[isoc-ny] ISOC Policy Engagement Alert - August 2017

Tue Aug 1 13:28:41 PDT 2017

The monthly update from ISOC's Policy Team. Note particularly the
increasing emphasis on community networks, and also that spectrum will be
on the agenda at Wednesday's FCC meeting
<https://www.fcc.gov/news-events/events/2017/08/august-2017-open-commission-meeting>
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*Current and upcoming policy papers and/or surveys out for comment*
*Spectrum Paper - Approaches for Community Networks*
This report focuses on some spectrum approaches specific to community
networks and provides recommendations to community networks, policy-makers
and regulators, and operators.  A draft of the paper was sent to ISOC's
chapters and community network experts in June.  Comments are being
incorporated into the current draft, and we expect that the paper will be
launched just before the WTDC in October 2017.

*Community Networks:  Policy & Regulatory Issues and Gaps - The Experience
from India*
This report focuses on one of ISOC's partners' (the Digital Empowerment
Foundation (DEF) experience developing  community networks and their
policy, regulatory, and community recommendations to remove challenges for
community networks.  Final edits are being made on the paper and we expect
DEF to release the paper in early September.

*Upcoming submissions and Applications *

*2017 Ambassadors to the Internet Governance Forum*
The Internet Society is inviting applications for its 2017 Ambassadors to
the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). IGF Ambassadors will gain valuable
insight and experience through their exposure to a range of stakeholders
and discussions from numerous disciplines across the Internet ecosystem and
benefit from their immersion into the IGF week of activities.  Information
about the programme and links to apply can be found at:
bit.ly/1TxHeuA.  Applications
will close on 6 August.

*Engagements (Conferences, National IGFs, etc.) *

*Latin American and Caribbean Chapter Leaders Advocacy Workshop*, 1 August,
Panama.
ISOC chapters and SIGs of the region will meet to work together on a
strategic coordination to advocate for key policy issues, such as community
networks, encryption and Internet blocking. There are 26 fellows and 19
participants being expected. Sebastian Bellagamba and Nancy Quiros will be
leading the group onsite.

*2nd Youth at LACIGF**, *1st August, Panama.
Co-organized by the SIG Youth and Youth Observatory, it is a
multistakeholder space that seeks to raise discussion of new ideas and
perspectives organized by youth to youth. Raúl Echeberría will be present
and speaking at the launch of the Youth IG Book. The invitation is shared
at:  drive.google.com/file/d/0B4Zy0uU5RvKEaWwzMzVZeWR2bVk/...
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4Zy0uU5RvKEaWwzMzVZeWR2bVk/view>

*Inter-American Telecommunication Commission** - CITEL*, 1-4 August, Ciudad
de Mexico, Mexico.
The main focus of the CITEL CCP1 will be the InterAmerican proposals for
the upcoming ITU WTDC-17. Surrounding events: Workshop on Implementing
Smart Cities in the Americas - Innovation and Sustainability (31 July).
Raquel Gatto and Christian O'Flaherty will be attending. More information
available at: www.citel.oas.org/en/Pages/Next-Meetings.aspx

*Latin American and Caribbean Preparatory Meeting to the Internet
Governance Forum - **LACIGF 10*, 2-4 August, Panama.
The tenth edition of the LACIGF takes place in Panama. ISOC is part of the
program committee and has actively helped shape the agenda. Raul
Echeberria, Sebastian Bellagamba, Shernon Osepa, Raquel Gatto, Nancy Quiros
and many chapter leaders will be present onsite. You can consult the agenda
and find all the information here: goo.gl/GRkGGH

*Preparatory meeting for the VI Ministerial Conference on the Information
Society in LAC** (eLAC mechanism)*, 7-9 August, Santiago, Chile.
This preparatory meeting aims to follow up on the agreements established at
eLAC2018. ISOC is leading the Infrastructure group and will join the panel
discussions. Raul Echeberria, Sebastian Bellagamaba, Raquel Gatto and
Christian O'Flaherty will be attending. Check their content towards the
Sixth Ministerial Conference in 2018: goo.gl/RwNJHS

*4th APT Preparatory Meeting for WTDC-17*, 7-10 August Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia.
The last preparatory meeting of the APT for the upcoming WTDC-17 will
consolidate and finalise common proposals from the Asia-Pacific region. The
APAC Bureau will be participating and engaging with member states and
participants.

*Middle East and Adjoining Countries School on Internet Governance
(MEAC-SIG)* 7-11 August 2017, Middle East Technical University (METU),
Ankara, Turkey.
This School on Internet Governance, hosted by Nic.tr <http://nic.tr/>, is
organised by the Internet Society, together with ICANN, Ripe NCC and the
Arab World Internet Institute. The MEAC-SIG will offer a 5-day intensive
learning course spanning five tracks. The course will cover the political,
legal, economic, socio-cultural, technological and other dimensions of the
Internet Governance (e.g. academia and research). The aim of MEAC-SIG is to
stimulate the regional Internet community and ensure effective
participation in regional and global Internet Governance fora.

