News
07-11-2014
Organized by the Ministry of Administration and Digitization, Research and Academic Computer Network (NASK), the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Free and Open Source Software Foundation (FWiOO), the international workshop was held on 30 October 2014 in Warsaw under the banner of “Who rules the Internet”. The meeting was devoted to the subject of the management of the Internet as viewed from the perspective of the public administration, non-governmental organizations, business and science. In a plenary session, which opened the meeting, the floor was taken by, among others, Andrzej Halicki - Minister of Administration and Digitization and Jean Jacques Sahel – Vice president of ICANN for Europe as well as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Operations Director at NASK.
During the conference in six expert workshop groups the following issues were discussed:
- Management of technical network resources (Internet domains, IP addresses, communication protocols), rules of activity and tasks realized by ICANN, the role of the U.S. government in managing the Internet and the process of handing over the supervision of the domain name system to the global Internet community
- Cyber security with regard to the DNSSEC service
- Access to information vs. the protection of privacy in the Internet – conflict of two values
- Network neutrality – how future legal regulations on network neutrality will affect the chain of values in the Internet and the relationship among the providers of telecommunication services, content and electronic services providers as well as the Internet users
- Management of technical network resources vs. running a business activity – the issue of domains in a particular view of new generic domain names programme (new gTLD)
- “Everything you always wanted to know about the Internet but were afraid to ask”
- How the Internet works as viewed from the technical and business perspective
The workshop was one of the most important digital-related events in Poland. The meeting was focused not only to spread the Internet management issues but also to make the relations among the scientific communities, public administration, non-governmental organizations and entrepreneurs more tight.
