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14th Annual Symposium of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network

Present the results of the Global Citizens' Debate on the future of Internet: http://wetheinternet.org/

Co-organizers: Germany National Commission of UNESCO, the Council of Europe, OECD, Association of Progressive Communications, Internet Society, ICANN, CETIC.br, Missions Publiques, GNI, GFMD Upon completion of a two-year global multi-stakeholder consultation process on defining Internet Universality Indicators, the final outcome of R.O.A.M.-X indicators (Rights, Openness, Access, Multi-stakeholder, Crosscutting) framework has been given green light by UNESCO’s IPDC (International Program for Development of Communication) Council for voluntary assessments at national level since November 2018. In conjunction with multi-stakeholder partners, this pre-event is dedicated to presenting UNESCO’s outcome of the R.O.A.M.-X indicators framework and showcasing the initial national assessment results using these indicators as conducted in a number of countries across Africa, Latin America, Arab and Europe. The ROAM-X indicators framework is a unique and powerful resource developed through an extensive process of research, consultation and analysis. The work of national assessments aim to measure all six categories of indicators (either full 303 indicators or the core 110 ones) in a country. The national assessment process aims to: • present a clear and substantive understanding of the national Internet environment and policies; • assess that environment and policies are in conform to UNESCO’s R.O.A.M. principles • develop policy recommendations and practical initiatives that will enable the country to meet their goals and to align to with UNESCO principles as the Internet evolves. By displaying good practices of conducting national assessments of indicators across several continents, UNESCO invites stakeholders to debate on how to implement those policy recommendations at national levels. UNESCO encourages IGF stakeholders to consider conducting national assessment using R.O.A.M.-X indicators in more countries and trigger the policy debates for improving the Internet development at national and global levels. UNESCO encourages and welcomes those key actors and research institutions and individuals to express their interest in supporting the national assessments process and stands ready to join partnership and synergy agreements. UNESCO will also offer onsite training to interested actors and research teams on the implementation process and research methodology for them to conduct national assessment of indicators in their countries. 

Webpage: https://en.unesco.org/themes/internet-universality-indicators

Contact: Xianhong Hu (UNESCO), Email: [email protected]

Agenda

The digital transformation is meant to improve the lives of ordinary citizens, but what will it do to society itself? Will the digital transformation benefit everyone? A full discussion of the impact of the digital transformation on society requires everyone to participate, including those whose voices are not usually heard. Apart from this main topic, there are also structural issues that are well-suited to discussion in the course of the German IGF event: How can the unheard voices of civil society make themselves heard, and how can societal dialogue become an established institution? How can the knowledge gap between the insiders (IGF community) and outsiders (unheard voices) of the digital transformation be closed?

The objective of the 'Collaborative Leadership Exchange’ is to bring together the staff and participants in the different sponsored programs to the IGF, as well as all other interested attendees to network, build relationships, exchange ideas, discuss key local / regional Internet governance issues, and explore applicable solutions. The event will be focused on key topics (e.g. Future of the Internet ecosystem, Youth & the Internet, Internet & human rights, Access, Critical Internet Resources, AI & Ethics, Privacy, Cybersecurity, etc.) while integrating the inputs, requirements and experiences of different stakeholder groups. This session will contribute to building communities of learning and fostering relationships that create a multiplier effect on that cascades throughout the IGF week of activities, and beyond.

This meeting is a pre-IGF gathering of media development stakeholders who are engaged in IGF. This includes media development implementer, researchers, and donor organizations. The objective is to exchange knowledge in order to have a greater impact at the subsequent IGF. The media development community has traditionally been under-represented in internet governance processes, so this gathering is also an attempt to encourage more participation and engagement.

Conflicts of laws (viz. legal contradictions between different national legal regimes) are not a new phenomenon, but they are becoming a particularly crucial issue in the age of global digital communities and services. In the realm of international data governance, the US Cloud Act and the European E-Evidence-Proposal serve as striking examples: The legal regime created via these new frameworks will be substantially shaped by the interplay between state data access competences with extraterritorial reach on one hand, and blocking statutes, aiming at preventing such access, on the other hand. The resulting “Clash of Codes” in this case is not accidental, but politically intended. This raises the question how to resolve such manufactured conflicts.
The decade-old “international comity” doctrine aims to provide a legal recourse to resolve such conflicts of law. However, comity remains a rather general and vague principle and is often “poorly understood” (William S. Doge). Moreover, from the perspective of an affected institution, it provides insufficient legal certainty to effectively render a solution.
Against the background of the US Cloud Act and the European E-Evidence proposal, the proposed workshop will discuss possible ways to resolve internationals conflicts of laws. Can an advanced comity doctrine serve as an answer? Or will political solutions in the form of new treaties or even supranational legal frameworks be necessary?
Potential introductory speakers:
 Tiina Astola, General Director, DG Justice, European Commission.
 Bettina Brückner, Judge at the German Federal Court of Justice
 Prof. Dr. Joe Cannataci, Chair in European Information Policy & Technology Law, University of Groningen
 Prof. Jennifer Daskal, American University Washington College of Law & Center for Strategic and International Studies.
 Andrea Jelinek, Chair European Data Protection Board

The Internet Commons Forum (ICF) is jointly organised by FGV, ISOC, APC and Centrum Cyfrowe.  The ICF aims at gathering thinkers and doers that are developing ideas and solutions for a less concentrated and more just Internet. See http://www.intcomforum.org/ 

The structures of the Internet affect us more deeply than ever before, reaching out to all aspects of our lives, from our societies and cultures to our finances and politics – to our very individual human behaviours and identities. This  event will explore different views of Internet Commons exploring strategies for a less concentrated Internet.

Every session will feature weel-respected thinkers and doers exposing their ideas and innovative approaches for 10 minutes each and subsequently engaging in a collaborative discussion with the participants in order to identify paths for collaborations.

Opening: Setting the Scene

• Luca Belli, FGV
• Adam Burns, Free2Air
• Sophie Bloemen, Commons Network
• Volker Grassmuck, Digitale Gesellscaft

Section 1  Infrastructure(less)

• Jane Coffin, ISOC
• Carlos Baca, Rhizomatica 
• Nico Pace, LibreRouter

Open debate on actions and proposals 

Moderator: Anriette Esterhuysen, APC

Section 2  Platforms, Content and Data

• Mathias Judd, Qaul Net
• Mariana Valente, Creative Commons
• Anita Gurumurthy IT for Change
• Paul-Olivier Dehaye, PersonalData.IO

Open debate on actions and proposals 

Moderator: Anriette Esterhuysen, APC

Section 3 Crowdsourcing Policy 

• Markus Beckedahl, Netzpolitik.org
• Alek Tarkowski, Centrum Cyfrowe 

Open debate on actions and proposals 

Closing remarks: Luca Belli & Adam Burns

The session will be followed by a cocktail reception.

The internet is here to stay, it has changed the way society connects, communicates and exchanges information, in many ways for the better. Due to the widespread popularity and constant development of smart phones and electronic devices modern life has reconfigured, cutting across national boundaries and impacting on relationships, culture, economy and world views (Jenson, 2013). However, social media can be a double-edged sword. There is growing concern that digital technology can also bring negative repercussions, especially to the younger generation who are its main consumers.

During this pre-event participants will explore current online trends and the growing range of threats to the global internet, such as online challenges (e.g. Momo and Blue Whale Challenge), internet ethics, fake news, hate speech, human rights and security. Moreover, participants will discuss how to turn challenges into opportunities making sure all citizens are benefiting from a healthy digital environment.

The pre-event will follow a multi-stakeholder approach inviting different stakeholders from the public and private sector to share their efforts to make the internet a better place for all citizens. In addition, this session will also give a platform to young people, inviting them to challenge policy makers and industry partners and providing them with the opportunity to shape the internet governance agenda.