*Asia-Pacific Internet Governance Academy*, 7-11 August,  Seoul, South
Korea.
Now on its 2nd year, the APIGA is a 5-day capacity development workshop for
tertiary students and young persons, co-organised by ICANN and the Korea
Internet & Security Agency. The APAC Bureau is co-sponsoring the event.
Staff on the ground will take part in the opening panel on the Internet
Ecosystem, and will facilitate a workshop on Regional Internet Policy and
its Implications to Internet Governance. More information can be found at
community.icann.org/pages/...
<https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=64083042>

*Diploma Program in Internet Governance*, 7-12 August, Buenos Aires.
The San Andrés University will dictate the first edition of this Diploma
with the objective of strengthening and developing the capacities of the
ecosystem of governance and Internet policies in Argentina and the region.
Sebastian Bellagamba is one of the lectures. More information at:
goo.gl/pGGvsW

*ITU Americas workshop on "Strengthening capacities in international
Internet governance", *14-16 August, Brasilia, Brazil.
The workshop is organised by the Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT)
of the ITU  in partnership with DiploFoundation, and hosted by the National
Telecommunications Agency of Brazil (ANATEL). The objective of the workshop
is to strengthen capacities of the ITU membership in the field of
international Internet governance, as part of the outcomes from ITU WTDC
2014. Raquel Gatto will be speaking at the event. More information at:
www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Capacity-Building/Pages/events/...
<https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Capacity-Building/Pages/events/internet-governance.aspx>

*Caribbean Internet Governance Forum*, 21-23 August, Tortola, British
Virgin Islands.
The CIGF arrives to its 13th edition, being one of the first regional
IGF-like initiatives. One of the core topics in the agenda will be to
assess the creation of national multistakeholder dialogues. Sebastian
Bellagamba and Shernon Osepa will be present. For registration and more
details on the agenda at: www.ctu.int/events/...
<http://www.ctu.int/events/13th-caribbean-internet-governance-forum/>

A*frican Peering & Interconnection Forum 2017*, 22-24 August Abidjan, Cote
D'Ivoire.
ISOC's signature peering and Interconnection event, AfPIF
<https://www.internetsociety.org/afpif/2017/>, will be held in Abidjan,
Cote D'Ivoire from 22-24 August.  This events brings IXPs across Africa
together along with IXP practitioners, content delivery networks,
terrestrial fibre providers, and experts from across peering and
interconnection communities.

*Online Privacy Workshop*, 29 August, Manila, Philippines.
Organised by the APAC Bureau and hosted by the National Privacy Commission
in the Philippines, the 1-day workshop will comprise of panel discussions
and breakout sessions, bringing together organisations and online content
creators together to discuss local online privacy issues, and work towards
proper compliance to the Data Privacy Act of 2012.

*Argentinian School on Internet Governance - ARGENSIG*, 29-31 August,
Buenos Aires.
The first edition of the Argentinian Internet Governance School is
organized by the ISOC Argentina Chapter and CCLAT LAT in order to promote a
space for capacity building and dialogue at the national level. Olga
Cavalli, ISOC Board of Director member, is one of the organizers and LAC
Bureau staff, Sebastian Bellagamba and Raquel Gatto will be speaking at the
event. More information at:  http://www.argensig.org

*High-lights of Recent Activities *

*IETF 99 Policy Fellows Programme *16-19 July, Prague, Czech Republic*.*
The Internet Society brought twelve policy experts to Prague to participate
in the IETF Policy Fellows Programme at IETF 99. The programme aims to
strengthen the interaction between policy experts from developing countries
and IETF participants. The programme supports information sharing, problem
solving and strengthens dialogue between the stakeholder communities.

*UN High-Level Political Forum on SDGs*
ISOC participated and leveraged its message about the importance of
Internet Access to influence broader development goals. We also took
advantage of the opportunity to launch EQUALS in TECH, a partnership with
ITU, UN Women and GSMA to empower women through technology.

*Community Network Landing Page on ISOC's web-site*
A new landing page has been created to highlight ISOC's role and
partnerships in community network development:
www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/community-networks
<https://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/community-networks>

*IETF 99 Hackathon*
The Internet Society participated in the HTTP status code 451 team,
organised by Article 19, CDT and the ACLU. We worked on some code for
crawlers, a WordPress plugin, a browser plug-in, human rights
considerations for RFC 7725 and an implementation report. See slides:
www.ietf.org/proceedings/99/slides/...
<https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99/slides/slides-99-hrpc-presentation-hackathon-http-status-code-451-and-draft-manyfolks-hrcrfc7725-draft-451-imp-report-04.pdf>
. The team won the "best new work" award.

*Mapping Online Child Safety in APAC*
The APAC Bureau has released a report mapping the policies, initiatives and
actors working on online child protection in Asia-Pacific. The report is
the outcome of a three-month research project supported by Google. Read the
full study here: bit.ly/ChildSafetyReport

*Asia-Pacific Internet Policy Survey Report 2017*
Launched at the Asia-Pacific Regional IGF, this year's APAC Internet Policy
Survey  takes an in-depth look at how they perceive and deal with personal
information online, and the extent to which various entities are trusted to
protect people's personal data and privacy rights.  Read the full report
here:  bit.ly/IntPol17

*APAC Issue Papers*
The APAC Bureau has released the first batch of issue papers outlining the
challenges and opportunities on key areas of concern for the online
environment. They can be accessed here:
Gender:  bit.ly/APACGender
Enabling Policy: bit.ly/APACPolicies
Online Privacy: bit.ly/APACPrivacy
Digital Accessibility: bit.ly/APACaccessibility

*Egypt chapter statement on Internet Shutdown*
The Internet Society Egypt Chapter issued a statement in reaction to some
of the recent blocking activities observed over the last few months. The
full statement is available here: internetmasr.org/isoc-egypt/
wp-content/uploads/2017/07/...
<http://internetmasr.org/isoc-egypt/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/IM-statement-on-Internet-conditions-in-Egypt-June-2017-1.pdf>

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Joly MacFie
President - Internet Society New York Chapter (ISOC-NY)
http://isoc-ny.org          218 565 9365
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