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OCTOBER
25 Oct - 3 Nov, Hammamet
31 Oct - 2 Nov, Hyderabad
APEC TEL 54
31 Oct - 4 Nov, Kyoto
NOVEMBER
1-2 Nov, New Delhi
3-9 Nov, Hyderabad
7-10 Nov, Macau
7-11 Nov, Ghaziabad
4th Conformance and Interoperability Event
13-17 Nov, Bangkok
IETF 97
13-18 Nov, Seoul
ITU Telecom World 2016
14-17 Nov, Bangkok
15 Nov
16-18 Nov, Wuzhen
International Conference on Cyber Law, Cyber Crime & Cyber Security
17-18 Nov, New Delhi
21-23 Nov, Tehran
21 Nov - 16 Dec
National Digital Forum
22-23 Nov, Wellington
26-29 Nov, Lahore
28 Nov, Nadi
PacNOG 19
28 Nov -2 Dec, Nadi
29 Nov-2 Dec, Nadi
Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC)
30 Nov - 2 Dec, Bangkok
DECEMBER
6-7 Dec, Hong Kong
6-8 Dec, Yangon
6-9 Dec, Guadalajara
8 Dec, Beijing
13-14 Dec, Singapore
2017
Internet of Things India Expo 2017
8-10 Feb, New Delhi
20 Feb - 2 Mar, Ho Chi Minh City
29-30 Mar, Singapore
12-17 Nov, Singapore
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Vol. 10 / OCTOBER 2016
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This is a monthly e-newsletter published by the Internet Society's Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau. It has updates on the Bureau's activities and features insights on the transforming Internet landscape in and around the Asia-Pacific region.
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Editorial: Moving the Needle on Development Issues with the Three C's - Collaborate, Cooperate and Coordinate
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Themed around the 'Internet of Opportunity', the conference featured a rich agenda in the form of a truly multi-stakeholder dialogue. A defining feature of the event was the range of actors from the wider ecosystem coming together to engage on the role the Internet could play in building an inclusive and sustainable future for the Asia-Pacific. Specifically, the event sought to discuss current and emerging issues in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and some of the initiatives and strategies that will help the region achieve the SDGs.
It was encouraging to see the range of international organisations (APT, FAO, IDRC, ITU, UNESCO, World Bank, to name a few) present and actively contributing to the discussions. We also had a very strong civil society contingent from around the region, as well as the private sector, academia and government representatives. Another defining feature of the event was the presence of representatives from all major sub-regions - from Central Asia to the Pacific Islands. The diversity was quite remarkable, as was the desire for all to work together on common objectives.
In preparation for the event, we produced a set of
issue papers on five thematic areas - rural connectivity, enabling e-services, frugal innovation and entrepreneurship, financial inclusion, and disaster risk reduction. These should be essential reading if you want to better understand some of the issues facing the region.
In addition to a regional chapters workshop, we held a gender mainstreaming workshop for women leaders from across the region prior to the event. This brought together 19 individuals working in different areas and sectors from Pakistan to the Pacific Islands to discuss how gender can be mainstreamed into ICT issues. A set of action items was agreed upon, including establishing a working group to help drive the issues. We will be publishing further information on the workshop outcomes shortly.
Post-event, we are working on the conference proceedings, an outcomes document, as well as videos of the event sessions. We will have these available in the coming weeks and links will be on our website.
My key message - which I emphasised during the conference - is quite straightforward. We have a range of actors in the wider ecosystem; and all are working in good faith on actions and initiatives to help move the needle on the issues that face us today. However, our collective success really depends on how well we do what I call the three C's: Collaborate, Cooperate and Coordinate.
We need to collaborate to better understand each other, we need to cooperate to assist each other, and we need to coordinate amongst ourselves as well with others to ensure we achieve the right outcomes. These three C's will be key. They will help us reduce duplication of efforts and make far more efficient use of the limited resources we all individually have.
Rajnesh D. Singh
Regional Bureau Director for Asia-Pacific
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| Photo Credits: ARROW, Awal, Naveed Haq, Nica Dumlao, Osama Manzar, Rajib Subba, Rajnesh D. Singh. |
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Guest Article: 30 September 2016 - A Day to be Remembered
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by Jia-Rong Low, VP and MD Asia Pacific, ICANN
In August, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web. We now have another date to remember - 30 September 2016 - the day that the stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions
was transitioned
to the global Internet community.