More generally, this pre-event will provide a substantial overview of issues relevant under the IGF Theme III: Security, Safety, Stability and Resilience, while drawing up on related issues of concern under Theme I: Data Governance (e.g. data privacy, digital identity) and Theme II: Digital Inclusion (e.g. digital literacy).

Format:
- Kick-off with a set of interactive questions for the audience.(10min)
- Introductory panel including representative from private and public sector, civil society and youth participants.(30min)
- Feedback and questions from the audience.(20min)

eco – Association of the Internet Industry, the Alliance for the Strengthening of Digital Infrastructures in Germany & Initiative Digital
invite you to discuss the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for the Internet of the future.

When the Internet Governance Forum (IGF 2019) comes to Germany for the first time in November 2019, the players in the international multi-stakeholder dialogue (governments, civil society, business, academia, (inter)national organizations and the technical community) will discuss issues such as Data Governance, Digital Inclusion and Security, Safety, Stability & Resilience of the Internet of the future.

At this session as part of Day Zero on 25 November 2019, the IGF 2019 Community will be brought into closer contact with users from SMEs in Germany. The aim is to identify and discuss the real points of reference of the SME representatives from the user industries for the Internet of the future. The points of contact for regular exchange between the SME user industries and the multi-stakeholder groups mentioned have so far been limited. For this reason, eco – Association of the Internet Industry would like to draw the attention of and gain traction with SME representatives from the user industries at the IGF 2019 in Berlin in relation to the focus topics and three major themes of the IGF 2019 conference.

Representatives of SMEs will brought together with representatives of the Internet industry to discuss current issues of digital transformation in relation to their specific business models. The aim is to incorporate the concrete needs and demands of SME representatives from the user industries into the multi-stakeholder dialogue for an Internet of the future. In this way, the voice of the users in Berlin will find its way and be integrated into the dialogue, and in turn the relevance of the Internet Governance Forum for the user industries will be communicated.

Further details & speakers: https://international.eco.de/event/eco-panel-igf2019-needs-of-smes-for-the-internet-of-the-future/

1. Introduction / Background:

Today, the Internet is the central political, economical and societal medium worldwide. It permeates all subsystems of our digitalized societies and is essential for people's daily lives. The concept of a free and open Internet is decisive as a political-social idea for the order of transboundary virtual space. The free and open Internet, coupled with a multi-stakeholder approach, is seen as a guarantor of economic growth impulses and development opportunities as well as a key to the perception of fundamental political rights and the strengthening of the resilience of societies. Today's ubiquitous presence of the Internet in our digital societies also brings with it new and diverse challenges. The challenges concern areas such as social cohesion (hate speech and fake news), security (cybercrime and cyber attacks), civil rights (e.g. data protection) and fundamental regulatory issues (taxation of digital business models). In view of these challenges and already observable fragmentation tendencies, it is important to debate globally which common answers can be derived from the ideal of free and open Internet for today's challenges. For such answers to be found, a shared vision of a desirable future for the order of the Internet is essential.
All the more urgent is such a shared vision, since the idea of a free and open Internet is also challenged by an alternative, authoritarian model. Some authoritarian states are enforcing a more prominent role for states in the administration and management of the Internet. This alternative idea of order would enable states to censor content in these state-restricted areas or to switch off the Internet for political reasons. This would not only make the Internet a medium of surveillance instead of political self-empowerment. There would also be an increasing number of national Internets, which would foster the undesirable fragmentation of the Internet.

2. Proposal for Day Zero

2.1. Conceptual Preliminary Work:

Against this background, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in cooperation with the Global Public Policy Institute is preparing a study on the future of the Internet. This study will identify important trends and develop scenarios for the future of the Internet from a European / German perspective. The normative frame of reference is an expertise developed for the Konrad Adenauer Foundation by Prof. Dr. Christoph Neuberger of the LMU Munich. This study can serve as a compass for the design and regulation of the Internet. In the context of a panel discussion on Day Zero, we will use our global network to discuss the communication science analysis and the scenarios gained with stakeholders from Asia, Africa and Latin America. With a problem-oriented view of the future of the Internet, the aim of the panel is to work out the common ground as well as the regional differences and thus make a contribution to the urgently needed debate on the future of the Internet, which can be continued.

2.2. Methodical Considerations

The aim of the event is a problem-oriented discussion on the future of the Internet, which should serve as an impulse for a vision on the future of the Internet. In addition to the panelists' discussion, the audience will also be involved. Therefore, we will conduct question rounds on individual problem areas / challenges. In these, the respective representatives from individual regions will be asked about their perspective to specific challenges (short statement). The statements will then be discussed and related to each other. The audience will also be involved via interactive methods.
In the run-up to the event, we are planning various activities on social media (e.g. Twitter surveys on the future of the Internet). Furthermore, the event will be accompanied parallel via our social media accounts (e.g. input for questions).

2.3. Speaker

As speakers, we aim to integrate multipliers from different regions. The aim will be to involve representatives from Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and Latin America. For the identification of relevant speakers, we will use our global network of over 100 offices abroad. First consultations have already taken place. As soon as we have commitments from individual representatives, we will be happy to communicate them.

In Paris during WS #40 Jari Arkko (IETF/IAB) asked: "Is the IGF the right place to discuss the topic of consolidation"? This session aims to find out. By preparing the audience by way of a limited number of questions, answers are found, e.g. to these questions. What is the challenge? What are chances? What the hazards? Are stakeholders missing from the discussion? What are the outcomes of present studies? Is there a(n intersessional) role for the IGF to play in 2020? Finally the room is asked to share recommendations on the way forward.

One expert is asked to set the stage (either Jari Arkko or ISOC). What follows is a open discussion with the room led by a moderator. It is an open session, with specific invitations to relevant stakeholders.

One of the most divisive laws to be enacted in recent history is the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (aka "EU Copyright Directive"). Coming right after the GDPR, at a time when many parts of the world--particularly countries from Emerging Economies--are looking to Europe for inspiration for their own national legislation, the Copyright Directive appears to have created significant controversy, disruption and dissonance among both citizens and activists. In particular, Article 11 (“Link Tax”) and Article 13 (“Algorithmic Censorship”) have provoked angry responses from multiple communities including the technical, copyright, journalistic, and human rights experts and organizations from around the world, as these are seen ambiguous, unworkable and if put in practice, are likely to result in stifling of free speech, creative expression and fair use of resources. While the Directive has passed the EU-level legislative process, it has to be adopted by individual countries in EU for implementation, and there appears to be considerable variation in the way different countries are approaching these national laws as well. Since there are likely to be extraterritorial effects of these laws (just as in the case of GDPR), and since the Directive may inspire similar legislation in other countries, Internet Society Chapters Advisory Council Steering Committee (ChAC-SC) believes that they may adversely impact the Internet’s existence as a free, open space that believes in borderless communication and permissionless innovation. Consequently, ChAC-SC considers it beneficial to have discussions around this topic with participation from Chapter representatives around the world, sharing experiences, concerns and means of mitigating any negative impacts of this and other similar laws in other geographies. About 50 participants from different parts of the world are expected to participate in the session. The following key participants will speak and guide the session: Amrita Choudhury, India Delhi Chapter Eduardo Diaz, Puerto Rico Chapter Elaine Ford, Peru Chapter Lillian Nalwoga, Uganda Chapter Nabil Bukhalid, Lebanon Chapter Olivier Crépin-Leblond, UK-England Chapter Peter Koch, German Chapter Satish Babu, India Trivandrum Chapter Susannah Gray, US San Francisco Bay Area Chapter

As a part of a larger UNESCO initiative on countering gender-based harassment and threats against journalists, the International Alumni Center together with the Global Diplomacy Lab (GDL) and UNESCO, are convening a moderated brainstorming session on Tackling the Safety of Women Journalists Online at the 2019 Internet Governance Forum. This workshop will be the third session in a series of consultation sessions organized by UNESCO and its partners on this topic, after a kick-off session in February 2019 at the OSCE in Vienna, and a follow-up meeting at the World Press Freedom Day global celebration in Addis Ababa in May 2019.

