IGF 2014

Brief Description

Orientation sessions are intended for both newcomers to the IGF and those who are already involved but would need to get a more holistic view of Internet governance. It gathers experts, fellows, decision-makers and practitioners to engage meaningfully by discussing actors and topics related to Internet governance. The session will be interactive, educative, inclusive, at the same time creative and fun, it will be open but also guided in order to be effective.

Set up: U-shape seating

Interpretation is provided for the Orientation Session.

Participants:  Newcomers and IGFers’

Main questions:  

●        What is the history WSIS and IGF and mandate of the IGF?

●        How does diplomacy play in the global Internet governance? What are the main IG-related process and actors involved?

●        How to navigate the IGF to get the best out of it and for it?

●        How to stay involved with the IGF and IG process beyond IGF2014?

Time: 90 mins

Session outline:

9.30-10.00  Part 1:  Diplomacy, process and actors

●        A brief overview of the WSIS process and other IG-related processes 

●        Role and mandate of the IGF and MAG

●        Multistakeholder model and roles

Q&A and discussion

10.00-10.30  Part 2:  Navigating the IGF

●        Navigating through IGF: providing practical hints and inputs on how to navigate the IGF during the meeting; (main sessions, workshops, best practice forums, remote participation, corridors, etc.)

●        How to choose the workshops (color codes)

●        How to benefit from the IGF?

●        How to contribute to the IGF?

Q&A and discussion

10.30-11.00  Part 3:  Involvement beyond 2014

●        Joining the MAG and the IGF2015 preparations

●        Role of national & regional IGFs

●        Inclusiveness: Involving the persons with disabilities, youth and indigenous groups

●        Capacity building mechanisms and programmes

●        Continued Engagement - e-participation, mailing list

●        Other opportunities

Q&A and discussion

 Goal: Launch the IGF with a panel that frames each of IGF2014's sub-themes by highlighting related topical issues as well as provide participants with tasters for how these sub-themes will be addressed during the rest of the IGF.

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

Format: A moderated panel made up of speakers with expertise on the sub-themes complemented by organizers or panelists of other main sessions. Inputs will be kept short. The moderator will be assisted by people with roving mikes in the room.

The session will be opened by panelists giving a 5 minute input on topical and controversial issues relevant to the sub-themes (7x5 = 35 minutes)

Questions from floor and debate among speakers (35 minutes)

The session will also provide an overview of how the subthemes will be covered at IGF2014.

Topics to be covered:

Sub-themes for IGF 2014

a) POLICIES ENABLING ACCESS

Speaker: Rohan Samarajiva, LirneAsia, Sri Lanka

Rohan will provide a bird's eye view on progress and challenges in achieving affordable access for all. He will highlight controversial issues that came up in the last year, such as:

• net neutrality
• role of governments and regulators 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

Virat Bhatia will provide a review of how the topic will be discussed at the IGF 2014 at workshops and in the 'access' main session.

b) CONTENT CREATION, DISSEMINATION AND USE

Speaker: Stuart Hamilton, International Federation of Library Associations

Stuart will provide a lead in to some of the IG issues related to content creation and distribution such as copyright, digital rights, business models for local content creation and content in local languages, cross border issues, user generated content etc.He will also provide an overview of how the topic is being covered at IGF 2014.

c) THE INTERNET AS AN ENGINE FOR GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT

Speaker: Jacquelynn Ruff, Vice President – International Public Policy, Verizon

The speaker will highlight achievements, 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 maximizing potential of the internet as tool for creating a more just, equal, peaceful world? If not why not?

d) IGF & THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET ECOSYSTEM

Speaker: Benedicto Fonseca Filho, Ministy of Foreign Affairs, Government of Brazil

The speaker will summarize the 'state' and 'status' of mulitstakeholder approaches to IG and reflect on its evolution, maturity, uptake, and legitimacy. The input should cover:

• why MS? a short look back at 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, decentralized Internet governance ecosystem: what does it mean, does it make sense?
• NETmundial as a MS decision-making process
• challenges, contradictions, conflicts, exclusions what next?
• what role the IGF should play

Subi Chaturvedi will give a short outline of what will be covered in the focus session that deals with this topic.

e) ENHANCING DIGITAL TRUST and f) INTERNET AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Speakers: Walid Al-Saqaf, Program Director Master of Global Journalism (MAGJ), Ãrebro University, Sweden and Joy Liddicoat, Human Rights Specialist, Association for Progressive Communications

Censorship and blocking of sites becoming common place. So has surveillance. The speakers will reflect on current trends, particularly since the mid-2013 revelations, and the Bali IGF in October 2013. What are the trends? Can the Internet be trusted? Who decides what is in the public interest?  Are measures by States to make the internet more 'safe and secure' achieving their intended results? What are the costs? What are the rights implications? What are the implications for an open and unfragmented internet?

