INTERNET GOVERNANCE FORUM OF (#BHIGF) 2015

Joining Global Landscape “INTERNET FOR ALL - Opportunities and Challenges within Internet Governance in Bosnia and Herzegovina”

Report

October 2015 Photos credit OneWorld Platform

Table of content

3 Why BHIGF? 3 BHIGF Objectives 3 BHIGF expected outcomes 4 Intro highlight 4 Organising Committee of BHIGF 5 Supported by 5 Program 9 Statistics 11 Remote participation 12 BHIGF Highlights 13 BHIGF online 14 In addition - speeches from key speakers

2 Why BHIGF?

Internet Governance Forum of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BHIGF) is a national IGF initiative dedicated to open, inclusive, diverse and informal dialogue on Internet governance issues among all interested stakeholders in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).

First national Internet Governance Forum aimed to place Bosnia and Herzegovina in global Internet Governance agenda. It arose from the need to gather relevant and interested stakeholders from the whole country for the first time in one same place to discuss about real current state, necessities and emerging Internet-related issues in an informal manner.

In order to have a bottom-up process, the existence of regional, sub-regional and national IGF processes is essential. Many different stakeholder groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina are active in their own fields of expertise, but there has always been a lack of inter-stakeholder collaboration, and it was about time for BiH to join the dialogue on IG on regional and global levels - starting with national IGF initiative. Because of the strong need to bring perspective of BiH in IG issues, the first Internet Governance Forum in Bosnia and Herzegovina was initiated.

BHIGF takes great proud of being inspired and learning from best practices by sub-regional and regional initiatives such as SEEDIG and EuroDIG, as well as global IGF. Apart from aiming to start the dialogue on Internet Governance, national IGF also aimed to create more sustainable Internet-related dialogue throughout the year creating linkages between neighbouring countries’ national IGF initiatives and inspiring new IG dialogues with fresh perspectives and approaches. With great hope BHIGF will encourage all state actors to actively participate in relevant policy spaces, join regional and global processes and contribute with their views and experiences.

BHIGF objectives: • Raise awareness and promote better understanding of the Internet as an open platform for all stakeholders (government, business sector, civil society, technical community, academia, media). • Contribute to a better understanding of roles and responsibilities stakeholders have in Internet Governance. Do we need a national strategy? • Create a framework for discussions on the role of internet in empowering the exercise of human rights and promoting the rule of law and democracy.

BHIGF expected outcomes: • Internet Governance is placed on national agenda • National multistakeholder committee established for the preparation of BHIGF 2016 • Human Rights approach and gender perspective are recognized as part of multistakeholder approach at the national level

3 Intro highlight

BHIGF took place on October 1st 2015, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in hotel Bristol as venue, under the overreaching theme:

“INTERNET FOR ALL - Opportunities and Challenges within Internet Governance in Bosnia and Herzegovina”.

The event was marked by national and international participants from different stakeholder groups and media as a “truly open space for inclusive, respectful and informal dialogue for all interested stakeholders (government, business sector, civil society, technical community, academia and media) interested in sharing, shaping and contributing to straighten Internet Governance in BiH, with strong encouragement for gender equality participation”.

Organising Committee of BHIGF

BHIGF was organised within three short and intense months of hard work of all members of organising committee and external collaborators and supporters pertaining to different relevant stakeholder groups, respecting the gender balance.

During that period of time, members of core organising committee were making sure to follow on bottom-up process in accordance IGF rules. Meetings were held regularly face-to- face as well as online.

Core organising committee members:

- Nebojša Regoje, Government, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina

- Amela Odobašić and Emir Povlakić, Government body, Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina

- Aleksandar Mastilović, University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, IEEE Communications Society, ELZAS d.o.o. Sarajevo

- Valentina Pellizzer, Belma Kučukalić, Valida Hromadžić and Aida Mahmutović, Civil Society, One World Platform

4 Supported by1

National level

Initiated by civil society One World Platform Foundation, BHIGF was organised in collaboration with Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina and under the auspices of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

International level

On the international level BHIGF initiative was supported from the start by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and Association for Progressive Communications (APC).

