing the Game Changer – Impacts of artificial intelligence development on human rights, democracy and the rule of law” was held in February 2019 in Helsinki. See videos from all panels, interviews with high-level officials, the Conference report and Conference conclusions paper here

The Council of Europe report produced by the CAHAI on “Responsibility and AI” provides a deeper understanding of the impacts of AI development on the exercise of human rights and fundamental freedoms. 

Please see the Council of Europe's dedicated website on AI for further information. 

EU FRA

FRA’s project on Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Fundamental Rights aims to assess the positive and negative fundamental rights implications of new technologies, including AI and big data. In addition to presenting the results of the fieldwork conducted as part of the project, it builds on the findings of a number of papers published during the earlier phases of this project:

As a separate part of the project, FRA is exploring the feasibility of studying concrete examples of fundamental rights challenges when using algorithms for decision-making through either online experiments or simulation studies.

Several other FRA publications also address relevant issues:

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #31 Civil Society Coordination meeting: a Public Interest Internet discussion

Time
Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (15:10 UTC) - Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (16:40 UTC)
Room
Room 2

Internet Governance Caucus

Description

The civil society coordination event will act as a convening and collaboration opportunity for civil society groups working on issues related to internet governance and policy. It will allow groups to discuss issues of common concern and to identify opportunities for collaboration on issues and forums. It will also allow the participants to consider issues relevant to the IGF agenda and identify what opportunities exist during the IGF where civil society can come together to reinforce common positions and thereby strengthen the civil society voice in internet governance discussions. For this years Civil Society Coordination event, Internet Governance Caucus is proposing a discussion on a Public Interest oriented Internet. During this discussion, we aim to facilitate a discussion between Civil Society members on how far we've come in terms of ensuring that the public Interest is preserved throughout the Internet layers of the Internet (e.g the physical, code, content layers). Additionally, the idea is to identify how broader principles related to Internet Governance debates apply to each of these areas, whether they have been adhered to and what proposals or measures could be taken in order to ensure that public interest principles are adhered to in the future. Internet Governance Caucus has also submitted a workshop proposal that, if accepted, will touch upon the same discussions. The present submission of a day zero event will, therefore, be used as a exploratory space for better understanding of civil society views on these issues.

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #32 Environmental justice and an anti-extractive internet : impacting policy through developing a feminist principle

Time
Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (16:20 UTC) - Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (19:20 UTC)
Room
Room 1
About this Session
This interactive workshop will explore and consult on ways to create a feminist principle for an anti-extractive internet and what this means for policy advocacy in internet governance spaces.

Association for Progressive Communications (APC)

Description

This interactive workshop will explore and consult on ways to create a feminist principle for an anti-extractive internet and what this means for policy advocacy in internet governance spaces. Building on the collaborative work of the 17 existing Feminist Principles of the internet (FPI) and the HackFeminist convening on FPI’s, extractives and environmental justice held in Mexico, July 2019, we will present the background and the draft principle on the environment and invite participants to share their wisdom and experience to craft an 18th principle.

The FPIs www.feministinternet.org are a series of collaboratively drafted statements that offer a gender and sexual rights lens on critical internet-related rights. The aim is to provide a framework for women's movements to articulate and explore issues related to technology.

The growing impact and related physical and psychic violence on people, species and the land of extractivism by internet industries impacts deeply on internet-related rights. Capitalist discourses promote individualism and exploitation of people and natural commons in the development of the devices, tools and infrastructure that drive the internet.

Amid COVID-19 related chaos, what we are looking for is to hold a space that forge possibilities of retrospective and forward-looking collective thinking on how the feminist imagination of the digital can re-signify and expand the core feminist principles of ethics of care into the conversations that focuses on the environment.