The speakers will clarify what is meant by 'the Internet and human rights' and how this issue has evolved, particularly with regard to the right to privacy and the recent report of the High Commissioner for Human Right's report on the 'The Right to Privacy in the Digital Age'.

Joy Liddicoat will also outline how this topic will be covered at IGF2014.

g) EMERGING ISSUES: Network Neutrality and Best Practice Forums

Speaker: Markus Kummer

Markus will provide an overview of why network neutrality issue is so topical at this time and provide an overview of how it is being addressed at the IGF2014. He will also introduce a new innovation at IGF 2014: Best Practice Forums – a mechanism to crowd source best practices in Internet governance and policy-making from the IGF community.

h) CRITICAL INTERNET RESOURCES

Speaker: Marilia Maciel, Centre for Technology and Society, Fundação Getulio Vargas

A very brief overview of the NTIA announcement, its implications, its scope, what has happened since, and what challenges and opportunities it presents.

Susan Chalmers, one of the MAG members organising the IANA panel will provide an overview of what will be covered, and other workshops dealing with this issue at the IGF.

Chair:

Prof. Dr. Kerem Alkin, Rector, Nişantaşı University and Member of the Internet Improvement Board, Chairman of MOBILSIAD (NGO), Turkey 

Moderators:

Jeanette Hofmann, Director of the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, supported by Anriette Esterhuysen, Executive Director, APC

Panelists:

Rohan Samarajiva, LirneAsia, Sri Lanka

Benedicto Fonseca Filho, Ministy of Foreign Affairs, Government of Brazil

Stuart Hamilton, International Federation of Library Associations

Jacquelynn Ruff, Vice President – International Public Policy, Verizon

Marilia Maciel, Centre for Technology and Society, Fundação Getulio Vargas

Walid Al-Saqaf, Program Director Master of Global Journalism (MAGJ), Ãrebro University, Sweden

Joy Liddicoat, Human Rights Specialist, Association for Progressive Communications

Additional people to give input on the main sessions they are organising and how the relevant sub-themes are addressed at IGF2014:

Virat Bhatia (Access)

Subi Chaturvedi (Ecosystem)

Susan Chalmers (IANA transition)

Markus Kummer (NetNeutrality and Best Practice Forums)

Remote moderator:

Emilar Vushe, APC Africa Policy Coordinator, Zimbabwe (confirmed)

Feeder workshops:

Not entirely applicable as this takes place before most workshop, and relates to most workshops as the panel addressed all sub-themes.

Description

The main session combines two key themes: “Access” and “Internet as an Engine for Growth and Development”.

FORMAT

This main session will be held as a large, multistakeholder, interactive roundtable between panelists and participants.   The session has 2 seasoned moderators, 1 remote moderator and 2-3 volunteers, with mikes, amongst participants. Post introductions by moderators, brief opening statements (2-3 minutes) will be invited from select panelists, linked to specific questions of policy. This cycle will be repeated through the session. Not every panelist will need to comment on each question. Moderators will frequent between panelists and participants for comments / questions. Feeder sessions invited to provide 1 minute interventions. Substantive Rapporteurs will record session highlights as inputs to feeder sessions and produce a more detailed report post IGF.

Agenda

The objective will be to strengthen IGF’s “knowledge agenda” by bring forth diverse experiences especially from developing countries on policies that have worked to deliver access, learnings and how internet connectivity drives growth and development in developing countries especially for women, youth and the marginalized sections.

The session has a special focus on developing countries and women participants. Apart from ITU and UNESCO, panelists will share perspectives from Turkey (Chair), Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa (Africa), Qatar, Lebanon (Middle East),  Argentina, Brazil  (Latin America), China, India, Sri Lanka (Asia), Pacific Islands, United States and Europe. The moderators and the youth volunteers represent Fiji, Kenya and UK. Of the 21 (TBC) invited (20 confirmed) panelists, 14 belong to developing countries and 2 to international organisations. 8 panelists are women.  

ACCESS

There existed 1 billion internet users when the Tunis Agenda was conceived in 2005. In the next 9 years, at the time of UN IGF in Istanbul, according to a 2014 ITU report, (http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/facts/default.aspx ), there are approx. 7 billion mobile subscriptions and approx. 3 billion internet users. Of these 3 billion, 2.3 billion are mobile broadband subscriptions – half of which are in developing countries.

Home internet access is near saturation in developed countries, but only 31% in developing countries. By 2014 end, 44% of the world’s households will have internet access. In contrast, in Africa, only 1 out of 10 households is connected to internet. Against Europe’s internet penetration of 75% and Americas at (66%), Asia Pacific is at 33%, and Africa (20%) – up from 10% in 2010. By 2030, 3.1 billion new internet users will come from Asia, Africa (1.3 bn), Americas (0.5 bn) and Europe (0.1 bn).

Public Internet access, infrastructure sharing and access as a human right for the socially disadvantaged, vulnerable sections and persons with disabilities are critical access issues – that need global attention.