Furthermore BHIGF with its serious and responsible approach gained diverse support from distinguished international organisations such as Council of supporting the event and giving the opportunity to young students from BiH to participate in the event, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Internet Governance Forum Support Association, DiploFoundation, RIPE NCC and CORE Association.

Program

BHIGF Pre-events

- On 30 September 2015, prior to the main event, in collaboration and with support of DiploFoundation, a 2 hour long “Introduction to Internet Governance” lecture was organised in the Council of ministers’ premises for Council of ministers closest collaborators.

- On 30 September 2015 evening, Welcome ceremony for all BHIGF participants and guests was held in hotel Europe, in Sarajevo giving the opportunity to get to know colleagues from neighbouring countries and beyond, and to start off the conversation.

Photo credit OneWorld Platform

1 Sponsor and supporters’ logos indicated on dedicated BHIGF page at: https://oneworldplatform.net/en/bh-igf- en/

5 BHIGF

BHIGF was a one full day event, that started at 9:00 and ended at 17:00.

09:00-10:00 Flesh Pre-session for students “Get to know and engage with ICANN!” was dedicated only for students from Bosnia and Herzegovina and held by Andrea Beccalli – Stakeholder Engagement Manager for Europe from ICANN, Iliya Bazlyankov as guest from Bulgarian registry and Aida Mahmutović from One World Platform.

Photo credit OneWorld Platform

10:00-10:30 Opening remarks by keynote speakers

BHIGF was opened with welcome speech by Aida Mahmutović from One World Platform in front of the organisers, followed by keynote speeches addressed by: Deniz Yazici in front of OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Silvia Grundmann – Head of Media and Internet Division in front of Council of Europe, Andrea Beccalli – Stakeholder Engagement Manager Europe in front of ICANN and Nebojša Regoje – Head of Office for Public Relations in front of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of BiH.*2

10:30-11:00 Media and Photo opportunity and coffee break

The event was fully opened for media presence throughout the day. From 10:30 to 11:00 media representatives had the opportunity and dedicates space for short interviews with speakers and guests.

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2 Full speeches by keynote speakers at the end of this report

6 Working part of Forum was split in two sessions:

11:00-13:00 “ABC’s of Internet Governance” moderated by Vladimir Radunović from DiploFoundation and co- moderated by Aida Mahmutović from One World Platform

Photo credit OneWorld Platform

Panelists:

Nebojša Regoje – Head of Office for Public Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Ljiljana Zurovac – Director, Press Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina Athina Fragkouli – RIPE NCC Mario Janeček – Ministry of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina Srđan Rajčević – Director, Agency for Information Society of Republic Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Best Practices from the region, guests: Iliya Bazlyankov, CORE Association, Dušan Stojčević, Serbian National Internet Domain Registry (RNIDS), Nataša Glavor, Croatian Academic and Research Network (CARNet),

After each session dedicated session rapporteur had 3 minutes to summarise and present highlight messages.

First session rapporteur: Feđa Kulenović

7 14:30-16:30 “What do you mean by Internet Rights” moderated by Valentina Pellizzer from One World Platform

Photo credit OneWorld Platform

Panelists:

Silvia Grundmann – Head of Media and Internet Division, Council of Europe Smari McCarthy – OCCRP and IMMI Desiree Milošević – Affilias Mario Hibert – University of Sarajevo

After each session dedicated session rapporteur had 3 minutes to summarise and present highlight messages.

Second session Rapporteur: Hana Ćurak

After presenting Certificates of appreciation to all speaker, panelists and supporters, IGF of Bosnia and Herzegovina was closed with joint conclusions by Emir Povlakić from Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Valentina Pellizzer from One World Platform.

