APrIGF Document Platform

While the document is a great way to summarise the content at the conference, my concern is around the use and dissemination of the document and the learning thereby after the event.

Conclusion section is needed.

Youth initiatives like yIGF, Netmission programs, various capacity building platforms to engage and encourage more and more youth to contribute to IG discussions. But necessary to highlight issues they face like the major problem is sustainability, funding, gender diversity especially in ASEAN.

Kindly include entry re PWD and accessibilities.

suggestion: “common issues of interest”

Please include inclusive Internet Governance in the last line.

In addition in 2018, the High Level Political Forum at the UN HQ in New York will be an opportunity for the National Regional IGF Initiatives (NRIs) to showcase how this is achieved on a practical level around the world.

There is a need to protect the IG multi-stakeholder model from political and corporate lobbying

Each APrIGF could reflect on its predecessor. That is we could set out some goals each year and next year evaluate what have we done to achieve those goals.

A sub-heading on ‘Hate Speech’ and ‘Freedom of Expression’ is needed? Including a paragraph on how to distinguish them is need? In the Pacific region, Fiji has issues relating to Racial and Religious Hate Speech over the internet and particularly in social-media.

It should be Reliable Access, not just Access.

Youth-driven initiatives have been mentioned in this paragraph. Adding a section on the discussion outcomes of the YIGF role-play session from each of the three committees that have been formed after the final round-table discussion on the final day.

Internet is not something which is created by single entity, it’s a wish, work and infrastructural development of every stakeholder, but unfortunately most of the Internet infrastructure is owned by private corporations rather than the civil society. Majority of Internet infrastructure is copyrighted. So it’s the responsibility of governing bodies to make the basic infrastructure which builds the Internet under the Open access and accessible to the public.

[Access and empowerment]

While providing an access to the rural areas, empowering local people to benefit from the Internet is one of the most important thing. Creating a business opportunities through Internet, periodical education programs, practical workshops are must!

Also, age gap of Internet users should be considered more. Because some areas younger people are more interested of using the Internet, but what about middle aged and older people? How are they going to benefit?

Suggest to add a point on consideration for “expiration date” of protection measure and mechanism.

Some data encryption or data masking used today to protection data may works today but not necessary works 10 years from now. But the owner of the personal data still alive, without the protection.

More comments will be collected from workshop “WS83 Upgrade Required: Obfuscation and cryptographic standards for data protection law in the age of linked and big data” tomorrow – http://apps.2017.rigf.asia/submission/proposaldetail?id=113

Mobile phone and IoT manufacturers and software developers should responsible on providing security patch in a timely manner for a guaranteed period of time after the time of purchase.

‘Capacity building’ is pretty much addressed and highlighted in different venues of internet governance, but cybersecurity & privacy on the internet platform is the area where capacity building alone doesn’t work — as people are heavily rely on the device and network that they use – and they don’t have a [technological/administrative/legal] permission to upgrade/update/patch these devices by themselves even they do have ‘capacity’.

Safe behavior on vulnerable device is not safe.

There should be a form of regulation to make sure that internet-connected manufacturers will take responsible in making their devices secure for a reasonable time period.

For example, if the average mobile phone changing cycle of consumers is 3 years, the reasonable time period for manufacturers to keep releasing security patch of their mobile phone can be 3 years or more.

Cybersecurity contain many sub-themes (i.e. system/infrastructure resilience, safety, privacy, cyber crime, etc) and many actors. It is important to encourage the technical community in those domains to engage with other stakeholders so there is clear understanding of the problems and discussion on possible solutions.

People in many countries still do not recognize the cert, both cyber attacks, people should know.

Should be done public guide. To let the public know what the cert is responsible for, why should you know?

Make a public guide about Cybersecurity For the common people.

There should be updated cyber crime legislation in every country but the legislation must be adopted after the consensus from multi-stakeholders independent of law enforcement.

Consult the public before issuing Internet control or censorship rules. Because some cases do too unnecessarily. Violations of privacy and privacy

In Thailand I very concerned about this concept. “The Council for the Advancement of the Reform of the Nation,” with the intention of “fully regulating Social Media,” with excessive censorship or blockade, violating privacy rights, being able to sneak information at any time, blocking its services. nation By claiming that the protection of the internet and games addict.

(News link (in thai) https://www.beartai.com/news/179268 )

I think : Before the law governing the use of online media, content censorship. Should ask people first. Because there are times when the government has a broader law or violated the privacy rights too.

Think an additional paragraph referencing the desirability of governments working with all stakeholders in promulgation of such policies and legislation should be added; this was consensus of the Session this morning (run by Joyce Chen).

