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Multistakeholder Internet

Governance possible solutions

Grigori Saghyan

Internet Governance Council

secretary

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General terms

How to implement the provisions of WSIS action

plan for Internet Governance.

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IGF – starting point

Global IGF http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/ is the outcome of WSIS

Participants represents government private and public sectors

Main outcome is the generation of common approaches on Internet challenges

Armenian government's representatives do not participate in IG Forums, there is only public sector representatives, reason is that WSIS is not a convention and there is no any formal obligation on participants.

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ITR, Dubai 2012 - discussion

The discussion about the role of ITU in the Internet governance has started on June 24 2012 and initiates discussion in Armenian community.

Internet Society of Armenia has prepared it’s position on ITU submitted proposals, suggests to implement WSIS multi-stakeholder approach in IG and delivers his position to the ministry of transport and communications (MTC) of Armenia

МТС has distributed this proposal among governmental structures, and on November common position on the Internet Governance Principles was approved.

Position was based on multi-stakeholder model of Internet Governance

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Internet Governance Council of Armenia

The government decision on creation of IGC was

adopted in August 2014.

The status of IGC is inter-department commission with

invited private and public organizations.

Head of the IGC is the deputy minister of MTC

Secretary of IGC is the VP of Internet Society of

Armenia

Secretariat of IGC is the Internet Society of Armenia

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IGC members Ministry of Transport and Communications

Police

National Security Service

National Academy of Sciences

Internet Society NGO

Union of Employers NGO

Ombudsman

Union of Mass Media Agencies NGO

Armenian Chamber of Commerce

Yerevan Press club

Union of IT Companies NGO

National Library of Armenia

“Freedom of Information Center of Armenia” NGO

2 telecom operators

Internet Society NGO (secretariat)

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IGC Goals and Objectives

to create favorable conditions for

1) our fellow citizens and organizations regardless of

the type and nature of activities more often, more

affordable way to communicate using web services

2) public participation in formation of the global

information databases in line with the cultural

peculiarities, e.g. to overcome the language barriers

3) forming knowledge-based society, capturing a unique

place and role in global current development, worthily

representing the Armenian cultural values

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IGC Goals and Objectives

to suggest

1) approaches on Armenia's positions that will

be presented at the Global IGF

to support

1) cooperation with Inter-state, International

organizations, Regional Associations and other

IG related organizations

2) Infrastructure development in Armenia

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IGC Goals and Objectives

Providing people with Internet access

1) to develop infrastructure,

2) to increase the level of computer literacy,

3) to support competition,

4) to open the market for new operators and

service providers.

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IGC Goals and Objectives

Support of DNSSEC distribution

1) to encourage and motivate the acting operators and

Internet service providers to use DNSSEC in their

networks and domain protocol in the Republic of

Armenia.

Support of IPv6 Distribution

1) to encourage and motivate the acting operators and

Internet service providers in the Republic of Armenia to

use IPv6 protocol in their networks and domains.

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IGC Goals and Objectives

Privacy protection and Identification

1) to support the technologies allowing to

maintain the protection of privacy along with

providing the opportunities of Internet users to

be identified according to law requirements.

Innovations

1) to support the implementation of

innovations among ISPs and end-users

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IGC Goals and Objectives

Human Rights Protection in Internet

1) to ensure the right to freedom of expression and the right to form unions,

2) to involve the representative of Armenian Ombudsman Office in IGC,

3) to support state-society cooperation.

Security

1) to ensure the security in the framework of Budapest convention, national Law, Government and public cooperation, collaboration with CERT, involvement of the community in this process.

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IGC Goals and Objectives

Protection of Intellectual Property

1) to ensure both national legislation and the

best practices of WIPO,

2) to support the users and public initiatives

towards protection of intellectual property,

3) to prevent copyright violations

4) to support netiquette development among

end-users.

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IGC Goals and Objectives

The system of Domain Names

1) to create favorable conditions for the population of Armenia and Armenian Diaspora, individuals and legal entities from any country to register their domain names in .AM zone,

2) to create favorable conditions for hosting services in RA.

3) to develop model solution for Domain Name Disputable Issues,

4) to support Armenian IDN registration,

5) to develop the Armenian content.

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IGC Goals and Objectives

Internet Regulation

1) Internet regulation is appropriate to apply only

when the existence of Armenian Internet sector is

in danger with no regulation.

Effective solutions for traffic routing

1) to increase the reliability of traffic routing due

to the automatic usage of many alternative routes

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IGC Goals and Objectives

Open Standards Support

1) The development of Internet is based on

elaboration and use of open standards allowing

all interested parties to join the current operating

system.

2) Open standards usage is a priority for

Internet development projects, except National

Security related cases.

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IGC Goals and Objectives

Child Online Protection

1) to protect children avoiding the limitation for

adults involving operators, NGOs, schools,

families, community in the process.

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IGC Goals and Objectives

Network neutrality

1) All computer ports and internet protocols are

open,

2) Any information source and destination with

any content in internet is transparently accessible

3) No filtering, only in case if there is a technical

problem in the operator’s network

4) All protocols have same priority

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Organization of works

IGC organizes its work through monthly sessions, as

well as sessions upon necessity.

IGC sessions are recorded and published on IGC

website.

Extra sessions can also be called by initiation of IGC

Chair or by suggestion of 1/3th of members.

Each WG member has one vote. Sessions are chaired

by the Chairman of the WG. In case of his/her absence,

the Deputy Chairman runs the sessions.

Detailed information is available on http://igf.am

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Questions?

Grigori Saghyan

E-mail: gregor@arminco.com

Tel: +37491419378

http://igf.am