INTERNET FOR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

Several studies have established that internet contributes an average of 1.9 % to GDP - amongst developing countries. By comparison, in developed countries, it contributes 3.4 % of the GDP (http://www.mckinsey.com/client_service/high_tech/latest_thinking/impact_of_the_internet_on_aspiring_countries). Citizens are often the first to benefit in the developing countries especially through services such as email, social networks, search engines, access to information, education, health services, entertainment and important government content. Adoption of internet by the younger population drives online services. Women and SMEs are 2 of the beneficiaries of an increase in internet penetration.

The panel will discuss both access and developmental issues with a special focus on “enabling policies”.

List of Potential Public Policy questions (to be reduced to 5 - 6)

(i)              What are the national regulatory best practices driving internet access – relevant to the 4 billion unconnected citizens of the world? Will, what got us here, get us there?

(ii)            Can inter-governmental and multilateral agencies, developed country governments through bi-laterals, and private entities, help hasten internet access, linking it to development in emerging economies? Or is access almost entirely a national public policy challenge for developing countries?

(iii)           Are countries with high internet penetration and lower cost of access, approaching the challenge in terms of regulatory intervention, legislation, investment environment, technology options and multistakeholder participation in decision making, differently? How are countries with small populations spread over great distances responding to the challenge?     

(iv)           Are norms linking internet penetration to GDP growth, per capita income, poverty eradication, education, rate of employment, etc., universally acceptable? Can internet linked economic and social development norms work as peer pressure amongst emerging economies?

(v)             Most developing country governments have announced national broadband plans. Who is funding National Broadband Plans?  What is the state of their implementation and will they need revision during the next 2-3 years on account of emerging technologies? Can lack of local content becoming a barrier to meaningful access and use of internet? 

(vi)           How important are public access policies in ensuring wide-spread access to the unconnected, especially as it relates to responsibilities of actors regarding human rights and disadvantaged groups in information society? How to ensure a continued focus on areas that need special attention?

(vii)          What role can the IGF play to become a catalyst, to enhance its knowledge agenda through  global dialogue amongst multistakeholder groups   to record learnings, improve information sharing, and strengthen best practices in access / development? Suggest specific steps as inputs for the MAG 2015.  

Chair

Dr. Ömer Fatih SAYAN, Board Member, Information and Communications Technologies Authority, Turkey

Moderators:

(i)              Ms. Alice Munyua, Inter-Governmental Organisation, Convener, Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANET), Kenya

(ii)            Mr. Martin Levy, Private Sector, Network Strategy, CloudFlare, Inc., United States

Feeder workshops

Total feeder workshops – 27 (Access – 10; Internet as an Engine for G&D – 16; Dynamic Coalition session – 1).

Feeder Workshops listed below as per the IGF Draft Agenda, from September 1 – September 5, in sequence from first to last as scheduled, along with time slots and room numbers.

Feeder workshops listed for both subthemes – “Access” and “Internet as an Engine for Growth and Development”.  Also,1 session by Dynamic Coalition on Public Access.

SESSION BY DYNAMIC COALITION

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2014 – DAY 1

Dynamic Coalition on Public Access in Libraries, 09:00 – 10:30

Feeder Workshops

SUBTHEME:          ACCESS

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2014 – DAY 1

WS 74 Enabling Affordable Access, Changing Role of the Regulator, 10:15 – 11:15

WS 41 Policies to Promote Broadband Access in Developing Countries, 11:00 – 12:30

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2014 – DAY 2

WS 208 Net Neutrality, Zero-Rating & Development: What’s the Data?, 09:00 – 10:30

WS172 Network Neutrality: A Roadmap for Infrastructure Enhancement, 11:00 – 12:30

WS 195 The Internet Age: Adapting to a New Copyright Agenda, 14:30 – 16:00

WS 169 Technologies and Policies to Connect the Next 5 Billion, 16:30 – 18:00

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2014 – DAY 3

WS 51 Connecting the Continents Through  Fiber Optic, 11:00 – 12:30

WS 163 Building Alliances to Enhance Internet Affordability, 15:45 – 16:45

WS 70 Open Data and Data Publishing Governance in Big Data Age, 16:30 – 18:00

WS 99 Digital Inclusion Policies for the Forgotten Billion, 16:30 – 18:00

SUBTHEME:        INTERNET AS AN ENGINE FOR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2014 – DAY 1

WS 30 Internet & Jobs: Creative Destruction or Destructive Creation?, 09:00 – 10:30

WS 68 Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Roundtable, 09:00 – 10:30

WS 7 From Ideas to Solutions: Funding Challenges for Internet Development, 09:00 – 10:30

