Introduction to Internet Governance

e-AGE 2014 Muscat

December 11, 2014

Fahd A. BataynehICANN

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Internet governance is the development and

application by all stakeholders in their respective

roles, of shared principles, norms, rules, decision-

making procedures, and programs that shape the

evolution and use of the Internet

Definition of Internet Governance

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+ Business and Private Sector

+ Designers/Developers of electronic systems and software

+ Governments

+ Policy makers and regulators

+ Civil Society

+ Internet end users

+ Academic and Technical Community

+ The ones who conduct Research and Development (R&D)

and develop Internet standards and Protocols

Who are the Stakeholders?

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+ Access

+ Diversity

+ Openness

+ Security

+ Critical Internet Resources (CIR)

+ Privacy and Human Rights

Internet Governance General Topics

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+ Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and

Numbers (ICANN)

+ Internet Society (ISOC)

+ Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

+ Internet Architecture Board (IAB)

+ Regional Internet Registries (RIRs)

+ Regional TLD Organizations (RTLDOs)

+ Internet Governance Forum (IGF)

The I* Organizations

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+ An annual forum since 2006 that attracts all

stakeholders to discuss and share experiences and

best-practices

+ No binding decisions come out of it

+ Covers all aspects of global Internet Governance

from various dimensions

+ A Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) decides

on the theme and agenda of the annual event

+ 9th edition of the forum took place in Istanbul,

Turkey during September 2-5, 2014

+ Website at http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/

Internet Governance Forum (IGF)

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+ Regional IGFs

+ European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG)

+ African IGF

+ Asia Pacific Regional IGF (APrIGF)

+ Arab IGF

+ … etc.

+ Local IGFs

+ Tunisian IGF

+ Russian IGF

+ UK IGF

+ … etc.

National and Regional IGFs

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+ Annual event taking place since 2012

+ First edition took place in Kuwait, the second in

Algeria, and the third in Lebanon

+ Attracts all stakeholders to discuss and share

experiences and best-practices. No binding

decisions come out of it

+ Covers all aspects of Arab IGF from various

dimensions

+ An Arab Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Group (AMAG)

decides on the theme and agenda of the annual

event

+ Website at http://igfarab.org/

Arab IGF

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+ Extensive workshops that span over 3-5 days and

teach participants on the A-Z of Internet

Governance

+ Some versions of such schools include the European

Summer School on IG and the South School on IG

+ The inaugural Arab version of such a school took

place in Kuwait during May 25-29, 2014 under the

name “Middle East and Adjoining Countries School

on IG”

Schools on Internet Governance

Questions?

Fahd A. Batayneh

Stakeholder Engagement Coordinator, Middle East

ICANN

fahd.batayneh@icann.org

@icann | @icann_ar