[Bpf-cybersecurity] On this week! pre-IGF online discussions - register now

Tue Oct 20 05:20:56 EDT 2020

Dear Sir/Madam,

Thank you for the invitation.
I will endeavour to join you.

Kind regards,

Timothy K. Asiedu
Author's page : www.amazon.com/author/timothy.asiedu

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 1:09 PM IGF Secretariat <igf at un.org> wrote:

> Dear All, Below is a kind reminder about the upcoming online discussions
> convened by the IGF MAG Chair and
>
>
> *MAG Working Group on IGF Strategy and Strengthening. Best regards, IGF
> Secretariat*
> **** *This week's pre-IGF online discussions
>
> *IGF strategy and strengthening in 2020: A series of pre-IGF online
> discussions convened by the IGF MAG chair and the MAG Working Group on IGF
> Strategy and Strengthening during September and October 2020*
>
> The IGF's mandate was renewed for a further 10 years by the UN General
> Assembly in December ‎‎2015. The current year, 2020, marks the midway
> point of this extended mandate. In addition, the ‎recently released UN
> Secretary-General's Roadmap for Digital Cooperation and its support for a
> ‎strengthened and expanded IGF (the IGF+) presents the opportunity for ‎deeper
> engagement on the IGF's achievements and challenges and for exploring
> approaches for ‎addressing emerging Internet policy issues.‎
>
> To reflect on the IGF's achievement of its mandate and contribute ‎to the
> discussion on the architecture for digital cooperation, the IGF MAG chair,
> in ‎collaboration with the IGF MAG Working Group on IGF Strengthening and
> Strategy, is convening ‎a series of online discussions during September
> and October 2020. ‎
>
> *UPCOMING THIS WEEK:*
>
> *1. Frameworks for addressing emerging Internet issues in the context of
> cooperation in ‎policy design* - Tuesday 20 October 2020 13:00-15:00 UTC -
> Register at https://intgovforum.zoom.us/j/98663242064
>
> 2. *Perspectives on IGF outcomes and outputs: Representation, legitimacy
> and follow-up in multistakeholder policy processes* - Wednesday 21
> October 2020, 13:00-15:00 UTC- Register at
> https://intgovforum.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEuf-yqrTwjHdwR8XmOMGoDksogCfEd_XiH
>
> For next week's discussions and recordings of previous discussions visit
> https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/mag-chair-activities
>
> *DETAILS BELOW:*
>
> *Frameworks for addressing emerging Internet issues in the context of
> cooperation in ‎policy design* - Tuesday 20 October 2020 13:00-15:00 UTC
> - Register at https://intgovforum.zoom.us/j/98663242064
>
> *Overview of topic*
>
> Discussion on frameworks for addressing emerging Internet issues. Several
> ‎organisations and academic institutions are currently developing such
> frameworks ‎which can have an important impact on how policy is designed.‎
>
> Why is this important? While we have all accepted that the Internet is an
> essential ‎part of our societies,  it is hard to provide a single
> definition of what it is. The ‎Internet is not 'one' thing and it is not
> a monolith. At the same time, in the absence ‎of a definition, it is
> often hard to analyze its evolution, explain which ‎developments are
> healthy and which are not, and understand how some ‎approaches could be
> problematic. On top of that, there is also the tangible danger ‎that the
> Internet with a capital "I" might simply disappear from the discourse, ‎subsumed
> by higher level concepts, such Digital economy, Digital transformation, ‎
> etc..‎
>
> One promising way to address these issues is to look at some of the
> properties that ‎characterize the Internet. These properties should not
> be seen in isolation but in ‎conjunction with the benefits they generate.
> This will allow us to better understand ‎their relationship to the
> Internet's successful evolution. There are several efforts ‎that follow
> this approach, for instance the work by the MIT team (W. Lehr, D. ‎Clark
> et al "Wither the Public Internet"), "The Idealised Internet vs. Internet
> ‎Realities" by the New America's Cybersecurity Initiative. Finally, the
> Internet ‎Society work on "Internet Invariants: What Really Matters" and
> now its further ‎development in the "Critical Properties of the Internet