Speakers:

Jes Ciacci of Sursiendo
Courtney Morgan of South African Climate Justice Charter Movement
Paz Pena - gato.earth

Facilitator:

Jennifer Radloff, APC Women’s Rights Programme

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #33 Internet 101

Time
Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (19:00 UTC) - Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (20:00 UTC)
Room
Room 2
About this Session
What happens when you enter the address of a website in your browser, or click the send button in your email app? The session will take a step-by-step approach in explaining what happens behind the scenes: How does your computer know where to find that website and how does your message end up at the correct destination? Join ICANN, RIPE NCC and CENTR to learn about the origins of the Internet, Internet routing and the DNS.

The session will be an Internet 101, "What is the Internet?" organized by ICANN https://www.icann.org/, RIPE NCC https://www.ripe.net/, and CENTR https://centr.org/

Description

This session will introduce three topics about how the Internet works, and the governance of the technical and operational layer of the Internet.

Topics and speakers:

  • Introduction to the Internet, origins and a little history (Adam Peake, ICANN)
  • Routing, IP address and how traffic flows across the Internet (Marco Hogewoning, RIPE NCC)
  • The Domain Name System (DNS), how it works (Peter Van Roste, CENTR)

Adam Peake will begin the session by taking a look at the origins of the Internet, its fundamental principles and how hundreds of thousands of autonomous networks around the world come together to form the global Internet. 

Marco Hogewoning will take you through what exactly is an IP address, what does it mean, and how do your data packets find their way to their destination?

Peter Van Roste will tell the final part of this story taking us to the layer that we are all familiar with: the domain name system. Domain names help us to remember websites and email addresses. But how does it work? Who controls it? And why would you care about this? We’ll take you on a journey that explain this vital part of the internet ecosystem and illustrate its importance with examples of fundamental policy issues.

And we will keep time for your questions and comments.

Looking forward to seeing you on Tuesday, November 3, 2020!

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #34 Latin America in a Glimpse: Automated Decision-Making, Discrimination and the Internet

Time
Wednesday, 4th November, 2020 (19:50 UTC) - Wednesday, 4th November, 2020 (21:15 UTC)
Room
Room 1
About this Session
This will be an oppotunity to learn, share and discuss about the ways AI and automated decision making technologies are shapping society in Latin America,especially for historically marginalized groups.

Derechos Digitales

Description

For this event, we want to give a general review about the different ways automated decision-making technologies are impacting the lives of people in Latin America, specially those who are part of minorities and non-hegemonic groups. This will be an oppotunity to learn, share and discuss about the ways this type of technologies are shapping society in Latin America, for better and worse, and what is being done about it.

Speakers:

Víctor Saavedra

Patricio Velasco

Carolina Aguerre

Moderator:

Jamila Venturini

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #35 City open data platform - prototyping solutions for citizens and businesses

Time
Friday, 6th November, 2020 (09:00 UTC) - Friday, 6th November, 2020 (11:30 UTC)
Room
Room 3
About this Session
Interactive workshop dedicated to open data solutions in cities

PwC

Description

Learn in practice how city public data can be the foundation for new business ideas and a source of valuable insights to the citizens. Participate in our interactive case study and find out how access to information such as geospacial data can influence decision-making in our daily lives as well as trigger innovation and increase efficiencies in urban areas.

One of the ways to stimulate the development and growth of the competitiveness of private enterprises, and thus economic growth, is open access to information and knowledge of the public sector, results of available field R&D works, knowledge about citizens and public sector information resources. Increasing the availability of public data through digital platforms makes it easier for companies to make business decisions, serves to increase productivity, create new services and business models. An effective way to develop analytical platforms tailored to the needs of the field is a joint search for universal solutions and application prototyping. The workshop will be dedicated to developing analytical solutions in the field of city data, exploring examples, case studies and good practices, as well as understanding the policy dimension and technology implications.

