Call for Topics 2022 - Technical Community
From IGF-USA
| Submission Number | Submission | Issue Areas | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Submission Number | Submission | Issue Areas | |
| 2024 Submission 1 | This is a test entry to see if the form is working, but I might suggest digital preservation. | Content Policy | |
| 2024 Submission 8 | State Digital Equity windfall, how best to deploy? | Access and Digital Inclusion | |
| 2024 Submission 9 | NIL - an increasingly big number!
NIL = Name, Image, Likeness, has become an established legal concept in the sports world, even leading to a Supreme Court case that wrested it from the NCAA's control for amateur athletes. Now, in other fields, particularly music, NIL is being seen as a fungible IP right, equivalent to composition, mechanical, or performance. Just as the onset of digital formats and networked distribution caused a revolution in that industry, leading to regulated systems of monetization such as Sound Exchange, the development of AI and social media influence presages entirely new markets that may require governance and regulatory intervention." | Content Policy • Digital Markets and Competition | |
| 2024 Submission 10 | 'The VR headset OS cold war' | Emerging Technologies | |
| 2024 Submission 26 | The Internet, over 50 years strong, owes its success to one secret ingredient: multistakeholder collaboration. This powerful force has allowed the Internet to help many in the world increase productivity and overcome major challenges. In this ever-changing geopolitical landscape, with entrenched political divisions, we can learn valuable lessons from the past five decades to navigate the coming years. | Other | |
| 2024 Submission 25 | A big reason for the Internet’s success is that everything interoperates: applications all work using the same network: the Internet, built on a set of common protocols that are defined and refined in open standards development processes. Open standards bodies such as the IETF and W3C ensure that protocols we all rely on are designed with technical excellence, rigorous testing, and interoperability foremost in mind. There are actors that seek to undermine these open processes and instead turn to the ITU and other closed bodies to invent new protocols. The global Internet community should come together to ensure the governance models of these and other standards bodies remain the places these processes are developed. | Other | |
| 2024 Submission 27 | Globally, language usage is diverse. English comes third in terms of native speakers around the world. English represents 57% of the total written content online and the percentage is decreasing. The United States is a diverse country; the number of people in the US who spoke a language other than English at home nearly tripled from 1980 - 2019. Across the US, there are communities where business is primarily conducted in a language other than English. A linguistically diverse Internet significantly contributes toward a knowledge-based society by bridging the digital divide. A key aspect of this is the Universal Acceptance (UA) of top-level domains (TLDs). UA adoption is low. Governments (federal/state/local) in the US and the private sector need to lead the world in enhancing a multilingual Internet through adopting Universal Acceptance. | Access and Digital Inclusion | |
| 2024 Submission 39 | It's 2024. Why isn't everyone using digital cash and digital wallets? Since Cybercash was launched in 1994, Internet users have wanted an easy, private way to easily send dollars over the Net. Who and what has blocked such services? Privacy concerns? Incumbents? Police? Lack of standards? Lack of trust? | Access and Digital Inclusion • Emerging Technologies • Other | |
| 2024 Submission 40 | What happens when Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Prime Ministers provide real "Digital Leadership"? Today, most of the thorniest digital policy issues have been unresolved because within each national government, agencies have competing agendas. What can we learn from countries (including the U.S.) where top polotical leaders have forced the consensus needed to craft clear digital policies? | Access and Digital Inclusion • Content Policy • Cybersecurity Cybercrime and Online Safety • Data Governance and Privacy • Other | |
| 2024 Submission 42 | The great telecom swindle. As per Bruce Kushnick who has been dragging skeletons out of incumbent closets for years to illustrate how they have been building their wireless (= non-regulated) fiber infrastructure by dumping the capital cost onto legacy utility (Title 2) customers, repeatedly promising fiber to the home in return for rate increases, all the while reporting losses and letting the copper rot in the ground, until consumers have no alternative but to get gouged for wireless, with the resultant latency etc. This is an old story in the east. Now AT&T customers in the west are finding out the hard way. | Access and Digital Inclusion • Other | |
| 2024 Submission 44 | Connectivity opens new opportunities for Rural communities improving their quality of life. It is increasingly a necessity for economic development, education, and healthcare while helping the rural community’s achieve economic self-sufficiency. However, there are many challenges, opportunities, and options to providing sustainable, reliable, and affordable connectivity to rural areas. Addressing the rural connectivity problem is crucial for bridging the digital divide, ensuring that all individuals regardless of where they live will have access to the benefits of the digital age. The CR Bolo project will be used as an example of what is possible for Rural communities within the US. | Access and Digital Inclusion • Digital Markets and Competition |
