[Chapter-delegates] Fwd: [ISOC-E-news] Joint ISOC England and IIC UK Chapter event: The Internet's next ten years: needs, opportunities and governance

Thu Oct 25 13:48:04 PDT 2012

Dear all,

please find the invitation below which we sent out at the beginning of
the month, with an excellent line-up of guests but also many people who
will intervene from the floor.
Please hurry to register -- last few spaces and 1 day left for registration!
See you at the event,

Olivier Crépin-Leblond
ISOC England Chair

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Subject: 	[ISOC-E-news] Joint ISOC England and IIC UK Chapter event: The
Internet's next ten years: needs, opportunities and governance
Date: 	Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:06:12 +0200
From: 	ISOC England <contact at isoc-e.org>
To: 	isoc-e-news at gih.co.uk

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    Joint

    INTERNET SOCIETY ENGLAND

    and

    INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATIONS

    UK CHAPTER EVENT

*The Internet's next ten years: needs, opportunities and governance*

    Tuesday 30 October 2012, 17:00 for a 17:30 start

    Hosted by Cisco

    Park House, 7th Floor, 16-18 Finsbury Square, London EC2M 7EB 

    Space limited: Registration closes on Friday 26 October 2012

*//* 

More than 2 billion people are now connected to the Internet, and the
progression of mobile connections should accelerate the trend. Yet,
there are questions. Investment in 'next generation' Internet access
infrastructure is not guaranteed, either in advanced or in developing
economies. Convergence between the telecom, IT and media worlds is in
full flow and it is difficult to predict what these sectors will look
like in a few years. The Internet's major positive impact on economies
and societies continues to be seen, with steady increases in
'net-enabled' productivity, job creation, and 'new sector creation',
plus myriad social changes, particularly the vastly enhanced ability to
communicate, in many different ways, with pretty much anyone, anywhere
in the world. But these rapid evolutions entail questions and risks as
much as hopes.

In parallel, the debate around the Internet's governance continues. The
'World Conference on  International Telecommunications' (WCIT), a
treaty-making negotiation to review the 1988 International
Telecommunications Union's (ITU) International Telecom Regulations
(ITRs) will take place in Dubai in December, with a number of
governments raising crucial questions about economic, financial, policy
and governance directions for the Internet. The preparatory negotiations
have seen a flurry of activities, with proposals to include treaty rules
about topics ranging from the architecture and 'domain name' system of
the Internet, to online content regulation, human rights, mobile
roaming, or governments setting telecom prices. Some of the proposals
have been described in the media as opposing developed and developing
economies, others contrasting repressive vs. more open governments.
Adding to the debate, ETNO the European telecommunications incumbents'
association came out with its own suggestions, proposing a radical
overhaul of the WCIT treaty to create a 'new Internet ecosystem' based
around new Internet interconnection rules and charging mechanisms, and
'levelling the playing field' between telecom operators and those they
refer to as 'over the top' players (OTT).

A holistic, open-minded discussion around the future of the "global
public Internet" and the key economic, social, and political questions
it raises is clearly much needed. Following a lively discussion at the
IIC UK Chapter event on WCIT held on July 11th, IIC and ISOC England are
teaming up to start this future-looking debate. It will take place less
than a month after the 'Budapest Conference on Cyberspace norms', one
week before the annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and the WCIT just
one month away. The event will be an opportunity to ask ourselves what
is the reality of Internet access around the world today; how best and
how quickly we can bring the benefits of the Internet to all 7 billion
humans, looking both at the technologies and the investment, through
some of the exciting examples of rapid developments which can be seen
today in places like Kenya or South Africa; how advanced and developing
economies can harness Internet access for wider economic and social
benefits; whether there is actually something wrong with Internet
Governance as it is today, that would require a major intergovernmental
enterprise; why multi-lateralism versus multi-stakeholderism; how can
the views and needs of developing countries regarding the Internet and
its governance best be addressed? And what will future international
negotiations seek or be able to address, such as the ITU's 2013 World
Telecom Policy Forum (WTPF) and the 2014-2015 Review of the World Summit
on the Information Society (WSIS Review), all of which are due to see
the same topics debated.

*Confirmed speakers include:*

*-     Markus Kummer, Vice-President Public Policy, Internet Society*

*-     Isabelle Mauro, GSMA*

*-     Dominique Lazansky, Tax Payers' Alliance*

*-     Malcolm Hutty, London Internet Exchange (LINX) and Chair, EuroISPA  *

*-     Commonwealth Telecoms Organisation or Commonwealth Secretariat (tbc)*

*-     Desiree Miloshevic, Oxford Internet Institute
*

The event will be jointly moderated by Olivier Crépin-Leblond, Chair of
the English Chapter of the Internet Society and Jean-Jacques Sahel,
Chair of the UK IIC Chapter.

*REGISTRATION *

Further information available from j.grimshaw at iicom.org
<mailto:j.grimshaw at iicom.org>. The event is free to IIC and ISOC
members.   To register, please complete and return the attached
registration form to j.grimshaw at iicom.org <mailto:j.grimshaw at iicom.org>
with UKCH4-12 in the subject heading. For IIC membership details please
go to www.iicom.org <http://www.iicom.org>. Contact Tel: +44 (0)20 8417
0600. For ISOC membership details please go to
http://www.internetsociety.org/get-involved/join-community

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