UNDP-APDIP Releases China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Thailand Country Reports on Internet Governance
http://www.apdip.net/news/ordigcountryreports APDIP's Open Regional Dialogue on Internet Governance initiative zooms in on the Internet governance issues, priorities and challenges faced by five countries in Asia. The report results are drawn from extensive consultations and a survey involving all stakeholders (government, the private sector and civil society), and region-wide research undertaken over the past year, as part of the Open Regional Dialogue on Internet Governance (ORDIG). The reports show that all countries regard viruses, cyber attacks and spam as the most pressing issues for Internet governance. Issues on access, affordability, speed and reliability of the Internet feature high on the list of concerns in India, Indonesia and Thailand. While in India and Pakistan, more than two-thirds of the respondents regard the availability of local language software and local content as urgent concerns. Respondents from China are less concerned about this issue but are significantly more dissatisfied than those in other Asia-Pacific countries with the current system for allocating and managing IP numbers. The reports also detail the governance issues and opinions about two new and emerging technologies -- wireless Internet and Internet telephony. These are a mere sample of the multitude of Internet policy issues that the reports examine. In the reports, all the various issues are grouped under four dimensions: 1. infrastructure dimension, which covers issues of physical network characteristics and roll-out 2. logical dimension, which comprises data routing and software development topics 3. content dimension, which covers local and illegal content 4. social and development dimension, which covers topics related to the development-oriented use of the Internet Download ORDIG Country Reports: China <http://igov.apdip.net/resources/China_Report.pdf> India <http://igov.apdip.net/resources/India_Report.pdf> Indonesia <http://igov.apdip.net/resources/Indonesia_Report.pdf> Pakistan <http://igov.apdip.net/resources/Pakistan_Report.pdf> Thailand <http://igov.apdip.net/resources/Thailand_Report.pdf> Download other ORDIG Papers: Input Paper <http://igov.apdip.net/ORDIG_Paper.pdf> Policy Brief <http://igov.apdip.net/ORDIG_Policy_Brief.pdf> Survey Report <http://igov.apdip.net/ORDIG.Survey.Report.pdf> Online Forum Summary <http://igov.apdip.net/undp-apdip%20forum%20summary.pdf> Forthcoming: Internet Governance Primer Internet Governance: Voices from the Asia Pacific - ICT4D Series Related Link: Asia-Pacific Internet Governance Portal <http://igov.apdip.net> ORDIG is an initiative of UNDP-APDIP in collaboration with the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre, with support from the International Development Research Centre of Canada. Christine Apikul Programme Specialist UNDP-APDIP ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
