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ISOC Monthly NewsletterApril 2008
1. From the Editor – Anne LordWelcome to your monthly newsletter! This month we have a bumper edition for Chapter news! It is great to see so much interesting and varied activity around the globe. Thanks to all the Chapters and their members for their work in support of ISOC. We are pleased to welcome four recent additions to the ISOC Chapter family. In January, ISOC Philadelphia, US, led by Mara Lipschutz was recognized; followed in February by ISOC Colorado, US, led by Chris Grundemann; ISOC Cote D’Ivoire, led by Alain Didier Kla; and in March ISOC Mauritania, led by Hassene Sidatt. Please join me in warmly welcoming all four chapters to ISOC. We are very excited to announce that the first round of Project Funding for 2008 will be launched on 1 May. The Project Funding initiative provides a way for ISOC Chapters and Members to undertake projects that will further the goals of the Internet Society as a whole. Please see the information contained in this newsletter for more details. We look forward to receiving your applications. Best regards, Anne Lord 1. FeaturesThe 7th APEC Ministerial Meeting: Delivering Internet access to the next billion users in APEC economiesContributed by Bill Graham  Leslie Martinkovics (Verizon), Rosemary Sinclair (INTUG), Ms Niu Yuhong (Alcatel China), and Bill Graham, Chair (ISOC) taking part in the APEC Ministerial meeting Introduction: Report:  Bill Graham, in charge of Global Strategic Engagement for the Internet Society and Rosemary Sinclair, Vice President, External Relations, International Telecommunications Users’ Group co-organized and chaired the Three Party Dialogue at APEC TELMIN 7, Bangkok Thailand, 23 April, 2008 >TELMIN 7 had five themes for discussion and provides a useful framework for reflecting on the Three-Party Dialogue:
The Minister for ICT, Thailand, His Excellency Patanothai Mun, opened the Dialogue, suggesting that although governments and industries have been independently trying to increase Internet users, this feat of reaching the next billion users cannot be achieved only through the private effort of each party, but needs a synergistic approach. Academia also has a role in educating people about the use and benefits of Internet technology. The Minister suggested that increasing Internet users by 1 billion people over the next five years requires multilateral efforts. After the Dialogue, each party will have a better understanding of what other parties are experiencing and confronting. The Minister commented that we need to continue our efforts in exchanging our knowledge, experiences, and lessons learned to bring benefits and transformational opportunities for the APEC community.  Dr KANCHANA Kanchanasut, Asian Institute of Technology, spoke to the 7th meeting of APEC Ministers responsible for telecommunications and information on April 23 in Bangkok, Thailand The Dialogue Keynote speaker, Dr. Thaweesak Koanantakool, Vice President, National Science and Technology Development Agency, Ministry of Science and Technology of Thailand, set the scene as follows:
A range of issues of relevance to TELMIN and subsequent TEL discussions emerged during the presentations:
The Keynote Address reminded delegates of the importance of all economies “travelling on the new broadband road”. This future needs attention to:
News from the Trust and Identity frontContributed by Lucy Lynch Privacy and Identity Management for Europe (PRIME) has recently published several interesting tutorials which step the user through many of the issues that arise from the tensions between on-line identity and personal privacy. The material is grounded in current European policy and there are tutorials for both the general user and for developers and decision makers. For more information. The user-centric tutorial is available in English, German, Spanish, Greek, Swedish, Dutch, French, and Italian. The advanced tutorial is currently available in English only. Both tutorials can also be downloaded for off-line use. The project receives research funding from the European Union’s Sixth Framework Programme and the Swiss Federal Office for Education and Science and aims to develop a working prototype of a privacy-enhancing Identity Management System. As the Internet Society has recently undertaken a major initiative with a focus on Trust and Identity, I highly recommend these tutorials as an introduction to some of the key issues facing individual users. Update on the ISOC Elections for Board of Trustees positionsContributed by Greg Kapfer The Internet Society’s annual process to select new Trustees is nearing its completion. This year, two Trustees will be elected by the ISOC Organizational Members, and one by the ISOC Chapters for full three year terms. The voting period for the selection closed on Monday, April 28. The Election Committee will meet next week to count the ballots and certify the election results. In addition, one Trustee will be selected by the Internet Architecture Board. The election results will be posted on ISOC’s website as soon as the results are certified. New Trustees will be seated at the Board of Trustee meeting held on June 28 in Paris. The following Trustees’ current terms will end in July 2008:
Mr. Karrenberg and Mr. Pisanty are candidates for re-election. ISOC would like to express its appreciation to each of these individuals for their contribution to ISOC’s success over the past three to six years. ISOC would also like to thank all those who stood for election, as well as to those who served on the Nominating Committee and the Election Committee. These have been important and valuable contributions to ISOC. Thank you to all concerned. 3. Chapter NewsISOC AustraliaContributed by Holly Raiche Planning continues for the IPv6 Summit ISOC AU is organizing, which will be held in Canberra in November. ISCO AU will also hold its annual strategy planning day in May, reviewing how ISOC-AU fits into the larger goals of ISOC. ISOC-AU is one of the organizations that has been invited by the Minister for Broadband, Communications, and the Digital Economy to participate in the Telecommunications consumer Representation Stakeholder Forum, to be held in Canberra on 1 May 2008. ISOC ColombiaContributed by Enrique Arrieta-Noguera In an example of multi-stakeholder collaboration among leading organizations in the Internet community in Colombia, web pages are being created for ISOC Colombia. For more information. ISOC Colombia gets WALC2008: Fundación Escuela Latinoamericana de Redes (EsLsRed), located in Universidad de Los Andes, in Mérida, Venezuela recently awarded the WALC2008 event to Colombia. For more information. ISOC GhanaContributed by Erik Akumiah The Internet Society of Ghana Chapter organized its first outreach programme for 2008 on Friday, 25 April, at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi (the second largest city in Ghana). Under the theme, “Towards improved Internet Governance – Managing the National Internet Resource”, the outreach programme aimed to bring the debate on Internet Governance to the society at large for their input – a typical bottom-up approach to policy input in the development process. Addressing the gathering of students and lecturers, the main speaker at the programme, Prof. Nii Quaynor (the 2007 Jon B. Postel Award Honoree) enumerated the issues at the centre of the debate on the Internet Governance, and the nature of the debate. On the national level, Prof. Quaynor explained how the national Internet resources – comprising domain name registrations and Internet Protocol (IP) address – were being managed. He explained that numbers (IP addresses) were managed on the continental level by the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). Africa Network Information Centre (AfriNIC) is the African RIR. He also explained the history of domain name management and how the country code top level domains (ccTLDs) have been, and are being, managed. Prof Quaynor ended by explaining the issues in the management of the .gh ccTLD registry. This, he said, included ensuring full representation of stakeholders in the industry and transparency in its management. Prof Quaynor has managed the .gh ccTLD since 1996 as the administrative contact. He called on everyone present to be part of the debate on Internet Governance to contribute to move the registry forward. Earlier on in the programme, Mr Eric Akumiah, General Secretary of Internet Society Ghana Chapter and National Coordinator of Ghana Network Information Centre (GhNIC), the .gh registry management organization, also traced the history of the Internet, highlighting the pre-ICANN activities of Jonathan Bruce Postel; the need for the formation of ICANN and its mandate; the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS); and the ensuing Internet Governance debate. As part of the programme, Prof. Quaynor, was introduced as the 2007 Jon B. Postel Honoree to the gathering. Responding, he said, “There is the need to create a critical mass of researchers, intellectuals in academia, who would network to build capacities to create the human capital needed to develop the nation”. The function was chaired by Mr. Oppong, Ag. Head of Computer Science at KNUST who also re-launched Prof. Quaynor’s book on “Oware”, the forgotten African mechanical Computer. Oware is the old African game, which is played differently in different parts of Africa. In his book, Nii Quaynor unveils Oware as a powerful calculating tool comparable to the Abacus used by the Chinese. A call for membership was made by General Secretary of ISOC Ghana yielded over 60 new members. ISOC ItalyContributed by Carlo Cosmatos The Italian Chapter of Internet Society participated in the Midterm Review of the Joint Project Agreement, submitted by National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to evaluate the progress achieved by ICANN in the first half period envisaged in the JPA. Read more about the contribution from ISOC Italia to the US Department of Commerce, NTIA. ISOC Italia is organizing a workshop designed to sensitize the Italian-speaking community on Internet Governance issues. This one-day workshop aims at consulting all interested parties on Internet Governance Forum related issues. The title of the workshop: “The Internet System: ‘Towards the constitution of the IGF Italia’” is to be held on 19 May at the Conference Room of the National Research Council of Italy, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 7, 00185 Rome. ISOC MexicoContributed by Alejandro Pisanty ISOC Mexico was invited through its Chair, Alejandro Pisanty, to participate in the “Forum on Public Policy in the Digital Age”, held by the Chamber of Deputies of the Federal Legislature. The Forum was organized by the representatives in order to listen to sectors of society’s views and needs for developing public policy and laws appropriate to the Information Society. Alejandro took part in a panel with the coordinator of the e-Mexico Program and the President of CUDI, the Internet-2 class consortium, in which Alejandro has been a leader since its inception. Alejandro based his participation on a list of points without which a Digital Agenda would be incomplete. ISOC Mexico was also instrumental in shaping the Forum, through discussions with its organizers. ISOC New YorkContributed by Joly McFie ISOC-NY webcast a recent talk by Prof. Jonathan Zittrain of the Oxford Internet Institute “The Future of the Internet – and How to Stop It” – the title of his new book. Prof. Zittrain’s theme is that if we want to continue to see an open and generative network, we have to come up with open and generative solutions to problems like spam and malware and balkanization. An entertaining and cogent speaker, he gives a capsule history of how we got here and suggest some solutions. Video and audio of the talk and links to the entire book ISOC-NY is also making available, free of charge, a limited number of DVDs (NTSC) of the talk. These are intended for educators who might use them as class material. If you are interested, please email dvd@isoc-ny.org. A project – IMAGINE Africa – at the University of Michigan has come to our attention. It ambitiously proposes to bring connectivity to the most remote parts of the continent using cheap satellites and solar-powered base stations that need virtually zero expertise to set up. Such a possibility is of obvious interest to ISOC members, thus ISOC-NY has set up a mailing list as a forum where the project can be discussed with its participants. More info. There has been a movement for sometime in New York City to establish a .nyc top level domain. We have now been joined by Berlin and Paris in the effort to bring about city TLD’s. Prior to the coming ICANN meeting in Paris, ISOC NY will hold a public forum on 21 May, “Connecting .nyc”, to discuss the issues and civic importance of such a development. Video will be available after the event.. ISOC PeruContributed by Francisco Rubio On 27 March, the Peruvian Chapter held its first General Assembly, approved a set of by laws, and elected new officers. As a result, the new Board at ISOC Peru is composed of:
We would like to take the opportunity to thank Jose Francisco Callo for his work as President with ISOC Peru. We hope you all join us in wishing all the best to ISOC Peru in this new rejuvenated phase. For more info (in Spanish) ISOC SénégalContributed by Alex Corenthin ISOC Sénégal received the SEDAR DES NTIC award from the Nouvel Horizon newspaper. The award ceremony took place on 29 February 2008 at The Thátre National Daniel Sorano. This is a great honour for ISOC Senegal. ISOC SloveniaContributed by Borka Jerman-Blazic A big event on “The Future of the Internet” was recently held in Bled, Slovenia. All European stakeholders (industry and researchers; about 350 people) were there together with NFS (GENI project) and the Japanese project on the Future of the Internet. The declaration is available here. The event was organized by ISOC Slovenia and the European Commission, DGINFSO. The event adopted the Bled Declaration on the Future Internet. Here is the recorded event video and web streaming server More Information about the event. ISOC SpainContributed by Adolfo Vazquez ISOC-ES, continuing with its cycle of lectures, organized a talk by Jaime Albert “Bares, coches y pisos ¿Cuál es mi ADN en internet?” on 17 April. The session provided an interesting view about our relation with Google, Yahoo, and other services. How do we see them? As a bar? A car? Or a house? And how could these relationships evolve? The video of this conference (Spanish). ISOC-ES will participate again this year as member of the promotion committee for the Internet Day. The celebration will take place on 17 May, with events in 22 countries. More information. PICISOCContributed by Franck Martin Dr Vinton G. Cerf, a co-founder and creator of the Internet, has urged Pacific Islanders to rise to the challenges and opportunities that the Internet provides to the Pacific and the world. “The Internet is one of the most valuable contemporary tools for linking to the world-wide community for business, education, cultural exchange and travel. No one has a ‘corner’ on creativity and the Pacific Island populations should have equal footing in the cyber world where they can leverage their own, unique talents,” said Dr Cerf. Dr Cerf urged past and future participants of PacINET to share experiences and discuss challenges and opportunities: “PacINET provides a remarkable opportunity for Pacific Islanders to take advantage of their experiences in implementing and using the Internet. Discovering that your problems are not unique and that others have found solutions to them is one of the more satisfying outcomes of attending these meetings, to say nothing of the enthusiasm one feels for sharing Internet connectivity goals.” His message comes ahead of this year’s PacINET, the Pacific’s leading annual ICT conference organized by the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC), and is available on YouTube. PacINET 2008 is scheduled to kick off in Cook Islands in September 2008. The full text of the press release is available on the Chapter wiki. For more information about PACINET 2008 please visit the PICISOC website. ISOC news, announcements, and eventsISOC Fellowships to the IETFContributed by Mirjam Kuehne With generous support from Afilias, Google, and Intel, ISOC’s Fellowship to the IETF program covers costs for up to five talented technologists from developing countries to attend an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting. ISOC also pairs each Fellow with an IETF veteran who serves as their meeting mentor. The IETF is the Internet’s premier standards-making body, responsible for developing protocols used in IP-based networks. IETF participants represent an international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers involved in the technical operation of the Internet and the continuing evolution of Internet architecture. “The ISOC Fellows to the IETF must have a solid level of technical education and enough knowledge about concrete areas of IETF work to follow, contribute to, and benefit from the meeting’s technical discussions,” said ISOC Director of Education and Programs, Karen Rose. “There has previously been limited participation in IETF meetings from developing countries, but this program is beginning to change that,” said Ms Rose. Apart from the benefits that flow to the IETF itself by increasing the diversity of participants, the ISOC Fellowship to the IETF also helps to identify and foster potential future technical leaders from developing regions. Fellowships are awarded through a competitive application process. ISOC is currently accepting applications for two IETF meetings: – IETF 72, Dublin, Ireland, 27 July – 1 August 2008 Full details on the ISOC Fellowship to the IETF, including how to apply, are on the ISOC website. Applications for both IETF meetings are due by 2 May 2008. The Internet Society is also pleased to welcome multiple corporate sponsorships for the ISOC Fellowship to the IETF. ISOC Project Funding opensContributed by Connie Kendig The next Project Funding cycle opens on 1 May 2008 and closes on 2 June. Chapter and Individual Members in good standing are invited to apply for project grants that further the goals of the Internet Society and are in line with its strategic initiatives described here. The grants are up to US$10,000 (for a maximum of 50 percent of the total project budget). To learn more about the program, including application criteria and past awards, please visit the ISOC website. Past grantees are encouraged to visit the site as we have now provided helpful written and financial reporting guidelines in an effort to receive more robust, uniform information about our Project Funding successes and to improve dissemination of the Project results so that others can benefit from experience gained through deployment of projects. If you have any questions, please send email to projects@isoc.org. “Here Comes Everybody”: An invitation to creative participationContributed by Tim Gartside Clay Shirky’s recent book “Here Comes Everybody” considers the use of social media tools in associations, institutions, and society generally. The book contains many examples where members of a social system link up with other members and become active citizens in that system. The ISOC Sphere project offers an opportunity for all those interested in ISOC and its development to become active citizens. A range of sub-projects have been identified which you are warmly invited to consider joining. Information relating to the Sphere project. Specific details of the project briefs. Interested to participate? Please email sphere-project-admin@isoc.org. ISOC welcomes new staffContributed by Anne Lord Several new staff joined the Internet Society in April. This month, we were very pleased to welcome Phil Roberts as Technology Program Manager, Dana Matthews as Accounting Manager, Donna McCague as Organizational Membership Program Coordinator, Elizabeth Oluoch as Executive Assistant to President/CEO, and Michuki Mwangi as Senior Education Manager. Full details of the roles and responsibilities of the new staff can be found on the ISOC website. Please join me in welcoming all the new staff to the Internet Society. ISOC is hiringISOC is seeking qualified individuals for the positions of Systems Engineer, Technology Program Manager, and Senior Manager of Public Policy. Full details…. Other news and announcements.ORG Advisory Council inducts new Internet worldwide leadersThe Public Interest Registry (PIR) has announced new Advisory Council members, including two returning members. The new members include:
Returning members include:
The Advisory Council was created in 2003 to solicit input from and be responsive to the needs, concerns and views of the global Internet community in the management of the .ORG generic Top Level Domain registry. For full details and the press release. IXP report from the Internet Governance Forum in Rio availableContributed by Karen Rose A detailed report from the IXP session at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Rio is now available and posted on the ISOC website. This report contains interesting discussions and statistics explaining the importance of effective IXPs, especially in developing countries. Upcoming meetings and training events Upcoming meetings and training opportunities are available on the ISOC on-line calendar of events. May and June are busy months. Upcoming meetings include: May:
June:
Don’t see your event listed? You can create a free account on the site and upload information about your event. If you are involved in planning events, you can also join the Network Meeting Coordinators mailing list. ISOC Member Newsletter. Suggestions, comments, and questions welcome to, newsletter@isoc.org ISOC's key initiatives target the critical issues that affect all aspects of Internet development and growth. They embody ISOC's philosophy that the Internet is for everyone and they provide the organization with a solid foundation from which to positively influence standards development, access, business practices, and government policies. |
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