WEBCAST AUG 21 – 23: Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) 2024

ISOC LIVEOn 21 – 23 August 2024 the 15th Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) will be held as a hybrid event, online and in Taipei, with the overarching theme ‘ Evolving Ecosystems, Enduring Principles: Shaping Responsible Internet Governance‘.

APrIGF serves as a platform for discussion, exchange and collaboration at a regional level, and also where possible to aggregate national IGF discussions, ultimately advance the Internet governance development in the Asia Pacific region.

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August 21 | Day 1 – ALL TIMES UTC+8

09:30 (201) – APrIGF & TWIGF Opening Remarks
Amrita Choudhury, Kenny Huang, Kuo-Wei Wu, Vint Cerf, Yennun Huang, Bi-khim Hsiao

10:05 (201) APrIGF & TWIGF Keynote
Jun Murai

10:20 (201) APrIGF & TWIGF Opening Plenary
Pavitra Ramanujam, Heather Adkins, Lisa Garcia, Kenny Huang, Jun Murai

11:30 (402) Roundtable – Charting the Path for a Regional Fact-Checking Coalition in the Asia-Pacific
Medelina K. Hendytio, Ratna Aini Hadi, Shita Laksmi, Jean-Jacques Sahel, Eve Chiu, Ellen Tordesillas

11:30 (301) Panel – Regulatory Resilience in the Age of Internet Fragmentation
Sabhanaz Rashid Diya, Neeti Biyani, KS Park, William Lee, Victoria Hyde

12:30 (101) Talk – Unmasking Threat: Lunchtime with Google’s Cybersecurity Front Line
Heather Adkins

14:00 (301) Panel – Platform Accountability in South and Southeast Asia
Liza Garcia, Sabhanaz Rashid Diya, KS Park, Prateek Waghre, Grace Salonga

14:00 (402) Panel – Digital Leap- Enhancing Connectivity in South Asia
Omar Ansari, Lima Madomi, Amrita Choudhury, Waqas Hassan, Mohamed Shareef, Raj Singh, Mahesh Uppal, Aimal Marjan

14:00 (401) Panel – From Innovation to Impact: Responsible AI – challenges and opportunities to tackle online fraud and scams
Nicole Chan, Yi-jing Lin, Jean-Jacques Sahel, Jennifer Chan, Joanna Octavia, Edmon Chung

15:10 (301) Workshop – Defending against Digital Deception: Strategies for Preventing Online Scams and Identity Theft ?
Jasmine Ko, Mamta Siwakoti, Ummed Meel, Ben Cheung

15:10 (402) Panel – Securing Trust: Ethical Governance in Championing Children’s Digital Rights
Luke Teoh Rong Guang, Bea S. Guevarra, Omor Faruque, Hao-Tian Ted Lu, Agita Pasaribu, Ella Serry, Andy Ardian

16:00 (401) Panel – Shaping the Future: AI Policy and Governance in 2030
Jo-Fan Yu, Meg Chang, Anita Chan, George Chen, Tzong- Han Tsai, Isabel Hou

16:30 (301) Town Hall I

August 22 | Day 2 – ALL TIMES UTC+8

09:00 (101) Panel – BreaktheSilo: Streamlining Gender Safety in the Digital Space
Shruti Shreya, Liza Garcia, Rachel Judhistari, Jean-Jacques Sahel

09:00 (402) Workshop – Bottom-up Advocacy for a Resilient Internet
Neeti Biyani, Maristela Miranda, Jean F Queralt, Jessamine Joyce Pacis

09:00 (401) Panel – Introduction to a Technical Community Coalition for Multistakeholderism
Jordan Carter, Jo-Fan Yu, Vivien Maidaborne, Alishah Shariff

10:10 (101) Panel – Safeguarding Human Rights Defenders in the Cyber Age
Singing Li, JY Hoh, Michael Karimian, Frederick Rawski

10:10 (402) Panel – A Multistakeholder Approach to Safeguarding Information Integrity through Advancing Internet Governance in Asia and the Pacific
Raman Jit Singh, Joyce Wu, Michael Caster, Fitriani PhD, Rachel Judhistari

11:00 (401) Panel – Towards a Resilient Internet in Taiwan: Defining, Measuring, and Enhancing Network Robustness
Kuo-Wei Wu, Joy Chan, Po-Yi Li, Tsu-Yao Lu, Shan-Cheng Pei, Junwei Tsai

11:30 (101) Panel – Multistakeholderism in the post-GDC era
Keisuke Kamimura, Junko Kawauchi, Amrita Choudhury, Chris Buckridge, Yoichi Iida, Masanobu Katoh

11:30 (402) Panel – Is Asia-Pacific Ready for AI? Balancing Innovation, Ethical Governance, and Marginalized Needs
Jasmine Ko, Rupam, Jenna Manhau Fung, Karlina Octaviany, Poren Chiang, Ruth Schmidt

APrIGF
12:30 (101) Talk – RightsCon: A Global Convening of Human Rights in the Digital Age

14:00 (101) Workshop – Digital Bill of Rights: A Systematic Bottom-Up Approach Towards Freedom in the Digital Age
JRF’s Digital Lawyers Network

14:00 (402) Roundtable – Striving for EcoInternet, towards a resilient Internet
Jasmine Ko, Edmon Chung, Toshiaki Tateishi

14:30 (402) Fireside Chat – Health Data Governance through AI Booming Age: A Journey in Taiwan
Kuan-Ju, Chou, Wang, Bow-Yaw, Yu-Yin, Tu