Speakers:
Anna Bramska - Representative of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland
Dr Radosław Nielek - Expert of the Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowska Metropolia
Wayne Soutter - EMEA Business Development IoT and Smart Cities of Amazon Web Services 
Daniel Wołowik - Manager at GeoSpacial Hub, PwC

Moderated by: Malina Jankowska - Business Development Director at Digital Public Sector, PwC

 

6. Final Speakers

Speakers:
Anna Bramska - Representative of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland
Dr Radosław Nielek - Expert of the Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowska Metropolia
Wayne Soutter - EMEA Business Development IoT and Smart Cities of Amazon Web Services 
Daniel Wołowik - Manager at GeoSpacial Hub, PwC

Moderated by: Malina Jankowska - Business Development Director at Digital Public Sector, PwC

Supported by: Weronika Myck, Senior Specialist, PwC

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #36 2020 Cyberstability Stocktaking of Norms and Institutional Dialogues

Time
Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (08:35 UTC) - Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (10:05 UTC)
Room
Room 2
About this Session
GCSC Commissioners will present the findings and developments of the GCSC Report "Advancing Cyberstability" and engage with government actors to reflect back at the main outcomes and ongoing work of the UN OEWG and GGE, the UNSG High Level Panel, the Paris Call and similar initiatives working on cyber norms. It will explore ways in which to advance a concerted multistakeholder approach that advances the development, implementation and adherence to norms.
Description

Speakers:

Latha Reddy, Co-Chair of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, Former Deputy National Security Advisor of India

Abdul-Hakeem Ajijola, Executive Chairman of Consultancy Support Services Ltd., Founding & Steering Committee Member of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation – Computer Emergency Response Team (OIC-CERT)

Khoo Boon Hui, former President of INTERPOL from 2008-2012, Senior Fellow of the Civil Service College and the Home Team Academy, advisor to INTERPOL

Frederick Douzet, Professor at the French Institute of Geopolitics at Paris 8 University, chairwoman of the Castex Chair of Cyber Strategy

Christopher Painter, President of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise Foundation, Former Coordinator for Cyber Issues, U.S. State Department

Jürg Lauber, Chair of the UN Open-Ended Working Group on developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security (UN OEWG)

Guilherme de Aguiar Patriota, Chair of the UN Group of Governmental Experts on Advancing responsible State behaviour in cyberspace in the context of international security (UN GGE)

Heli Tiirmaa Klaar, Ambassador at Large for Cyber Diplomacy, Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Regine Grienberger, Cyber Ambassador, Federal Foreign Office of Germany

Paul Zajac, Deputy Director for Strategic Affairs and Cybersecurity, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France

Gaurav Keerthi, Deputy Chief Executive of the Cyber Security Agency (CSA) of Singapore

Moderated by Alexander Klimburg, Director of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace Initiative and Secretariat

This session will take stock of the recent cyber stability initiatives within the UN framework, Paris Call, and other similar processes since the presentation of the final report of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC) at the 2019 IGF in Berlin. 

During this session, GCSC members will engage with the respective chairs and champions to reflect back at the main outcomes of the UN Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG), the implementation of the UNSG High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation and Working Groups 4 and 5, and the ongoing work of the UN GGE, the Paris Call, and similar initiatives working on norms of responsible behavior.

This session will provide a briefing on the GCSC Report on Advancing Cyberstability and review the progress made within the diplomatic processes in the past year, and the effects they have on the norms of the GCSC, the Paris Call, and other similar norm proposals. Furthermore, it will also explore ways in which to advance a concerted multistakeholder approach that advances the development, implementation and adherence to norms. It will thereby examine the role of the Internet governance community and wider civil society stakeholders, and what contributions they can make towards the goal of norm development, implementation and adherence.

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #37 Protecting the Public Core of the Internet: from formulation to implementation

Time
Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (08:00 UTC) - Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (09:10 UTC)
Room
Room 3
About this Session
Threats to the DNS system highlight the need to protect the core Internet functionalities. In 2017, the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC) issued its flagship norm to protect the public core of the Internet, which is now part of EU law, adopted by the Paris Call, and included in the pre-draft of the UN OEWG report. This session will give an overview of recent developments and explore ways in which to advance a concerted multistakeholder approach to advance this norm.
Description

Speakers

Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google.