Should there also be encouragement for consistency across jurisdiction so that bad guys can’t hide somewhere where there’s inconsistent rules from where they act.

The might be a need for a sub-heading for blocking of anti-government websites in the region. But, to this; Fiji has provided an interesting example, when in 2006; there was a coup and subsequently a military lead government; there was no blocking of anti-government websites by the regime.

Data about requests should be…
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Data about requests, such as user data request and shutdown request, should be…

(give examples, for readability)

Online personal information protection and cross border flow of information is one of the major topic under the III. Digital Economy and Enabling Innovations . Whether we need to have more text reference to the aspect of e-commerce under this para 15.
Or we address the privacy and data protection aspect under the para III. Digital Economy and Enabling Innovations.

We may wish to clarify the meaning and definitions of couple of legal terms mentioned here. Data localization is not equal to prohibition of cross-border data flow. Protectionism is too broad and negative to be used here.

Suggested addition: As a basic right, qualified access to information is a democratizing platform and with this sense of confidence, the APrIGF lays the necessary groundwork for the development of the broadband ecosystem for the use of internet in participatory democracy.

The capitalist economy of world is going into the hands of few rich people and the divide of rich and poor is increasing. In order to meet the sustainable development Goals the policy should reduce the gap between rich and poor citizens.

If we mention Reliable with I. Access, we do not need section 19. Reliable Access means the Internet blocks is already covered in that.

Data should have classification. For example personal data, financial data, historical records, fake news etc. And each class should have its own models and methods for being forgotten. Emphasis on financial data and if forgetting financial data is wise or not is also a topic worth exploring.

As the opening plenary was on the Gender Divide, perhaps this item should be moved higher if not close to the very top.

Is there a need for a sub-heading/paragraph on pornography, profane, indecent, nudity and sexual content? For social-media, same guidelines for women should apply to women (unless the content is anthropological in nature). Men should not be allowed to post photographs which show exposed chest similar to women.

The opening and many of the panel showed as gender is crosscutting and cannot be considered or highlighted just under the human rights section. Access to infrastructure, information, knowledge shown how the excluded are women and individuals discriminated by being gender non conforming. I would suggest a preamble acknowledge gender as a key divide and engage with substiantial strategy to practice inclusion. Innovation with no gender thinking/designing will never be really inclusive. Furthermore gender violence has to be considered non onlyy an effect of sexism, discrimination and so on but as one of the key factor that prevent women to fully access the information society.

Please link to https version when available.

Please link to https version.

Wonder if this short url (igf asia / WS_1) will be a permanent link?

If it’s not and the destination may change in the future, we shouldn’t use it for reference. (should use the full url instead)

Even though it’s a very good idea to help the people with lack of English skill to be able to access to internet easily but from my experience now people with lack of English skill still have the ability to access to the internet. For example if they want to search for the information there is a google app on the mobile phone. Both iOS and Android system have local language instruction. They don’t really remember what URL the website have all there care about is the tittle and short description on Google.
For the EAI, for Thailand. I have ask some of my friend and all of them never know about IDN and EAI and they are all don’t interested in having local language email or domain. If I have any chance to interview people from more rural area I will updated here.

eUniversal Acceptance issue including E-mail Address Internationalization and IDNs is very Important for AP region as Next 500 million Internet users are from AP region itself.
Ascii based Internet is barrier to those who are not familiar with ASCII based languages,in getting online.A multilingual internet is useful for all so that every one can have the benefits of this marvelous technology.
We should also come together to solve issues related in to Universal Acceptance i.e. Speech to text search in local languages

+1 to Adeel
The reference WS.25 (Supporting National Computer Emergency Response Teams for Improving Cyber Security) were not relate to the title of the para 20.

I suggest giving the full title of the WS.

Algorithmic Transparency

Algorithms form a basic part of data analysis and artificial intelligence. They are made by various entities in order to analyse data and make use of data for purposes such as profiling, showing targeted advertisements, showing relevant search results, as well as performing automated tasks such as those performed by self-driving cars.
Disclosure of algorithms can facilitate governments, researchers and the general public in understanding what kinds of data is used and how that data is used, leading to an increase in privacy awareness through openness and transparency.

Online Harassment

Efforts are required involving all stakeholders to make the Internet a safe space for all, including the voices of the minorities. Solutions to online harassment can take many forms, such as victims speaking out about their abuse, better community standards by social media companies, digital security precautions, self-help strategies, stricter laws, and better efforts by law enforcement agencies.