IGF 2014 DAILY NEWS, archive

1. IGF2013 DAILYNEWS - EDITION TUESDAY, 22 October 2013 Page 1
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et it is a day before official opening of the Internet
Governance Forum, the pre event of IGF 2013 on
Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center/BNDCC yesterday
Monday, October 21, 2013, have entice vast audience. In High
Level Leaders Meeting, governments take action to support
the implementation of Global International Law. Hence the Civil
Societies fight for the human rights. Thus to achieve an ideal level
of internet management, sounding of collaborations between
stakeholders is very important for the success.
Based on experiences by internet activists in India,
Pakistan, China, and Indonesia, they conclude the management
of internet governance must involve collaboration with
governments in developing a fair policies. One of the sources
that reflect the internet governance is the usage of social media
for social movement, where the social media take part in creating
an awareness, recruiting volunteers, supporters mobilizations,
public educations, and politic pressure.
It is very clear that the step of building a communication
bridge between stakeholders is very crucial to ensure a better,
fair, and fulfilling aspiration internet governance.
The management of internet governance
must involve collaboration between
government and civil society organization
for a better, fair, and fulfilling aspiration
internet governance.

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high level leaders meeting
main hall at 09.30 - 12:00
TALKINGinHighLevel
Leaders Meeting
(HLLM) on pre-event
IGF, Indonesia Minister
of Communication and
Information Technology
of the Republic of
Indonesia, H.E. Tifatul
Sembiring, stated that
the purpose of the IGF
are closely related to the
acceleration of progress
on Millenium Development Goals.
“Indonesia will propose that we as one global
community develop more concrete global cyber-ethics”, the
Minister said. “These norms are to be common references for
all stakeholders to conduct transactions and interactions in
cyberspace,” he said, adding that cyber ethics are fundamental
to demonstrating respect for the values of different countries,
communities, and cultures.
The ministers of United Kingdom, United States,
Brazil, Japan, China, and Republic of Azerbaijan also have
one voice that there should be an international collaboration to
create an international law for cyberspace to protect countries’
asset, its citizens’ social live and cultures. They believed
that as the internet users are growing, threats to a country’s
security and sovereignty are growing as well. Therefore from
the governments’ perspectives, to support world peace they
should consider a more specific way and use a new standard
for internet governance. Undersecretary General for the
coordination of political and inter-organisational affairs in the
“Global Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration for Achieving a Safe, Secure and Tolerant CyberSpace: Enabling
Growth and Sustainable Development through Cyber Ethics”
UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Mr. Thomas
Gass said,” The role of internet governance is important”. He
also stated that the global collaboration could help to create a
safe internet 2015 development agenda.
The civil society organizations representatives have
similar concern about guaranteeing individual human rights and
fundamental freedoms (such as freedom of expression) in our
collective societal transition to life on the Internet. These rights
have been said that this should not change when individuals
go onto the internet. It has also been argued that access to
knowledge and the right to speech one’s mind freely is essential
for pursuing human, social, and economic development. It was
said too that surely we need to watch for abuses of these right,
that we must not be harming one another and that the rule of
law must always be kept in mind and assured, but we also must
build a level of trust and mutual understanding about using the
Internet so that we can use it freely and openly to best harness
its potential. As the President and CEO of ICANN, Mr. Fadi
Chehade said, “Public trust in Internet is important. We came to
Bali to safe guard this public trust of the Internet”.
Policy makers and law enforcement agencies must
ensure that these people enjoy the same freedoms online that
they do offline. Of course this is a tremendous challenge as these
rights certainly differ culturally at local, regional, and national
levels. However, all stakeholders need to strengthen efforts to
ensure the protection of basic human rights and fundamental
freedoms in the online world. As the representatives of Project
Director of Internet Democracy, Ms. Anja Kovaks added, “We
should emphasize mutual respect of human right. What we
actually need is to protect human right first, then we can talk
about cyber ethic”.
Reporter: Renold & Susan
HELD in Kintamani 1 at 13:00 at pre event day, CSO activists from Thailand, Pakistan, Indonesia,
China and India, gather to present and share their experiences and strategy, how to initiate
engagement with their local internet governance dialogue and process.
Thai Netizen Network’s activist, Arthit Suriyawongkul shared about cybercrime cases of
defamation and false data dissemination. These cases involved citizens who, at the end faced the
verdict of 5 until 13 years criminal sentence. To help them, CSO lobbying the government agency
for revising the cybercrime law. While from Pakistan, another different cases emerge. Activist from
Internet for Social Justice, Shahada Ahmad, shared to audience the challenges that Pakistani
activists have to face, the net freedoms issues, ranging from Internet firewall, internet governed
by blasphemy laws or anti terrorist laws, moral policing, to curbs on Freedom of Expression (FoE).