The session will have the goal of engaging participants of different backgrounds (journalism, internet governance, academia, NGOs, government and international organization) in a discussion on best practices to counter online harassment of women journalists. Online threats, violence and harassment against women journalists are a growing problem. Such attacks hamper freedom of expression online; can lead to self-censorship and in some cases, online violence triggers offline attacks.

The results of this discussion will contribute to a UNESCO study on countering online harassment of women journalists. The study, launched in 2019, examines gender-based harassment and threats against journalists online. With a global scope and an intersectional perspective, it strives to develop concrete recommendations on how to combat online harassment. The recommendations will be targeted at different stakeholder groups such as governments, media organizations, judiciary, NGOs and journalists.
Through the participatory format, multi-stakeholder engagement is encouraged, delivering specific feedback on the research. The results of the discussion will be taken into account in the final draft of the publication.
The theme of the session is directly linked to IGF 2019 Theme III “Security, Safety, Stability & Resilience” and to SDG’s 5 (Gender Equality) and 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions).

Digitisation and all decisions taken about it are disproportionately affecting young people. It is not enough to be able to operate devices to take advantage of the Internet's great opportunities for economic development, education, cultural design, transnational exchange and political commitment. The Internet Governance Forum enables all stakeholders - politics, the private sector, civil society and the technical community - to understand the decision-making processes that have an impact on the Internet. Youth is the largest demographic group of Internet users. However, their voices are less heard in Internet-related decision-making processes. Young people between 18 and 30 are the decision-makers of the (near) future.
Thanks to the Internet Governance Forum in Berlin from 25 to 27 November 2019, there will be an extraordinary opportunity for young people in Germany and beyond to actively participate in the programme and exchange in a global context.

The German Youth IGF aims to coordinate national and international activities leading to Youth Positions to the Internet Governance Forum in its role as the host country's youth initiative.
In this pre-event, representatives of Youth initiatives will present their common positions, gather input and define next steps for Youth in Internet Governance.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in November 1989 and is the most ratified treaty in history. It was visionary and at the same time set out a clear set of requirements, on behalf of children, that are binding on the signatory states

Thirty years later, childhood has been transformed. In parts of the world with high connectivity technology mediates and augment all areas of a child’s education, family and social life. What once were billed as the three pillars of a child’s socialisation; family, peers and school, have been joined by a fourth; the digital environment. In those parts of the world that are yet to be connected, or for those children who do not have access, the lack of access is fundamental to their life chances.

At the invitation of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, 5Rights Foundation is coordinating a General Comment to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which will set out, for the first time on a global scale, how states should apply children’s rights in the digital environment. Our session at the IGF comes at a crucial midway point of the process, after world-wide consultations with experts and children and before the first draft of the General Comment is read by the full Committee on the Rights of the Child.

This provides a unique opportunity for IGF delegates to contribute directly to the formation of the General Comment and to meet key players on our journey.  The session will be chaired by Baroness Beeban Kidron, Chair 5Rights Foundation. We plan a highly interactive session which will include contributions from;

Mason Rikard, Gifted Young Generation Podcaster – A Child’s Right to be Heard

Professor Sonia Livingstone OBE, London School of Economics and lead author - Outlining the key areas of the General Comment

Jutta Croll, Stiftung Digitale Chancen, Chairwoman of the Board, Project Manager Child Protection and Children’s Rights in the Digital World – Outlining the importance and status of the general comment

Professor Amanda Third, Western Sydney University – Key findings from consultations with children

Alpesh Shah, Senior Director of Global Business Strategy & Intelligence at the IEEE Standards Association

We will invite a high-level representative from the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, and a UK representative for closing comments.

Once adopted, the General Comment to the UNCRC will set a new international standard for children's rights in the digital world and will be applicable in the 196 countries that are signatories to the Convention.

The central digital questions – those of inclusion, governance and safety – can no longer be restricted to a narrow online domain, as social justice concerns become decisively entangled with Internet, data, algorithms and AI. Digital intelligence, based on socially and economically valuable data, continues to restructure key sectors such as health, trade, commerce, agriculture, financial services, retail, hospitality, tourism and more. For social movements engaged in long standing struggles for equity and justice, the faultlines of contestation are being redefined. However, the vocabulary and strategies to pin down the manner in which neo-liberal globalization and dominant digital frameworks come together remain largely out of grasp of most social activists in tradtional sectors. Similarly for digital rights activists, a nuanced understanding the meaning of inclusion, governance and safety as it relates to different sectors of the economy and society, is now an imperative.

Just Net Coalition (JNC) was born through a recognition of this urgent imperative to build bridges between the older, “traditional” social movements and the digital rights community. We believe that IGF, which brings together a vibrant patchwork of digital rights activists, civil society organisations, businesses big and small, journalists, coders, policy makers, lawyers etc. will be the ideal space to rethink and restrategize an agenda for social movements at the cutting edge of radical change.

In March 2019, we organised a workshop in Bangkok titled Equity and Social Justice in a Digital World. The workshop brought together 60 activists from all over the world, from backgrounds in digital activism and of activism in other more tradtional sectors. The event aimed at brokering a dialogue between actors from social movements and members of the digital rights community and explore the possibility of creating common pathways for data and digital justice. Speaking from their particular background in digital rights work and social movements, participants weighed in on the digital moment and its possibilities and challenges for social movements. While discussing the challenges and opportunities participants also spoke about how digital rights movements could find points of convergence with these struggles. In addition, the workshop included voices from the digital rights space speaking to critical issues of data protection, cross-border flows of data versus data localization, access and so on who debated in what ways digital paradigms bring up/ reinforce the older questions pertaining to social justice. All participants worked towards articulating a common digital justice agenda and a manifesto.

At IGF, we would like to present this digital justice manifesto developed from an equity and social justice perspective, and further develop perspectives and strategies around it for effective social action.

We have continued our efforts to open up spaces of conversation and dialogue between digital rights communities and social and economic rights movements at different venues and platforms including till date, the Global IP Congress, the WTO public forum, UNCTAD, as well as the IGF itself. We are working to develop a ‘Digital Justice Manifesto’ which can create a reframed mandate for social movements and digital rights activism together.

We propose a full- day session of activities and discussions that are tentatively structured as follows:

1. Opening debrief on the ‘Digital Justice Manifesto’: To kick-start the event, members of the Just Net Coalition will present the draft version of the Digital Justice Manifesto to the participants and go over the key themes and mandates.

2. Sectoral/thematic panel: A panel will present and discuss how such an equity and social justice agenda specifically relates to important digital themes of the Internet, data, algorithms, digital platforms and AI. This will be followed by a plenary discussion.

3. Breakout sessions to brainstorm the manifesto: The idea of having breakout sessions is for regional or sectoral caucuses to branch off into more focussed conversations. Groups will work on specific aspects of the manifesto by offering their perspectives and critiques through guided questions and prompts.

3. Concluding plenary: Groups will come back with their ideas and inputs to an open plenary session where the inputs will be discussed and integrated into the manifesto.

Organiser: EU Cyber Direct

Time: 25 November 2019, 10:35-12:35

Location: Estrel Saal A

The Project Team of EU Cyber Direct is hosting this event aimed at all stakeholders engaged in responsible normative behaviors in cyberspace to connect in advance of IGF to get to know each other’s work on the issues globally and look for common ground. 

