IGF Sri Lanka, by Sagarika Wickramasekera. A presentation given at APNIC 42's Cooperation SIG session on Tuesday, 4 October 2016.

2. Opening

3. Message from IGF Sri Lanka Chairman - Organizing Committee
I thank APNIC for giving us this opportunity to present on IGF Sri
Lanka 2016. And plead for not present physically today..
We had our first ever Local IGF 8th March 2016. We had 21
panelists, and 107 participants. We have discussed three topics in
detail. We had the opportunity engage Minister Digital Infrastructure
into the Local IGF.
Our aim was to make the Bottom to top communication platform in
IG policy making process. It was being achieved successfully.
Now we are getting into the Second Local IGF. Now we are already
in the process. I request your assistance and continues support to
make IGF Sri Lanka 2017 a success.
Thank you and wish APNIC 42 a success.
Maheeshwara B Kirindigoda
Chairman - IGF Sri Lanka - Organising Committee
Media Secretary - Uva Province Governor's Office

4. IGF Sri lanka 2016 Agenda
SESSION TIME EVENT
Opening Session 8.30 A.M. Registration
8.45 A.M. Arrival of guests
9.00 A.M. Oil Lamp
9.10 A.M. Welcome Speech
9.20 A.M. Introduction to IGF
9.30 A.M. Keynote
9.45 A.M. Minister’s Speech
Session 01 – Next Billionth users 10.00 A.M. Introduction
10.15 A.M. Panel Discussion
11.30 A.M. Conclude
Session 02 – Safer Internet 12.45 P.M. Introduction
2.15 P.M. Conclude
Session 03 – Freedom of Expression 2.45 P.M. Introduction
3.00 P.M. Panel Discussion
4.15 P.M. Conclude

5. Panels

6. Panelist Stakeholder Representation

7. Panelist Age Representation

8. Panelist Age Representation

9. Steering Committee Stakeholder Representation

10. Steering Committee Stakeholder Gender Representation

11. Steering Committee Stakeholder Age Representation

12. IGF Sri Lanka Main Topics
1. Next Billionth User
2. Safer Internet
3. Freedom of Expression and Responsibility.

13. Participations

14. Next Billionth User
! Free Wi-Fi like projects were implemented without proper investigation
! As per the security concern that The Digital Ministry, ministry of defense & TRC is still making the background for Google Loon.
Expressed the needness of public discussions and information to be shared for the general public on such projects. IGF platform is highly
appreciated and highlighted its needness.
! It is noted that all government web sites need to be updated accurately in three languages (Sinhala,Tamil and English). Same time
accessibility for the differently abled community should be maintain.
! It was mentioned that “Beyond the Net”( project of ISOC LK ) has a training program for Web developers to facilitate the differently-abled
community.
! It was highlighted that all the web developers should follow the W3C standards to comply with the accessibility. To improve language gap
there was a suggestion of using government paid translators for the website development where university of Moratuwa already started.
! Providing internet facility for rural areas is one of the key problems. Providing wif facilitiy using public wifi hotspots will not solve the
problem. It’s to be still proven. Some procedures are impractical as going ISP to register for Wi-Fi. In next 3 years ICTA is planning to
connect 4500 government organizations. Minimum broadband speed is 20Mbps, going up to 100Mbps. That is not going to rural areas,
limited to divisional secretariats & so on.

15. Safer Internet
● It was raised that many issues directed towards conflicts in cultural, privacy issues, and harassing females especially.
● As per the meeting with the agents from the SAARC Countries all are facing the same issues regarding facebook. FB management are not
bothered about our issues related to culture.
It was suggested that there should be common understanding between countries to address issue.
● Poorninma Meegamana introduced Respect girls project the privacy handbook and there is mobile app to check to see cyber goodness.
● Digital footprints can be leave on the cyber space either in passive or active manner. here is Passive and active digital footprint.
● We need to have a proper way without barring them using proper technology. They have to use this technologies for empower with the
world. To make them aware of how the things can happen and how we can monitor and safeguard them self
● Due to cultural barriers young people may not have space to express themselves in free manner so they go online to express themselves.
● Importance of awareness on digital forensic.
● Before talk about international policy changes we should focus on the local policies and make it strong.
● government introduced a policy such as do not call list which is used by america if people who registered on that list can sue others if they
get a call or sms on that number.
● Introduced Pro Hitawathie Project assists recognizing incident related to cyber harassments, prevent such incidents, guidance.
● IOT and future of digital Security issues
● We have to empower children / parents to use technology without trouble specially Online bulling, scams,Audience:

16. Freedom of Expression
News Media Web Registration Issues
Responsibility of Journalist
Ethics of Journalist
How technically block news website
Defamation and Mudslugin in Internet Age
Protection of Internet Journalists

17. Schedule for the next IGF Sri Lanka
IGF Sri lanka 2017 will be on March 2017

18. Main Considerations for next Local IGF
Better public awareness on IG Issues before the event.
More participation from civil society and civil society organisations.
Create a mechanism to manage the IG process in between the annual IGF
events. A Local IGF Secretariat

19. What we need from you
Join us, make others aware , Comment us , Give your feedback and Assist us.
Thank you

21. Thank you