APDIP Releases China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Thailand Country Reports on Internet Governance

The report results are drawn from extensive consultations and a survey involving all stakeholders  (government, the private sector and civil society), and region-wide research undertaken over the past year, as part of the Open Regional Dialogue on Internet Governance (ORDIG).

The reports show that all countries regard viruses, cyber attacks and spam as the most pressing issues for Internet governance. Issues on access, affordability, speed and reliability of the Internet feature high on the list of concerns in India, Indonesia and Thailand. While in India and Pakistan, more than two-thirds of the respondents regard the availability of local language software and local content as urgent concerns. Respondents from China are less concerned about this issue but are significantly more dissatisfied than those in other Asia-Pacific countries with the current system for allocating and managing IP numbers. The reports also detail the governance issues and opinions about two new and emerging technologies – wireless Internet and Internet telephony.

These are a mere sample of the multitude of Internet policy issues that the reports examine.  In the reports, all the various issues are grouped under four dimensions:

1. infrastructure dimension, which covers issues of physical network characteristics and roll-out
2. logical dimension, which comprises data routing and software development topics
3. content dimension, which covers local and illegal content
4. social and development dimension, which covers topics related to the development-oriented use of the Internet

Download ORDIG Country Reports:

Country Report -  China

Country Report -  India

Country Report -  Indonesia

Country Report - Pakistan

Country Report - Thailand

Download other ORDIG Papers:

Input Paper

Policy Brief

Survey Report

Online Forum Summary

Forthcoming:

Internet Governance Primer

Internet Governance: Voices from the Asia Pacific – ICT4D Series

Related Link:

Asia-Pacific Internet Governance Portal <http://igov.apdip.net>

APDIP e-Note 1 - Voices from Asia-Pacific: Internet governance for sustainable human development

ORDIG is an initiative of UNDP-APDIP in collaboration with the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre, with support from the International Development Research Centre of Canada.