Proposal

APrIGF 2023 Session Proposal Submission Form
Part 1 - Lead Organizer
Contact Person
Ms. Holly Raiche
Email
Organization / Affiliation (Please state "Individual" if appropriate) *
Internet Australia (Australian Chapter of ISOC)
Designation
Chair Policy Committee
Gender
Female
Economy of Residence
Australia
Primary Stakeholder Group
Civil Society
List Your Organizing Partners (if any)
Andrew Williams,CEO,
Australian Communications Cconsumer Action Network (ACCAN)
andrew.williams@accan.org.au

Dr Paul Brooks
Principal Layer10 Advisory, an independent consultancy practice specialising in telecommunications strategy and network architecture.
paul.brooks@internet.org.au; pbrooks@layer10.com.au
Part 2 - Session Proposal
Session Title
Bridging the Communications Divide
Session Format
Fireside Chat
Where do you plan to organize your session?
Onsite at the venue (with online moderator for questions and comments from remote participants)
Specific Issues for Discussion
The overall theme is overcoming the challenges in the Asia-Pacific region to ensure univsal access to telecommunications services - particularly the Internet, echoing the UN view that access to the Internet should be seen as a basic human right. The discussion will begin with the physical barriers to Internet access: geographical remoteness, difficult terrain, overcoming the water barriers for island locations. It will also include other barriers to Internet access: the cost of the service and access to the service by people with disabilities. Using Australian experience in addressing the issues, it will then discuss how the issues have been addresses (or not) in Australia and the continuing challenges in reaching the goal of universal access to the Internet throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
Describe the Relevance of Your Session to APrIGF
This session is didrectly related to access to the Internet. The session will explore the technical barriers to access: the technical issues in overcoming the geographic issues of distance, remoteness, and other technical isssus and the challenges in addressing those issues for the Asia-Pacific region. It will then look at other barriers to access: cost and disability, and suggest ways in which those range of issues could be addressed.
Methodology / Agenda (Please add rows by clicking "+" on the right)
Time frame (e.g. 5 minutes, 20 minutes, should add up to 60 minutes) Description
5 Minutes Introduction to Topic and Speakers
15 Minutes Discussion by Dr Brooks of Technical issues and solutions to access to the Internet
10 Minutes Discussion by Williams and Brooks on policy and practical issues raised by providing access in Australia and the pacific region
10 Minutes Discussion by Brooks and Williams on ACCAN programs and policy issues to address acess
15 Minutes questions from audience Brooks and Williams responding. Raiche moderating
5 Minutes - summary and wrap up Raiche
Moderators & Speakers Info (Please complete where possible)

  • Moderator (Primary)

    • Name: Hoilly Raiche
    • Organization: IA
    • Designation: POlicy Chair
    • Gender: female
    • Economy / Country of Residence: Australian
    • Stakeholder Group: Select One
    • Expected Presence: In-person
    • Status of Confirmation: Select One

  • Moderator (Facilitator)

    • Stakeholder Group: Select One
    • Expected Presence: Select One
    • Status of Confirmation: Select One

  • Speaker 1

    • Name: Dr Paul Brooks
    • Organization: IA
    • Designation: Board
    • Gender: male
    • Economy / Country of Residence: Australian
    • Stakeholder Group: Select One
    • Expected Presence: In-person
    • Status of Confirmation: Select One

  • Speaker 2

    • Name: Andrew Williams
    • Organization: ACCAN
    • Designation: CEO
    • Gender: male
    • Economy / Country of Residence: Australian
    • Stakeholder Group: Select One
    • Expected Presence: In-person
    • Status of Confirmation: Select One

  • Speaker 3

    • Stakeholder Group: Select One
    • Expected Presence: Select One
    • Status of Confirmation: Select One

  • Speaker 4

    • Stakeholder Group: Select One
    • Expected Presence: Select One
    • Status of Confirmation: Select One

  • Speaker 5

    • Stakeholder Group: Select One
    • Expected Presence: Select One
    • Status of Confirmation: Select One
Please explain the rationale for choosing each of the above contributors to the session.
Dr Paul Brooks is a trusted industry consultant, entrepreneur, broadband engineer and active participant within the Australian ISP community and industry bodies such as Communications Alliance. He was an initial founding member of Internet Australia, and a co-founder of Vocus Communications. Paul is also on the board of the InterPlanetary Networking Chapter of the Internet Society (IPN-ISOC). He is also Regional CTO for the Asia Pacific region, representing BitSpeed.
ACCAN is Australioa's leading consumer non-profit acvocacy organisation whose mission is access for all Australians to communications. As its CEO, Andrew overseas the range of policy initiatives to promote access for all Australians to communications, including lobbying to government, regulators, and working with other civil society and consumer groups to ensure access, addresing issues including price, reemoteness and disability as barriers to communications.
Holly Raiche is the Chair of IA policy committee and lectures in communications and Internet Governance issues at Sydney University, and has lectured at UNSW in elctronic communications law and policy
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Please declare if you have any potential conflict of interest with the Program Committee 2023.
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Are you or other session contributors planning to apply for the APrIGF Fellowship Program 2023?
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