Status:
IGF Theme(s) for workshop: Emerging Issues
Main theme question address by workshop: This is a broad topic not confined to any specific question.
Concise description of the proposed workshop:
Many Governments are becoming assertive on their intent to control the Internet. While Governments are free to have their concerns, it would be fair to decide on Internet policies after consulting the Internet Community, Civil Society and Business.
IGF offers hope for Internet Governance to emerge as a participative process, but recent developments point to the likelihood of such a balance being upset. The temptations appear to be strong for Governments now to move away from consultative decision making.
Due to these developments, it becomes important to examine the role of various stakeholders in preserving the Core Internet Values. Corporations as large as Google and Facebook face are under pressure by Governments to implement measures that would compromise on Core Internet Values.
The pressures that Business Corporations are subjected to are of shared concerns to the users, who are the ones affected by changes in the policies of Internet Business Corporations. This workshop would examine the importance of consultative decision making for an acceptable path towards the further evolution of Internet with particular emphasis on attaining balanced participation in the process of altering Internet Business Policies.
The workshop would review recent developments worldwide that have threatened the Core Internet Values and would focus on identifying areas of common agreement across stakeholder groups on what must be preserved and what is desirable to be preserved.
Background Paper: none
Provide the name of the organiser(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder groups:
Sivasubramanian Muthusamy, workshop organized as an individual, affiliated to the Internet Society India Chennai.
Have you, or any of your co-organisers, organised an IGF workshop before?: Yes
Please provide link(s) to workshop(s) or report(s):
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2010View&wspid=80
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2011View&wspid=215
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2011View&wspid=201
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
- Vint Cerf, Google
- Lynn St Amour, Internet Society
- Steve Crocker, ICANN
- Markus Kummer, Internet Society
- Nicky Grossman, Code for America
- Jeff Moss, Black Hat
- Joshua Corman, Akamei
- Dan Kaminsky, ICANN
- Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
- Tony Bates, Skype
- Viviane Reding, European Commission
- Kapil Sibal, Minister for Communications and Information Technology
- Youth panelist to be identified.
- Geographical Balance and Gender Balance to be attained.
Name of Remote Moderator(s):
Joly MacFie, New York