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What is the Internet Society (ISOC )?

Shernon Osepa,Manager Regional Affairs Latin America & the Caribbeanosepa@isoc.org

ICT Week GuyanaGeorgetown, Guyana9 October 2017

Presentation title – Client name 1

• What is the Internet Society (ISOC)

• Global and LAC activities

• Open Standards Development(IETF)

Agenda

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About the Internet Society

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•Vision: “The Internet is for everyone”

•Mission: "to assure the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world”

Vision and mission

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•Chapters: the people who USE the Internet

•Organizations: the people who BUILD and RUN the Internet

•IETF: the people who INVENT, REFINE and ensure an INTEROPERABLE Internet

Three key working areas

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Key achievements

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•Twenty five years of leadership at the intersection of Internet

technology, development, and public policy

•Organizational home of the Internet Engineering Task Force

(IETF), which sets global Internet Standards

•Trusted reputation as neutral and unbiased advocates for the Internet

•Broad engagement across stakeholders including industry, government, universities, and civil society

•Expert contributors to the World Economic Forum, United Nations bodies, Internet Governance Forum(IGF), OECD, etc.

•Access to an international network of experts

Key achievements

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Global + LAC activities

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• Access (community networks)

• Trust

• Internet Governance

• Interconnection and Traffic Exchange improvement/ IXP support

• Support Network Operators Communities LAC/CaribNOGs

• W4C initiatives

• Support Academia and Universities

• Promote IETF participation from the region to include regional needs in future Internet Services and Standards

• Support and encourage deployment of Advanced Internet Technologies such as IPv6, DNSSEC, RPKI, etc.

• Awareness and engagement activities on future Internet issues and/or technologies such as IoT, Mobile, Security, etc

Global + LAC activities

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Open Standards Development (ecosystem)

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•Challenges in LAC regionWeakness

•The region is underrepresented!

Opportunities•And there are many working groups where our engineers can contribute (based on their own experiences);•There is a need in the IETF for more operators;•There is interest in the IETF on reaching out the open source communities;

Addressing the challenges •IETF first time held in LAC region Buenos Aires (April 2016).

On the Internet Engineering Task Force(IETF2)

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Thank you.

Shernon Osepa

Manager Regional Affairs Latin America & the Caribbeanosepa@isoc.org

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