Photo credit One World Platform

8 Statistics

Photo credit OneWorld Platform

BHIGF 2015 truly represented a space for open, inclusive and informal dialogue for all interested stakeholders (government, business sector, civil society, technical community, academia and media) interested in sharing, shaping and contributing to straighten Internet Governance in BiH, with strong encouragement for gender equality participation, which following statistics show:

Participants

Total number of online registrations: 140 Total number of participants - turn out: 109

9 Gender balance

Male 57 Female 52

Stakeholder* group representation:

Stakeholder group Number of participants in-situ

Government 39

Civil Society 23

Private sector 6

Academia** 35

Technical community 10

Media 6

* Some participants to the forum represented more then one stakeholder group

** Academia also includes fellow students

10 Remote participation

Due to the lack of time and funds live stream was not provided. However, live tweet-deck and dedicated hashtag #BHIGF3 was installed for online community. Ongoing messages and questions from the Forum were constantly being published on Twitter as well as on Facebook. Online participants were following and interacting throughout the day and their inputs were read during sessions and included in final session conclusions.

At the BHIGF organisers were mindful of special needs for some/any of our participants, and each and every one of them was asked within official online registration form whether some additional support should be provided (which was the case whenever possible in accordance to organiser’s resources).

Remote participation along with sessions live-transcript will be in focus for next BHIGF event, in order to accommodate needs of online participants as well as need of other participants who would be able to follow discussions reading (for e.g hard-of-hearing participants)

All participants, panelists and audience, agreed upon one major issue: contextualisation.

Overall focus was on explaining Internet Governance as such, mapping the priorities for Bosnia and Herzegovina, understanding the need to get actively involved, to hear different stakeholder perspectives in the country as well as best practices from our guests – experts from the region and global landscape. Session dedicated to Human rights and internet rights was focused on key issues from our everyday life which includes online harassment, accessibility, surveillance, and was talked about how mechanisms and possibilities of state protecting its citizens in virtual space without crossing the line of privacy, rapid development of technology and state’s possibility to keep up with the pace.

Photo credit OneWorld Platform

3 For Tweets please check #BHIGF or go to: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q= %23BHIGF&src=typd

11 BHIGF Highlights

• Having in mind different individuals within cyberspace the discussion also focused on various risks that these different (digital) identities face with: minorities, women, LGBTIQ, people with disabilities.

• During BHIGF panels we constantly reminded ourselves that IG topics have to be relevant for social and political issues that our country is currently dealing with. State’s political context per se (two entities and District that have different laws and constitutions) made IG dialogue challenging.

• One of the traits of the Internet is globality, but all regulations should begin on the national level.

• Panelists and audience also agreed upon inclusion of media literacy and internet literacy in educational system agendas.

• Even though there is an ongoing debate about lack of women in regional and global Internet Governance policy spaces (such as in global IGF), BHIGF provided somewhat different picture. Number of women and men in panels and audience was equal.

• This event was fruitful and inspiring in terms of topics that need to be tackled for the next year’s events, sending an encouraging message that these conversations and collaborations need to continue happening throughout the year with all the other surrounding conversations, round tables and dialogues between different multistakeholders.

• As an overall challenge it was pointed out that relevant IG actors don’t have opportunities to meet and have similar types of dialogue on related topics, emphasising the importance of collective responsibility towards Internet Governance in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and “we should not run away from it”.

• BHIGF now has the responsibility to become only first in a row event, and is now looking forward to deepening collaboration with existing supporters, while welcoming the new ones.

12 BHIGF online

• Bosnia and Herzegovina joining Global Internet Governance Landscape https:// oneworldplatform.net/en/bhigf2015/

• BHIGF photos

Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/owpsee/albums/72157660265777537

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a. 489164591261122.1073741830.414228298754752&type=3

• BHIGF agenda, english https://oneworldplatform.net/en/bh-igf-en/

• BHIGF agenda, local languages https://oneworldplatform.net/bh-igf/

• #BHIGF tweets https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23BHIGF&src=typd

13 In addition - speeches from BHIGF guests - key speakers4

Deniz Yazici

- in front of OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Office of the Representative on Freedom of the Media

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Internet Governance Forum Opening Speech by Deniz Yazici, Adviser 1 October, 2015, Sarajevo

Good morning, Excellences, Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen,

Let me first say that I am honoured to be here today with so many distinguished guests and experts on Internet governance issues.

The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović welcomes this timely event, which is extremely important for the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina, not least when it comes to the promotion and protection of free media and free expression online.