The international discussion on norms of acceptable behaviour in cyberspace has been prominent in the last few years and the establishment of norms is being placed higher on the agenda of many international fora. While states remain the duty bearers for human rights and security, the digital domain has a myriad of actors with a specific interest in the domain, who have launched several initiatives to establish norms within and between stakeholder groups. At the United Nations the UN Group of Governmental Experts (UNGGE) has previously made a milestone 2015 consensus report on norms of state behaviour in cyberspace. In 2019 two processes were created at the UN to expand on this consensus through another UN Group of Governmental Experts and an Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) which has created broad participation opportunities.

The two processes at the UN do not exclude non-governmental stakeholders from playing a role in creating, implementing and observing norms. The two goals of this event are therefore to take stock on the current progress on multiple stakeholders approaches to responsible normative behavior and strengthen the multi-stakeholder dialogue on operationalization of norms by connecting stakeholders who work on those issues. This workshop intends to ask:

-           what roles do stakeholders play for the UN norms?

-           what actions are they currently taking in their role?

-           what roles can they play to guarantee a free, open and secure internet?

-           what tools and mechanisms could support them to take on a certain role?

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) hosts this discussion to weigh the political, technical and ethical opportunities of artificial intelligence (AI) for sustainable development. AI is a key technology driving the global digital revolution. As such, it holds great potential of low and middle-income countries to break down existing barriers to human development and social inclusion. On behalf of the ministry, GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) already works together with UN Global Pulse and Mozilla Foundation to implement projects in Ghana, Uganda and Ruanda. The event takes stock and draws conclusions for the future. In doing so, the participants discuss how open training data and AI technologies contribute to local innovation, how ethical policy frameworks for AI can be developed and how to promote AI expertise for sustainable development.

Speakers

• Alex Klepel, Communications Lead & Open Innovation, Mozilla
• Axel Klaphake, Director Economic and Social Development, Digitalisation, GIZ
• Carla Licciardello, Child Online Protection Focal Point, International Telecommunication Union
• Robert Kirkpatrick, Director, UN Global Pulse

On-site moderator

Wadzi Motsi-Khatai

The event that we wish to hold on Day 0 shall deal with the term "Sicherheit" and the changes that it has undertaken since our daily lifes are more and more digitalised. Since the german language does not differentiate between "Safety" and "Security", the meaning of "Sicherheit" and the promise behind it in the digital world is of special interest for the TÜV that deal with this for more than 150 years now. The question of what kind of "Sicherheit" we can have in the digital world in contrast to what it means in the analog world shall be raised in this event.

a) Introduction

Growth rates in the digital economy in the Mediterranean and Middle East region continue to be high. Telecom and Internet providers have worked tirelessly on increasing bandwidth capacities to 4G and more. But there are differences between the countries in the region. While Internet penetration in the small Arab Gulf countries is at a record high of more than 90 percent, figures in North African countries such as Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia range between 44 and 65 percent.

The geographical proximity to Europe, small to no time differences, and the potential for qualified workers put especially North Africa at a competitive advantage. It is against this background that start-up scenes have developed in many Arab countries. No matter if education, healthcare, financial services, or transport & logistics: start-ups in the Mediterranean and Middle East region make smart use of digitization in a variety of business sectors.

The 3rd German-Arab Forum on the Digital Economy sheds light on the digital transformation in the region. It will address two core topics of digitalization: sustainability and the future of work. It aims thusly to highlight success stories and best practice examples and intends to sensitize relevant stakeholders and actors for a sustainable dialog with the region.

b) Program

https://www.ema-germany.org/en/events/regional-forums/digital-forum/2019/program/

Opening Remarks from the moderators (1.45 pm – 1.55 pm)

Mrs. Clara Gruitrooy | Secretary General | EMA & Mr. Ian Lachmund | Senior Advisor | AWE

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Best Practice Discussion (Panel I): “Achieving Sustainability through Digitalization” (1.55 pm – 2.40 pm)

• Mr. Michael Krake | Director „Private sector; trade, employment; digital technologies“ | German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
• Mrs. Jana Dotschkal | Senior Project Manager | Wirtschaftsnetzwerk Afrika / Africa Business Network
• Mr. Sebastian Kliem | Head of Special Interest Groups | Voice e.V. - Federal Association of IT Users
• +1 empty seat for active audience participation

Best Practice Discussion (Panel II): "The Impact of Digitalization on the Future of Work" (2.40 pm – 3.25 pm)

• Mrs. Steffi Kirchberger | Managing Director | JARO
• Mrs. Amel Saidane | President | Tunisian Startups | Tunisia
• Mr. Christian Kallenbach | Senior Sales Advisor | Cloud & Heat
• +1 empty seat for active audience participation

Concluding Remarks by the Moderators (3.25 pm – 3.40 pm)

c) Speakers Biographies

https://www.ema-germany.org/en/events/regional-forums/digital-forum/2019/speakers-of-the-forum/

d) Target Audience

The Forum is directed at economic, political, and civil society decision-makers and multipliers from all countries in the Mediterranean and Middle East region including the member states of the Arab League and of the European Union in addition to the other countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea. It aims to highlight the diversity of different perspectives especially regarding social start-ups and female entrepreneurs. Furthermore, the Forum wishes to bring political decision-makers from the mentioned region in contact with representatives of start-ups, associations, and the digital economy at large.

e) Further Information

The German-Arab Forums on the Digital Economy were organized at the CEBIT – the world’s leading digitization fair – in 2017 and 2018 and attracted several hundreds of international experts, entrepreneurs, and representatives from the digital economy. For an overview of the conference findings, speakers, and topics see the websites at the following two links:

https://www.ema-germany.org/en/events/regional-forums/digital-forum/2018...

https://www.ema-germany.org/en/events/regional-forums/digital-forum/2017/

„It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a founder in possession of a good graph, must be in want of an investor.“
Benedict Evans (https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1036469665004834816)

Graphs are a computational abstractions of relations between entities: people, places, goods, interest, aspirations etc. Facebook for example owns and exploits what Mark Zuckerberg has called the “social graph” (Zuckerberg 2008). Amazon owns a consumption graph linking goods and people, Uber, Lyft and a host of mobility companies currently aim to monopolize the mobility graph linking locations and movements of people.

Hence it can be said that for today’s platforms graphs are a strategic asset.

The relationship of political actors and nation states to graphs is more difficult to assess. Documents from the Snowden archive as well as doctrinal writings from US and British sources suggest that at least intelligence services considered graphs as an important and strategic asset since the early 2000s. Graphs allow to map entire populations and their relationships and to conduct information operations. Identifying communities within populations and influencing them relies on the same computational techniques as advertisement on social or search graphs owned by Facebook or Google.

What are the infrastructures of graphs and who controls them? How do graphs and graph analysis alter our understanding of individual privacy - and related: do we have to think about privacy scaled to larger aggregates like populations? We will discuss these questions along with key findings on the development of graphs as strategic assets both in economic and political contexts. On this basis we then like to discuss what it means for thinking about sovereignty when whole populations can be represented and managed by and with graphs. We then like to offer some thoughts on the political problems and dimensions of these dynamics.

Bio:
Christoph Engemann is Post-Doc for Society and Digitalizion at the Faculty of Media Bauhaus-University Weimar. His research interest include media of statehood, genealogy of transactions, history and media of graph theory, and rurality and barns.

This event will showcase an EU-funded project on the use of technology to help assess, treat, and prevent mental health difficulties for young people. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this event will illustrate the latest research from psychology, psychiatry, human computer interaction and computer science concerning the role of new technologies in the present mental health ecosystem. Via demonstrations, participants will learn about technology-assisted cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), mental health apps and their relationship with key policy directions within the IGF mission.