The transition was the final step towards privatising the coordination and management of the Internet's unique identifiers, which was envisioned since ICANN was incorporated in 1998. The U.S. Government announced that it was ready to embark on the final phase of this transition in March 2014. In the two years that followed, the global Internet community stepped up to the task and drafted the final transition proposals.
The community proposals replaced the U.S. Government's historic stewardship role and enhanced ICANN's accountability mechanisms. After a careful review, the U.S. Government determined that the community's arrangements fulfilled the
criteria
necessary to allow the contract between the U.S. Government and ICANN - to perform the IANA functions - to expire on 30 September 2016.
The transition itself is mostly a symbolic change. While vitally important for the relationships and management of ICANN, Internet users will see no change or difference in their experience online as a result of the transition. The very large ecosystem of Internet system providers, content providers and users will continue to function without change.
The operational mechanisms and enhanced accountability frameworks outlined in the transition proposals are now in effect. This includes the incorporation of
Public Technical Identifiers (PTI)
, an affiliate of ICANN created to perform the IANA functions on behalf of ICANN, and strengthened oversight mechanisms for the operational communities to monitor the performance of their respective IANA functions.
The future of Internet Governance is already here.
In managing the coordination of the Internet's unique identifiers, ICANN plays a small but significant role in the Internet's ecosystem. ICANN and the global Internet community have many technical partners that are responsible for coordinating, setting and implementing the rules that govern the Internet.
No one person, company, organisation or government runs the Internet. ICANN's multi-stakeholder model develops policy by including all voices - from across industries and regions - to reach consensus. The model ensures that representatives from the technical community, civil society, private sector, governments and end users are all involved in policy decisions.
The successful completion of the transition further validates the multi-stakeholder model. There is broad agreement that a transparent and inclusive method of developing policy is the best way to assure that the Internet of tomorrow remains as free, open and accessible as the Internet of today.
Here in the Asia-Pacific region, our participation and representation in the development of the transition proposals was significant. When I first joined ICANN, many had labeled our region as "price takers" of Internet governance. Asia-Pacific stakeholders are often impeded by a lack of understanding of Internet governance-related issues, the multi-stakeholder model, or simply the lack of confidence to speak up due to cultural barriers. I am proud to report that our region was very well represented in the working groups for the transition. Representatives from the Asia-Pacific region made up 17-25% of the working groups that developed the transition proposals.
About half of the world's Internet users come from Asia-Pacific, and the majority of the next billion coming online will be from our region. We are the majority of Internet stakeholders. Let us continue to work together to shape its future.
The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the views of the Internet Society.
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One Internet. One Society. One Meeting: Highlights from Asia-Pacific
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On 21 September,
InterCommunity 2016 (IC2016), an interactive global event tapped the power of the Internet to bring Internet Society's global community together for conversations on two key topics: (1) connecting the unconnected; and (2) increasing trust in the Internet.
On the day, ISOC chapters from the Asia-Pacific region came together to participate in IC2016 discussions, hosting 11 nodes in different sub regions - all the way from the Pacific Islands to Japan.
The overall event structure had three components:
- A local roundtable inter-regional session (4.00 - 5.45 UTC)
- The intra-regional session (6.00 - 7.45 UTC)
- The global session (8.00 - 10.00 UTC)
With over 400 on-site participants, and more than 200 online participants, IC2016 Asia-Pacific nodes demonstrated the diversity of ISOC community and power of an open Internet, that supports everyone's right to share knowledge, innovate and get their voices heard.
Internet Society Asia-Pacific Bureau would like to thank the amazing chapter leaders and members who came together from all over the region for a compelling IC2016.
View details of IC2016 @ Asia-Pacific on
Storify.
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Media Literacy in Schools Needed VS Social Media Abuse in the Philippines
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Media literacy is the long-term solution to fight the worsening state of disinformation and abuse on social media. This was emphasised during the Senate education committee hearing on 18 October, on the responsible use of social media in schools. More than regulation, collaboration is the key to solving the problem - schools, news organisations, and government, among others.
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Technology, promoted as a social equaliser, is having the opposite effect in one of the world's largest markets. In India, smartphones and Internet access is exacerbating an already deep gender gap. The gulf is blocking women from crucial ways of communicating and learning, and making it harder for them to find work, upgrade their skills and assert political rights.
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The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific countries at a high-level meeting in Bangkok supported Bangladesh to lead the Information Highway.
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Viet Nam has granted 4G licenses to three of the market's major mobile operators - MobiFone, Viettel and VNPT - to roll out LTE services over the 1800-MHz band.
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