> Way of Networking ‎‎(IWN)".‎
>
> The goal of this discussion is to: a. solicit feedback on the properties
> that are ‎identified by these frameworks and b. to work with the IGF
> <https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/lexicon/8#IGF> community to
> identify ‎use cases and case studies that could use such a framework as a
> guide.‎
>
> *Discussion leads*
>
> Leslie Daigle,Leslie Daigle, Global Technical Officer, Global Cyber
> Alliance
>
> Justin Sherman, Justin Sherman is a fellow at the Atlantic Council's Cyber
> Statecraft Initiative
>
> David Clark, technical director of the MIT Internet Policy Research
> Initiative at CSAIL
>
> Konstantinos Komaitis, Senior Director, Policy Development and Strategy
>
> Andrei Robachevsky, Senior Director, Technology Programmes
>
> Laura DeNardis, Professor and Interim Dean of the School of Communication
> at American University in Washington, DC
> <https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/lexicon/8#DC> (moderator)
>
>
>
> *Co-conveners*
>
> MAG <https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/lexicon/8#MAG> Chair and
> the Internet Society ‎
>
> Background reading
>
> Leslie Daigle:
> https://www.thinkingcat.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2019-InvariantsUpdated.pdf
>
> David Clark:
> https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jinfopoli.9.2019.0001#metadata_info_tab_contents
>
>
> Robert Morgus and Justin Sherman:
> https://www.newamerica.org/cybersecurity-initiative/reports/idealized-internet-vs-internet-realities/
>
>
>  Konstantinos Komaitis and Andrei Robachevsky (Internet Society):
> https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/internet-way-of-networking/internet-impact-assessment-toolkit/
>
>
>
>
> *2. Perspectives on IGF outcomes and outputs: Representation, legitimacy
> and follow-up in multistakeholder policy processes* - Wednesday 21
> October 2020, 13:00-15:00 UTC - Register at
> https://intgovforum.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEuf-yqrTwjHdwR8XmOMGoDkso...
> <https://intgovforum.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEuf-yqrTwjHdwR8XmOMGoDksogCfEd_XiH>
>
> After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing
> information about joining the meeting.
>
> *Overview of topic*
>
> This session will consider how the IGF can evolve towards more focused
> policy ‎discussions which lead to outcomes that can be then be considered
> by decision-‎making bodies. ‎
>
> It will also consider the challenge of how to frame the IGF outputs when
> not all ‎stakeholders or views are represented in the sessions that
> produce them. Equally, ‎BPFs and DCs can only be said to represent the
> views of those who participate ‎‎(and generally have specific interests
> for doing so). That's not to say that any ‎policy recommendations that
> come out of such sessions or processes are invalid. ‎But it can be used
> to question their value and legitimacy. This session will discuss ‎the
> challenges the IGF faces in producing multiple outcomes and policy ‎suggestions,
> from multiple sources, without any single way of having a ‎community-wide
> endorsement of the outputs.‎
>
> *Discussion leads*
>
> Moderator: Dr. William Drake, University of Zurich
>
> Speakers: Flavio Wagner, Brazilian Internet Steering Committee, CGI.br and
> member of the IGF WG
> <https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/lexicon/8#WG>-strategy
>
> Anriette Esterhuysen, MAG chair
>
> Wai Min Kwok, UNDESA
> <https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/lexicon/8#UNDESA>
>
> Timea Suto, ICC-Basis and member of the IGF MAG (tbc)
>
> Paul Charlton, Senior Policy Advisor, International Telecommunications and
> Internet Policy Directorate, Innovation, Science and Economic Development
> Canada (ISED) and member of the IGF MAG
>
> Fiona Alexander, Distinguished Policy Strategist, School of International
> Service, American University in Washington, DC
>
> Raul Echeberria, member of the IGF WG-strategy
>
> Markus Kummer, co-coordinator, IGF Dynamic Coalitions and past IGF MAG
> chair and IGF Executive Secretary
>
> *Co-conveners*
>
> MAG chair and IGF MAG-WG strategy
>
>
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