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Opportunities & Threats Towards The Multi-Stakeholders Internet Governance

On Day 2 IGF 2013, 23 October 2013, the discussion on Multi-stakeholders Internet Governance is becoming

more depth to explore the issues related with the concept. Ideal conditions that had been discussed on previous workshops sessions, now face some opportunities and threats that already occurred.

Dialogue on key principles in multi-stakeholder internet governance in practice, definition and the role of multi-stakeholder in decision-making process, implementation

of Internet Governance in various issues, such as Human Rights, Gender and Disadvantages groups, is being discussed intensively, in the context of global perspective.

Multi-stakeholders Internet Governance should also put highlight on issue of cybersecurity, including control on information and surveillance on the internet. Opening in-depth dialogue among stakeholders is still needed to ensure stability, security and control on online use of the internet.

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The focus session on “Principles of Multi-stakeholder Cooperation” started on 11 AM on Main Hall, Nusa Dua Hall 5 continues the previous event yesterday

about dialogue on the multi-stakeholder model for Internet governance. This open discussion facilitated by Dr. Setyanto P. Santosa (Chief of Indonesian Information and Communication Technology Association) as Host Country Chair, Adiel Akplogan (CEO of AfriNIC) and Matthew Shears (Director of Internet Policy and Human Rights, Center for Democracy and Technology) as moderator.

The participants also shared their viewpoints on implications and challenges on multi-stakeholder principles, which includes: open and inclusive processes; engagement, consists of participation and contribution; transparency and accountability, and consensus-based decision-making. Some of the participants shared their viewpoints that there is still a need to do open dialogue on definition of multi-stakeholder, and it is under a fluid term, and may not be defined on all issues.

Participants also stated that there are still obstacles to imply the principle of participation on multi-stakeholder cooperation. The obstacles range from how to build and promote effective participation, balancing geographical representation, evolving mechanisms for multi-stakeholder process, and ensuring accountability and transparency. Reporter: Hersinta

Discussion about the key principles of Internet Governance has been a challenging theme in IGF 2013. After interesting session about bridging

the role of government in multi-stakeholder cooperation which has been held yesterday, the focus move forward to discuss the principles of Internet Governance.

Every stakeholder such as the government, expert group, private sector, civil society, technical community have opportunities to share their set principles. Most of stakeholders already addressed 10 Principles for the Internet Governance and while each participant already discuss their principles, it appeared that all of them already build their set of principles based on the same interest, such as human rights, openness, diversity, etc. Although there are still some countries discussed back forward about their development on the internet and the role and responsibility of stakeholders should be deliberated.

The most important question on this discussion is the direction to the future – what will we do in the next regarding princples of internet governance, so this brings us to the moderator concluced in the closing that all of stakeholders’ representative agreed with multistakeholder system and globalization, moreover they agree to move forward to act in this process, which is become the main goal on this session: to create shared policies and standards that maintain internet global interopability in order to ensuring stability, security, online use of the internet.Reporter: Fiona Suwana

NEWSFLASH

Bridging Internet Governance Principles in Every StakeholdersInternet Governance PrincipalRoom 5 Uluwatu 5, 11:00 - 12:30 PM

INTERNET can enhance the innovation and efficiency of economy sectors, including the Small Medium Enterprises/SMEs. SMEs are utilizing online services to reach con-

sumers in local and global markets, despite the fact that they are one of the largest beneficiaries of the trade benefits of the Internet. Based on this, on Day 2 IGF 2013 there was a discussion between Nick Ashton-Hart as a moderator, Farid Maruf from Grameen Foundation, and Usmad Ahmed from Ebay Inc. They shared interesting views about how the Internet’s multi-stakeholder model is changing the trade landscape and empowering both consumers on the one hand, and sellers and producers on the other, with a particular focus on enterprise.

Farid Maruf started with the idea that internet can empowered SMEs in Indonesia. But to achieve that goal, it should be supported by providing information services for the people, by building two ways flows of trusted, and actionable information.

Moreover, Usman said Internet could boost SMEs to engage in global trade, with two benefits such as survival rate and concen-tration of sales. The survival rate is much higher on the Internet than it is in the offline context. Moreover, small and local enterprise has difficulty to be found in offline, however online could intermediate this problem, they could engage the customer in local also global trade. Reporter: Fiona, Renold, & Susan | Editor: Damar Juniarto

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The discussion about right issues for indigenous peoples and disadvantaged groups among other marginalized groups was

held on Day 2 IGF 2013. This session was attended by Catherine Easton from Lancaster University, Stuart Hamilton from IFLA, Konstantinos Komaitis from ISOC, Julia from NGO which against cybercrime, and Nadine from EROTICS. They have been defining who is marginalized and how, what actors are needed to be part of the solution and strategies for moving forward, but also defining and broadening understanding of disadvantaged groups.

Konstantinos Komaitis explained, “It’s quite surprising and disappointing that we are in 2013 and still dealing with issues of disadvantaged people on the Internet”. He then added, “There are issues of affordability. Internet is still extremely expensive and it’s expensive especially for some disadvantaged people and minorities.”