The BSI has already proposed the panel discussion/session for the Day Zero: "The role of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) in a digital society: Participatory approaches to shaping information security". The video testimonial should be included in this panel discussion. Before the start of the panel discussion, a short video testimonial will be shown. This testimonial will be given by Arne Schönbohm, President of the BSI, and will address the relevance of the multi-stakeholder approach in the area of cybersecurity."

The objective of this event to show that how Fakenews is adversely affecting people of Asian countries. It has adverse impact on political stability, social and economic growth of the country. Speaker will raise his concern about Fakenews by giving real life examples and facts. He will also cover the impact of Fakenews on all stakeholders related to private sector like Employers, Employee, Consultants, Professionals (Lawyer, Doctor, and Chartered Accountants), Government Authorities and Consumers. He will also discuss with audience innovative solutions to conquer fakenews.

In this session, I want to raise my concerns about the career opportunities which are provided to the youth and Internet user by self-pro-claimed coaches or gurus. Many advertisements and articles can be seen on the Internet which tells a fake story about lucrative career options like Domain Name Investment, Money Minting Blogging, Affiliate Marketing etc. They show these opportunities as quick-rich program and fake proof of income, do false claims, they show their lavish lifestyle as result of the career they have chosen and to teach those secret tips they sell online courses and e-books. Most of the time that self-pro-claimed guru or coach tells you the black and grey hat tactics to fool search engines, affiliate programs and they tell you tricks and tools to generate fake traffic and fool ad networks. In young age they are learning unethical and immoral ways of earning. Our youth and new internet users are adversely impacted and ruining their career by getting nothing and specially citizens of third world countries are affected. I will share some real life examples and facts in this session. In the last I will ask community support and invite collaborate to aware our youth and new Internet users as well.

The event will start out with a keynote of 15-20 minutes by Mr. Könen (Director General of the department “Cyber-and Informationsecurity” of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community) addressing key elements of the state’s role for a secure and sovereign acting in the internet. The keynote will be followed by an open discussion with the participants on this topic. Crucial questions in this context are: o How do we prevent internet-based infrastructures and services from being compromised by state and non-state actors? o How can a state introduce its own ideas and interests, in particular in the international discourse on the development of the internet? o How can a state avoid risky dependencies with respect to internet-based products and services? o How can european and international cooperation contribute to „digital and state sovereignty“?

AI can have discriminatory effects when based on biased prior human decisions. In the public and private sector, AI-enabled decisions are made in many key areas of life – recruitment, admission to universities, credit, insurance, eligibility for pension payments, housing assistance, or unemployment benefits, predictive policing, judicial decisions and many more. Non-discrimination law and data protection law, if effectively enforced could address AI-driven discrimination. However, there is a deficit of awareness among the law enforcement and monitoring bodies and the general public. The community of industry, public authorities and civil society should address this issue in the context of the Internet governance debate.

The event will present the challenges and risks around the implementation of AI algorithms, the pros and cons of transparency and the ways to manage it in an optimal way, how to guarantee explicability - so users will understand how the algorithm works, how to secure the transparent process of its creation to make sure that it would not discriminate etc. It will also look into the role of Equality bodies and how to enhance it.

Draft Agenda:

9.00        Introduction to programme + short presentations of the speakers,

                 Irena Guidikova, Head of Inclusion and Anti-discrimination division, Council of Europe

9.15       Input: Overview of main challenges in relation to AI and discrimination

                Prof. Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius       

10.00     1st round of table discussions by session participants facilitated by speakers covering:

                What are the responses required to address the challenges and to ensure a victim centred approach?

                What is being done already and what else should be done?

10.30     Input: What role can, and should Equality bodies have?

                Milla Vidina, EQINET; Robin Allen, barrister Queen’s Counsel and co-founder of www.ai-lawhub.com

11.00     2^nd round of table discussions by session participants facilitated by speakers: Who’s problem is it?

               Discussion on roles and responsibility on addressing identified/anticipated challenges by different stakeholders (authorities, Equality bodies, NGO’s, the industry), how can their role be enhanced and what can be done to enable them to uphold their responsibilities.

12.00     Feedback from the table discussions in Plenary and Final discussion: setting up a minimum agenda for equality bodies in cooperation with other stakeholders

12.30     Finish

Key contributors (speakers)

Kirsi PIMIÄ, Anti-Discrimination Ombudsman, Finland

Milla Vidina, EQINET (European Network of Equality Bodies)

Krzysztof Izdebski, Policy Director of ePaństwo Foundation (Poland) working on government transparency and data

Meeri Haataja, CEO & Co-Founder, Saidot.ai

Merel Koning, Senior Policy Officer Technology and Human Rights, Amnesty International (or substitute)

Prof. Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, Professor of Law, Radboud University, the Netherlands

Robin Allen, barrister Queen’s Counsel and co-founder of www.ai-lawhub.com

Matthias Spielkamp, Director, Algorithm Watch

Irena Guidikova, Head of Inclusion and Anti-discrimination division, Council of Europe

Usefully documentation:

Commissioner for Human Rights: Unboxing Artificial Intelligence: 10 steps to protect Human Right

European Commission again Racism and Intoloerance: Study on "Discrimination, artificial intelligence and algorithmic decision-making

In April 2014, representatives of governments and stakeholders from around the world gathered in São Paulo, Brazil to negotiate and adopt the NETmundial Multistakeholder Statement on global Internet governance. As the statement's Preamble explained, "This is the non-binding outcome of a bottom-up, open, and participatory process involving thousands of people from governments, private sector, civil society, technical community, and academia from around the world. The NETmundial conference was the first of its kind. It hopefully contributes to the evolution of the Internet governance ecosystem."

The statement had two main sections. The first was a list of Internet Governance Principles that enumerated human rights and shared values; set out procedural guidlines concerning the conduct of multistakeholder Internet governance; and highlighted other guiding objectives like promoting a unified and unfragmented Internet that retains an open and distributed architecture and is secure, stable and resilient. The second was a Roadmap for the Future Evolution of Internet Governance that covered a broad range of priorities for action, including strengthening the IGF, completing the IANA transition and advancing ICANN's globalization, promoting enhanced cooperation and multi-stakeholder mechanisms at the national and global levels, and improving communication and coordination among Internet governance processes. The Statement also took note of the need for further dialogue and cooperation in other issue-areas like law enforcement assistance and cyber security, mass and arbitrary surveillance, capacity building, the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders, jurisdictional questions, benchmarking systems, and net neutrality.

Five years on, what has been achieved in terms of follow-up and implementation of the Statement's Principles and Roadmap? In which issue-areas they covered have we seen progress, stasis, or retrenchment, and why? What, if anything, could be done in the current geopolitical environment to advance cooperation on the Statement's unrealized objectives? Might any of the current initiatives being pursued in intergovernmental or multistakeholder settings help? Is there a role for the IGF in any such efforts, and could any aspects of the NETmundial process be instructive regarding the IGF's own performance? Does the NETmundial offer lessons and have normative relevance to emerging governance challenges, or should we just regard it merely as a one-off event of no lasting significance?

The purpose of this Day 0 session is to promote open and probing dialogue on these and related questions. The session will be structured as follows. In the first half, the co-moderators will pose a series of questions to a roundtable of panelists regarding the NETmundial's legacy and general impact as well as the progress or lack thereof on the issues outlined in the Principles and Roundmap. In the second half, the discussion will opened to all participants for what should be a highly interactive and illuminating community discussion.