WS 89 Multi-Stakeholder Engagement: Imperative for Accessibility, 09:00 – 10:30

WS 65 The Role of IXPs in Growing the Local Digital Economy, 10:15 – 11:15

WS 15 Empowerment Displaced People Through Online Education Svc., 11:30 – 12:30

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2014 – DAY 2

WS 10 New Global Visions for Internet Governance, ICTs and Trade, 16:30 – 18:00

WS 206 An Evidence based Intermediary Liability Policy Framework, 16:30 – 18:00

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2014 – DAY 3

WS 136 Internet as an Engine for Growth and Development, 09:00 – 10:30

WS 159 Global Public Interest of the Internet, 11:00 – 12:30

Flash Session - Crowdsourced Solutions to Bridge the Gender Digital Divid

 1.1.        Description/Agenda/Questions

The debate on network neutrality has flared up in recent months. Net neutrality was one of the most controversial issues at the NETmundial Conference, held in Sao Paulo in April 2014. At NETmundial there were “diverging views  as to whether or not to include the specific term as a principle in the outcomes”  . However, NETmundial participants agreed on the need to continue the discussion regarding network neutrality and recommended this discussion “be addressed at forums such as the IGF”.

NETmundial was a landmark event of Internet Governance in 2014 and its decision to identify the IGF as an appropriate forum to further discuss an Internet Governance policy issue such as net neutrality, was a significant outcome to affirm the important role of the IGF.

The NETmundial outcome document – the NETmundial Multistakeholder Statement -  has set up a useful framework for further discussions of net neutrality:

"Net neutrality:  [...] It is important that we continue the discussion of the Open Internet including  how  to  enable  freedom  of expression, competition, consumer choice, meaningful transparency and appropriate network management and recommend that this be addressed at forums such as the next IGF."

The session will take the NETmundial wording as the basis for its discussion. Main objective of the session is to explore the various facets of the network neutrality debate and foster a common understanding of these issues. It will look at a set of agreed policy questions from five different perspectives:

1. Technical perspectives

2. Economic perspectives

3. End-user perspectives

4. Regulatory and legislative perspectives

5. A developmental perspective.

It will also look at previous workshops held in the IGF context as well as other international developments which have contributed to the debate:

• The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is currently elaborating rules about the future of the "Open Internet";

• The European Parliament adopted its First Reading of a new Regulation on the Single Telecoms Market enshrining new net neutrality provisions;

• The Council of Europe is working on a draft recommendation by the Committee of Ministers to its 47 member states on protecting and promoting the right to freedom of expression and the right to private life with regard to network neutrality.

• Brazil officially adopted the "Marco Civil" with strong provisions for network neutrality; and, lastly, 

• The Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality developed its own understanding which fed into a Model Framework on Network Neutrality, initiated by the Council of Europe.

The Session, among other issues, will address the following policy questions:

• How to ensure freedom of expression and other social, economic and cultural rights.

• How to ensure end-to-end consumer choice and unfettered access to the Internet, enabling consumers to access all legal content.

• How to ensure requisite network transparency

• How to ensure competition among over-the-top providers. This cluster of issues also includes media consolidation and related questions.

• How to define what is considered appropriate network management.

Other questions may be added to the list as a result of the IGF Secretariat’s call for public input.

1.2.    Chair

Mr. Galip Zerey , Board Member, Information and Communications Technologies Authority, Turkey

1.3.    Moderators/Panellists

The session is conceived as an interactive discussion. It will be divided into three segments with three discussion leaders for each segment, looking at technical, economic, end-user, social and human rights perspectives. Regulatory and development perspectives will be dealt with as cross-cutting issues.

There will be pre-notified discussants for each segment with one overall moderator who will act as a master of ceremony.

Regulatory perspectives

Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will be given the opportunity to provide regulatory perspectives in opening remarks.

Segment 1:  Technical perspectives

Discussion leaders:

-        Robert Pepper, Vice President for Global Technology Policy, Cisco, Washington DC, United States

-        Sally Wentworth, Vice President, Global Policy Development, Internet Society, Reston, United States

Discussants:

-        Bram Tullemans , European Broadcasting Union, Geneva, Switzerland

Development perspectives 

-        Prabir Purkayastha, Delhi Science Forum / Free Software Movement of India, Delhi, India

-        Adam Peake, Researcher, GLOCOM, Tokyo, Japan

-        Alejandro Pisanty, Professor, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.