The participants agree that to solve these issues a more cross-sectorial cooperation between policymakers, ministries,

In the context of fulfillment of human rights, the development of internet technology has been giving a lot of positive benefits

to meet the needs and improving the quality of human life. Therefore, in an environment of growing internet penetration, an increasing number of states are introducing laws and practices that have a profound impact on the ability of citizens to exercise their rights online. But in fact, the number of people being jailed because they commit “online crime” actually increased in some countries.

Given this fact, Sanja Kelly from Freedom House, concluded that “There is freedom of speech, but not freedom after speech,” to describe the increasing oppression on rights to voice on the internet. Other panelists at this workshop in Kintamani 7 at 11:00 to 12:30 am included Nighat Dad, Lawyer and Activist PAKISTAN, Indri Saptaningrum, Executive Director from ELSAM-Indonesia, Bouziane Zaid, Assistant Professor at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco.

The discussion also points out that many countries are doing social media or websites blocking in their country. There are also countries that prefer to detain offenders and sending citizens into prison under the argument of state security. It is said that currently Internet is also used to develop business activities so these issues somehow related to each other. But government remains as the most powerful party in determining regulatory determination of any information that may be distributed to the community.Reporter: Aprida

Human rights online: Emerging Threats and OpportunitiesKintamani 7, 11:00 - 12:30 AM

designers, users or affected populations are needed. And perhaps identifying the role of Internet Governance to help as well as NGOs and research groups, technical, existing institutions specifically libraries and including disadvantaged end users as the most important stakeholders. Reporter: Susan & Renold

The main issue of gender and women’s equal are

right to access, use and shape ICTs.

Most of the important questions that were discussed in this session are who benefits from ICTs, who will be dictating the course of ICTs, and how far or possible to harness ICTs to serve larger goals of equality and justice.

In this session, Nnenna Nwakanma from African Union, said that access to ICTs is still faraway reality for the vast majority of people. Some of the factors included are the absence of basic infrastructure, high costs of ICT deployment, unfamiliarity with ICTs and dominance of the English language in Internet content. These barriers pose even greater problems for women.

Siti Noor Laila from National Human Rights Commission of Indonesia said that “The issue of Internet Governance in Indonesia has not considered as an important issue, particularly in relation to gender and ICT. For example there have been some verbal abuse on the internet, such as showing a picture of raped women, which have led to horizontal conflicts between two areas.”

Some of the international organizations and civil society groups like CSO from Pakistan, New Zealand and also India are engaging with issues that concern the democratization of the ICT from the digital divide and the right to communicate, to cultural diversity and intellectual property rights.

Within the ICT, women have relatively little ownership of and influence on the decision-making processes, being underrepresented in the private sector, multi-stakeholders, civil society and government bodies which control this issue.

But it is also concluded that forums like IGF, has taken constructive steps to integrate gender equality into its space, processes and issues, related with the access, freedoms and women’s right to public participation.Reporter : Olivia D. Hutagaol

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INTERVIEW

The TEAM Maria A. Inkiriwang, Aprida Sihombing, Okky Alparessi, Nadia Maharani, Susan Wen Frenavit Putra, Eri Kasman G.Designer : Olivia Hutagaol, Maria A. InkiriwangEditorial Secretariat : Mariam Ananda, Mataharitimoer, Anisa Nurlitasari

Board of Advisor : ID-IGF SecretariatManaging Editor : Damar JuniartoNews Coordinator : Mariam AnandaEditor : Aprida Sihombing, Fiona Suwana, Renold SutadiReporter : Fiona Suwana, Renold Sutadi,

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Director of Citizen Lab, Canada Centre for Global Security Studies

Based on Citizen Lab’s research, what are the biggest problem that happens now in cyberspace?I think generally speaking there’s been an evolution over the last decade. Where we’ve seen 10 years ago, very few governments had any internet policy at all. It was very much straightforward positive association of development information and communica-tion technologies, there’s alot of emphasis on promoting growth. Overtime though the internet and cyberspace generally, mobile phones or other technologies have become important security issues. Means that we have seen increases in content controls, clearly internet censorship, much more issues around surveil-lance on internet platforms and development of commercial products and services that provides censorship, surveillance and even computer network attack capabilities. Of them all, I think the biggest worry for me is the last one. Private company is selling technologies to government intelligent armed forces to spy on people, to monitor communication and this industry is growing. And this is being marketed in the context where there’s not always very good oversight and accountability.

Facing the negative trends in cyberspace such as surveillance, what should global community do? So I think that things are going to get worse rather than better unfortunately. Primarily is because the Snowden revelations…. I worry that when other governments hear about the Snowden revelations, they will want to build their own NSA’s. They want to extract themselves, insulate themselves from US. Which sounds a good thing to do but in reality that could be used to build fences around the internet, control by the governments. Meaning more censorship, more surveillance nationally. So in the short terms things are going to get worst. What can we do about it? I think we need more research. First of all we need to open the doors, peek behind the curtains and find out what’s going on.Reporter : Mariam Ananda