4 All speeches were provided by speakers themselves in written form as well, and agreed to be published in this Report

14 Defending an Internet whole, free, and safe is an ongoing struggle that deals with a wide range of issues.

Internet Freedom has been a main focus of our Office since the appointment of the current Representative in 2010. The Representative received an award by the Guardian as someone who has had the most impact in the battle to keep the internet open.

In her view, the key of the Internet’s success, and a source for its benefits has been its openness, decentralised access, and control possibilities by every one of its users.

It is important that any regulation aimed at making the Internet secure takes its very essence into account and safeguards these conditions. A preferred way to do this is by empowering users through Internet literacy programs, and self-regulatory mechanisms. And by keeping regulation to a minimum.

How to balance a legitimate need for regulation with the need to ensure access and protect free expression online is not a question that can be definitively answered. It requires constant and continuous assessment.

We need to consistently address the issues of regulation, technical infrastructure, security, access, and content. We need to address these issues together; governments, international organisations, academia, civil society and businesses.

There are aspects of the Internet that need to be regulated; other areas should be out of the reach of government control. The challenge is to jointly identify areas that benefit from no or self-regulation and, on the other hand, effective approaches for addressing other issues where regulation is, in fact, needed.

We all agree that minorities and minors need to be protected. We also agree that we all have a right to privacy. But how to go about it?

Just take the issue of online anonymity. Staying anonymous in many parts of the world is a precondition for voicing political dissent that, if expressed in the open, could prove life- threatening. However, it is also online anonymity that criminals think will give them cover.

This last point is also used by some governments to ask for website and user registration, although it should be known by now that most of what we do online is very transparent indeed, and that governments and companies can and do trace much of our online activities.

What we also need to bear in mind is, how the recent decisions by the European Court of Justice regarding the “right to be forgotten”; and the European Court of Human Rights ruling on “Delfi v ” will impact free speech and Internet regulation.

These are just a few areas that show the magnitude of challenges we are faced with when ensuring freedom of expression on the Internet. They are also examples that show that when it comes to the Internet, there is no textbook solution for regulation or legislation.

15 The multi-stakeholder approach to Internet governance is and has been very useful. It has brought together representatives from every sector – private, public, academic – and has fostered an ongoing development of the net without impeding on its core idea – an Internet that is free by design. But the current model is also challenged.

The Representative continues to engage on these issues at the highest levels; soon at the upcoming IGF in Brazil and the Stockholm Internet Forum, both taking place next month.

We also continue to host expert meetings on Open Journalism, to tackle legal issues, accountability and regulatory challenges, especially regarding areas that many governments mistakenly continue to attach solely to traditional journalism, including protection of sources, access to information, and editorial independence.

To make matters more complex, the exercise of democratic rights online, including freedom of expression and freedom of the media, mostly depends on the decisions made by private network owners and service providers. Big portals, search engines, and technology manufacturers can directly intervene in circulation, distribution, and access to content and ideas online. They have become the main gatekeepers of the digital world. In many cases the effectiveness of so-called Internet freedom will be in their hands.

In this regard, our next meeting on Open Journalism, taking place this December, will address the specific role of intermediaries.

But much more still needs to be done. We need a revived and broad discussion on principles for Internet governance against the backdrop of the developments in this past year.

The UN Human Rights Council’s ground-breaking resolution 20/8, on the promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet, is a step in the right direction and should serve as a guiding principle for this work.

We must also be aware that life cycles of innovations on the Internet are extremely short. Therefore, narrowly defined standards and regulations become an impediment for the further development of the Internet, or simply ineffective further down the road.

It is not an overstatement to say that the web is in serious trouble of losing its soul, meaning its openness, to government and to commercial interests. As Sir Tim Barner Lee said recently, "Maybe it is time to speak of a Magna Carta for Web users and the Web itself".

Ultimately, it is important to treat media freedom – and with it Internet freedom – for what it really is: a strong test of democracy. To understand fully the importance of it, one simply needs to examine what happens in a place without it.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

Thank you.

