[IGFmaglist] Setting the scene main session: draft outline

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

Dear MAG members

Below is the proposed outline for the "Setting the scene" main session 
on day one of IGF 2014.

Look forward to comments.  I am not sure I have captured all the 
suggestions yesterday. One was related to IPV 6 which I am not sure how 
to accommodate. Ideas?  The other was the 'right to forget' which I 
thought we could link to the scene setting input on surveillance. Again 
open to suggestions. Anyone who wants to volunteer to work on this, 
please let me know.

Thanks and apologies for the delay in sending this.

Anriette

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Goal: Launch the IGF with a panel focused on topical issues in IG around 
the world in the last year as well as provide participants with tasters 
for how some of these issues will be addressed during the event.


Duration: 1.5 hours with about half of this time dedicated to discussion.

Note that this session needs to liaise closely with the IGF orientation 
session organisers. We have started the discussion and will continue it. 
There will be 6 or 7 speakers and one moderator assisted by people with 
roving mikes in the room. And then I suggest there is one person who 
presents the summary on how each theme will be discussed during the IGF. 
They would need to be very familiar with the programme, and where 
necessary, engage with organisers relevant sessions.

Topics to be covered:

a) Surveillance: one year later - from Snowden to the 'Right to Forget' 
- IGF 2014 THEME: Enhancing Digital Trust

A speaker will reflect on what has happened in internet governance since 
the mid-2013 revelations, and the Bali IGF in October 2013.

- reactions from business e.g. from individual companies and bodies such 
as the Global Network Initiative
- reactions from governments or by national bodies such as the US 
Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
- reactions from intergovernmental organisations, e.g. the Council Of 
Europe, the Human Rights Council/Office of the High Commissioner of 
Human Rights, and the UN General Assembly
- the European ruling on the right to forget - its challenges, implications
- responses from rights based groups
- responses from security and law enforcement actors
- multistakeholder responses, in particular NETmundial
- what next? what role and the IGF play and how/where will the topic be 
discussed at the 2014 IGF

b) The multi-stakeholder approach to internet governance - IGF2014 
THEME: IGF & The Future of the Internet Ecosystem
A speaker will summarise the 'state' and 'status' of mulit-stakeholder 
approaches to IG and reflect on its evolution, maturity, uptake, and  
legitimacy. The input should cover:

- why MS? a short look back at the the threads that contributed to the 
evolution of this approach, some of which goes back to internet 
development and management from its outset, and also the WSIS principles
- the MS approach in IG at national level: challenges and achievements
- the evolution of MS in the intergovernmental system: changes and 
challenges
- the concept of a distributed, decentralised internet governance 
ecosystem: what does it mean, does it make sense?
- NETmundial as an MS decision-making process
- challenges, contradictions, conflicts, exclusions
- what next? what role and the IGF play and how/where will the topic be 
discussed at the 2014 IGF

c) IANA transition - IGF2014 THEME: CRITICAL INTERNET RESOURCES

A very brief overview of the NTIA announcement, its implications, its 
scope, and what challenges and opportunities it presents:

- who should be tracking this process and why?
- timelines
- what will happen next and what role the IGF can play and how/where the 
topic be will discussed at the 2014 IGF

d) Affordable internet access for all: taking stock - IGF 2014 THEME: 
POLICIES ENABLING ACCESS

A speaker will provide a bird's eye view on progress and challenges, 
look at new equalities and new inequalities and opportunities, and 
outline how/where the topic be will discussed at the 2014 IGF. They will 
look at some of the challenging policy issues that keep surfacing and 
that did so in the last year, e.g.:

- net neutrality
- competition, supply, demand: how to balance the advantages provided by 
large players in the market that can provide access t scale vs. 
diversity and the benefits of having small and medium providers at the 
middle and last mile level
- access and quality and access and capability: are expansions in access 
succeeding in creating a more level playing field at the level of 
empowering users? What are the gaps and challenges?
- role of governments vs role of markets: are we getting the balance 
right so that the benefits get to those who need it most?
- access for all: public access, access for the poorest of the poor, 
access for people with disability
- preview of how the topic will be discussed at the IGF 2014

e) Censorship and blocking IGF2014 - THEME: INTERNET AND HUMAN RIGHTS

A speaker will reflect on the fact that as the internet expands, so does 
censorship and blocking - of some types of content, and some services. 
They will explore this and try to represent the various views and 
motivations fairly. This will also allow for an opportunity to look at 
some of the censorship and blocking cases that hit the headlines in the 
last year. Are these achieving their intended results? What are the 
costs? What are the rights implications? What are the implications for 
an open and unfragmented internet?

f) Content and creativity: growth and equity - IGF 2014 THEME CONTENT 
CREATION, DISSEMINATION AND USE

Here a speaker could provide a lead in to some of the IG issues related 
to content creation and distribution - this includes copyright, digital 
rights, business models, user generated content, local language content etc.

g) The Internet as an Engine for Growth & Development: what is working 
and what not?   IGF2014 THEME: Internet as an Engine for Growth & 
Development

A thought provoking input on the benefits, but also the ongoing 
exclusions. The internet has given rise to new business models, and new 
businesses, new ways of learning and trading. Are we maximising 
potential of the internet as tool for creating a more just, equal, 
peaceful world?  If not why not? And then a preview of how these 
questions will be addressed during IGF 2014



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