-        Renata Avila, Lawyer, Lead of Creative Commons Guatemala, Guatemala City

Segment 2:  Economic perspectives

Discussion leaders:

-        Vladimir Radunovic, Coordinator of e-diplomacy educational and training programmes, DiploFoundation, Belgrade, Serbia

-        Pablo Bello, Secretary General, Latin American Association of Research, Centers and Telecommunication Enterprises (AHCIET), Montevideo, Uruguay

Discussants:

-        Andrew McDiarmid, Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Democracy and Technology, Washington DC, United States

-        Scott McCollough, McCollough|Henry PC / Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2C) and Cloud Providers, Austin, United States

-        Christopher S. Yoo, Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, United States

Development perspectives

-        Roslyn Layton, Ph.D. Fellow, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark

-        George Fong, Executive Director, Lateral Plains / President, Internet Society of Australia, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Segment 3: End-user, social and human rights perspectives

Discussion leaders:

-        Carolina Rossini, Vice President for International Policy, Public Knowledge, Washington DC, United States

-        Rajan Mathews, Director General, Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), New Delhi, India

-        Elvana Thaçi, Administrator, Information Society and Action Against Crime Directorate, Directorate General I -Human Rights and Rule of Law, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France

Discussants:

-        Luca Belli, Agent, Council of Europe/ Dynamic Coalition on Net Neutrality, Strasbourg, France

-        Dominique Lazanski, Policy Director, GSMA, London, United Kingdom

-        Berin Szoka, President, TechFreedom, Washington DC, United States

Development perspectives

-        Ephraim Percy Kenyanito, Policy Fellow, Access, Eldoret, Kenya

-        Claudio Ruiz, Executive Director, Derechos Digitales, Santiago de Chile, Chile


Overall moderator:

-        Markus Kummer, Senior Vice President, Internet Society, Geneva, Switzerland

1.4.    Remote moderator

John Walubengo, Dean, Faculty of Computing & IT, Multimedia University of Kenya (MMU), Nairobi, Kenya

1.5.    Feeder workshops

Meeting of the Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality, 2 September, 11:00 - 12:30

WS 208 "Net Neutrality, Zero-Rating & Development: What's the Data?" , 3 September, 9:00 - 10:30

WS 172 "Network Neutrality: a Roadmap for Infrastructure Enhancement" , 3 September, 11:00 - 12:30

Description/Agenda/Questions

Format/Agenda

The main session will have two sub-sessions, with different speakers. Both use a Town Hall approach in format, with engagement with participants in the room, and remote participants.

This main session will use a ‘town hall’ approach with Session one relying on senior leaders from various organizations in the Internet Governance “Ecosystem” on how the IG Ecosystem is evolving, what issues and external factors and key activities are driving changes. This is followed by engagement with participants in the room. The focus includes global processes and initiatives: NETmundial, the CSTD Working group on Enhanced Co-operation; UN-CSTD, WSIS +10 Review, ITU, ICANN, UNESCO, UNGA Resolution on WSIS Review Modalities, etc, which will inform the dialogue and engagement of participants in the room, and following remotely.

Questions and comments from participants in the room and remotely, will close the first segment, with a strong focus on further elaborating on additional examination of the IG Ecosystem from the participants’ perspective. Allocation of time will be 70/30 split between questions directed to the speakers, and audience engagement.

The second segment –“Town Hall” is designed to move into a more interactive approach with engagement then with the room’s [and remote] participants. It will open with brief statements from the invited speakers on the implications of the first segment discussions for the broader IG ecosystem, various stakeholders, and for the IGF itself.  Allocation of time for Segment Two is proposed as 40 /60 with a strong focus on participant engagement, including remote participants.

Substantive rapporteurs will record summary notes for both sessions. and participate with the co-moderators in the preparation of the outputs summary and report of the session. 

Description of Issue

The Internet has been an engine of growth and development, bringing connectivity that bridges countries and cultures, connecting individuals, businesses, enterprises, and governments. The Internet and the resources it connects can inform, educate and empower and is a source of knowledge. Its contribution to social, cultural and economic growth and opportunity is recognized, but with its increased role and importance to societies, individuals and economies, comes key questions of governance, accountability, misuse, access.  Governments and organizations and individuals understandably turn to models they understand or are familiar with to address concerns they view about the use, and potential misuse of the Internet. As the Internet expands, existing organizations, such as the UN agencies, regional organizations, and others are examining their roles.  Newer organizations that follow more of the technical community’s bottom up governance approach, such as ICANN, now co exist alongside older intergovernmental organizations. The IGF was created by agreements in the Tunis Agenda, to further examine the kinds of issues and challenges emerging regarding the Internet’s governance. 

Since 2006, the IGF has been a platform for stakeholders to come together on an equal footing to discuss, exchange ideas and share good practices with each other. While recognizing that there are no negotiated outcomes from the IGF, over the years the IGF has both inspired those with policy making power and acted as a platform to build bridges and engage in dialogue.  While many are embracing the engagement of stakeholders more directly in decisions and governance, others remain concerned that more intergovernmental oversight over the Internet is needed.  Numerous discussions during 2013 and 2014 have continued to elevate these debates.

Today, national policy makers and global policy makers, alongside various stakeholders are engaging in developing approaches to deal with key issues, whether about bringing connectivity to the unconnected, or addressing rules for protection of individual privacy online, or security of networks. A debate about who does what, and who should drive the Internet ecosystem has evolved rapidly. 

