Several ISOC staff participated in the event and two ISOC-specific meetings were also held alongside the ICANN meeting: “ISOC participation in ICANN” and a Members and Chapters Meeting.

ISOC’s Regional Director, Rajnesh Singh, also spoke at the APRALO showcase. Singh was the founding Chair of APRALO, which represents Asia Pacific Internet user interests in the ICANN process.

ISOC Chapters and Members Meeting at ICANN 41, Singapore

ISOC’s Regional Director, Rajnesh Singh, spoke during the IPv6 Plenary about World IPv6 Day and during the Cybersecurity breakout session on Online Privacy.

Session transcripts are available here and archived webcasts are available for the sessions are available at the following:
IPv6
Cybersecurity

Events on June 8 were held in multiple countries (Australia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, amongst others). There was also significant media coverage, with ISOC’s Regional Director, Rajnesh Singh, being interviewed on a regional radio programme on the day as well.

Regional media coverage was significant, and the following is a sample:

ABC (Australia): Web users await success of IPv6 day

ABC (Australia): Test of new internet system underway (Radio interview and transcript)

Fiji Times: Turn of a new era

Straits Times, Singapore: Next-generation Internet addresses tested

The Australian: Next-generation IPv6 addresses tested

Times of India: 5 things you should know about IPv6 (was linked from the front page on Thursday 9th June)

Digital Life, a weekly insert of Straits Times (Singapore), also included an article with an interview with Singh on June 15th, the day before the Asia Pacific Regional IGF and ICANN Singapore began. This gave World IPv6 Day some great follow-up coverage prior to these major meetings in Singapore.

ISOC’s Regional Director, Rajnesh Singh, participated in the event, and spoke during an interactive panel on “Capitalizing on Transformative Technology and Innovation”. The session summary is available here.

Singh highlighted the importance of multi-stakeholder consultative processes. He also stressed the need to understand and appreciate the needs and values of newer generations of Internet users who are online and connected pretty much 24/7 and have a different perspective on privacy and the exchange of personal information.

Further information on the 2011 World Economic Forum on East Asia is available here.

The rich agenda featured local, regional and international speakers and covered topics such as access, security, policy, mobile Internet and IPv6. Agenda details available here.

The event was opened with traditional Sri Lankan dances and music, and in keeping with local traditions, lighting of oil lamps. The Chief Guest, who formally opened the event, was Mr Lalith Weeratunga, Secretary to the President of Sri Lanka and Chairman of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO). As part of his opening speech Mr Weeratunga outlined the initiatives the Government of Sri Lanka has launched in its desire to become the regional knowledge hub. In his speech and interactions later with ISOC’s Regional Director, Rajnesh Singh, Mr Weeratunga committed to high-level support of the Sri Lankan Chapter and ISOC.

INET Colombo was webcast live on livestream.com and all sessions are archived on the ISOC Chapters channel.

The first combined Asia Pacific ISOC regional chapters workshop was held the weekend prior (May 21-22)
at the same venue.

Also held as part of INET Colombo, over the May 21-22 period were various workshops covering topics such as network forensics, IPv6, localisation and social media. This goes back to the roots of early global INETs which included technical workshops and seminars. The workshops were very successful, with a second IPv6 workshop being scheduled over the period in response to demand. The workshops were held at the University of Colombo School of Computing facilities.

The next Asian Regional INET is scheduled for Bangalore, India in November.

The APEC Telecommunications and Information Working Group (TEL) aims to improve telecommunications and information infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region by developing and implementing appropriate telecommunications and information policies, including relevant human resource and development cooperation strategies.

Singh was invited to speak at the Industry Roundtable on Cloud Computing and his talk covered the need to build confidence in applications and technologies around cloud computing to ensure continued user confidence in the network as well as technologies that enable the network.

The next APEC TEL meeting is scheduled for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in September.

He met with chapter leaders and members, and later accompanied chapter leaders on visits to some major multinational companies based in Bangalore to help build alliances and relationships.

There was strong representation from ISOC at the various events with staff from the Asian Bureau and Standards & Technology group in attendance.

A successful chapters and members meeting was held during the period, with around 15 chapter representatives present. Regional Bureau Manager, Rajnesh Singh provided an update on regional plans and activities, Senior Manger for Chapters, Anne Lord provided an update on chapter development, and members of ISOC’s Standards and Technology team, Leslie Daigle (Chief Internet Technology Officer) and Phil Roberts (Technology Programme Manager) provided an update on World IPv6 Day. Notes from the meeting are available on the chapter
wiki.

As in previous years, ISOC extended financial support for the APRICOT 2011 Fellowship programme. ISOC also provided support for an APTLD workshop and the APNG Camp, both of which were co-located with APRICOT 2011.

APRICOT 2012 is scheduled for Delhi, India.

ISOC’s Regional Bureau Manager for Asia, Rajnesh Singh, delivered a keynote address on “The Internet and You”.

Further information on the Camp is available here.

The Retreat agenda and presentation slides can be viewed on the AP STAR website here.

The next AP STAR Retreat is scheduled to be held during the APNIC meeting in Busan, Korea in August.