Jeff Moss, Founder and Creator of Black Hat and DEF CON

Wolfgang Kleinwächter, Professor Emeritus, University of Aarhus, former member on the ICANN Board of Directors, and former Special Ambassador of the NETMundial Initiative

Marietje Schaake, International Director of Policy at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center, President of the CyberPeace institute. Former member of European Parliament.

Anriette Esterhuysen, Chair, United Nations Internet Governance Forum Multistakeholder Advisory Group; Senior advisor global and regional internet governance, Association for Progressive Communications

Samir Saran, President of the Observer Research Foundation and Chair of CyFy.

Nathalie Jaarsma, Ambassador at-Large for Security Policy and Cyber, Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Serge Droz, Chair, Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST).

Sheetal Kumar, Senior Programme Lead, Global Partners Digital.

Moderated by Alexander Klimburg, Director of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace Initiative and Secretariat

Description

German Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed the need to protect the public core of the Internet in her opening speech at the 2019 Internet Governance Forum in Berlin. While the idea of protecting the core Internet functions has a longer history, the notion only recently became the subject of a norm proposal by the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC). This norm has since been accepted and adopted by many institutions, including its inclusion in the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace and its adoption into European Union legislation through the EU Cybersecurity Act.

Recent breaches of the DNS, such as ‘DNSpionage’ and the Netnod attack, highlight the vulnerabilities within and the international repercussions of exploiting critical Internet infrastructure. Meanwhile, the global open Internet and its underlying core principles increasingly face the threat of digital authoritarianism in which certain governments assert more control over the governance of the Internet. Responses to threats against the core Internet protocols and functions have required the cooperation of states, the private sector and civil society groups, as the infrastructure, services, and products underpinning it are privately-owned and governed and maintained by a community made up of civil society groups.

This session will give an overview of recent developments and explore ways in which to advance a concerted multistakeholder approach that embeds the protection of the public core of the Internet. It will first examine the need to further define the concept, building on the definition of the GCSC, and explore the preferred end-goal of this norm and avenues for calling out norm violations, as well as what contributions civil society can make towards defining, monitoring and protecting the public core of the Internet.

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #38 MyData for smooth post-COVID19 recovery. How can ethical data sharing help build a more resilient future.

Time
Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (07:40 UTC) - Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (09:10 UTC)
Room
Room 3
About this Session
This session will feature the following panelists:
- Jaana Sinipuro from Finnish Innovation Fund SITRA
- Razi Latif from UN Technology Innovation Lab Finland / Global Pulse
- Katryna Dow from Meeco
- Joss Langford from Coelition
Karolina Mackiewicz, MyData Global will moderate the session.

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The session is organised by MyData Global, an international non-profit which advocates for a human-centric approach to personal data, based in Finland. 

Description

MyData Global invites you to the multi-stakeholder panel on the topic: MyData for smooth post-COVID19 recovery. How can ethical personal data sharing help build a more resilient future.

The digital response needs to be human-centric and needs to consider and balance:

  • Individual rights
  • Collective good
  • Long lasting effects technological choices and policies may have.

While the whole world is still looking for ways to curb and combat COVID-19, the questions about how the post-COVID-19 world will look are surfacing. How will the "new normal" look like? 

The panel, which brings the representatives of government, civic organization, technical communities and business, from different parts of the world, will discuss the concerns and gaps in building the new economic and social order, with the aim to identify concrete solutions. One would be the need for the increased data interoperability, which would help the overwhelmed health and social authorities. They would be able to coordinate better the exchange of information about the patient by collecting their health record, employment history and other information for e.g. payment of the social benefits. The other would be the need for increased trust. 

The panel will feed in into the discussions raised by the IGF 2020, especially in the thematic tracks on data, inclusion and trust.