Organizers and co-moderators:

William J. Drake, the University of Zurich, civil society, Switzerland
Wolfgang Kleinwachter, Euro-SSIG, civil society, Germany

Roundtable participants:

1. Carlos Afonso, Institute Nupef, civil society, Brazil 
2. Fiona Alexander, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, government, USA
3. Vint Cerf, Google, business, USA 
4. Hartmut Glaser, CGI.Br, technical community, Brazil 
5. Jeanette Hofmann, The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, academia, Germany 
6. Nnenna Nwakanma, The World Wide Web Foundation, civil society, Côte d'Ivoire
7. Stefan Schnoor, Ministry of Economics, government, Germany 
8. 3-4 more TBD

A workshop around the question of how data in smart cities should be governed to foster the creation and delivery of effective, innovative and sustainable mobility and transportation services for citizens, while respecting their privacy and other fundamental rights. The format is based on breakout discussions and collaborative work towards collecting and formulating tentative principles and best practices for Data Governance in Smart Cities.

In today’s world, we are faced with not only the record pace with which new technologies emerge, but also with the exponentially growing demand for access to technology, online content, services, and tools. These emerging technologies are frequently headlines on the news, on the top policymakers’ agendas, and dominate business conversations. Year after year, new and emerging technologies are also at the front and center of policy discussions at the IGF.

At the same time, IGF participants have very different levels of familiarity and understanding of how some of these innovations function. While some might be experts on emerging technology topics, others are just beginning to engage in discussions. Additionally, some participants might be familiar with one particular field but may not have a strong understanding of another.

Given the prevalence and importance of emerging technology topics at IGF, there is a need to establish a common foundation for policy discussions throughout the IGF week. Having experts provide first-hand information about the technologies from a wide-range of perspectives could help equip participants with the basic tools needed to more confidently engage in dialogue and debate on the following IGF days, and to also more effectively participate in IGF.

For this purpose, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Business Action to Support the Information Society (BASIS) initiative is proposing a series of short, introductory presentations - so-called ‘crash courses’ - on the latest technologies, to discuss their functions, use, potential, and impact on economy and society. The session will consider the following topics:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Blockchain
• 5G
• IoT
• Smart cities

The session will give participants the opportunity to hear from senior industry experts about the five above-mentioned emerging technologies topics. Each expert will break down his/her topic and will explain it in a simple TED Talk manner for about 15 minutes, followed by a quick Q&A session. Such a session could attract a great amount of attention at IGF, both from newcomers and more experienced participants. At the same time, the session would prove useful for participants across stakeholder groups. 

This is an in-person meeting for the governments and Advisory Network Members of the Freedom Online Coalition (FOC). The IGF is one of the key forums around which the FOC coordinates, enabling the FOC to hold in-person meetings to plan its activities and diplomatic coordination for promoting and protecting human rights online. This meeting will be attended by between 20-30 governments, and a similar number of non governmental experts of the FOC's Advisory Network, from across stakeholder groups.

We want to contribute to a stronger parliamentary participation in the IGF 2019 by means of an opening event at day zero. By providing a platform for discussing the parliamentary dimension of Internet Governance we want to connect especially members of parliaments dealing with digital affairs as well as stakeholders from other areas. This event serves as a starting point for an ongoing debate during the IGF 2019 in Berlin, about how we achieve an international parliamentary networking about Data Governance, Digital Inclusion as well as Security, Safety, Stability and Resilience for the good of the citizens.
This event is planned as a discussion- and networking-kickoff event within the day zero framework: To allow a broad discussion involving perspectives from different countries, we suggest to have a short keynote from the host countries representatives, followed by an open mic – phase, where in a first step members of parliaments are invited to shortly share their perspective (presentation of name; country; party; topics they are interested in; no longer than two minutes). Then, in a second step, we suggest an open mic – phase for all other stakeholders willing to contribute to the debate (presentation of name; country; institution; topics they are interested in). Afterwards, there should be the possibility for networking among the stakeholders.

One of the key elements of Internet accessibility in developing countries is international connectivity. Internet provisioning relies on basic building blocks, as no Internet governance will exist if not even broadband access is assured. The case of Afghanistan is further complicated as a landlocked country, because international connectivity to submarine cable landing stations or terrestrial fiber networks needs to be achieved through neighboring countries. That is an inherent weakness in itself, because prices for Internet access in landlocked countries are higher and often times supply restrictions condition availability of services.
How can this issue be tackled? Afghanistan has found an ingenious way around it, which effectively turns a weakness into an opportunity. The process is described in the rest of this paper.

Pew Research Center and Elon University will present the findings from the latest “Imagining the Internet” report, which marks the 50^th anniversary of the first host-to-host Internet connection, which took place October 29, 1969. Imagining the Internet and the Pew Research Internet & Technology Project have been engaged in global technology policy research for more than 20 years. They have partnered in dozens of studies to which hundreds of Internet Governance Forum participants have made important contributions.

Pew and Elon recently canvassed technology thought leaders from around the world, asking them to describe how digital life will change over the next 50 years. The results of this particular qualitative study, which is scheduled for a November 2019 release, include insights from more than 450 participants, ranging from corporate policy professionals to Internet Hall of Fame engineers to leaders of global civil society organizations and individual members of civil society on topics such as: the likely future integration of technology into peoples’ lives; changes in available applications and features built on Internet-enabled platforms; and the potential new rules, laws and innovations in engineering that may emerge over the next half century. 

This Day Zero event will focus the legal and ethical conundrums that arise from the expansion of connectivity, shifting political and social power structures, and quality-of-life issues. The results of this research reflect this time as an inflection point; a crossroads in regard to the potentials and pitfalls of digital growth. These expert respondents said the decisions made today will have enormous influence in shaping the Internet of tomorrow.

The session will introduce the research findings and include commentary from several IGF participants who participated in the research and others who will contribute to a lively discussion on digital futures.

The session is planned for 120 minutes, and can accommodate anywhere from 50 to 200 attendees in a flexible room set up to enable comments from those invited as respondents, but also interactive engagement with participants.

The organizers will distribute a one- to two-page high-level outline of the findings and an invitation to participants. In addition, we are inviting the NRIs and Youth Initiatives to join this session as observers and participants from the floor.

The goal of this Event is to give participants an insight of the process of Deliberation that ordinary citizens experiment when taking part to the Global Citizens' Debate on the Future of Internet. https://www.wetheinternet.org Beyond the proper experience the event will allow to test the gap and/or alignment of wishes and concerns articulated by experts in comparison to the discussions of ordinary citizens of the world.

The Internet Ecosystem in which organizations such as ICANN fulfil responsibilities is rapidly evolving. A range of issues, whether legislative or regulatory initiatives with unintended consequences, cybersecurity attacks, or emerging platforms with dependencies on the Internet’s unique identifier system are contributory factors to our engagement in the global ecosystem. This Workshop Session will explore the role ICANN has in furthering the stability, security of the Domain Name System (DNS) and how it engages with partners in fulfilling this goal. Critically, it will also discuss with global participants what more needs to be done to preserve the Internet. Specifically, the Session, with participation from a number of different organisations, will address the following: The emerging ecosystem and technologies and ICANN’s remit. The current threat environment to the DNS and the Internet’s critical resources including a dialogue on actual attacks that have taken place; Emerging legislative and other initiatives benefiting from engagement with partners to avoid unintended or unforeseen consequences. How cooperation mechanisms between the different actors are required to address the diverse range of threats faced;

Policy Questions benig looked at: 

1.  How attacks on the DNS have evolved and threaten it's security and stability;

2.  What ICANN is planning to better address attacks on the DNS so that the security, stability and openness of the Internet can be maintained;

3. How ICANN will effectively work with other partners to give effect to these objectives 

This will be an open brainstorming session on how to promote alternatives to the dominant Internet giants, aimed at anyone in any stakeholder group that wants to contribute; it is meant to feed into the panel with the same name that we have proposed for the main programme. This will allow us to invite and give voice to many more people; a report of this event will then be given at the beginning of the panel and submitted to panelists for comment, and all of this will then feed into the report of the panel itself. The actual structure of the event will be finalized later, but we plan to have a few initial presentations by experts to set the problem, followed by open discussion among all participants, breaking down the time into smaller slices on specific subsets of the issues.

