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Multistakeholder Internet
Governance possible solutions
Grigori Saghyan
Internet Governance Council
secretary
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General terms
How to implement the provisions of WSIS action
plan for Internet Governance.
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IGF – starting point
Global IGF http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/ is the outcome of WSIS
Participants represents government private and public sectors
Main outcome is the generation of common approaches on Internet challenges
Armenian government's representatives do not participate in IG Forums, there is only public sector representatives, reason is that WSIS is not a convention and there is no any formal obligation on participants.
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ITR, Dubai 2012 - discussion
The discussion about the role of ITU in the Internet governance has started on June 24 2012 and initiates discussion in Armenian community.
Internet Society of Armenia has prepared it’s position on ITU submitted proposals, suggests to implement WSIS multi-stakeholder approach in IG and delivers his position to the ministry of transport and communications (MTC) of Armenia
МТС has distributed this proposal among governmental structures, and on November common position on the Internet Governance Principles was approved.
Position was based on multi-stakeholder model of Internet Governance
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Internet Governance Council of Armenia
The government decision on creation of IGC was
adopted in August 2014.
The status of IGC is inter-department commission with
invited private and public organizations.
Head of the IGC is the deputy minister of MTC
Secretary of IGC is the VP of Internet Society of
Armenia
Secretariat of IGC is the Internet Society of Armenia
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IGC members Ministry of Transport and Communications
Police
National Security Service
National Academy of Sciences
Internet Society NGO
Union of Employers NGO
Ombudsman
Union of Mass Media Agencies NGO
Armenian Chamber of Commerce
Yerevan Press club
Union of IT Companies NGO
National Library of Armenia
“Freedom of Information Center of Armenia” NGO
2 telecom operators
Internet Society NGO (secretariat)
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IGC Goals and Objectives
to create favorable conditions for
1) our fellow citizens and organizations regardless of
the type and nature of activities more often, more
affordable way to communicate using web services
2) public participation in formation of the global
information databases in line with the cultural
peculiarities, e.g. to overcome the language barriers
3) forming knowledge-based society, capturing a unique
place and role in global current development, worthily
representing the Armenian cultural values
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IGC Goals and Objectives
to suggest
1) approaches on Armenia's positions that will
be presented at the Global IGF
to support
1) cooperation with Inter-state, International
organizations, Regional Associations and other
IG related organizations
2) Infrastructure development in Armenia
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IGC Goals and Objectives
Providing people with Internet access
1) to develop infrastructure,
2) to increase the level of computer literacy,
3) to support competition,
4) to open the market for new operators and
service providers.
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IGC Goals and Objectives
Support of DNSSEC distribution
1) to encourage and motivate the acting operators and
Internet service providers to use DNSSEC in their
networks and domain protocol in the Republic of
Armenia.
Support of IPv6 Distribution
1) to encourage and motivate the acting operators and
Internet service providers in the Republic of Armenia to
use IPv6 protocol in their networks and domains.
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IGC Goals and Objectives
Privacy protection and Identification
1) to support the technologies allowing to
maintain the protection of privacy along with
providing the opportunities of Internet users to
be identified according to law requirements.
Innovations
1) to support the implementation of
innovations among ISPs and end-users
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IGC Goals and Objectives
Human Rights Protection in Internet
1) to ensure the right to freedom of expression and the right to form unions,
2) to involve the representative of Armenian Ombudsman Office in IGC,
3) to support state-society cooperation.
Security
1) to ensure the security in the framework of Budapest convention, national Law, Government and public cooperation, collaboration with CERT, involvement of the community in this process.
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IGC Goals and Objectives
Protection of Intellectual Property
1) to ensure both national legislation and the
best practices of WIPO,
2) to support the users and public initiatives
towards protection of intellectual property,
3) to prevent copyright violations
4) to support netiquette development among
end-users.
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IGC Goals and Objectives
The system of Domain Names
1) to create favorable conditions for the population of Armenia and Armenian Diaspora, individuals and legal entities from any country to register their domain names in .AM zone,
2) to create favorable conditions for hosting services in RA.
3) to develop model solution for Domain Name Disputable Issues,
4) to support Armenian IDN registration,
5) to develop the Armenian content.
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IGC Goals and Objectives
Internet Regulation
1) Internet regulation is appropriate to apply only
when the existence of Armenian Internet sector is
in danger with no regulation.
Effective solutions for traffic routing
1) to increase the reliability of traffic routing due
to the automatic usage of many alternative routes
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IGC Goals and Objectives
Open Standards Support
1) The development of Internet is based on
elaboration and use of open standards allowing
all interested parties to join the current operating
system.
2) Open standards usage is a priority for
Internet development projects, except National
Security related cases.
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IGC Goals and Objectives
Child Online Protection
1) to protect children avoiding the limitation for
adults involving operators, NGOs, schools,
families, community in the process.
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IGC Goals and Objectives
Network neutrality
1) All computer ports and internet protocols are
open,
2) Any information source and destination with
any content in internet is transparently accessible
3) No filtering, only in case if there is a technical
problem in the operator’s network
4) All protocols have same priority
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Organization of works
IGC organizes its work through monthly sessions, as
well as sessions upon necessity.
IGC sessions are recorded and published on IGC
website.
Extra sessions can also be called by initiation of IGC
Chair or by suggestion of 1/3th of members.
Each WG member has one vote. Sessions are chaired
by the Chairman of the WG. In case of his/her absence,
the Deputy Chairman runs the sessions.
Detailed information is available on http://igf.am
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Questions?
Grigori Saghyan
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: +37491419378
http://igf.am