While over the years the IGF has also become a space that discusses solutions, questions continue about what next for the IGF? And for the other existing institutions and organizations?  How should the IGF co exist with other structures? What is the best way to  give developing countries the similar opportunities as wealthier nations to engage in the debate on Internet governance.

Questions for co-moderators consideration[to be refined with co-moderators to reduce to 2-3 per segment].  – Not all questions will be posed to and responded by all speakers

Segment 1 – Key questions for Speakers, and Participants

1. What are the key issues, Problems, and challenges that your organization focuses on in the IG space?

2. Speakers from relevant groups are invited to comment on specific activities or events that they consider relevant for global fora/activities/events on the Internet Governance Ecosystem: NETmundial, WSIS+10 HL, CSTD, ITU, ICANN,  UNGA WSIS Review, and other relevant activities and events, identifying both positive and negative contribution to the Global IG process.

3. Evolution of the multistakeholder engagement in [[your] organization – how is MS evolving in the intergovernmental system: challenges.

4. Do all problems require the same approach of multistakeholder engagement? – e.g. differentiation of approaches to the Internet governance of various stakeholders and in different fora?

6. Your views on the contributions and value in IGF to date

Segment 2- Key questions for both Panel and participants

1. What do you think are the key issues that are driving IG Eco-system development?

2.The Future of IGF – How should it evolve and change?  Are there new competitors to the IGF?

3. What role should the IGF play to catalyze broader engagement by different government agencies, more stakeholders?

4. Are negotiated outcomes from IGF meetings feasible? What are the issues with moving into negotiation of outcomes?

5. Is it time to call for and develop processes for a more active role in developing consensus in key areas? If so, what are the possible changes to the IGF structure and processes and resources?

e.g. Can structured working groups, such as the Best Practice Forums piloted at IGF 2014 and other activities offer an opportunity to help resolve the inherent tension between inclusive conversation and effective decision-making that can be taken forward into other fora, as called for in Para 72,(g)?

6.              Are there any opportunities for the MAG and other IGF structural design processes and bodies to be made more inclusive, transparent and/or democratic, to help stakeholders feel more ownership?

Development of Approach:

The speakers and representatives of key stakeholder groups in the IG Ecosystem Session have been identified in an effort to be as inclusive of many of the major IG organizations. The second session brings speakers from different stakeholder groups who are experienced and knowledgeable about the IGF, as well as other key fora.  Participation from the room will be critical to hear new voices.

Four microphones [in the respective stakeholder groups] in the room will allow for maximum minute long interventions from the diverse community, with two remote moderators monitoring online questions and interventions to be included.  All interventions will be kept short.

 Chair

Mr. İhsan Durdu, Advisor, Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications, Turkey

Opening Remarks of Chair of Session: 5 minutes

Moderators

Two co-moderators will facilitate these sessions, supported by substantive rapporteurs, remote moderators, and a twitter moderator.

Co-Moderators:

Jovan Kubalija, DIPLO – NGO

Nermine el-Saadany – Egypt – Government [former host country of IGF and V. Chair, WSIS +10 MPP]

Speakers/Respondents for Sessions

Session 1: Evolution of the IG Internet Ecosystem – Viewpoints from IG Players

1. Benedicto Fonseca Filho (Brazil) Confirmed

2. Kathy Brown (ISOC)  (TC)   Confirmed

3.  Fadi Chehade (ICANN)   Confirmed

4.  Vint Cerf (Google) (Private Sector) Confirmed

5.  Rafał Trzaskowski (Poland, Gov) Confirmed

6.  Milton Mueller (Syracuse U.)   Confirmed

7. Alan Markus (Netmundial @ WEF) Confirmed

8. Mr. M. Salim Ketevanlıoğlu (Nominated by Host Country) (Gov) confirmed

9.  Mervi Kultamaa, WSIS Coordinator, CSTD Confirmed

10. UNESCO (IGO) /Nominating Replacement

11.  (ITU)   [SecGen Invited/not available/offering ITU speaker/TBD]

12. Ambassador Danny Sepulveda, US State, [Details being finalized]

13.  Andrew Wyckoff, OECD, confirmed

14.  Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the  European Commission, Commissioner for Digital Agenda

Moderators will strictly enforce the time limits. Speakers are invited to have fact sheets in the room.

Break to reseat Speakers: 3 minutes

Implications of Challenges and Issues from Session 1/Strengthening the IGF

 1. Philipp Grabensee (Affilias) (TC) Confirmed

2.  Mark Carvell (UK,GOV) Confirmed

3.  Jimson Olufuye

The Best Practices Wrap-up Main Session intends to conclude the cycle leading to the five Best Practices Forums held at IGF Istanbul. The rational for holding these sessions is to take the IGF a step further towards producing tangible output, as recommended the CSTD Working Group on IGF improvements and is explained in a contribution as an input into the preparatory process: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/images/2014/IGF2014/IGF-2014Request-for-Public-Input.v3.pdf

Over the past weeks, stakeholders from governments, IGOs, Civil Society, the business and technical communities, have gathered through virtual communities to work and exchange best practices on five issues: 1/ Developing meaningful multistakeholder participation mechanisms,  2/ Regulation and mitigation of unwanted communications (e.g. "spam"), 3/ Establishing and supporting Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) for Internet security, 4/ Creating an enabling environment for the development of local content, and 5/ Best practices for Online child protection.  