In Indonesia, according to Donny BU from ICTWatch, is still facing some existing issues, such
as unstructured filtering mechanism and defamation online article. But some Indonesian CSO
believes, the core challenge is to build the multi stakeholder process, how can CSO engage with
the government and industry. A slight different situation happened in India, where multi-stakeholder
approach is still on debate. CSO is trying to work with other stakeholders, but they did not have
clear idea on multistakeholder concept, such as in policy context. In this country, CSO works
mainly in ICT for development issue, but less with privacy and policy related issues. Currently, the
attention is in online speech issue.
While in China, the CSO stated it is not possible to engage in a totalitarian regime.Although
they cannot do the multi-stake holder approach, activist try to train and create public campaign on
health and internet. They believe that the more they educate people, the less government could
do to oppress them.
In conclusion, Southeast Asian countries and beyond face more or less, similar
challenges, where government in each countries still have issues on Freedom of Expression. To
overcome that, CSO should keep the discussion with government and try to influence the policy
process. They also must remember that the engagement on multi-stakeholder practices should not
happen in high level, but in all of levels involved, from grassroots to the highest.
Reporter: Hersinta
civil society
and internet
governance:
multi-stakeholder
engagement
practices
from
southeast asia
Room #7 Kintamani 1
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NEWSFLASH
The Ideal condition for online content policy and reality are raised
in the discussion session “The Establishment of Ideal Online /
Content Business Policy and Strategic Platform “ in pre-event day
IGF 2013. Sessions and open discussion was started by Kamilia
Manaf as the moderator from EROTICS Indonesia.
In open discussion sessions, Wahyudi Dawn of ELSAM
explains that internet governance divided into three ideal conditions,
digital gaps, freedom of expression and privacy issues. He state
that Indonesia still long way to go for the ideal conditions. For
instance, the case of blocking of internet sites “Our Voice” by one
telecommunication provider and the Government of Indonesia.
Therefore there is a must to propose a new rules about blocking,
such as several stages of filtering, for example through the complaint
stage, then a warning, then take down.
Internet governance issues should be carried out within the
framework of the fulfillment of human rights, not merely from market
oriented. Siti Noor Laila, the Chairman of the National Commission
on Human Rights, suggested that to achieve ideal conditions,
international law is used to manage the Internet in ensuring the
rights of every person. Rights to protect religions, morality, common
interests. The positive side of the internet is getting better public
services, but the bad side is how to provide a protection to children
about pornography, hatred, racial / ethnic propagated by the internet
quickly and spread widely, so that Internet governance should be
able to bridge the positive impact and negative Internet.
Jac SM Kee of Association For Progressive Action Women
- Malaysia expressed in online content there are two different poles
of the spectrum, there is limited content (restricted) and scattered
content (dispersed). Both of these must be properly managed
to not to violate the rights and privacy of others. Governance is
best when supported by many stakeholders by participating and
provides input. So it is no longer controlled by the private parties
only.
The discussion expected to create an agreement /
proposal of human rights than can be used for a basic lens in
looking at the problems of the rights that have been violated in the
online world, and further more to be followed by governance on
the Internet. Gender perspective will also included in human rights
for internet governance rules, considering the number of cases of
online infringement on women.
At the end of the discussion, Kamilia Manaf hope that
internet governance discussions is not only a international level,
but also can be done on local level.
Reporter: Fiona Suwana
The Establishment of Ideal Online /
Content Business Policy and Strategic
Platform
Kintamani Room 7 starting at 10:00 to 12:00 pm.
During pre event IGF 2013, “Online Free Expression” issue raised
by Global Partner Digital, UNESCO and PEN International.Andrew
from Global Partner Digital explained, “The development of internet is
like a double-sided swords. It could bring a negative and positive im-
pact for life.” For example, internet could make everything faster and
easier, especially in communication and data transferring. Currently,
the vast development of internet is growing rapidly. For instance, in
Africa on 1996, the growth of Internet user reached hundreds, but in
2013, the amount reached over billion users.
As the internet become more faster and reachable compared
to traditional media, it become difficult to filter its content. For coun-
try who wants to do surveillance, Andrew suggests that the execution
should be done by the country itself, not by external party.
