1. Cyberpolitics: Week 11: Internet governance

2. Definition: the development and application by governments, the private sector and civil society in their respective roles, of shared principles, norms, rules, decision-making procedures, and programmes that shape the evolution and use of the Internet - UN WGIG

3. History: 1960s - APRANET 1986 - the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) 1991 - the Internet Society 1994 - Network Solution for managing DNS - DNS War 1998 - ICANN 2003 - New governance regime - World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 2005 - Agenda for information society 2006 - I nternet governance forum

4. ICANN: Internet Corporation for Assigning Name and Number gTLDs: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtld-program.htm IDNs: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/ Civil society: Non commercial user constituency: ncdnhc. org

5. Organization and issues involved:

6. Hong Kong Internet governance 1993 - computer crime ordinance - 1996 - Privacy ordinance -1997 - Copyright ordinance - 2000 - electronic transactions ordinance 2001 - E-Privacy: A Pol icy Approach to Building Trust and Confidence in E-b usiness 2002 - Code of Practice: Practice Statement on Regulatio n of Obscene and Indecent Material - self-governance of the Hong Kong Internet Service Pro viders Association (HKISPA) 2007 - Criminalization of BT and asso ciation ordinance (14K) Dec 2007 - Anti-spam campaign and ordinance 2007 - 2008 - digital copyrights consultation – criminalization of downloading activities 2008 - review of obscene and indecent articles ordinance - new media - privacy 2009-Nov - criminalization of uploading and streaming activities – 許文彪

7. Discussion : debates and approaches to internet governance – copyrights as example