Lead experts, supported by the IGF Secretariat have engaged with the community in a view to exchanging on existing practices and discussing ways to further collaborate. A discussion of unintended consequences, both positive and negative, of mistakes that were made and of lessons learned has further enriched an understanding of what has been accomplished. The means employed to achieve a solution are as important as a learning experience as the actual ends achieved.

Led by independent experts and documented by the Secretariat, the discussions will feed into five 90 minute sessions in Istanbul, that will in turn produce an outcome document for each of the Best Practices Wrap-up Main Session. A summary booklet/handout on each Best Practice discussions/sessions is also one of the intended outcomes to be published after the IGF 2014 meeting.

Policy questions addressed throughout the preparatory process of the Best Practices Forums: 

1.     Definition of the issue

2.     Regional specificities observed (e.g. Internet industry development)

3.     Existing policy measures and private sector initiatives, impediments

4.     What worked well, identifying common effective practices

5.     Unintended consequences of policy interventions, good and bad

6.     Unresolved issues where further multistakeholder cooperation is needed

7.     Insights gained as a result of the experience

8.     Proposed steps for further multistakeholder dialogue

Moderator

Bill Graham (Senior Fellow, CIGI)

Panelists

• Introduction: Constance Bommelaer (Senior Director, Public Policy Partnerships, ISOC)

• Best Practices - Meaningful Multistakeholder Mechanisms: Avri Doria, Advisor (Policy and Governance, DotGay)

• Best Practices - Local Content: Susan Chalmers (Internet Policy Consultant) and Stuart Hamilton (Director, Policy and Advocacy, IFLA - tbc)

• Best Practices - CERTs: Maarteen Van Horenbeeck (Chair of FIRST) and Christine Hoepers (General Manager of the Brazilian CERT)

• Best Practices - Karen Mulberry (Policy Advisor, ISOC) and Michael O'Reirdon (Engineering Fellow at Comcast and MAAWG Chairman Emeritus)

• Best Practices - Online Child Protection: Jaqueline Beauchere (Chief Online Safety Officer, Microsoft) and Carla Licciardello (Child online protection focal point, ITU – tbc)

• Conclusion - The future of the IGF and its role in developing Best Practices: Nii Quaynor (Chairman of the Board of Directors, NITA)

6.5. Remote moderator

Towela Jere (Programme Manager, NEPAD)

6.6. Feeder sessions

• Best Practices Forum on Developing meaningful multistakeholder participation mechanisms

• Best Practices Forum on Regulation and mitigation of unwanted communications (e.g. "Spam")

• Best Practices Forum on Establishing and supporting Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) for Internet security

• Best Practices Forum on Creating an enabling environment for the development of local content

• Best Practices Forum on Online child protection.  

In March 2014, the United States National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced its intent to transition its stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) function to the global multi-stakeholder community. The IANA function is a technical administrative function relating to three categories of Internet identifiers: Internet protocol parameters, Internet Protocol addresses, and Internet domain names. Policy development relating to these three categories takes place outside of the technical administration of the IANA function. Various parties, such as the Internet Engineering Task Force, the regional communities associated with the Regional Internet Registries, and Supporting Organisations within the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), develop these policies, which are then translated into the technical fabric of the Internet by the IANA team. This process ensures that the Internet remains the globally unique resource that we are all familiar with today.

The IANA function is performed by ICANN, pursuant to a contract between ICANN and the NTIA. Discussion about the stewardship of the IANA function has generated a parallel discussion about accountability within ICANN. From an organisational perspective, this discussion focuses on how ICANN’s broader accountability mechanisms should be strengthened to address the absence of its historical contractual relationship with the US Government. While separate from the IANA stewardship transition discussion, the process on enhancing ICANN’s accountability is a key component to the success of the IANA stewardship transition.

The IGF enables the global community to further deliberate on these two issues: the transition of NTIA’s stewardship of the IANA functions and the parallel process of enhancing ICANN’s accountability. This Main Focus Session will have been successful if participants leave feeling better informed on these two interrelated processes.

Thus this session will be divided into two parts: the first will discuss the transition of NTIA’s stewardship role, and the second will discuss the impact of the transition on ICANN’s accountability scheme. For each part, the session will provide questions that both panelists and audience members can respond to. The session will open with a brief background on the IANA functions. 