The answers to the following policy questions will be sought:

  • What are/should be the rights and responsibilities for individuals in determining the use of their personal data?
  • How to ensure transparency and accountability in the gathering and handling of personal data?
  • How do we manage the social inclusion within the community affected with technology, as the ICT could bring the change in their social relation?
  • What role can the implementation of the principles of safety by design, privacy by design and by default as a principle play to secure human rights and achieve increased safety?

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #39 Internet Commons Forum

Time
Wednesday, 4th November, 2020 (16:00 UTC) - Wednesday, 4th November, 2020 (17:40 UTC)
Room
Room 3
About this Session
The Internet Commons Forum (ICF) gathers thinkers and doers working towards a less concentrated and more just Internet. Participants will explore the facets of the #digitalcommons and discuss strategies their implementation.

FGV, ISOC, APC, Centrum Cyfrowe and Free2Air

Description

The Internet Commons Forum (ICF) is jointly organised by FGV, ISOC, APC, Centrum Cyfrowe and Free2Air. The ICF aims at gathering thinkers and doers that are developing ideas and solutions for a less concentrated and more just Internet. See http://www.intcomforum.org/

The structures of the Internet affect us more deeply than ever before, reaching out to all aspects of our lives, from our societies and cultures to our finances and politics – to our very individual human behaviours and identities. This event will explore different views of Internet Commons exploring strategies for a less concentrated Internet.

The ICF will feature well-respected thinkers and doers exposing their ideas and innovative approaches for 10 minutes each and subsequently engaging in a collaborative discussion with the participants in order to identify paths for collaborations.

Agenda

  • Setting the scene: Luca Belli, FGV/CyberBRICS
  • Keynote 1, Understanding the Digital Commons: Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay, CIS-CNRS
  • Keynote 2, Challenges and Opportunities for digital common in the Global South, Renata Avila, Creative Commons/Stanford
  • Keynote 3, Implementing the Digital Commons, Jean-Philbert Nsengimana, Former ICT Minister of Rwanda, Director for Africa at The Commons Project
  • Open debate: the tragedy of the commons? why the commons model is hard to implement, led by Jane Coffin, ISOC, and Luca Belli, FGV/CyberBRICS
  • Crafting a strategy for digital commons: Alek Tarkowski, Centrum Cyfrowe
  • Keynote 4, Digital Commons as Drivers of Sovereignty, Benjamin Pajot, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (TBC)
  • Keynote 5,The Digital Intelligence Commons, Parminder Jeet Singh, IT for Change
  • Keynote 6, How the Infrastructure Commons Works, Leandro Navarro, Guifi.net
  • Open debate: What Can Make the Commons Model Successful? led by Adam Burns, Fee2Air, and Alek Tarkowski, Centrum Cyfrowe
  • Final remarks, Anriette Esterhuysen, Chair of IGF MAG, and Luca Belli, FGV/CyberBRICS

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #40 Interoperability: Openness in the Age of Platforms

Time
Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (10:15 UTC) - Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (11:15 UTC)
Room
Room 2
About this Session
The session will bring together experts from across the world to discuss how increased interoperability could be a way to solve some of the most intractable issues of the internet platform market. While content regulation has drawbacks in terms of fundamental rights and competition cases are both arduous and uncertain, policy aimed at interoperability for certain market-dominant platforms through Open Standards arguably holds the most potential to open up the platform market to competition.
Description

Moderators:

  • Vittorio Bertola, Head of Policy & Innovation at Open-Xchange
  • Astor Nummelin Carlberg, Policy Director, OpenForum Europe

Opening remarks by:

  • Smriti Parsheera, lawyer and policy researcher with the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, India
  • Dr. Ian Brown, Independent Researcher
  • (Wayne) Wei Wang, PhD Candidate at University of Hong Kong & Administrative and Research Officer at Creative Commons Hong Kong
  • Prof. Luca Belli, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School, Brazil
  • Prof. Rob Nicholls, Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales Business School, Australia

The event will bring a group of experts from across the world to spawn a broad discussion on how increased interoperability could be a way to solve some of the most intractable issues of the internet platform market. While direct content regulation has drawbacks in terms of fundamental rights and competition cases are both arduous and uncertain, policy aimed at enabling, promoting or requiring interoperability for certain market-dominant platforms through Open Standards arguably holds the most potential to open up the platform market to competition. It does this by lowering the barriers of entry to challengers with different business models. By extension, this would empower consumers and users across the world by offering them real choice in the platforms market.

