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

[rrenno]

Thanks a lot for helping sharing the post, Renata!


Em 4/26/2017 3:07 PM, romina florencia Cabrera escreveu:
> Thanks Dear Renata.
>
> 2017-04-26 14:57 GMT-03:00 Renata Aquino Ribeiro <raquino at gmail.com
> <mailto: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/
>     <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
>     <https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/11363059>
>
>     [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04285
>     <https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04285>
>
>     [3]
>     https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/princeton-scholars-figure-out-why-your-ai-is-racist/
>     <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/
>     <https://vassourinhadeconteudo.wordpress.com/2017/04/10/governanca-com-quem/>
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