Latin America is a region with a problematic legacy of authoritarian governments and human rights violations. In the last couple of years, there’s been a trend to increment the use of technology for surveillance purposes, online and offline, often without clear human rights safeguards, becoming a threat for marginalized population, activists, journalists, political dissidents and other groups.

In this session, Latin American representatives from Governments, Civil Society and the Private Sector will discuss strategies aimed to work together towards a regional Human Rights framework that regulated the use of technologies for surveillance purposes, online and offline.

The civil society coordination event will act as a convening and collaboration opportunity for civil society groups working on issues related to internet governance and policy. It will allow groups to discuss issues of common concern and to identify opportunities for collaboration on issues and forums. It will also allow the participants to consider issues relevant to the IGF agenda and identify what opportunities exist during the IGF where civil society can come together to reinforce common positions and thereby strengthen the civil society voice in internet governance discussions.

MyData Global, an international non-profit which advocates for human-centric approach to personal data, proposes the multi-stakeholder workshop on the topic: "GDPR more than one year after. How to make it happen?" with the focus on the practical implementation of GDPR’s article 20, "Right to data portability". Article 20, paragraph 1 reads:
"The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, where:
- the processing is based on consent pursuant to point (a) of Article 6(1) or point (a) of Article 9(2) or on a contract pursuant to point (b) of Article 6(1); and
- the processing is carried out by automated means."

In 2019, a year after GDPR came into force, article 20 is more a formal than actionable right. On one hand, there is a lack of tools, applications and processes to make it happen on the side of the organizations processing the personal data. On the other hand, people don’t know how to access their data and their often don’t trust their data is used ethically. This hinders the economic development based on data.

The workshop will bring the representatives of government, civic organization, technical communities and business. The aim of the workshop is to raise the awareness of the global decision makers and business executives about the current status of the implementation of GDPR, and to generate the actionable solutions to make the article 20 reality in the upcoming years. The workshop will feed in into the discussion on Data Governance of IGF and contributes to the debate on the importance of human centric approach to personal data for just, equitable and inclusive model of sustainable development for everyone and reaching the SDGs (particularly SDG 8,9,10 and 16).

Practical implementation of article 20 of GDPR is particularly relevant for reaching the goal of fair data economy and prosperous digital society based on:
- Trust and confidence, that rest on balanced and fair relationships between people, as well as between people and organisations
- Self-determination, that is achieved, not only by legal protection, but also by proactive actions to share the power of data with individuals;
- Maximising the collective benefits of personal data, by fairly sharing them between organisations, individuals and society.

The technical development of the Internet and policy are intrinsically intertwined: they mutually depend on each other. For the Internet to continue to evolve in a positive way, it is essential that we reach good policy outcomes, which requires well-informed stakeholders to have a seat at the table. Therefore the goal is to provide participants a well-rounded base of knowledge that will help them contribute meaningfully to the matters that will be discussed at the IGF. Onboarding activities and efforts for the IGF 2019 in Berlin shall be two-fold: * Creating comprehensive learning material for online self studies as a means of preparation for people planning to attend the upcoming and any further IGFs * If approved, we will hold Day Zero follow-up sessions on these self studies, facilitated and led by experienced members of the IGF community Onboarding learning material shall at least include: * The Internet as a network of interconnected networks: what’s at the core of it? * The Domain Name System (DNS) as a fundamental service for (almost) all services on the Internet * What are the consequences of this technical design for Internet Governance? * What is Internet Governance, why does it matter, what is the IGF for? * What are the impacts of policy and policy making on Internet infrastructure, both intended and unintended?

Innovation and consumer choice are at the heart of the internet. In an increasingly globalized digital marketplace, however, there is a growing need to develop standards that protect the health and safety of consumers. The sale of medicines over the internet represent one of the fastest growing markets, driven largely by a lack of affordability and domestic availability. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over two billion people lack regular access to essential medicines. Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of people have used the internet to fill legitimate prescriptions from both domestic and foreign pharmacies.

While consumers increasingly turn to internet pharmacies, there is a critical gap in guiding principles or standards that apply across national boundaries. Instead, we have a legislative and regulatory patchwork with uneven jurisdictional coverage, frequently outdated, and enforced disproportionately. The lack of transnational principles, guidelines and/or standards as they apply to internet pharmacies has at least two implications to consumer choice and consumer safety. On the one hand, it undermines access to affordable and quality medical products from legitimate internet pharmacies, while simultaneously failing to address the risks posed by rogue actors that sell falsified or substandard medical products, often without a valid prescription. In order to fend off the growing public health moral hazard, there is a fundamental need to develop appropriate international regulatory guidelines. Every day, people all around the world use the internet to purchase products and services wherever they find them at a price they are prepared to pay, for a legitimate product. Pharmacy is no different. What is required, in other words, are ‘digital’ standards to augment outdated ‘analog’ laws.

The aim of this Workshop will be to examine a practical and pressing case study of digital governance as it applies to a growing public health need. While the initiative may be novel in the context of an IGF event, it builds on years of work that culminated in 2018 with the adoption of the Brussels Principles on the Sale of Medicines Over the Internet (‘Brussels Principles’, www.BrusselsPrinciples.org) developed by a coalition of stakeholders, internet experts and civil society at RightsCon Brussels 2017 and Toronto 2018.

For Day Zero, we will convene a broad spectrum of invited guests from across the spectrum of stakeholders to take up the outstanding technical and policy challenges while imagining the future of digital governance of transnational internet pharmacies.

Remote participation will be supported for those not able to attend in person and who indicate their interest in this very topical area.

Output of the Day Zero event will also be reflected into the requested workshop submitted into the IGF MAG process.

Following IGF 2019, the output of both Day Zero and the proposed workshop will be reflected in the continued work program in support of building awareness of the Brussels Principles and their acceptance at both national and international levels, also through engagement with the WHO and other relevant UN entities.

Proposed as an event to be passed on to be 'owned' by a small group of lead-participants from Civil Society, to be identified. This is a preliminary request, subject to reaffirmation by a team of organizers to be formed, as a event that would a reunion of Civil Society participants, mostly from within the IGF space, some to be invited from Civil Society without. Proposal to be expanded, and if approved as an expanded proposal, to be organized with a request to the IGF for a meeting space with good conferencing facilities, preferably in the IGF venue, with Internet for remote participation, Coffee and lunch or boxed lunch for 300-500 participants, either as direct/in-kind funding from the IGF, or by way of the IGF's assistance in securing the required funding, which may be around $10,000 euros. The event would be organized, tentatively, as a Round Table discussion on the topic "Stakeholder balance in Internet Governance for innovation in Business and effectiveness in Governance” Discussion to be led by discussion leaders from across stakeholder groups, with a geographical and gender balance.

This discussion will raise issues and potential solutions for education on ethics for the young digital talents in the era of AI. There will be ideas and experiences shared by academias and practitioners on how universities should provide their students wilth multi disciplinary approach on ethics related to the fast adoption of AI.

25 November 2019 (Day-0), Room V

3:10pm – 6:15pm 

In his speech at the IGF2018 in Paris, António Guterres, UN Sec-Gen, highlighted the importance of an inclusive dialogue on new digital technologies and policies around them in order to maximize their benefits to the humankind whilst minimizing their negative unintended consequences. He stressed the notion of “leaving no one behind” as a prerequisite to reaching workable solutions for challenges posed by these new technologies and the way they affect societies, and to achieving the globally agreed 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.  

During IGF2018 recap session in Paris, it was noted that the voices of the Middle East and North Africa are among those particularly missing or underrepresented in the global debate. A more concerted effort is obviously required to identify the barriers and to boldly rethink the current approaches.

