[governance] UNDP-APDIP Releases China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Thailand Country Reports on Internet Governance

[Christine]

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UNDP-APDIP Releases China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Thailand Country
Reports on Internet Governance

http://www.apdip.net/news/ordigcountryreports

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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>
APDIP e-Note 1 - Voices from Asia-Pacific: Internet governance for
sustainable human development <http://www.apdip.net/apdipenote/1.pdf>
 
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


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