Call for Topics 2024 - Other
From IGF-USA
| Submission Number | Submission | Issue Areas | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Submission Number | Submission | Issue Areas | |
| 2024 Submission 13 | Threats to functioning multistakeholder governance - local, federal and international efforts to undermine existing, working governance models and replace with less open and transparent regulatory regimes. | Other | |
| 2024 Submission 16 | Promoting the deployment of Internet Standards and ICT best practices, by teaching large organisations, public and private, to procure secure by design and make consumer protection and advocacy organisations understand they have to take the IoT components into account when judging, respectively testing products, devices and services. Start a discussion on how tertiary cyber security education can close the skills gap between the offered education and the demand coming from industry and the technical community. | Cybersecurity Cybercrime and Online Safety • Data Governance and Privacy • Online Harms • Other | |
| 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 19 | The role of national and regional IGFs (NRIs) in supporting and spreading multistakeholder approaches to internet governance. This is a critical topic at the moment given the ongoing Global Digital Compact, World Summit for the Information Society, and NetMundial processes where questions of multistakeholder and multilateral approaches to internet and tech governance are once again being raised. | 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 36 | The threat and promise of AI for the rights and privileges in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and why they should be the model for an agreed common set of human values for AI alignment. Pained but not surprised Human Rights not in your list of Issue Area categories. Most of the focus has been on the potential challenges AI poses for HRs, not on the positives. | Artificial Intelligence • Data Governance and Privacy • Other | |
| 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 |