Thus policy efforts promoting interoperability could have far-ranging legal, economic and human consequences. As we appreciate this, we plan to host an interactive round table allowing for several stakeholders to contribute. This matters especially because there are several interoperability policy efforts being proposed across the world, experiences of which should be shared. We plan to have initial presentations by experts to set the problem and the different solution models, followed by open discussion among all participants, breaking down the time into smaller slices on specific subsets of the issues and stakeholder perspectives.

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #42 Stakeholder Balance: Do we need factored balance, factored differently between one Governance topic and another?

Time
Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (06:00 UTC) - Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (07:30 UTC)
Room
Room 3
About this Session
This would be an exploratory discussion, but could possibly gain clarity from the session in a virtual round table format

Internet Society India Chennai

 

Description

In Internet Governance, Stakeholder balance has always been conceptually thought of and championed as uniform stakeholder balance, be it in policies and programs related to Privacy, Security, Trust, Capacity Building etc. The stakeholders experienced certain difficulties in reaching the required level of understanding concerning stakeholder balance, for instance, in the area of Security, as Security has some sort of essential affinity with Secrecy. Likewise, it might be conceptually unnecessary to include a proportionate number of business stakeholders in the area of Capacity Building. The question placed on the table is: Do we need an unvarying proportion of a standard mix of stakeholders for every policy area? Is it wise to suit the stakeholder balance for exceptional policy areas? For instance, more than proportionate participants from the Academic Community in matters related to Capacity Building or more than proportionate Government stakeholder participation in matters related to Security? These are the questions, the Day0 event is proposed to place these questions for perspectives, with a view to get past hitherto inevitable hurdles to the progress of the multistakeholder model, and to ensure a fair balance of stakeholders in overall Internet Governance, which might also pave way for stakeholders to embrace the multi-stakeholder process in Business and Government.

 

How to join our session

Please click on the link on the right "add this to my schedule" after which the IGF will send the zoom link.  Thank you.

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #43 How 5G will help economies to rebound from the pandemic?

Time
Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (11:25 UTC) - Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (12:25 UTC)
Room
Room 2

Huawei Poland

Description

The Covid-19 pandemic has become a catalyst for social and technological processes that will permanently change the world as we know it. The need to isolate people forced new behaviors both in the sphere of work and leisure. Suddenly, trends that were timidly crawling became standard. Massive use of teleinformatic networks meant that operators faced a gigantic challenge of serving customers' needs. The limitations of the technologies already in use should encourage decision-makers to quickly implement 5G technology, which will stimulate economic development in a post-pandemic world and remove the limitations we encounter today. In his speech, Aleksander Jakubczak (Senior Marketing Manager CEE & Nordic European Region at Huawei Technologies) will focus on opportunities that 5G opens for global economies, including the sheer scale of the economic impact that IoT will have. This includes, among others, accelerated data transfer, reduced delays, increased network capacity, better diagnostics through advanced telemedicine, development of autonomous vehicles, improved safety of employees and optimization of operations. The dissemination of the 5G standard will result in the fact that each branch of the economy will gain new development opportunities and will be forced to transform. Companies and counties that do not stand in this race will lose their position, especially in the context of current crisis.

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #45 Youth's role in Capacity Building Activities

Time
Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (16:20 UTC) - Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (17:20 UTC)
Room
Room 3

Habitat Association

Description

We will introduce Habitat Association and its 25 years of work on the field towards sustainable development goals and how it involved youth in active participation in the work, and how we created a vast network of volunteers working on closing the digital divide and formed multi-stakeholder partnerships. We have many projects that are running with multi-stakeholders. We can introduce our applicable and replicable model. We will also introduce our fast-response and multisectoral partnership to COVID-19 pandemic, how we worked with our volunteers during the pandemic and the activities that we conducted online such as Covideathon and Coronathon, which are online hackathons to find an innovative solution to provide resilience for the negative socio-economical and psychological effects of COVID-19 pandemic as well as our implementation of the training sessions.

