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CWG-Internet: Online Open Consultation (February 2021)

Topic of Discussion

The ITU Council Working Group on International Internet-related Public Policy Issues (CWG-Internet) is holding an open consultation on the following topic:

The role of the Internet and international Internet-related public policy in mitigating the impact of COVID-19 and possible future pandemics

CWG-Internet invites all stakeholders to submit contributions on international Internet-related public policy issues relating to the role of the Internet and international Internet-related public policy in mitigating the impact of COVID-19 and possible future pandemics.

Useful Information and Instructions:

Information on the Online Open Consultation

Online Open Consultations are launched by the CWG-Internet and are held throughout the period between two successive CWG-Internet meetings. This process gives an opportunity to all stakeholders from all nations to express their views with regard to the topic(s) under discussion.
Note: Contributions to this round of Open Consultations can be submitted through the online form, where you will also find more detailed guidelines on the submission process. Kindly note that the deadline for responses is 3 September 2021. This Online Open Consultation will be followed by an Open Consultation meeting on 20 September 2021. [Note: this meeting is conducted in English only. For more information, please see below.]

Information on the Virtual meeting - Physical Open Consultation

Date & Location: 20 September 2021, 1200 - 1500 hours, virtual meeting
Topic: The role of the Internet and international Internet-related public policy in mitigating the impact of COVID-19 and possible future pandemics
Invitation Letter
Draft Agenda
Documents / DL
Webcast / archives

Note: Due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, the Physical Open Consultation will be held virtually. For additional information and guidelines on registration for the Virtual meeting - Physical Open Consultation, please click here.

Discussions during the Virtual meeting - Physical Open Consultation will be based on the responses received during the Online Open Consultation process, which will be consolidated in a single document ("Compilation Document").
During the virtual meeting, respondents to the Online Open Consultation will have the opportunity to present their submitted views and to have a fruitful discussion with the other participants, including Members of the CWG-Internet.

Responses:

Name	Date	Name	Country	Contributions	Organization
HILL, Richard	3/8/2021 5:34 PM	HILL, Richard	Switzerland	It is clear that, in the face of restrictions on movement and physical meetings imposed to combat th ... View More.	Association for Proper Internet Governance
DE SILVA - MITCHELL, Amali	8/18/2021 7:25 PM	DE SILVA - MITCHELL, Amali	United Kingdom	A Quality Internet is critical for times of crisis, for risk monitoring and prediction of events for ... View More.	IGF recognized Dynamic Coalition on Data Driven Health Technologies
GOULDEN, Anna	8/18/2021 7:33 PM	GOULDEN, Anna	United Kingdom	The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented challenges to the social, economic and physical ... View More.	UK Government Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
STRASSER, Airisha	8/19/2021 1:23 AM	STRASSER, Airisha	Australia	Summary: The Australian Government recognises that the Internet plays an important role in connectin ... View More.	Australian Government
WANNER, Barbara	8/19/2021 9:23 PM	WANNER, Barbara	United States	The U.S. Council for International Business (USCIB) is pleased to take part in this public consultat ... View More.	U.S. Council for International Business
RENNO NUNES, Raquel	8/20/2021 8:24 AM	RENNO NUNES, Raquel	Germany	The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that Internet-related public policy development that focuses ... View More.	Article 19
CANTEKINLER, Handan	8/20/2021 2:08 PM	CANTEKINLER, Handan	Turkey	While the 21st century was advancing as the age of information, COVID-19 pandemic has emerged and pr ... View More.	Information and Communication Technologies Authority-BTK
O'BRIEN, Laura	8/20/2021 5:58 PM	O'BRIEN, Laura	United States	SUMMARY This submission raises three main points to address the role of the internet and internati ... View More.	Access Now
KAZI, Syed Sultan	8/20/2021 7:46 PM	KAZI, Syed Sultan	India	SUMMARY Due to Covid-19, the traffic of internet exchanges have increased manifold. But in actual ... View More.	Digital Empowerment Foundation
BOROKINI, Favour	8/21/2021 1:20 AM	BOROKINI, Favour	Nigeria	In answering the question about the role of the Internet and international internet-related public p ... View More.	Pollicy
DE SILVA - MITCHELL, Amali	8/21/2021 4:41 AM	DE SILVA - MITCHELL, Amali	UK	On behalf of our UN IGF recognized Dynamic Coalition on Data Driven Health Technologies I please sug ... View More.	Dynamic Coalition Data Driven Health Technologies
DE SILVA - MITCHELL, Amali	8/21/2021 5:20 AM	DE SILVA - MITCHELL, Amali	UK	Quantum Internet and quantum technologies have many opportunities within health care, such as for fa ... View More.	Futurist
FERRARI, Veronica	8/24/2021 12:40 AM	FERRARI, Veronica	Global	SUMMARY The COVID-19 crisis has underscored how access to the internet is essential for human righ ... View More.	Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and Derechos Digitales
EROKHIN, Viacheslav	8/26/2021 4:12 PM	EROKHIN, Viacheslav	Russian Federation	The COVID-19 pandemic, which led to the social distance and isolation regime in many countries, had ... View More.	NIIR
NIKOLOVA, Zlatina	9/1/2021 2:52 PM	NIKOLOVA, Zlatina	Bulgaria	Summary The global COVID 19 pandemic has clearly set digitalisation as a horizontal priority both i ... View More.	Ministry of Transport, IT & Communications
PEIRANO, Juan	9/7/2021 3:29 PM	PEIRANO, Juan	United States	The Internet Society (ISOC), a Sector Member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), is ... View More.	Internet Society
TREPYKHALIN, Alexey	9/13/2021 8:11 PM	TREPYKHALIN, Alexey	United States	This is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN) contribution in response to ... View More.	ICANN

