Parallel session has started.
Session on "Digital Defenders Partnership" has started at 01 PM at Side room 3.
Moderator: Sanne Stevens, Digital Defenders Partnership
Speakers: Frerieke van Bree, Hivos
Lindsay Beck, Open Technology Fund
Irene Poetranto, Citizen Lab, University of Toronto
Description: A workshop about defending human rights defenders, journalists and activists from digital attacks and digital emergencies. The Digital Defenders Partnership is a competitive grant making mechanism providing support to organizations and individuals working in the digital emergency field. The Partnership was established to provide rapid response to a range of threats to internet freedom: from supporting bloggers and cyber activists who find themselves under attack, to facilitating the deployment of emergency internet in countries where the internet is not free or not accessible. The Digital Defenders Partnership has its origins in the Freedom Online Coalition, and is managed by Hivos, an international NGO based
Flash sessions has started at 01 PM at Side room 4.
"THE MANILA PRINCIPLES ON INTERMEDIARY LIABILITY"
Organizer: Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Speaker: Eduardo Bertoni, CELE-Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, Palermo University
Description: This session will present and explain the motivations behind the Manila Principles on Intermediary Liability launched in March 2015, and some of the main areas of divergence in working towards finalizing them, and to outline the organizers’ plans to publish and promote the principles on a global stage. The Principles, developed by EFF, Centre for Internet Society India and Article 19, along with partners from all world regions, aim to be a simple and powerful resource for NGOs, policymakers, intermediaries, and others advocating for good Internet policy.
"INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS FOR CYBER SECURITY"
Organizer: New America
Speaker: Tim Maurer, New America Description: This session will aim to shed light on the policy implications of different institutional models, including different versions of Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs); to illuminate the gap between technical and policy communities; and to explore potential lessons learned from the humanitarian field. It will reflect on questions such as 1) What are Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) 2) How have CERTs evolved? 3) What are the different institutional models and their pros and cons? 4) How do CERTs cooperate and what are barriers to CERT-to-CERT cooperation? 5) What can we learn from public health? 6) Do we need a cyber-disease control and prevention center? 7) Are their useful lessons learned for cybersecurity from the humanitarian field? 8) Do we need an ICT equivalent to the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement?
"CHILD RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL AG: ONLINE CHILD PROTECTION"
Organizer: UNICEF
Speaker: Roberto Benes, UNICEF Mongolia Representative
Description: Presentation of the Industry Guidelines for Online Child Protection (released at the Ninth Annual Internet Governance Forum Turkey along with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in September 2014). The guidelines provide advice on how the ICT industry can help promote safety for children using the Internet or any technologies or devices that can connect to it, as well as guidance on how to enable responsible digital citizenship, learning and civic participation. They also call for a comprehensive response to the online risks facing children and partnerships across multiple stakeholder groups, including governments, companies, civil society, parents and educators – making the topic a great fit for the FOC along track one.
"ICANN AND A FREE AND OPEN INTERNET"
Organizer: ICANN
Speaker: Kelvin Wong, ICANN
Description: The session will introduce ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), its work in maintaining and administering unique identifiers that allow computers and devices to find each other across the world. It will share ICANN’s motto of maintaining One World, One Internet, and the principles of adopting a multistakeholder, bottom up and transparent policy development process. Emphasis will be put on ICANN’s globalization effort and the regional engagement activities that are in place to promote this in the Asia Pacific region. This will also be an opportunity to give an update on the current ICANN issues of IANA functions’ stewardship transition as well as the parallel track of enhancing ICANN accountability.
"Deliberative Polling A Cross Regional, Multistakeholder Internet Governance Mechanism" has started at 01 PM at Side room 2.
Moderator: Larry Diamond, Stanford Center for Democracy, Development & the Rule of Law
Speakers: Jim Fishkin, Stanford Center for Deliberative Democracy
Eileen Donahoe, Human Rights Watch
Ritu Srivastava, Digital Empowerment Foundation
Simone Halink, Netherlands MFA
Lhagvajav TUR-OD, Citizens’ Council, Anti-Corruption Authority
Description: In keeping with the consensus statement from the 2014 NETmundial conference, certain fundamental Internet governance principles need preservation in our rapidly changing Internet ecosystem— including human rights, culture & linguistic diversity, security & stability, and an open un-fragmented space, among others. To help move forward toward global consensus on how to implement the NETmundial principles, the team proposing this roundtable plans to hold a Deliberative Poll on Internet Governance (“DP@IGF2015”) at the next Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in João Pessoa, Brazil, in November 2015. DP@IGF2015 will be a cross-regional, multistakeholder participatory Internet governance exercise that aims to address policy trade-offs and questions about how to move forward with global policies that preserve the NETmundial principles. This round table seeks to begin addressing these policy trade-offs and global challenges by engaging with FOC members on the framework and basis for the deliberative poll - DP@IGF2015.
