Internet Governance and Challenges Overview
Internet governance encompasses the evolution and control of the internet, involving various stakeholders in shaping its development. Explore key organizations, historical timeline, and current issues and challenges within internet governance. Learn about the roles, actors, and activities of organizations like ICANN in managing the internet's unique identifiers and operational coordination. The spectrum of issues faced, from technical to societal, highlight the complexity of governing the internet effectively. Gain insights into the principles, norms, and decision-making procedures that underpin internet governance, as defined by WSIS. Join the discussion on the multifaceted nature of internet governance and its impact on our digital future.
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Internet Governance NULLCON 6th-7th March 2020, Goa, India
Presentation Outline Evolution of Internet and its Governance Internet Governance challenges Governance ON and OF the internet Key organisations Opportunities to learn and contribute
A Brief Timeline Building the Internet s Decentralized institutions cooperative arrangements - RFC s for Standards , Postel IANA(Internet Assigned Names and Numbers) Entry of Governments WSIS, Governments, IGF, National IGFs 2002 Early 90s Present Early 1990 1969 - 2003 Commercialization Accelerates Acceptable use of Policies and Domain Name Industry takes Off
What is Internet for you Go to www.menti.com and use the code 36 65 60
Uni Dimensional Approach? No A Spectrum of Issues from Technical to Societal Issues need to be tackled across the layers, across the spectrum..
Internet Governance "the development and application by governments, the private sector and civil society, in their respective roles, of shared principles, norms, rules, decision-making procedures, and programs that shape the evolution and use of the internet." -WSIS 2005
Internet Governance Governance OF and ON the Internet 1. Roles? 2. Actors involved?
ICANN Performs a variety of activities related to the internet s unique identifiers that include operational coordination and activities, collaboration, engagement. 1. Info systems, Corporate security, IT and DNS engineering 2. Global Domain Division Technical Services 3. Internet identifiers systems research, security, stability and resilience 4. Internet assigned numbers authority: protocol parameters, TLD name delegation etc
ICANN RSSAC : The Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC) advises the ICANN Board and community on matters relating to the operation, administration, security, and integrity of the Root Server System SSAC: The Security and Stability Advisory Committee advises the ICANN community and Board on matters relating to the security and integrity of the Internet's naming and address allocation systems. Internet Engineering Task responsible for the DNS protocol standards, long realized the lack of stronger authentication in DNS was a problem. DNSSEC: Data origin authentication Data origin authentication Force (IETF): the organization
01 Next Gen Program of ICANN 02 Fellowships at ICANN 03 Mailing lists and contribution 04 ICANN Learn
IETF : Internet Engineering Task Force An open standards organization, which develops and promotes voluntary Internet standards, in particular the standards that comprise the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) Current areas are Applications, General, Internet, Operations and Management, Real-time Applications and Infrastructure, Routing, Security, and Transport. HMMMM.. Rough consensus is the primary basis for decision making. The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF): Long term research Track ietf working groups : https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/
Internet Society The mission is "to promote the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world". Not-for -profit founded in 1992 to provide leadership in Internet- related standards, education, access, and policy. Special Interest Groups, Chapters, Individual Members: Based on membership. 1. Building community networks. 2. Fostering infrastructure and technical communities. 3. Promoting the Internet way of networking. 4. Securing global routing. 5. Extending encryption.
Internet Governance Forum Multistakeholder governance group for policy dialogue on issues of Internet Governance. National, Regional and Youth initiatives Youth Internet Governance Forum India Guide them to the right opportunities available to take deep dive into IG discussions. Enable the youth to understand the intersection between technology and policy, in order to promote more informed policy making, and technology development in the future. Fellowships https://youthigf.in/
More Opportunities APIGA: Asia Pacific Internet Governance Academy InSIG: India School on Internet Governance Mozilla Fellowship
Thank You For any more information and discussions, you can contact me at Ihita Gangavarapu gihita@gmail.com