Relevant questions include the following:

1. Transition of NTIA's Stewardship of the IANA Functions:

1.              How is the IANA transition discussion evolving?

2.              How will the various parties involved in the IANA functions be affected by these proposals?

3.              What are the expectations with respect to the timeline and how could the process improve to meet the deadline?

2.  Enhancing ICANN Accountability:

1.              What are the guiding principles to ensure that the notion of accountability is understood and accepted globally?

2.              What features does the community identify as being core to strengthening ICANN's overall accountability in the absence of its historical contractual relationship to the U.S. Government?

3.              What are the means by which the global community is assured that ICANN is meeting its accountability commitments?

Chair

Mr. Nihat Sümer, Vice-President, Information and Communications Technologies Authority, Turkey

Moderators

For Panel No 1 on IANA stewardship: Nii Quaynor, University of Cape-Coast, Ghana. 

For Panel No 2 on ICANN accountability: Matthew Shears, Center for Democracy and Technology.

Panellists

Panelists for the IANA stewardship transition:

1. Joseph Alhadeff, Chair of the ICC Commission on the Digital Economy;
2. Andrew Sullivan, IAB 
3. Narelle Clark, Internet Society;
4. Byron Holland, President and CEO, Canadian Internet Registration Authority, Chair, ccNSO;
5. Manal Ismail, National Telecommunications Regulatory Agency of Egypt; 
6. Valentina Pavel Burloiu, Association for Technology and Internet, Romania.

Panelists for ICANN’s accountability process:

1. Avri Doria, Researcher, ICANN, IETF and Internet Society participant;
2. Benedicto Fonseca, Itamaraty, Brazil;
3. Towela Nyirenda-Jere, NEPAD;
4. Theresa Swinehart, ICANN;
5. Paul Wilson, APNIC.

5.5.         Remote moderator

Susan Chalmers, Principal, Chalmers & Associates

5.6.         Feeder workshops

No. 185: ICANN Globalization and the Affirmation of Commitments

No. 191: ICANN Globalization in an Evolving IG Ecosystem

No. 114: Developing countries participation in global IG

The Taking Stock Main Session intends to reflect on the main outputs of the IGF Main Sessions:

• Policies enabling access, growth and development on the Internet
• Towards a common understanding of Network Neutrality
• Evolution of Internet governance Ecosystem/ Role of the IGF, Netmundial, CSTD and UNGA, WSIS review, ITU, other fora and initiatives
• Best Practices wrap-up
• IANA functions: NTIA’s stewardship Transition and ICANN’s accountability process

The goal of the discussion is also to identify issues that lend themselves to ongoing inter-sessional work and to discuss ways to pursue the work:

• Conclusions from the main discussions
• Measuring how issues have advanced with concrete progress
• Possible steps towards inter-sessional IGF work: soliciting input from amongst the national and regional IGFs as well as other Internet governance entities, launching new Best Practices tracks/Forums led by volunteers from all stakeholder groups, looking into the role of Dynamic Coalitions, etc.
• Overall conclusions on the role of the IGF in the evolving Internet governance ecosystem.

Policy questions:

1.              Which issues from all identified would require immediate and full attention of policy makers and other stakeholders?

2.              What policy measures and private sector initiatives need to be taken in order to address

3.              Identified challenges and impediments

4.              Role of the IGF, including national and regional IGFs, in advancing these issues

5.              What issues from all identified need further inter-sessional work and who could be Lead Experts in coordinating the inter-sessional efforts

Chair

Prof. Osman Nuri Uçan, İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey

Moderator

Janis Karklins, Chair of the IGF MAG and Open Consultations

Panellists

•                Angelic Castilho (Diplomat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Suriname) and Richard Allan (Vice President, Public Policy, Europe, Middle East & Africa, Facebook): Main Session - Policies enabling access, growth and development on the Internet 

•                Markus Kummer (Senior Vice-President, ISOC): Main Session - Network Neutrality: Towards a Common Understanding of a Complex Issue

•                Marylin Cade (CEO, mCADE) and Subi Chaturvedi (Asstt Prof. Journalism & Comm, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi Univ): Main Session - Evolution of Internet Governance Ecosystem and the Role of the IGF

•                Bill Graham (Senior Fellow, CIGI): Main Session - Best Practices Wrap Up Main Session 

•                Carolina Aguerre (General Manager, LACTLD): Main Session - IANA functions: NTIA’s stewardship Transition and ICANN’s Accountability Process

Format:

•                The Chair (Turkey) opens the session (5 min)

•                Janis Karklins introduces the session (5 min)

•                Panelists report on the Main Sessions listed above in 5-7 min/session (30 min in total)

•                Janis Karklins presents his takeaways from the IGF (15-20 min)

•                Q&A, interaction with the audience (25 min)

•                The Chair (Turkey) closes the session (5 min)

Remote moderator

Constance Bommelaer (Senior Director, Public Policy Partnerships, ISOC)

Feeder sessions

 •                Main Sessions listed above.