Parallel session has started.
Session on "Digital Defenders Partnership" has started at 01 PM at Side room 3.
Moderator: Sanne Stevens, Digital Defenders Partnership
Speakers: Frerieke van Bree, Hivos
Lindsay Beck, Open Technology Fund
Irene Poetranto, Citizen Lab, University of Toronto
Description: A workshop about defending human rights defenders, journalists and activists from digital attacks and digital emergencies. The Digital Defenders Partnership is a competitive grant making mechanism providing support to organizations and individuals working in the digital emergency field. The Partnership was established to provide rapid response to a range of threats to internet freedom: from supporting bloggers and cyber activists who find themselves under attack, to facilitating the deployment of emergency internet in countries where the internet is not free or not accessible. The Digital Defenders Partnership has its origins in the Freedom Online Coalition, and is managed by Hivos, an international NGO based
Flash sessions has started at 01 PM at Side room 4.
"THE MANILA PRINCIPLES ON INTERMEDIARY LIABILITY"
Organizer: Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Speaker: Eduardo Bertoni, CELE-Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, Palermo University
Description: This session will present and explain the motivations behind the Manila Principles on Intermediary Liability launched in March 2015, and some of the main areas of divergence in working towards finalizing them, and to outline the organizers’ plans to publish and promote the principles on a global stage. The Principles, developed by EFF, Centre for Internet Society India and Article 19, along with partners from all world regions, aim to be a simple and powerful resource for NGOs, policymakers, intermediaries, and others advocating for good Internet policy.
"INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS FOR CYBER SECURITY"
Organizer: New America
Speaker: Tim Maurer, New America Description: This session will aim to shed light on the policy implications of different institutional models, including different versions of Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs); to illuminate the gap between technical and policy communities; and to explore potential lessons learned from the humanitarian field. It will reflect on questions such as 1) What are Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) 2) How have CERTs evolved? 3) What are the different institutional models and their pros and cons? 4) How do CERTs cooperate and what are barriers to CERT-to-CERT cooperation? 5) What can we learn from public health? 6) Do we need a cyber-disease control and prevention center? 7) Are their useful lessons learned for cybersecurity from the humanitarian field? 8) Do we need an ICT equivalent to the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement?
"CHILD RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL AG: ONLINE CHILD PROTECTION"
Organizer: UNICEF
Speaker: Roberto Benes, UNICEF Mongolia Representative
Description: Presentation of the Industry Guidelines for Online Child Protection (released at the Ninth Annual Internet Governance Forum Turkey along with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in September 2014). The guidelines provide advice on how the ICT industry can help promote safety for children using the Internet or any technologies or devices that can connect to it, as well as guidance on how to enable responsible digital citizenship, learning and civic participation. They also call for a comprehensive response to the online risks facing children and partnerships across multiple stakeholder groups, including governments, companies, civil society, parents and educators – making the topic a great fit for the FOC along track one.
"ICANN AND A FREE AND OPEN INTERNET"
Organizer: ICANN
Speaker: Kelvin Wong, ICANN
Description: The session will introduce ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), its work in maintaining and administering unique identifiers that allow computers and devices to find each other across the world. It will share ICANN’s motto of maintaining One World, One Internet, and the principles of adopting a multistakeholder, bottom up and transparent policy development process. Emphasis will be put on ICANN’s globalization effort and the regional engagement activities that are in place to promote this in the Asia Pacific region. This will also be an opportunity to give an update on the current ICANN issues of IANA functions’ stewardship transition as well as the parallel track of enhancing ICANN accountability.
"Deliberative Polling A Cross Regional, Multistakeholder Internet Governance Mechanism" has started at 01 PM at Side room 2.
Moderator: Larry Diamond, Stanford Center for Democracy, Development & the Rule of Law
Speakers: Jim Fishkin, Stanford Center for Deliberative Democracy
Eileen Donahoe, Human Rights Watch
Ritu Srivastava, Digital Empowerment Foundation
Simone Halink, Netherlands MFA
Lhagvajav TUR-OD, Citizens’ Council, Anti-Corruption Authority
Description: In keeping with the consensus statement from the 2014 NETmundial conference, certain fundamental Internet governance principles need preservation in our rapidly changing Internet ecosystem— including human rights, culture & linguistic diversity, security & stability, and an open un-fragmented space, among others. To help move forward toward global consensus on how to implement the NETmundial principles, the team proposing this roundtable plans to hold a Deliberative Poll on Internet Governance (“DP@IGF2015”) at the next Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in João Pessoa, Brazil, in November 2015. DP@IGF2015 will be a cross-regional, multistakeholder participatory Internet governance exercise that aims to address policy trade-offs and questions about how to move forward with global policies that preserve the NETmundial principles. This round table seeks to begin addressing these policy trade-offs and global challenges by engaging with FOC members on the framework and basis for the deliberative poll - DP@IGF2015.
