InSIG 2017

General Information
Location:	Trivandrum

The India School of Internet Governance (inSIG) has the twin objectives of training and equipping individuals to participate in global Internet Governance processes, and also to help create a community of IG specialists within India. The programme was organized by ISOC-Trivandrum, ISOC-Delhi and ISOC-Kolkata, member ALSes of APRALO. inSIG 2017 was supported by NIXI, Government of India; Dept. of Information Technology, Govt of Kerala; ICANN; Internet Society (ISOC); APNIC; APASA; Technopark, Trivandrum; Kerala State IT Mission (KSITM); Asia-Pacific School of Internet Governance (APSIG); International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS); IEEE Kerala Section and IEEE Computer Society, Kerala.

The 2017 edition of inSIG builds on the vision and design of the first version, and aims to build a community of IG professionals in India as well as in the broader South Asia region of Asia-Pacific, who can effectively participate in global Internet Governance Process. The event was also a forum to discuss topical issues of specific relevance to India.

inSIG2017 brought together about 73 participants (including 56 Indian and 6 International Fellows), and about 15 experts from India, and abroad including the Secretariat. A special run-up event aimed at equipping students and researchers to participate in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) process was also conducted on 23 Oct 2017 as a run-up adjunct event to inSIG2017. 

Steering Committee

The conduct of inSIG2017 will be supervised by a Steering Committee whose initial members are drawn from the three organizing institutions (ISOC-TRV, ISOC-DEL and ISOC-Kolkata),  inSIG’s international supporters, and from local hosting organizations (such as IEEE Kerala Section). The members are:

• Amarnath Raja, ISOC-TRV
• Amrita Choudhary, ISOC-DEL
• Anupam Agarwal, ISOC-Kolkata
• Dr Govind, ISOC-DEL
• Glenn McKnight, Member, Board of Trustees, Internet Society
• Mini Ulanat, ISOC-TRV
• Ranjit R. Nair, ISOC-TRV
• Renata Aquino Ribeiro, Member, MAG, IGF
• Sabarinath Pillai, ISOC-TRV
• Dr Sameer S., ISOC-TRV
• Sasi P.M, IEEE Kerala Section
• Satish Babu, ISOC-TRV
• Senthil Kumar K.B., ISOC-TRV
• Srinivasan R., ISOC-TRV
• Dr Suresh Nair, IEEE Kerala Section

Participants

A. Indian Fellows

1. Mr. Abhishek Jain
2. Mr. Adarsh B.U.
3. Mr. Akshai M
4. Mr. Alex T Joseph
5. Mr. Ameya Paratkar
6. Ms. Amrita Vasudevan
7. Ms. Amutha Arunachalam
8. Mr. Anoop M R
9. Mr. Anurag Vijay Agrawal
10. Ms. Athira.A
11. Mr. B. Narayanaswamy
12. Prof. Babu K
13. Mr. Bibin Parukoor Thomas
14. Mr. Binu Kumar N S
15. Mr. Gangadhar Panday
16. Mr. Gaurav Nagpal
17. Mr. Gnanajeyaraman Rajaram
18. Mr. Gokul Balu
19. Ms. Gulshan Banas
20. Mr. HariKumar
21. Mr. Harish Chowdhary
22. Dr. Indrajit De
23. Mr. Ishteyaaq Ahmad
24. Mr. Jaidev G
25. Ms. Jasna M.A
26. Mr. Joshy.A.K
27. Mr. Mahesh R.
28. Mr. Melbin Mathew
29. Mr. Mirswad K M
30. Mr. Mohammed Roshan K
31. Ms. N. Pravina
32. Ms. N.Sudha Bhuvaneswari
33. Mr. Nagin N
34. Ms. Poornima G.K
35. Mr. Pradeep Gupta
36. Ms. Praneet Kaur
37. Mr. Prateek Pathak
38. Mr. R S Nithin
39. Dr. Rajeev R.R
40. Dr. Rajesh Ramachandran
41. Ms. Raji R
42. Dr. Rejikumar
43. Ms. Renetha J.B.
44. Mr. Sabarish K.
45. Mr. Sai Kumar
46. Ms. Samita Sarkar
47. Mr. Sampath Kumar
48. Dr. Shajan P X
49. Mr. Shaji Albert
50. Mr. Shibendu Debbarma
51. Mr. Shivalal Parmar
52. Ms. Swati Goyal
53. Mr. Tarun Krishnakumar
54. Ms. Vaishali Verma
55. Ms. Vigneswara Ihita Gangavarapu
56. Mr. Vinoj Surendran

B. International Fellows

1. Mr. Khisraw Hotak (Afghanistan)
2. Mr. Iqbal Ahmed (Bangladesh)
3. Mr. M.D. Nasim Parvez (Bangladesh)
4. Mr. Surendra Tiwari (Nepal)
5. Mr. Ahmed Sanoon Mohideen (Sri Lanka)
6. Mr. Ziyam Abdeen (Sri Lanka) 

C. Secretariat

1. Mr. Ajmi A Shukoor (India)
2. Ms. Amrita Choudhary (India)
3. Ms. Aparna A.V. (India)
4. Mr. Balagopal U (India)
5. Mr. Emmanuel Kallookaren (India)
6. Mr. Fazil K.V (India)
7. Mr. Joseph Joshy (India)
8. Ms. Mini Ulanat (India)
9. Mr. Ranjit R Nair (India)
10. Mr. Sabarinath G. Pillai (India)
11. Mr. Shahul Hameed (India)

Speakers

1. Mr. Abhijan Bhattacharyya, TCS Research / ISOC Kolkata
2. Ms. Amrita Choudhary, ISOC-Delhi
3. Mr. Anand Raje, ISOC-Kolkata
4. Mr. Anupam Agrawal, ISOC-Kolkata
5. Ms. Asha Hemrajani, ICANN Board
6. Dr Govind, ISOC-Delhi
7. Mr. Glenn McKnight, Board of Trustees, Internet Society
8. Mr. Olivier Crepin-Leblond, Chair, EURALO, ICANN
9. Mr. Parminder Singh, IT4Change, Bangalore
10. Mr. Prasanth Sugathan, SFLC.in
11. Ms. Renata Aquino Rebeira, MAG Member, IGF
12. Mr. Satish Babu, ISOC-TRV/APRALO-ICANN
13. Mr. Sébastien Bachollet, Former Board Member, ICANN
14. Mr. Subhashish Panigrahi, Internet Society
15. Mr. Sunny Chendi, APNIC

Program

The detailed program schedule of inSIG 2017 can be found here : https://insig.in/programme/

Social Media Presence

Twitter:

Link to tweets about inSIG 2017

Event Photographs:

Link to photos of the event

Internet Society

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Internet Engineering Task Force

Internet Governance Forum