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The Internet Society (ISOC)
Sebastián Bellagamba
Manager – Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean
[email protected]
2008 Caribbean Internet Forum
Port of Spain – Trinidad & Tobago
October 2008
http://www.isoc.org
ISOC’s Mission
"To promote and assure the open development,
evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit
of all people throughout the world."
The Internet is for Everyone!
http://www.isoc.org
The Internet Society
• Founded in 1992 by Internet Pioneers
– International non-profit organization
– 90+ organization members (companies, government
agencies and NGOs)
– 28,000+ individual members
– 90+ chapters worldwide
– Regional Bureaus: Africa, Latin America & Caribbean,
South & South East Asia
• ISOC is an international cause-related organization that
works for the open development and evolution of the
Internet for all people. Does so through work across the
areas of technical standards, education and capacitybuilding as well as public policy.
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ISOC Principles
• ISOC's principles and activities are based upon a
fundamental belief that the Internet is for everyone.
• Envisions a future in which people everywhere can
use the Internet to improve quality of life
– possible when standards, technologies, business
practices, and government policies sustain an open and
universally accessible platform for innovation, creativity,
and economic opportunity
• Core beliefs
– http://www.isoc.org/pubpolpillar/principles.shtml
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What makes ISOC unique?
• Focus is the Internet
– Education, Standards, Policy
• Organizational home of the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF), Internet
Architecture Board (IAB), and related bodies
• Enable capacity and technical community
building throughout the world
• Key player in Internet policy
• Global, with local and regional perspective
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ISOC’s Strategic Initiatives
• Enabling Access to the Internet – through policy,
standards and technology, and new resources
• InterNetWorks – so that the Internet remains an
open end-to-end entity – with all of the associated
technological, policy, social, and business benefits
• Trust & Identity – identifying and promoting
activities that resolve some of the persistent issues
in this critical area
– e.g. elevating “identity" to a core issue in network
research and standards development
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Enabling Access
• *Major* Challenge: how to put the next billion on-line
• EA is not *only* a technology driven issue: it includes
for example, access to technical skills and knowledge,
the regulatory and policy environment for information
and telecommunications services, and broader
economic and market factors, language diversity, and
the diffusion and reliability of basic infrastructures and
services.
• Access: access to *and* use of the network-enabled
services that would make a difference in people lives
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Public Policy
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Integrated in ISOC’s global strategy
1. Localize high level discussions: regional
approach
2. Engagement/Visibility
3. Collaborative engagement with the TC
4. Bottom-up approach (Members)
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Standards & Protocols
• Organization home of the Internet Engineering
Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Architecture
Board (IAB)
• IETF (www.ietf.org)
– Writes basic Internet protocol standards
– Open group of >2000 individual engineers from
many countries
• Standards and Protocols are open
– No fees; specifications widely known
• ISOC funds ~40% of IETF’s activities
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Internet Engineering Task Force
• Open:
– anyone can join any WG, email participation
– drafts are public
– final documents (RFCs) are free
• Consensus-based:
– WG decisions are taken using email by rough
consensus, with no formal vote
– Final review and approval by IESG
• Self governance:
– active individual participants pick the IESG and IAB
– no corporate or individual formal membership
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ISOC Education Focus
• To provide and distribute information related to the
Internet and its technologies to individuals, and to
public and private organizations, including
governments,
• To provide assistance with Internet deployment to
people in technologically developing countries, and
• To promote the development of self-sustaining
communities able to effectively deploy and exploit local
and regional education and training and resources.
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Fellowship and Grants
• ISOC Fellowship to the IETF
– http://www.isoc.org/educpillar/fellowship/
• IGF Ambassadors
– https://www.isoc.org/pubpolpillar/governance/igfamb
assadors/index.php
• FRIDA
– http://www.programafrida.net/en/index.html
• ISOC Chapter’s Project Funding Initiative
– http://www.isoc.org/isoc/chapters/application/
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Thank you!
Sebastián Bellagamba
Manager – Regional Bureau for Latin America
and the Caribbean
[email protected]
http://www.isoc.org