Collected on the Etherpad online
https://beta.etherpad.org/p/igf-usa
Dve Burstein: For U.S.
Affordability. Practical approaches.
Reducing censorship by govs and dominate corps
Reduce surveillance, How to
Increasing competition with open standards and interoperability.
Argument if we can find new ideas: Should decent broadband be part of universal service?
How can an individual be effective in improving policy? Invite Kathy Brown and Jin Cicconi, true experts.
Theme: The Internet is for everybody
We all believe in that and it focuses on development and the poor
compromise 50% US, 50% international
Lori Schulman : an idea for a panel – Trust – The New Internet Currency? What does trust mean? Privacy? Trusted Business climate? Internet as a safe space? What does it mean to be safe? Are there links between sustainabiity and trust?
question about postponing: ie. will there be a group of people who do the synching during that week.
Agree with Dave B. that doing some national topics is a good idea.
ah so this is the Interactive Notepad. interactively even
“Post-Connection: How to promote the migration of local content to the online world.”
Or a subtitle, perhaps: If we build it, will they come?
yep
i think so
we are interacting.
Q from avri:
Is the US FCC &c. ruling on Net Neutrality working?
how does the change in US relations to IANA change our internal dialogue on Ig. should it? how?
What are we doing natinally to support the SDGs in the US for its popualtion
And for both International and national. how do we reform so that we are meeting the CSTD and UNGA mandate for change.
Lori Schulman: I support Avri’s idea about
discussing how the Change in US Relations to IANA change our internal dialogue, if it does, or should it
From Hibah: security/resiliency, a carefully framed discussion about the IANA transition. Agree w/ Avri’s suggestion re: the SDGs, and Dave’s suggestion re: competition via openness/interoperability
Maisenberg:Topic Proposal: IOT and the bodies developing IOT standards and norms; Implications for Internet capacity (Or, “Addressing the Unthinkability of IPv6 address
Maisenberg: A topic for ISoc discussion and potential future nomination—driving off of MCade’s “security” comment: How to export the ben franklin formulation—i.e.-Security and Civil Liberties/privacy need NOT be a zero-sum game. As franking wrote: “he who would sacrifice his liberty for a moment’s security deserves neither, and will soon find himself without BOTH.”
Joly: The growth of dedicated IoT Networks such as thethingsnetwork running on LoRa or similar. Both France and Korea are building national networks.
Are we interested in how we are failing the indigenous populations in the US?
More from Dave Burstein: Back from other call. I suggest For U.S.
Topics
How can an individual be effective in improving policy? Invite Kathy Brown and Jim Cicconi, true experts.
Argument if we can find new ideas: Should decent broadband be part of universal service?
Increasing competition with open standards and interoperability.
Affordability. Practical approaches.
Reducing censorship by govs and dominant corps
Reduce surveillance, How to
international topics
Collected From the Room
IGF-USA Topics gathered in the Cove on 23-Mar-2016
Protecting civic space online: protest as a protected medium
Data Protection and Data Central: Privacy in the digital age – Corporate and Govt Encryption
Right to be Forgotten: remembering Freedom of Expression
Countering hate speech violent extremism online while protecting freedom of expression
Pornography, online harassment and extremism: what can these agendas teach each other?
Net Neutrality and Zero Rating/Free WiFi
Combatting online harassment/bullying against women and children
Encryption and Security in the age of terrorism
Implications of US Internet policy globally
Surveillance
Transition of DNS oversight from US Government; implementation
Multi-lateral vs Multi-Stakeholder Governance
What happens to your digital legacy when you die?
Connecting the next 100 million/billion (in the USA and globally)
A new protocol to stop online piracy? (Donuts – MPAA deal)
Maintain security, stability, and resiliency of the DNS, in face of malware
Meeting needs and expectations of global IANA customers
Maintaining the openness of the Internet; best practices; political repression
Views on the role of governments
Online Jurisdiction – sovereignty and fragmentation
Should internet platforms be liable for illegal conduct/content of their users?
IOT and IPv6
Session led by youth, on IOT and social media
Cyber security and social media
Changing nature of Internet traffic (mobile, video, M2M, etc.)
Fragmentation: political , economic, and technical considerations in policy development
Black Lives Matter
Mobile – Africa and leapfrogging
Empowering underserved communities using the Internet
Potential for block chain distributed databases for security, etc.
Protection of journalists
Preserving M-S approach in all venues, even in governments that like to run everything
Error Code http: 451
Collected From Emails
My topic for a panel is on Access to Finance and Digital Financial Inclusion, with a specific focus on Women, minorities, and people with disabilities and specific needs and how it can empower them and other minorities.
Low-income women often face barriers to accessing a safe place to save due to mobility and time constraints as well as low levels of financial literacy. The same is true for people with disabilities and specific needs as well as students in remote rural areas. Access to digital financial services can address these savings barriers by offering accessibility, convenience, privacy and security through new channels such as mobile phones and retail agents. However, without proper identification these venues are often closed to women, minorities, and people with specific needs. This panel will explore these issues and suggest possible solutions and other actions that can be taken.