This session aims at bringing together various actors in the region and beyond, including from organizations, entities, and initiatives addressing key Internet-related policy and governance areas. Speakers and participants will have equal opportunity to share experience, and outline both efforts aimed at better engagement in the region, and also barriers that might be limiting the realization of the full potential of these efforts.

The session will also seek to identify synergies and gaps, where actors can further their efforts, rethink activities, or commence on new partnerships to bridge existing gaps.  It will also touch upon existing mechanisms to draw on best practices and lessons learnt, identify needed developments, and collectively outline envisaged plans for the region.

Session will adopt a moderated roundtable format to allow for maximum engagement.

CO-ORGANIZERS

• NTRA of Egypt 
• RIPE NCC
• Internet Society

AGENDA

Introduction and Session Overview (10 min)

    Hisham Aboulyazed, Sr. Manager for Information Society, NTRA

Segment 1: Focus Topic - Regional Engagement and Capacity Development Efforts (80 min)

This segment will focus on engagement activities, highlighting current efforts to build capacities and develop necessary skills, in order to advance regional participation in policy development. It will discuss the following questions:

1. How to increase meaningful stakeholder participation from the region in Internet governance and digital policy discussions?
2. What are the challenges and barriers to regional engagement in policy development? What are missing ingredients?
3. How to integrate efforts to collectively advance development of capacities and necessary skills in the region?

Moderator: Christine Arida, Executive Director, Planning and Telecom Services, NTRA

Discussants:

• Manal Ismail, Chair, ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee
• Chafic Chaya, Regional Communication Manager for Middle East, RIPE NCC
• Fahd Batayneh, Stakeholder Engagement Sr. Manager - Middle East, ICANN
• Susan Teltscher, Head of ITU-D Capacity Development Division, ITU
• Adil Sulieman, Senior Policy Officer, African Union Commission
• Vladimir Radunovic, Director of e-diplomacy and Cybersecurity Programmes, DiploFoundation

Segment 2: Focus Topic – Initiatives around Digital Policies in the Region (80 min)

This segment will look at existing national and regional initiatives.It will try to identify gaps as well as synergies and potential opportunities for collaboration and integration. It will discuss the following questions:

1. What are the current initiatives within the region and what is their impact on policy development?
2. What are existing gaps and how to bridge them?
3. Which synergies can be identified and built upon and what are the challenges?

Moderator: Hanane Boujemi, Executive Director, Tech Policy Tank

Discussants:

• Jane Coffin, Senior Director to the CEO, Internet Society
• Ayman El Sherbiny, Chief of ICT Policy Department, ESCWA
• Qusai Al Shatti, former Co-Chair of Arab IGF Review Team
• Nadira Al-Araj, Member of ICANN NomCom
• Tijani Ben Jemaa, MAG Vice-chair, North Africa IGF
• Zeina Bou Harb, Co-convener, IGF Lebanon
• Sasha Rubel, Programme Specialist, Knowledge Societies Division, UNESCO

Wrap up (15 min)

IGF LAC Space is a session to gather all participants from the LAC region in an attempt to share their achievements of the present year and their plans for the following year. It started in 2016 in Guadalajara and this would be the 4th edition of the session.

The format is a round table with a moderator to control that everyone adjusts to the scheduled times.

The participation average is growing from year to year. In 2018 we had more than 50 participants.

The agenda for the event is:
- Introduction (5 minutes)
- News of the IGF from LAC MAG Members (15 minutes)
- 2019 achievements and 2020 projects from LAC Region organizations form all sectors (60 minutes)
- Invitations from IGF 2019 session organizers and panelists (10 minutes)

The last 20 years has seen some measure of progress. The question remains how long it will take to connect the next billion, and when it will take the earth to fully include the remaining underserved communities. While many reports and studies note the benefit of connected communities to support development and meeting the UN SDGs; yet there remain significant gaps in national level governmental public policies, especially in regulatory and legislative frameworks that support last mile and rural connectivity. This is often compounded by inadequate core infrastructure such as rural power sources, tower infrastructure and back-haul, with a commercial operators’ focus on the more lucrative urban rather than rural connectivity. Internet access is not feasible without affordable, reliable and sustainable energy sources.

Energy and digital connectivity are enabling mechanisms for diverse industries, education, health care, trade which impacts communities globally.  Whilst there has been substantive discussion in the past on bridging the divide, the reality remains that there is no simple answer to the remaining challenges of connecting those who are not connected, or who are under connected – e.g limited access, lack of digital skills, lack of useful content, lack of affordable power sources.

Silo approaches, by regulators and Ministries in healthcare, agriculture, education, finance and economic development, need to be removed, and new technologies and innovation encouraged. There needs to be a multi-faceted approach of changing how electricity can be more broadly distributed, how community networks can augment and co-exist with existing communications and Internet Service Providers, and building skills through partnerships with NGOs and others to help to bring the rest of world into the digital age, regardless of whether they are in Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, MENA, SIDS or in indigenous communities tangible support to bridge the divide.

The concept of community networks dates back to the start of wide spread use of the Internet in the US and Europe, when groups of people set up ways to share resources or Internet connections across local networks. At heart, community networks rely on the active participation of individuals and local communities, are owned by the community, and operated in a democratic fashion. Community networks are operationalised through a whole variety of local stakeholders, NGOs, private sector entities, and or public administrations, who are involved in the designing, developing, implementing, maintaining and governing community networks. While the world slowly closes the access gap with 50% of the world's population now connected, the challenge associated with connecting and enabling the remaining 50% has not diminished.

Expected Outcomes:

The session will start with discussions on creating a road map process to better understand what needs to be done in the short and long term. There are several expected outcomes:

1. Identify opportunities and lessons learned that would support the developing countries alignment of clean energy sources that support both urban and rural and remote users
2. Identify the most critical gaps hindering the adoption and deployment of community networks in the developing countries.
3. Identify opportunities for governments to align national broadband and connectivity priorities programs with key community network infrastructure
4. Identify key issues on funding, resources and capacity at the national level.
5. Identify key data gaps hindering the penetration of Internet to the underserved communities in the developing countries

Convenors: Wisdom Donkor (Ghana) and Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro (Fiji)

Moderators: Credo Global: Rebecca Crosbie and Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro

Online Moderator: Wisdom Donkor,  Africa Open Data and Internet Research Foundation

Rapporteur: Hfaiedh Ines, (Tunisia)

Panel:

1. Hon. Samuel Nartey George, Minister of Paliament, Ghana
2. Fuatai Gisa Purcell – Acting Secretary General, Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation.
3. Amelia Kamanalagi Muriel - Pasifika Nexus Think Tank (France) 
4. Emani Lui - Founder of MakaNet an Internet Service Provider (New Zealand) 
5. Charles Nolan - Former Vice President Qatar Airways and Chief Executive Officer of Focus East, a Cybersecurity and Technology company (Qatar) 
6. Dr. Carlos Rey-Moreno, Community Networks Project Coordinator, Association for Progressive Communication (APC) (South Africa)
7. Robin Atalla – Chief Executive Officer, Hiding Place Foundation (Egypt) 
8. Zeina Bouharb – Head of International Cooperation, OGERO Telecom (Lebanon) 
9. June Parris – Entrepreneur and Health Specialist (Barbados)
10. Stephen Mawutor Donkor, Director Projects and Technical, Africa Open Data and Internet Research Foundation, (Ghana)
11. Mamadou Lou - Head of Information Department, La Banque Agricole (Senegal) 
12. Imran Ahmed Shah, Founder, President IGF Pakistan, UISoc, Urdu Internet Council.
13. Kwaku Antwi, Director, Outreach, Capacity Building and Business Development, Africa Open Data and Internet Research Foundation (AODIRF)