Caribbean Telecommunications Union.

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Caribbean Telecommunications Union

• The Internet
• Governance Security Issues

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Presentation Outline

• Internet Governance - The Context
• Internet Governance The Concept
• Building Confidence and Security in the Use of
  ICTs

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Context (Global)

• Internet Governance
• Highlighted by the World Summit on the
  Information Society (WSIS) Geneva 2003 Tunis
  2005
• Involves a range of interrelated dimensions
  (technical, legal, social, economic) and a range
  of relevant players (operators, users, standards
  bodies, governments, regulators)
• The subject of the UN Working Group on Internet
  Governance (WGIG) 2004 2005 on which there was
  Caribbean representation

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Internet Governance(Working Definition WGIG)

• Internet governance is the development and
  application by governments, the private sector
  and civil society, in their respective roles, of
  shared principles, norms, rules, decision-making
  procedures, and programmes that shape the
  evolution and use of the Internet.

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Governance - Aspects

• DiploFoundation Model (Baskets)
  ltwww.diplomacy.edugt
• Infrastructure Standardisation
• Legal Regulatory
• Economic
• Socio-cultural
• Development

• CTU / CARICOM (CIGF) Model ltwww.ctu.intgt
• Physical Infrastructure
• Logical Infrastructure
• Content
• Public Awareness, Capacity Building Research

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Governance - Players

• Multi-stakeholder, bottom-up, participatory
• Re Logical (Internet) Infrastructure e.g.
  technical standards, IP numbers, domain names,
  root servers
• ICANN
• ISOC/IETF/IAB
• RIRs (AfrNIC, APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC, RIPE/NCC)
• NIRs ccTLDs
• LIRs (ISPs)

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Governance Players (Contd)

• Re Broader Aspects
• UN (e.g. WSIS, IGF)
• Governments Regulators
• International Organisations (e.g. ITU, WIPO,
  CARICOM, CTU)
• Private sector
• Academia
• Civil society groups
• End users

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Brave New World ButIs It Safe?

• Malware
• Spam
• Questionable Content
• Privacy Concerns
• Data Security Hacking
• Identity Verification / Authentication
• Identity Theft
• Phishing

• Intellectual Property Violations
• Fraud and Cyber-crimes
• National and International Legal Framework
• Cyber-warfare (industrial and military) e.g.
  threats to critical infrastructure

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Key Global Initiative

• WSIS Action Line C5 (Building Confidence and
  Security in the Use of ICTs)
• ITU in coordinating role
• Promoting their Global Cybersecurity Agenda (GCA)
  as a framework for international cooperation
  which leverages national and regional efforts
• At least 22 Resolutions, Decisions, Programmes
  and Recommendations already in train
• ITU SG focus and support

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ITUs Global Cyber-security Agenda

• Five Strategic Pillars
• Legal Measures
• Technical and Procedural Measures
• Organisational Structures
• Capacity Building
• International Cooperation

• Seven Strategic Goals
• Model cybercrime legislation
• Appropriate national, regional international
  org structures
• Minimum security standards for h/ware s/ware
  systems
• Watch, warning incident response systems
• Universal digital identity systems
• Human institutional capacity building
• International cooperation

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The ITUs GCA as a Five-Part Platform

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What Can You Do?

• Become more informed and aware (recognise scams)
• Minimise spam utilise anti-virus and security
  tools
• Look for and favour use of secure sites
• Use common sense in social networking (guard
  personal data, verify off-line if in doubt)
• Limited credit card for on-line shopping
• Contribute to governance work in ICANN, ARIN,
  LACNIC, CTU, CANTO, CARICOM

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