[NCUC-DISCUSS] SSIG2017 - The non-traditional debates on internet governance - post by Raquel Renno

[Renata Aquino Ribeiro]

Hi

This is a post from Raquel Renno, NCUC member, on SSIG2017

I've highlighted this excerpt about non-traditional debates on
internet governance which are quite interesting to discuss and lacking
in so many spaces.

For instance, internet policy making against our backdrop of fragile
democracies is an issue which is always swept under the rug.

Have a nice reading!

https://www.publicknowledge.org/news-blog/blogs/ninth-school-of-internet-governance-a-review/

Not only subjects traditionally discussed in Internet Governance
forums were presented, but also new and complex themes as algorithm
governance and the challenges of Internet of Things were touched upon.
Those subjects are a clear example of how the ¨three layers of the
internet¨ – as defined by Law professor Yochai Benkler regarding IG:
[1] physical infrastructure layer, code or logical layer and content
layer  – seem to overlap. When algorithms [2] and AI [3] organize and
sometimes directly interfere in the way a society receives and
produces information, the regulation and policies, which normally
follow general culture and practices of a community, have to be
discussed sometimes before or during the introduction of a new tool or
technology. These are some of the innovative subjects that the new
generation of Internet Governance leaders will have to deal with. In
the case of Latin America, things become even more complicated since
emergent topics as regulation and management of IoT co-exist with
basic issues that are part of social economic disparities and in many
cases, fragile democracy, as the low Internet access and gender,
linguistic, and racial diversity (that, according to the post [4] from
Hudson Ribeiro, one of the students attending the course, was an issue
even inside SSIG 2017).

[1] https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/11363059

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04285

[3] https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/princeton-scholars-figure-out-why-your-ai-is-racist/

[4] https://vassourinhadeconteudo.wordpress.com/2017/04/10/governanca-com-quem/