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #47 DNS-Abuse in the age of COVID-19

Time
Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (18:35 UTC) - Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (20:05 UTC)
Room
Room 3
About this Session
The session will describe how the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) is a critical technology that end users rely on every day to work well, and will define the term DNS Abuse, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Speakers will describe the global efforts to expose and mitigate this abuse and the extortion and fraud campaigns exploiting the pandemic. They will explain how these technical operations are relevant for the on-going digital policy and governance initiatives.

ICANN

Description

This session is intended to be part of the Parliamentarian Track proposed for the 2020 IGF. The duration requested for the event would also include a substantive Q&A session following the presentations.

The session will introduce the technical operations of the Domain Name System (DNS) and its role, and a brief overview of Internet technical operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Then the session will define the term DNS Abuse, particularly in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. Speakers will describe the global efforts to expose and mitigate this abuse and the extortion and fraud campaigns exploiting the pandemic. Speakers will explain how these technical operations are relevant for the on-going digital policy and governance initiatives. The session will be presented by ICANN with possible participation from other technical actors within Internet infrastructure.

ICANN’s response to DNS Abuse is always multifaceted, reflecting the need to address abuse within the constraints of ICANN’s Bylaws and policies as defined by the ICANN community, and by obeying local law and regulatory requirements. Recently, there have been numerous reports of spikes in the use of COVID-19-related domain names for DNS Abuse.

In the case of COVID-19-related abuse, actors within the ICANN organization have prioritized handling of COVID-19-related DNS Abuse, working with their respective communities to help mitigate the new threats. These threats include phishing, business email compromise, malware distribution, scams, and many other types of attacks.

ICANN’s mission is to keep the Internet secure and stable and the session aims to educate policy makers on the functions of the DNS and on DNS-Abuse in the context of the pandemic.

The Security, Stability, and Resiliency team within OCTO has built a system that helps identify abusive domains leveraging the coronavirus pandemic. In addition to developing this new analysis and reporting platform, team members from OCTO joined both the COVID-19 Cyber Threat Coalition (CTC) and the COVID-19 Cyber Threat Intelligence League (CTI League) along with hundreds of researchers from private companies and law enforcement officers from several countries.

These and other activities will be expanded upon during the session.

 

Moderator

  • John Crain (Chief Security, Stability & Resiliency Officer, Office of the CTO, ICANN)

Speakers

  • Elena Plexida (Vice-President, Government and IGO Engagement, ICANN)
  • Adiel Akplogan (Vice-President Technical Engagement, Office of the CTO, ICANN)
  • Samaneh Tajalizadekhoob (Lead Security, Stability & Resiliency Specialist, Office of the CTO, ICANN)
  • Marc Rogers (Co-Founder of the CTI-League, the Cyber Threat Intelligence League)
1. Key Policy Questions and related issues
- How can users who expect that the DNS is secure, enabling them to navigate to the correct sites, have emails properly delivered and be able to trust Apps be protected?
- COVD-19 pandemic has brought to the surface pre-existing vulnerabilities of institutions and companies. What are they and how should these be addressed ?
- Can cooperation and collaboration between the technical community, governments, law enforcement and the private sector help to align incentives between all actors?

