Kevon Swift, External Relations Officer for the Caribbean! LACNIC Caribbean on the move – Suriname! 4 July 2015!
[email protected]! Yochai Bekler’s 3-layer conceptualisation! – Infrastructure ! – Standards and Protocols! – Content and Applications! Source: DiploFoundaon. Retrieved from hps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Ih5_C9HRk 1. International Telecommunication Union’s Plenipotentiary Conference (ITU-PP) in Minneapolis! “a joint and harmonized understanding of the information society” ! “strategic plan for the development of the information society” ! 2. End of the so-called DNS wars (started 1994)! 3. Incorporation of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers! 4. WTO Agreement on Basic Telecommunications Services (BTA)! • Official listing on diplomatic agenda (UN system)! • Two phases held in Geneva (2003) and Tunis (2005)! • Geneva Principles (2003) and Tunis Agenda for the Information Society (2005)! • Multistakeholder???! World Summit on the Information Society! (WSIS) working definition:! “Internet governance is the development and application by Governments, the private sector, and civil society, in their respective roles, of shared principles, norms, rules, decision-making procedures, and programmes that shape the evolution and use of the Internet.”! Narrow versus Broad Narrow Broad •Internet infrastructure (DNS, IP numbers, •Includes legal, economic, developmental and root servers) sociocultural issues •ICANN Technical and Policy Coherence Technical Policy •Internet Community •Private sector, governments, civil society,