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Internet Governance:

Challenges, Issues and Roles

Jovan Kurbalija

Geneva 9 June 2014

Internet Governance: Challenges, Issues and Roles

http://www.diplomacy.edu/e-diplomacy

Internet Governance in Geneva

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More than 50%

ISSUES

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NEW TOPICS on Diplomatic Agendas

•  Climate Change

•  Global Health

•  Internet Governance

•  Energy

•  Bio-diversity

•  Migration

•  …..

Multidisciplinary Nature of the New Topics

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51 IG issues in 5 floors/baskets

Sociocultural Economic Development Legal Infrastructure & Standardisation

51 IG issues in 5 underground lines with intersections

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Telecom infrastructure (cable, wireless, ...)

Protocols, standards and services (DNS, TCP/IP, SSL...)

Content and applications (HTML, FTP, XML)

Internet Layers

New IG Issues (mainly dealing with proper functioning of the Internet) Traditional policy issues (affected or transformed by advent of the Internet)

The session is a la carte.

51 IG Issues in 2 Main Groups

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New IG Issues

Internet Resource (Internet Names and Numbers) Network Neutrality Internet Standards

Infrastructure (standardisation, security) Legal (crime, copyright, trademark, jurisdiction) Economic (customs, taxation) Development (digital divide, universal access) Socio-cultural (privacy, freedom of expression, multilingualism)

The session is a la carte.

Traditional Policy Issues

ROLES

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§  National Governments (Ministries: ICT, telecommunication, security, foreign affairs; , diplomats) §  Business community (ICC, Telcos, Internet industry; OpenSource, telcos) §  Technical Community (ISOC, IETF, W3C) §  Civil Society (highly diverse and complex, low number of IG NGOs) •  “Internet resources organisations” (ICANN, RIRs and LIRs, TLD registries and registrars) •  International Organisations (UN, ITU, UNESCO, UNDP, CoE, OECD)

INTER-PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION

Participation vs. Statements (IGF Bali 2013)

CHALLENGES

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CHALLENGES

CHRONOnarcism

Now and Here

Internet: Dependence

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§  24 hours day

§  8 pieces of information in working memory §  148 stable social contacts to maintain (Dunbar’s number)

Be Aware of Our Limits!

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British Cable Monopoly

Politics: Cable Geo-Strategy

CHALLENGES

Inter-disciplinary

policy issues

Inter-disciplinary Issues

CHALLENGES

Messy policy issues

No easy solution

Messy policy issue: new business model

Messy Policy Issues

Privacy

Messy policy issues

Anonymity

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RIR

Registries

Registrars

Critical Internet Resources (CIR)

Messy Policy Issues

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CHALLENGES

Where to address

policy issues?

Where to address IG issues?

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Revisiting Tunis Compromise

(Accelerated after Snowden Revelations)

Zone Of Possible

Agreement

Non-governmental Intergovernmental

May 2014 Note: Stakeholders inside the arch have a firm position (i.e. lead the process); stakeholders outside the arch are still finding their roles (i.e. developing policy, testing the ground).

Status quo Multistakeholder No decision-making

Change Inter-governmental arrangement

for Internet governance

Civil society

Business & technical community

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Jovan Kurbalija jovank@diplomacy.edu