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

[romina florencia Cabrera]

Thanks Dear Renata.

2017-04-26 14:57 GMT-03:00 Renata Aquino Ribeiro <raquino at gmail.com>:

> 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/
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