Name	Date	Organization	Country	Contributions
DINIZ, Rafael	5/26/2020 5:52 PM	Rhizomatica	Brazil	Based on "Handbook Frequency-adaptive communication systems and networks in the MF/HF bands", by ITU ... View More.
DE SILVA-MITCHELL, Amali	5/29/2020 8:25 AM	Futurist / Civil Society	UK / Sri Lanka	1. What are the challenges and opportunities for expanding Internet connectivity, particularly to re ... View More.
SIRIMANNE, Shamika	7/17/2020 5:48 PM	UNCTAD	Switzerland	While there has been rapid progress in accessing the internet since WSIS, there remain manifold divi ... View More.
ORTEGA, Marco Antonio	7/28/2020 9:32 AM	United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN ECLAC)	Chile	Summary attached View More.
NAKAGAKI, Maiko	7/28/2020 11:52 AM	Alliance for Affordable Internet	USA	Summary attached View More.
EXELBY, Belinda	8/13/2020 10:58 AM	GSMA	United Kingdom	Please see attached PDF for Summary and Full Response View More.
RENNO NUNES, Raquel	8/19/2020 4:58 PM	Article 19	UK	The economic challenges to the expansion of Internet connectivity are mostly related to the higher c ... View More.
SALDANHA, Marcelo	9/29/2020 6:03 PM	IBEBrasil	Brazil	The internet access need to be a human right in fact, cause the digital transformation shows us how ... View More.
DE SILVA-MITCHELL, Amali	10/8/2020 5:36 AM	IGF Dynamic Coalition on Data Driven Health Technologies	UK & Sri Lanka	Comments 2 with focus on supports for eHealth service delivery 1) E-Health access for all has be ... View More.
BELLI, Luca	10/22/2020 4:23 PM	FGV Law School	Brazil	To contribute the ITU consultation on "Expanding Internet Connectivity", we offer the Official 2019 ... View More.
BELLI, Luca	10/22/2020 4:54 PM	Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity (DC3)	Brazil	On behalf of the Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity (DC3) of the United Nations Internet Go ... View More.
HILL, Richard	11/6/2020 3:58 PM	Association for Proper Internet Governance	Switzerland	As we already stated in our contributions to previous opens consultation on this topic, the key issu ... View More.
HILL, Richard	11/6/2020 4:00 PM	Association for Proper Internet Governance	Switzerland	Funding the rollout of national infrastructure and the cost of international connectivity have alway ... View More.
HILL, Richard	11/6/2020 4:05 PM	Association for Proper Internet Governance	Switzerland	As stated in one of the essays for the collection Digital New Deal, it is important to focus on the ... View More.
KIVUVA, Mwendwa	12/5/2020 12:42 PM	KICTANet	Kenya	KICTANet has worked with Community Networks for several years, and in 2020, it produced the first Po ... View More.
JAKOVLJEVIC, Dejan	12/11/2020 2:35 PM	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations	Italy	Access to internet is a necessity for economic and human development for countries. The challenges o ... View More.
JOHNSON, ryan	12/15/2020 1:59 AM	Viasat	United States	Viasat is pleased to provide its response to the ITU CWG-Internet's Open Consultation "International ... View More.
O'BRIEN, Laura	12/15/2020 9:26 PM	Access Now	United States	SUMMARY (submission attached) This submission raises three main points to address the CWG-Internet’ ... View More.
PEÑA, Paz	12/15/2020 11:06 PM	Al Sur	Chile	This document is presented by the Al Sur consortium (a group of 11 civil society organizations and a ... View More.
Michael Jensen & Carlos Rey-Moreno	12/22/2020 10:29 AM	APC	Portugal & Spain	APC-ITU-CWG-Submission-Dec-2020.pdf
GOULDEN, Anna	1/8/2021 1:46 PM	UK Government	United Kingdom	The internet is a critical enabler of economic and social development. However, in order to exp ... View More.
CHOI, JUN KYUN	1/14/2021 2:38 AM	KAIST	South Korea	this contribution proposes to develop the analysis table of wireless technology in terms of frequenc ... View More.
CHOI, JUN KYUN	1/14/2021 2:41 AM	KAIST	South Korea	This contribution proposes to develop the definition and generic framework of “open data.” Also, the ... View More.

Committed to connecting the world

CWG-Internet: Online Open Consultation (February 2021)

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The role of the Internet and international Internet-related public policy in mitigating the impact of COVID-19 and possible future pandemics

​CWG-Internet invites all stakeholders to submit contributions on i​nternational​​ Internet-related public policy issues relating to the role of the Internet and international Internet-related public policy in mi​tigating the impact of COVID-19 and possible future pandemics.​​

Useful Information and Instructions:

Respons​es:​​​​​​

Topic of Discussion

CWG-Internet invites all stakeholders to submit contributions on international Internet-related public policy issues relating to the role of the Internet and international Internet-related public policy in mitigating the impact of COVID-19 and possible future pandemics.

Responses: