APDIP Session @ Apricot 2005 / APNIC 19 in partnership with Internet Governance Task Force of Japan, Kyoto, Japan, 22 February 2005
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Date: Tuesday 22nd February 16:00-17:30
Venue: Room B1 on 2F, Kyoto International Conference Hall (KICH), Kyoto, Japan
The wrong answers to the wrong questions? Policy priorities for the maturing Internet
Technology and regulations, although intimately intertwined, co-exist in a very uneasy relationship. Technology practitioners reject intrusion and fear the inhibiting straightjacket of regulations out of touch with technical reality. At the same time, public policy-makers eye the technology community with nervous suspicion, awaiting the next wave of disruptive innovations that throws their policy strategies into disarray.
The result often seems to be a disconnect that reinforces these very assumptions on each side and leads to bad policies, as well as to technology adoption that falls short of capturing all social benefits.
This panel debate aims to contribute to a bridging of this gap by soliciting the view of technology practitioners in the Asia-Pacific on the regulatory needs and priorities for emerging Internet technologies and technical challenges. APRICOT as the focal event to address Internet technology issues in the region provides an excellent opportunity to discuss these issues.
Some provocative questions that could be tabled are:
- Fair interconnection rates and support for regional peering: a priority in the era of trans-oceanic bandwidth glut?
- Spectrum policies and rules for broadband use in the Asia-Pacific: in tune with the wifi revolution?
- Computer crime and infrastructure security: a technical or a regulatory challenge?
- The UN World Summit on the Information Society and the UN Working Group on Internet Governance: A start for meaningful reforms or just another talkshop?
Conference participants are invited to a discussion of these and any other issues. Four to six invited panelists will open the debate with a brief statement of no more than five minutes each on a technology policy problem of their choice.
Remote participation is possible
If you cannot attend the meetings you can still join in, by following the debate and posting questions online via Jabber chat. [more information]
About the organizers
The session is co-sponsored by the Internet Governance Task Force of Japan and by UNDP’s Asia Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP) as part of its promotion of an Open Regional Dialogue on Internet Governance. Partners in this initiative are the Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and the Diplo Foundation and financial support is provided by the International Development Research Centre of Canada.
For more on APDIP and this initiative see http://www.igov.apdip.net
For more on APNIC 19 see http://www.apnic.net/meetings/19/.
For more on APRICOT 2005 see http://www.2005.apricot.net/
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