1. Key Policy Questions and related issues:
Is there any stress on Core Internet Values during the crisis? Would there be a greater realization on the significance of these values post-crisis?
On another dimension, to what extent did the stakeholders make productive use of the Internet during the crisis?
To what extent could the Internet positively bring together the right actors to design reconstruction and renewal?
2. Summary of Issues Discussed:
What can we do, how do we use the Internet to foster collaboration in our response to COVID-19? There
is good collaboration in the search for vaccine against the COVID-19 disease, but in other spheres, for
e.g, in using the Internet in the educational setting yet, the tools are not quite right, teachers don't have
the training, the students, they're often uncooperative or outright, you know, misbehaving. We have a
lot of work to do to learn to adapt this technology in a way that makes it more useful. COVID and this
pandemic, it is a gamechanger. The adaptability and the inventiveness of this generation instils hope.
The potentials are enormous.Technical expertise is needed to sort of keep the options open, free and
open source, affordable, apps that don't force you to upgrade your equipment, because of age-old,
decade-old rivalries between large corporates, that's a thing coordinates from the technical expertise
that is brought to the table, it is really important to hear this from the technical experts and formative
influencers and and how the infrastructure operates. It is a resilient infrastructure on the whole. In the
context of increasing traffic, some solutions were identified, that of bringing content closer to
consumers, by global content providers, that of optimizing traffic roles and creating conditions for rapid
expansions of bandwidth. There are cultural aspects as well and due to the COVID crisis there is an
increased need for us to be online, not only as individuals but as communities or as Classes, groups.
There are different ways of using these portals and devices.
7. Reflection to Gender Issues:
Gender Issues did not get addressed in this session.