16 Silvia Grundmann

- Head of Media and Internet Division in front of Council of Europe

Dr. Silvia Grundmann Head of Media and Internet Division DG I – Information Society Department / Council of Europe

First Internet Governance Forum of Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 October 2015, Sarajevo

Dobro jutro!

First of all, I would like to thank the organisers for inviting me to this most important event taking place under the Chairmanship of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Council of Europe.

You have chosen “Internet for all – opportunities and challenges” as your motto. Let me first talk about opportunities. Let me share with you the story of “Harry G.” “Harry G.” is a German, in fact a Bavarian comedian. In 2013, he made a short satire about the Oktoberfest in Munich, the world’s

17 biggest popular beer drinking event. It is taking place right now. “Harry G.” ridiculed the different tents, putting his clip on YouTube.

Since 2014, “Harry G.” is a full time comedian with sold out life shows. Such a success would have been impossible without the Internet.

It is thanks to the Internet that everybody can spread his or her ideas regardless of status, wealth, profession, place of residence and - regardless of frontiers but the downside of this is the possibility of abuse. And we all struggle with the question or challenge how to combat hate speech that seems to be spreading via the Internet in an uncontrollable manner.

What is the role of the Council of Europe when it comes to such challenges?

The Council of Europe works with its 47 member States, involving the private sector, civil society, academia and other actors. This approach is commonly known as “multi- stakeholderism” and Deniz has already touched upon it.

With our stakeholders, the Council of Europe aims to shape the Internet as a safe and open environment where freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and association, privacy, diversity, culture, education and knowledge can flourish.

How are we doing it? You are all aware that the most important instrument here is the European Convention on Human Rights and the Strasbourg Court’s case law. Other Conventions, notably the Budapest Convention on

Cybercrime and the Data Protection Convention 108, but also the Lanzarote Convention on protection of children against sexual exploitation and sexual abuse and the Istanbul Convention protecting women from violence and domestic violence play an important role for safeguarding human rights online.

Many recommendations give member States guidance how to address challenges, emerging on the Internet. Let me only mention two examples here. One is our recommendation on gender equality and the media. With the help of an expert we

Handbook on the have also produced a handbook i mplementation of Recommendation (2013)1 of the Committe....pdf on its implementation and I have brought some copies with me which you will find outside the room.

Another example is our Guide to Human Rights for Internet users of which you will also find copies outside.

CMRec(2014)6_ENGL ISH_WebA5.pdf And of course, you will find everything online on our dedicated freedom of expression website: http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/media/

18 The Council of Europe will continue to strive for implementation of good standards and will identify gaps to be closed, notably through the work of its Steering Committee on Media and Information Society, the CDMSI, of which we have our Bureau member, Mr Emir Povlakić, Head of Division for Licensing, Digitalization and Coordination in Broadcasting, Communications Regulatory today with us.

Let me close by stressing that the rule of law is equally valid offline and online but its enforcement in the digital world is major challenge.

We will need to discuss this further and I am looking forward to a fruitful discussion with you.

Puno hvala!

19 Andrea Beccalli

– Stakeholder Engagement Manager Europe, ICANN

Good morning to all!

It is a real pleasure and honour to be here at the first BiH IGF, a special thanks to the OneWorld Platform for the tremendous work done in organising the event, you are joining a long list of countries gathering into national IGF to discuss, best of luck! • Governance of the Internet is one of the major challenges of our times even if doesn’t make the headlines of our newspapers, but we all see the disruptive and innovating force of the Internet. We are seeing the “uberization” of everything, and we cannot longer speak about cyberspace as some separate as everything now is cyber • Internet as an open, interoperable network of network is not a given, is a result of a single DNS, this is potentially at risk due to pressure and divisions on its governance, in particular there are several ongoing processes : ◦ Global IGF ◦ WSIS+10 review ◦ ICANN IANA transition • Multistakeholder model based on a bottom-up, inclusive participation is what brought to the organization of the NetMundial in Sao Paulo and the subsequent principles of IG. These principles are the guiding force of multistakeholder form of governance that is the most appropriate to face the challenges of the Internet evolution. I really hope this first event will lay the base for a national ongoing discussion and ultimately the creation of a multistakeholder structure for Bosnia. It is not easy, is a non conventional way to discuss and make policies but I believe that Bosnia will be able to seize the challenge and exploit the full potential of the Internet.

20 Nebojša Regoje

– Head of Office for Public Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dear friends!

Our meeting today is so important that I have no doubt that sometimes in the future the Headquarters of the One World Platform Foundation will receive the plate with inscription: "On 23rd day of January 2013, enthusiasts gathered in this building and started planning organisation of the first Bosnia and Herzegovina Forum on Internet Governance that was held on 1st October 2015." And indeed on that day, a small group of representatives of non- governmental sector, academic community and us from state institutions, some of those people are with us here today, began talks that led to this gathering today, the Bosnia and Herzegovina Forum on Internet Governance 2015. Following that meeting, the e-mails titled "bhIGF" started to circulate, the new discussions and exchanging ideas were launched as well as some shared and some individual activities, participation in the preparations of EuroDIG 2013, setting a remote hub in Sarajevo to follow the EuroDIG sessions from Lisbon via the Internet, participation in the IGF, the EuroDIG and Stockholm Internet Forum, participation in the meetings of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), membership in the Multi Stakeholder Advisory Group (MAG), and a number of other activities. Of course, all this with a "view to BHIGF". Finally, the One World Platform and the Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina got a courage to officially initiate organisation of this Forum, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina has provided its support to this Forum as well as others, but please forgive me for not mentioning them individually, and that brought us all here today.

Dear friends!

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"INTERNET FOR ALL - Opportunities and Challenges within Internet Governance in Bosnia and Herzegovina" is the official added name to BHIGF this year and, besides that it sounds good, it is also full of truth. The main goal of holding this and the other similar forums is to ensure the Internet for all. I believe that all of you, but also anyone else who scratches the surface of this issue at all, are aware that the Internet governance is a challenge for our country but also a vast source of opportunities. Formally declared goals of the Forum, raising awareness and promoting better understanding of the Internet; better understanding of roles and responsibilities of the actors in the Internet governance; and creating a framework for dialogue on the role of the Internet in terms of strengthening the implementation of human rights, promotion of the rule of law and democracy, have already been achieved. For that, it is a great success to bring together representatives of all interested groups, some from the country and some from abroad, and at the same time to attract a lot of attention and interest. And, that is important for all of us in Bosnia and Herzegovina, for Bosnia and Herzegovina, for promotion of ideas of Internet governance in our small country.

I should like to highlight two other, equally important, aspects of this success, I should say achievements, with wider significance for Bosnia and Herzegovina and its reputation in the world.

The community of the people interested in the Internet governance is much larger than someone who is not well informed would guess and it is spreading into all spheres of life, from business and academic communities, non-governmental organisations of all profiles as well as state institutions. Students, aid workers, teachers, business people, politicians, civil servants, engineers ... And all of them, tens of thousands of people around the world who attentively follow developments in the sphere of the Internet governance, have an opportunity to recognise that positive, good news are coming now from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Finally.

The Internet Governance Forum, whose family Bosnia and Herzegovina joins today, is an open forum with no formal membership and the leading global forum for all interested groups to discuss issues of public policies related to the Internet governance. It was established at the World Summit on the Information Society in 2006 with the mandate of the United Nations to serve as a neutral space for all actors on an equal footing to discuss these issues. Our BiH IGF has been included in the official calendar of the global Internet Governance Forum for 2015, and, I am proud to say that, it is the only event of Bosnia and Herzegovina that can be found in the official calendar of any agency or initiative of the United Nations.

For these accomplishments I would like to congratulate and thank the whole team that endured all the difficulties and successfully solved all organisational problems, brought us together here and today, and now we need to collect new ideas and information through the upcoming activities and to initiate promoting ideas of the Internet Governance Forum throughout our communities.

I should like to extend my congratulations to the One World Platform Foundation and the Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina on a job well-done, and I hope that, as of tomorrow, we shall begin to prepare the next BiH Forum on the Internet Governance 2016. Good luck for all of us!

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