14:00 (401) Panel – Navigating the Complex Terrain of Internet Intermediaries Liability and Online Frauds
Dr. Shun-Ling Chen, Jean-Jacques Sahel, Raman Jit Singh, Dr. Hsin-Hsuan Lin, Dr. Seongmin Jeon

15:10 (101) Panel – Messaging scam and combatting to protect human rights and democracy
Kazuhiro Kitamura, Kuo-Wei Wu, Christiane Gillespie-Jones, Hung-Chang Hsu, Alpana Kaushal, Koji Yasukagawa

15:10 (402) Panel – Gendered Disinformation – Deepening understanding and exploring countermeasures
Pavitra Ramanujam, Cho Thazin Aung, Liza Garcia, Bishakha Datta, Asma Shirazi, Mia Møhring Larsen

16:15 (401) Artificial Intelligence and the Environment ─ The Path to a Sustainable Earth
Yi-fan Gao, Yen-haw Chen, Mavis Hsu, I-chun Hsiao

16:30 (101) Town hall II

August 23 | Day 3 – ALL TIMES UTC+8

09:00 (101) Panel – Building Holistic Resilience to Address Emerging Ethical and Social Challenges in the Digital and AI Age
Ashirwad Tripathy, Saud Paracha, Prof. Salma Abbasi, Izumi Aizu, Resercher, Sri Chandrasekaran, Charles Mok

09:00 Making AI responsible for financial inclusion –
Shyam Krishnakumar, Titiksha Vashist, Chandni Gupta, Shelley Anderson, Dr. Rachel Gong, Edoardo Totolo, Monami Dasgupta

10:10 (101) Panel – Infrastructures of repression: Cybersecurity and Human Rights in the Asia Pacific
Michael Caster, Lulu Keng, Tanka Aryal, Darika Bamrubgchok, Helani Galpaya, Charles Mok

10:10 (402) Panel – Internet infrastructure resilience during disaster event – Case Study for the 0403 Taiwan Earthquake, and others
Joyce Chan, Ching-Heng Ku, Crystal Pu, Andrew Molivurae, Joy Chan

11:30 (101) Roundtable – Freedom Online Coalition Regional Dialogue – Asia-Pacific
Sabhanaz Rashid Diya, Luca Kuiper

11:30 (402) Workshop – Enhancing Internet and Web Standards to address DNS Tampering
Siti Nurliza Samsudin

13:30 (101) ShhorAI: Combating Hate Speech and Fostering an Inclusive Digital Space
Aindriya Barua

13:30 (402) Fellows Presentation

14:00 (101) Tutorial – Contextualising Fairness: AI Governance in Asia
Tejaswita Kharel, Isabel Hou, Jason Grant Allen, Nidhi Singh

14:40 (101) Open Mic Townhall – NetMundial+10, GDC, WSIS+20 – what else is happening in the world of Internet governance
Jordan Carter, Yien Chyn Tan, Akinori Maemura, Amrita Choudhury, William Lee

14:40 (402) Panel – Strengthening the Digital Resilience of Taiwan: with Special Reference to Undersea Cables
Yachi Chiang, Charles Mok, Lucio Blanco Pitlo III

16:20 (101) Closing Plenary
Waqas Hassan, Rajnesh Singh, Audrey Tang, Prof Salma Abbasi, Michael Kariman

17:20 (101) Closing Remarks
Jo-Fan Yu, Edmon Chung, Sameer Gahlot, Aris Irisgo, Ananda Gautam

August 23 | TWIGF – ALL TIMES UTC+8

09:30 From Long-term Cultivation to Active Participation: Taiwan’s Practical Strategies in Global Internet Governance
Yi-Shan Chen, Jason Kuo, Paul Peng, Manju Chen, Pablo Hinojosa, Yien Chyn Tan

09:30 (401) Digital Basic Law: Building Digital Rights and Sustainable Resilience from the Bottom Up
林俊宏, TBD

10:50 (301) The Exercise of Data Protection Rights: Emperor’s New Clothes or the Armor of AI Development
Kuan-Ju Chou, Shun-Ling Chen, Bow-Yaw Wang, Chieh Tseng

10:50 (401) How Open Source Communities Promote the Development of Resilient Networks: Open Government, Environmental Monitoring, and Media Literacy
Eileen Chu, Wu-Long Hsu, Billion Lee, Wei-Chen Lin

13:30 (301) Intermediary Liability: Would Holding Internet Platforms Accountable for Content Lead to Better Internet Governance?
Alban Kwan, Jofan Lin, Ruby Pang, 周宇修

13:30 (401) Digital Censoring Tools and Democracy
Syed Mohammad Haroon, Usama Khilji, Jenna Fung, Gyan Prakash Tripathi, Jean-Jacques Sahel

14:50 (301) Resilience of the Internet’s network infrastructure
Kenny Huang, Seiichi Kawamura, Noelle Francesca De Guzman, Che-Hoo Cheng

14:50 (401) Current Situation and Future Prospects of Internet Safety for Children in Taiwan: The Joint Efforts of Multi-Stakeholders
June Liu, Eric Huang, Jofan Li, Evonne Lai, Candice Keng

16:10 (301) Multiple legal thinking on algorithmic governance under fair trust – philosophy of justice, fair competition, governance
林常青, Ron Kuo, Hung-Yu Chuang, Shao-Man Lee, Wan-Ju Yeh

16:10 (401) The role of individual end users and civil society in Internet governance: the challenges of At-Large Community and ALAC
Henry Tsai, Kuo-Wei Wu, Manju Chen, Ron Lee, Ting-Yun Chi

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