{"id":61409,"date":"2014-06-20T07:28:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T12:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ict-pulse.com\/?p=61409"},"modified":"2014-06-20T07:31:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T12:31:58","slug":"caribbean-perspectives-internet-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/2014\/06\/caribbean-perspectives-internet-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"Caribbean Perspectives on Internet Governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>A talk given on Internet Governance: why it is important, and why the Caribbean should participate in the on-going global discussions.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This past April, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gobernanzainternet.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">South School on Internet Governance<\/a>, in collaboration with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctu.int\" target=\"_blank\">Caribbean Telecommunications Union<\/a>, held a four-day workshop in Trinidad and Tobago, with the objective of building Internet Governance (IG) capacity in the Caribbean. The tuition covered a broad range of topics, many of which we have discussed here on ICT Pulse, including the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>security and cybercrime<\/li>\n<li>privacy<\/li>\n<li>IPv6<\/li>\n<li>domain names registries, gTLDs and ccTLDs<\/li>\n<li>telecoms regulation and internet governance, including network neutrality,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the first day of he School, and as a precursor to the intensive discussions that would follow, I was invited to share some thoughts, <em>Caribbean Perspectives on Internet Governance<\/em>. The talk given (see presentation slides below) had two key objectives: to provide some insight on why IG is important, and to argue why IG should be important in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>With the <a href=\"http:\/\/london50.icann.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">ICANN 50<\/a> meeting scheduled next week, 22\u201426 June, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctu.int\/events\/details\/129-10th-caribbean-internet-governance-forum\" target=\"_blank\">10<sup>th<\/sup> Caribbean Internet Governance Forum<\/a>, 6\u20148 August, and the Ninth Annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/cms\/\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Governance Forum<\/a> Meeting, 2\u20145 September, there will be excellent opportunities to learn more about IG and to join the on-going discussions on a broad range of important topics. <strong>Note:<\/strong> remote participants are encouraged and welcomed at all of those meetings. The requisite details and instructions to join remotely would be on the event websites.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px 1px 0; margin-bottom: 5px; max-width: 100%;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/34598394\" width=\"560\" height=\"458\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: \u00a0ICT Pulse<\/em><\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A talk given on Internet Governance: why it is important, and why the Caribbean should participate in the on-going global discussions. 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