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Activities of the Association for Proper Internet Governance

• Contribution to the Informal Expert Group of the ITU's World Telecommunications Policy Forum, Contribution to IEG, 23 January 2013
  
  
• Information Documents submitted to the ITU's World Telecommunications Policy Forum, April 2013
  •  Proposed revisions to draft Opinion 5 on multi-stakeholderism
  • Proposed revisions to draft Opinion 2 on broadband
  • Draft new Opinion on Reducing the cost of International Internet Connectivity
  • Internet as a paradigm
  • Defining the Internet
  • Key characteristics that distinguish the Internet
  • The Internet's multi-stakeholder model
  • The way forward for Internet governance?

A more formal version of the last five papers listed above is published and can be cited as Richard Hill (2014), "The Internet, its governance, and the multi-Stakeholder model", Info, vol. 16. no. 2, March 2014

• Documents submitted to the Online Consultation of the ITU's Council Working Group on international Internet-related public policy matters, July 2013
  •  Development Aspects of the Internet: The Last  Gasp of Colonialism, or Imperialism by Other Means?
  • International Public Policy Issues Concerning IPv4 Addresses: Should Governments Intervene to Correct a Standardization Failure?

A more formal version of first paper listed above has been published and can be cited as Richard Hill (2013), "Internet governance: the last gasp of colonialism, or imperialism by other means", in Rolf H. Weber, Roxana Radu, and Jean-Marie Chenou (eds), The evolution of global Internet policy: new principles and forms of governance in the making?, Schulthess/Springer
Available in Switzerland at: http://www.schulthess.com/buchshop/detail/ISBN-9783725569083
Available elsewhere at:
http://www.springer.com/law/international/book/978-3-642-45298-7  

•  Documents submitted to the March 2014 Open Consultation of the ITU's Council Working Group on international Internet-related public policy matters
  •  Response to the March 2014 Open Consultation:  What actions are to be undertaken by governments in relations to certain international Internet-related public policy issues?
  •  Second response: comments on the NetMundial meeting
• Document submitted to the June-August 2015 Open Consultation
  • Response to the June-August 2015 Open Consultation: Internet Exchange Points (IXPs)
• Document submitted to the October 2015-January 2016 Open Consultation
  • Response to the October 2015-January 2016 Open Consultation: Access to the Internet for Persons with Disabilities and specific needs
• Document submitted to the February-September 2016 Open Consultation
  • Response to the February-September 2016 Open Consultation: Building an enabling environment for access to the Internet
• Document submitted to the October 2016-January 2017 Open Consultation
  • Response to the October 2016-January 2017 Open Consultation: Developmental aspects of the Internet
• Document submitted to the June-September 2017 Open Consultation
  • Response to the June-September 2017 Open Consultation: Issues regarding OTTs
  • Second response: Why should data flow freely?
      
• Inputs to the WSIS+10 High Level Meeting preparatory process:
  •   Input to first meeting
  •   Input to second meeting
  •   Input to third meeting
  •   Inputs to fourth meeting (Statement Preamble, Statement,
      Statement Challenges, Vision Priorities)
  •   Input to the fifth meeting
  •   Statement annexed to the Report of the fifth meeting
     
• Inputs to the WSIS+10 UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting (Overall WSIS Review)
• July input to non-paper
• Comments on non-paper
• Comments on zero draft
• Comments on 4 November draft outcome
• Comments on 7 December draft outcome
   
• "Human Rights, the Internet, and its governance", Third World Resurgence, no. 287/288 (Jul/Aug 2014)
  • Partial catalog of human rights related to ICT activities
    
    
• "Why global Internet governance must matter to social justice activists" (with Sean O'Siochru et al.), Media Development (4/2014)
  
  
• "The True Stakes of Internet Governance", State of Power 2015, Transnational Institute, January 2015
  
  
• Policy statement delivered at the WSIS+10 High Level Event
  
  
•  "What Questions did the WSIS+10 High Level Event Answer?", article in Intellectual Property Watch
   
• "No, Democracy is not Excess Baggage", article in Intellectual Property Watch
    
• "Internet governance, multi-stakeholder models, and the IANA transition: shining example or dark side?", article in the Journal of Cyber Policy, Vol. 1, No. 2
  
  
• Participation as observer in the UN CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation (WGEC)
  • Analysis of discussions
  • Input to Correspondence Group   
  • Input to the CSTD Ten-year review of WSIS
     
• Inputs to the UN CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation 2016-2018 (WGEC)
  • Second meeting
  • Enhanced Cooperation
  • Equal footing with respect to ccTLDs
  • Good Faith: A Characteristic of Enhanced Cooperation
  • International Internet Public Policy Issues: Gaps Requiring Study
  • Jurisdiction and equal footing with respect to Internet domain names and addresses
  • Protection of country names
  • Revisiting roles and responsibilities
  • Third meeting
    • Amendments to Compliation of Recommendations
    • Comments on Contributions to Second Meeting
         
      
• Contributions to the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance, Sao Paolo, 23-24 April 2014.
  •  Principles
  • Roadmaps
  • Fundamental principle
  • The background paper for those contributions is
    •  The Future of Internet Governance: Dystopia, Utopia, or Realpolitik?
  • An analysis of the 187 contributions submitted to that meeting is found at:
    •  Quantitative analysis of contributions to the NETMundial meeting
    • An article summarizing that analysis has been published by Intellectual Property Watch
      
      
• Short talk delivered in March 2014 to the European Pirate Party in Bruxelles and to the Milton Wolf Seminar in Vienna
  
  
• One-minute video clip for the launch of the Geneva Internet Platform
  
  
• Informal submissions to the 2014 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference
  •  Increasing the transparency and the openness of the ITU
  • Participation of civil society in ITU
  • Accession to the ITRs
    
    
• Review of Schiller, Dan (2014) Digital Depression: Information Technology and Information Crisis, University of Illinois Press
• Review of McChesney, Robert (2014) Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy, The New Press
• Review of Powers, Shawn M., and Jablonski, Michael (2015) The Real Cyber War: The Political Economy of Internet Freedom, University of Illinois Press
• Review of Scott Malcomson (2016) Splinternet: How Geopolitics and Commerce Are Fragmenting the World Wide Web, OR Books 
• Review of  David Golumbia (2016) The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism, University of Minnesota Press
  
  
• "WSIS+10: issues, actors, what to expect, what to achieve" in Towards a People's Internet, Latin America in Movement, May 2015
   
• "ICTs, Internet, Human Rights and TNCs" (with Parminder Jeet Singh) in Transnacionales y derechos humanos, America Latina en Movimento, Dec 2016
  

• Policy Statement delivered at the WSIS Forum 2015
  
• Policy Statement delivered at the WSIS Forum 2016
• Policy Statement delivered at the WSIS Forum 2017
  
  
•  APIG is a signatory of the International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance, August 2013
  and has submitted a blog post for the September 2014 Week of Action
   
• APIG is a signatory of the open letter Security for All
  
  
• APIG is a member of the Coalition for a Just and Equitable Internet (Just Net Coalition), and adheres to its:
  •  Delhi Declaration
  • Principles for Internet governance
  • Framework for the evolution of Internet governance
    
    

• APIG is participating in the Internet Social Forum
  • See the concept paper: Why the Internet's future needs social justice movements
    
    
  APIG has co-authored, as contributions towards the development of democratic multi-stakehold models:
  •  a draft proposal for best practices for multi-stakeholder participation processes
  • draft reflections on making Internet governance democratic and participative  
    

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