Xianhong Hu from UNESCO stated that they want to be in-
volved further in this issue, because they have mandate to “promote
free flow of indeed by word and image”. To disseminate the mandate,
UNESCO needs the internet. They also are very serious in this internet
freedom issue, and this could be seen from many of their activities,
which support this issue, such as their presence in WSIS and In-
ternet Governance Forum. Other activities that has been done by
UNESCO to support the issue was by publish the report publica-
tion titled “Internet Privacy and Freedom of Expression” on the 7th
IGF in Baku, Azerbaijan, on November 2012.
Sarah Clarke from PEN International brought the topic on
“The Impact of Digital Repression on Writers”. PEN founded since
2000, more and more writers and bloggers were put in jail caused
by their writings, which numbers increased rapidly. Moreover, the
number of violence on writers increased from 6,6 percent in 2000
to 49,2 percent in 2013. PEN also found surprising facts that there
are 15 journalists killed, 92 journalists detained because of digital
media issue. Countries with highest total numbers of writers in
prison are Turkey (177), Iran (57), Mexico (43), Vietnam (37) and
China (32).
In September 2012, PEN International release the dec-
laration on digital freedom, a concise statement of PEN’s position
on threats to free expression in the digital age. Such a declaration
will keep the promise of digital media as a means of fulfilling the
fundamental right of free expression.
Reporter: Okky Alparessi
The last session on pre-event IGF 2013 “Social media for social
movement: how civil society can optimize the internet to conduct
online public advocacy of human rights” attracts a lot of participants
to join in the discussion. Talking as speakers, Shita Laksmi (HIVOS),
Gustaff H. Iskandar (Common Room Indonesia), and Yanuar Nugroho,
Manchester University’s research fellow and director from UKP-PPP.
The interesting question, is the new media able to act as
an alternative for conventional media? This could lead to further
discussion, based by the fact that many online media in Indonesia
just act as the extension for conventional media. On the other side,
the role of social media could be very useful in building awareness,
recruitment for movement, mobilisation of supporters, public political
pressure, and also political education, as Yanuar explained further.
One of interesting example related to social media movement
for building and networking, is “Jalin Merapi” in Yogyakarta, whose
online movement for social change also happened in offline public
sphere. The discussion went further to conclude that social media is
not only the tools for social movement.
Shita suggests about two steps that related to social media
use for social movements, “First, access to technology can bring
lots. Without technology we can’t get transparency, (for example)
open data. Second, a collaboration with different multi-stakeholder
is important, even though cooperate with the government but it has
too.” Equal access for Indonesian citizen and cooperation on internet
governance from each multi-stakeholder become essential for civil
society to use social media strategically.
Reporter: Fiona Suwana
Global Perspective on Online Free
Expression
Uluwatu 5 Room 5 starting at 16:00 to 18:00 pm.
Social Media for Social Movement:
Linking Online and Offline Activities
Kintamani 1 Room 7 starting at 16:00 to 18:00 pm.

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The TEAM
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Okky Alparessi, Nadia Maharani,
Frenavit Putra, Eri Kasman G.
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Editorial Secretaria t: Mariam Ananda, Mataharitimoer,
Anisa Nurlitasari
Board of Advisor : ID-IGF Secretariat
Managing Editor : Damar Juniarto
News Coordinator : Mariam Ananda
Editor : Aprida Sihombing, Fiona Suwana,
Renold Sutadi, Susan Wen
Reporter : Fiona Suwana, Renold Sutadi,
:
INTERVIEW
The Indonesia Minister of Communication
and Information Technology
H. E. Tifatul Sembiring
After attending High Level Leaders Meeting on pre-event IGF 2013, the
Indonesia Minister of Communication and Information Technology H.E.
Tifatul Sembiring spoke in press conference yesterday about the events of
IGF and the issues regarding communication and information in Indonesia.
According to the Minister, IGF 2013 is an achievement that can be
proud of and could boost the reputation and credibility of Indonesia in the
global views. Also enticing foreign guests and creating a revenue stream to
Indonesia.
Talking about ethics in cyber, and implementation of internet
governance in Indonesia, the minister said that the Indonesia government
will not give up to fight the pornography on Internet and Online Gambling
sites. The mechanism of government in blocking websites is based on
individual complain. About Indonesia internet law/UU ITE that becomes
hot issue in Indonesia, the Minister stated that people should be able to
distinguish between a critical opinion and a sedition. The Minister hope that
though this big event, the government, CSO, business parties, and providers
can discuss about the regulation and ethics of internet governance.
Reporter: Aprida & Maria
Let’s discuss about the regulation and ethics of
internet governance in IGF 2013
Information:
International Certificate is only intended for Indonesian participants, it can be
obtained at the ID-IGF secretariat room (Kintamani 4) and contact Widhi.