Two topic suggestions for our IGF-USA event this summer:
Trouble using new top-level domains: ICANN has enabled the expansion of top-level domains, and hundreds of global businesses and organizations proposed over a thousand new domains, including many using scripts other than Latin. But new domain registrants and end-users are discovering that online forms and web resources won’t accept new top-level domains. This problem of ‘universal acceptance’ deserves immediate attention in order to realize the goals of expanding the top-level domain space and bringing the internet to the next billion users. Panel will explore the extend and causes of this problem and suggest possible solutions.
Online Identity collides with Privacy and Data Localization Laws: Two opposing trends are colliding, with growing implications for consumer protection, trademark abuse, and privacy. Law enforcement and businesses are pressing ICANN to centralize the identity information for domain registrants and make them more accurate and accessible. At the same time, some governments are preventing international transfer and disclosure of their citizen’s identity data, citing the Snowden revelations. Panel will explore these opposing trends and suggest possible solutions.
Comment: Good so long as we include someone pointing out that new gTLD’s are likely to have zero impact getting the next billion on line.
One topic suggestion for IGF USA 2016:
ICANN is a corporation organized under California nonprofit laws and under
current bylaws Los Angeles is where its principal office for the transaction
of the business shall be. ICANN communities are poised to review the current
status of ICANN’s “jurisdiction” during the Work Stream Two phase of the
CCWG on Accountability. The review will consider whether ICANN’s
accountability can be enhanced depending on the laws applicable to its
actions. The CCWG will focus this effort on the question of applicable law
pertaining to contracts and dispute settlements. Panel will discuss the
potential risks and benefits associated with any change to ICANN’s place of
business and incorporation. What contracts/disputes problems has ICANN
encountered as a consequence of its jurisdictional arrangement to date? If
any such problems exist, are there jurisdictions that would address these
problems in a better way?
Definitely include something about encryption in an age of national security – need a really robust panel that can tease out the various arguments from a gov’t, industry, civil society perspective.
I’m very interested these day in online trust, universal acceptance and other barriers to folks going online
IoT
I hope that we can have a panel on US rural access, it is a very rich topic area
It is the Algorithm Age. The potential unintended consequences and dangers of algorithm-driven everything online are important to debate. Over the next few years, humans will be consciously or unconsciously partnering with magnitudes more “black box,” invisible, autonomous, algorithm-driven tools, most of them Internet-driven decision engines built by Internet platforms to serve people while monetizing their activities. This aspect of the Internet of Everything is an important issue to bring up for discussion. Caution flags are being raised by the FTC and other organizations over this issue.
As Eli Pariser (“Beware Online Filter Bubbles”), Frank Pasquale (“Black Box”) and others have pointed out the commonly used AI algorithms today already have significant impact, shaping how we think and what we know. Algorithms present overwhelming challenges as well as opportunities. Mark Rotenberg, a previous IGF-USA participant, is doing a project on the algorithmic transparency issue at EPIC, https://epic.org/algorithmic-transparency/. He might be a good person to include in this discussion. Lee Rainie, director of the Internet, Science and Technology project of Pew Research, would also be a good person to involve; Lee has also participated in support of IGF-USA in the past.
In the “Digital Life in 2025”reports Lee and I worked on with colleagues for Elon University and Pew Research (released in 2014) we collected the opinions of thousands of experts. When asked about the most dangerous threats to the future of the open Internet they listed these four: the downsides of algorithm-determined information flows, commercial pressures, crackdowns by nation-states on freedoms, and a loss of trust in online culture due to these. Some warned that the monitoring of daily activities will magnify the level of profiling and targeting of individuals and amplify social, economic and political struggles. Some said “big data” will kill privacy and reduce individuals to numbers, often inaccurately, and enable social engineering and emotional manipulation. One person wrote: “The Internet of Things will demand and we will give willingly, our souls.”
As complexity rises due to the amazing possibilities opened up by the Internet, people must turn even more to “digital agents” or algorithms written by Internet companies to streamline their lives. The decisions made by algorithms can significantly impact what they do and do not know and influence their thoughts and actions. People are already letting social media shares found in algorithm-determined feeds help define what they know about politics. For example, here’s a Pew Research finding on how Americans get news about the 2016 presidential election http://www.journalism.org/2016/02/04/the-2016-presidential-campaign-a-news-event-thats-hard-to-miss/:
I’d like to suggest: Transparency in trade agreements – is there a happy resolution?
TPP, TISA and other trade agreements have caused concern about the level and type of input provided to non-business stakeholders. This panel will discuss there rationale behind closed or secret trade negotiations, currently available and demonstrated alternatives, and proposals for a more inclusive and transparent trade agreement process.