IGF 2024 Day 0 Event #112 The Technical Community Safeguarding the Internet You Want

    ICANN
    Adam Peake, ICANN, Technical Community, WEOG
    Joyce Chen, APNIC, Technical Community, WEOG

    Onsite Moderator: Adam Peake, ICANN, Technical Community, WEOG
    Online moderator: Elizabeth Oluoch, ICANN, Technical Community, WEOG
    Rapporteur: Becky McGilley, ICANN, Technical Community, WEOG

    Speakers

    Joyce Chen, APNIC, Technical Community, WEOG
    June Okal, ICANN, Technical Community, Africa
    Mirja Kühlewind, IETF, Technical Community, WEOG
    Olaf Kolkman, ISOC, Technical Community, WEOG

    Onsite Moderator

    Adam Peake

    Online Moderator

    Elizabeth Oluoch

    Rapporteur

    Becky McGilley

    SDGs

    4.1
    4.2
    4.3
    4.4
    9.1
    9.2
    9.3
    9.4
    10.2
    10.6
    17.9


    Targets: 4.1
    By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes
    4.2
    By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education
    4.3
    By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university
    4.4
    By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship
    9.1
    Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and transborder infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all
    9.2
    Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and, by 2030, significantly raise industry’s share of employment and gross domestic product, in line with national circumstances, and double its share in least developed countries
    9.3
    Increase the access of small-scale industrial and other enterprises, in particular in developing countries, to financial services, including affordable credit, and their integration into value chains and markets
    9.4
    By 2030, upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilities
    10.2
    By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status
    10.6
    Ensure enhanced representation and voice for developing countries in decision-making in global international economic and financial institutions in order to deliver more effective, credible, accountable and legitimate institutions
    17.9
    Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the sustainable development goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation

    Format

    Roundtable

    In a roundtable format, the session will mix information from experts with questions and dialogue. There will be designated speakers for each of the main topics of the session, but other experts, representative of different regions, will also attend. The Internet is inherently a collaboration, we aim to use the session to inform and also identify areas for collaboration. Participants in the session will gain a comprehensive understanding of the topics at hand without feeling rushed.
    Presenters and discussants will include representatives all the Internet Technical Community Organisations from all regiobs: ICANN, Regional Internet Registries, ISOC, IETC and Country Code Top Level Domain Name mangers.

    Description

    What do we mean when we say the "Internet"? To many of us, the Internet might be what we access on our phones or laptops – content, applications, and services. It provides a way for us to communicate with family, friends, and colleagues, and to access and share information. However, the Internet – an essential communications, development, and empowerment tool – would be impossible without its technical meaning. The Internet is a network of many networks, more than 70,000+, independently owned and managed, that are globally connected and use common protocols that facilitate communications and enable interoperability. The Internet We Want is only possible because of the stability, resiliency and interoperability of its technical foundation. The technical aspects that make up the Internet are invisible to many and are often taken for granted.

    The session aims to strengthen participants' understanding of the technical foundations of the Internet and the technical community’s role in the Internet’s operations and development. We will discuss how these organizations that comprise the Technical Community, with separate responsibilities and work together to ensure the Internet continues to function well.

    The session will take a step-by-step approach in explaining how Internet communications are enabled. How do our computers know where to find the website we want to access? How does our email end up at the correct destination?

    At this year's IGF, we will discuss the Internet We Want. This session will provide participants with a deeper understanding of how the Internet’s technical foundations and robust multistakeholder governance model supports the Internet we all want.

    We encourage online as well as onsite participants. The Internet technical community is very familiar with working on hybrid formats, it is how we conduct many of our meetings. The moderators and speaker are very experienced in this format.