2. Summary of Issues Discussed
  • ICANN has found COVID19 related DNS-Abuse but did not find sufficient evidence that some other sources had suggested exists.
  • Other vulnerabilities have been disclosed in record number and many companies were unprepared for such an even leaving them vulnerable.
  • According to the CTI League, attacks on the healthcare sector originated from the US and EU but origination does not equal attribution.
  • These issues can only be addressed through collaboration between governments, the technical and security information communities, law enforcement agencies, national CERT’s. ICANN and the CTI League are such structures where multistakeholder collaboration is possible.
  • Security problems are often not really technical but a misalignment of incentives between actors.
  • The need for better collaboration and the breaking of silos is also true for policy makers, they can help and give tools or impede the work being conducted.
  • Protecting users’ rights online is the responsibility of the policy makers rather than the technical community’s.

 

6. Final Speakers
  • Elena Plexida (Vice-President, Government and IGO Engagement, ICANN)
  • Adiel Akplogan (Vice-President Technical Engagement, Office of the CTO, ICANN)
  • Samaneh Tajalizadekhoob (Lead Security, Stability & Resiliency Specialist, Office of the CTO, ICANN)
  • Marc Rogers (Co-Founder of the CTI-League, the Cyber Threat Intelligence League)
7. Reflection to Gender Issues

The session did not discuss gender issues.

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #50 People-focused Smart Cities

Time
Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (17:30 UTC) - Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (19:00 UTC)
Room
Room 3
About this Session
This session will share experiences from cities around the world, and their efforts to enable and enhance digital rights locally.
Description

UN-Habitat is backing the Cities Coalition for Digital Rights, with more than 60 cities globally shaping a digital future that puts people first and helps bridge the social divide. Smart cities should serve the people and improve living conditions for all. While these are principles that governments are designated to uphold, they often lack the capacity to do so. National governments are overwhelmed by the complexity of digital policies. Municipalities rarely have the in-house skills to create people-focused smart city projects or to execute holistic impact assessments on the agreements they sign with private companies. By bringing its unique global urban perspective to the digital transition, the half day workshop will explore how t potentially highly disruptive technology is used effectively for sustainable urban development. UN-Habitat’s unique approach and knowledge of urban development can create new capabilities for local government to move the discussion about smart cities beyond technology and link it to the implementation of the urban dimension of the Sustainable Development Goals, specifically SDG 11 and the New Urban Agenda.

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #59 Lessons from the African Internet Rights Alliance (AIRA) on Protecting Digital Rights in Africa

Time
Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (13:30 UTC) - Tuesday, 3rd November, 2020 (14:00 UTC)
Room
Room 2
About this Session
In this session, the African Internet Rights Alliance (AIRA) will share insights into its work over the past three years and discuss our interventions, with an interactive conversation exploring the need for transnational collaboration, partnerships and coalition-building to protect and expand digital rights across Africa.

African Internet Rights Alliance

Description

In this time of COVID-19, digital rights on the African continent are under threat more than ever before. Over the past five years, internet shutdowns, stifling of dissent, poor data governance and various forms of violence have persisted both by the government and the private sector despite increased calls for progressive policy and practice. In an effort to advance collaborative approaches to advance digital rights on the continent, a coalition of nine civil society organisations have come together to pool experience and expertise and work toward an Africa where digital rights are upheld in all aspects of life, governance and the economy. In this session, the African Internet Rights Alliance (AIRA) will share insights into its work over the past three years and discuss our interventions, with an interactive conversation exploring the need for transnational collaboration, partnerships and coalition-building to protect and expand digital rights across Africa.

Join moderators Ashnah Kalemera (CIPESA) and 'Gbenga Sesan (PIN) for a brief presentation, followed by Q&A with their fellow AIRA members Sigi Waigumo Mwanzia (Article 19 Eastern Africa) and Edwin Makwati (Legal Resources Centre).

IGF 2020 Pre-Event #94 IGFSA General Assembly

Time
Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (12:25 UTC) - Monday, 2nd November, 2020 (13:55 UTC)
Room
Room 1

IGF Support Association (IGFSA)

Description

The IGFSA General Assembly is the supreme governing body of the Association. It meets annually in the framework of the IGF and provides a forum for voting on matters as required by the IGFSA bylaws and for multistakeholder dialogue and discussion related to the support of the IGF.