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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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Domain addr. IP addr.
coe.int
193.16
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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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Domain
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193.164.
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RIR
Registries
Registrars
Critical Internet Resources (CIR)
Messy Policy Issues
Sovereignty
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Interdependent
World
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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