Internet governance for Ukraine

Ukraine National IGFKyiv, 3 and 4 September 2010

Lee Hibbard, Council of Europe Coordinator for Internet governance & Information Society : lee.hibbard@coe.int

Messages to retain

Internet is (atypical) freedom and global public resource = ours!

Important tool for change: democracy, social, economic (nike.com in Ukraine? WB stats), well-being (EP Resolution)

citizenship, inclusion, intercultural dialogue = opportunity for government

Freedom is Europes identity: (right) to connect, access, seek, receive and impart information and ideas (Art 10 ECHR / 400 )HRs provide a common starting point = obligation and commitment of government but Careful not to over-regulate!

Challenges: cybercrime/attacks, personal data (profiling/knowledge), security (terrorism), health, children, racism = international multi-stakeholder cooperation

Internet is dialogue based. Top down models of governing will not be successful. Too big for states to manage alone. EuroDIG example. Dialogue is decision shaping (e.g. NZ)

What is the best and worst case scenarios for the Internet in Ukraine?

Can a single government cope with the numbers???

1,733,993,741 Internet users worldwide

420 million Europe

730 million SNS (42 Europe) / 500 million Facebook1 billion+ requests YouTube per day = is Internet is all about video?

4.4 billion mobile registrations (3G?)

The Business of European Dialogue

Geographical and other names of public interest as New TLDs?

IPv6 transition business impact and governance issues

Net Neutrality for Europe

The protection, provision and participation of children on the Internet

Industry needs and European expectations in delivering Internet content developing new business models vs. individual rights of access/public service value of the Internet? Sovereignty of states, jurisdiction and the role of governments in the global Internet environment Jurisdiction, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, cloud computing

EuroDIG 2010 Madrid, Spain 29-30 April 2010www.eurodig.org

Economic and social cohesion + well-being

Promises, promising, broadband future

Internet 2020= freedomaccessdemocracyknowledgeinnovationcompetitivity

Charter of citizens rights:employmentconsumer rightsquality of life

Obligations and commitments

The High Contracting Parties shall secure to everyone within their jurisdiction therights and freedoms defined in Section I of this Convention ()

Article 1, ECHR

education (ECHR Protocol 1, Article 2)childrens protection (Article 3 and possibly 2 of the ECHR

[right to access the Internet?]private life (Article 8 ECHR + 108 Convention)

Right to security (Art 5 ECHR), Fair trial (Article 6 ECHR) assembly and association (Article 11 ECHR)

expression and information regardless of frontiers (Article 10 ECHR)

property (ECHR Protocol 1, Article 1)

Human rights are a GPS

Internet Freedom (HRC)

What freedom to connect, control and manage our identities? (Reykjavik, 2009)

New notion of (social) media, internet intermediaries

User generated content (ownership?)

Public service media governance

jurisdiction

Online right to reply and effective redress for individuals (control)

Internet literacy

How will Ukraine address these challenges without dialogue?

France (Hadopi)Turkey (YouTube)Italy (Google)Germany (data retention)

Private sector advantage - what level of responsibility and buy-in for Ukraine?Erring on the side of freedom over regulation?

Privacy and the chilling effect on freedom of expression (tipping point?)

Children and the Internet

Messages to retain

Opportunity, inevitability (Sweden, France, Netherlands etc)

Right to (dis) connect (Finland, Spain etc)

Internet is global public resource = ours!!

Dialogue is inspiration, decision-shaping helping decision-makingraising expectations

What is the best and worst case scenarios for the Internet in Ukraine for you to discuss?