| APrIGF 2024 Session Proposal Submission Form | |||||||||||||
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| Part 1 - Lead Organizer | |||||||||||||
| Contact Person | |||||||||||||
| Ms. Jasmine Ko | |||||||||||||
| Organization / Affiliation (Please state "Individual" if appropriate) * | |||||||||||||
| DotAsia | |||||||||||||
| Designation | |||||||||||||
| Project Manager | |||||||||||||
| Gender | |||||||||||||
| Female | |||||||||||||
| Economy of Residence | |||||||||||||
| Hong Kong | |||||||||||||
| Primary Stakeholder Group | |||||||||||||
| Technical Community | |||||||||||||
| Part 2 - Session Proposal | |||||||||||||
| Session Title | |||||||||||||
| Striving for EcoInternet, towards a resilient Internet | |||||||||||||
| Session Format | |||||||||||||
| Showcase (20 minutes) | |||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||
| Internet carbon can only be increasing, thus cannot be ignored. Building on 3 years efforts of initiating and developing EcoInternet Index, the research on how various factors (i.e. Energy, Efficiency and Economy) affects the Internet-environment relationship continues and the new phase of this project has been extended to 15 and will extend more jurisdictions across Asia Pacific including some least developed countries. Based on the studies and discussions with subject-matter experts, the approach to evaluate the environmental impact related to the digital explosion is more complicated than simply identifying the carbon footprint of the Internet or a specific online activity for direct comparisons among jurisdictions, which can be misleading and debatable in many ways. Measuring the definitive amount of the Internet’s carbon footprint, as it naturally increases along with increasing usage, may not depict the real situation of its eco-friendliness, but instead, looking at how the accelerating growth of the Internet significantly replaces some traditional activities or industries which are way more carbon-heavy, can provide meaningful outcomes for policy directives and decisions. That said, it is foreseeable that the Internet usage will continue to surge, and therefore, it is necessary to ensure that the sustainability of the Internet network and infrastructure are included or even highlighted in the consideration and decision of any climate agenda and action plan. The following policy questions will be covered: Why do we need an EcoInternet to achieve a resilient Internet? What are the policy recommendations to achieve an EcoInternet? What are the key factors and challenges to effective collaboration between government and industry in policymaking and implementation to monitor and reduce the environmental impact caused by booming digitalisation? What are the main reasons for the Asia Pacific region lagging behind in “greening” the Internet? |
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| Describe the Relevance of Your Session to APrIGF | |||||||||||||
| When it comes to a resilient Internet, this critical communication infrastructure must include the aspect of environmental sustainability to make it resilient. This session is suggesting measures that can be taken to improve sustainability and strengthen the resilience of digital infrastructure in the APAC region from an angle that is usually neglected. Furthermore, this reports creates opportunities and dialogues stakeholders collaborate and ensure that local communities and businesses have the autonomy to shape their digital futures in alignment with their socio-economic priorities and values? Expected Outcomes A concrete and practical framework for government and the industry to collaboratively tackle the environmental impact in relation to digital technologies, suggestions for effective policies and action plans to enhance the sustainability of the Internet infrastructure, as well as possible solutions to overcome any obstacles, are the expected outcomes from the session. The speakers may exchange their views on the methodology of the EcoInternet Index, the advantages and shortcomings of such an approach, what we can learn from the results and how it can be further improved and developed. Policy recommendations from the discussions and comments to our study will be input to the research report of our project EcoInternet Index 2024-25. |
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| Please explain the rationale for choosing each of the above contributors to the session. | |||||||||||||
| Diversity is a main rationale for curating this session that we include representatives from various stakeholder group, e.g. government, technical community, international organizations, | |||||||||||||
| Please declare if you have any potential conflict of interest with the Program Committee 2024. | |||||||||||||
| Yes | |||||||||||||
| If yes, please detail the person and his/her level of engagement on your session proposal. (e.g. 1 or more of the PC members are co-hosting/moderating/speaking at the session) | |||||||||||||
| im secretariat of PC | |||||||||||||
| Are you or other session contributors planning to apply for the APrIGF Fellowship Program 2024? | |||||||||||||
| No | |||||||||||||
| Number of Attendees (Please fill in numbers) | |||||||||||||
| Gender Balance in Moderators/Speakers (Please fill in numbers) | |||||||||||||
| Consent | |||||||||||||
 I agree that my data can be submitted to forms.for.asia and processed by APrIGF organizers for the program selection of APrIGF 2024. |
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