Afghanistan School on Internet Governance

Type:	Internet Governance School
Founded:	2017
Headquarters:	Afghanistan
Country:	Afghanistan
Website:	Afghanistan School on Internet Governance
Facebook:	AfghanistanSIG
Twitter:	@nitpaafg
Key People
Said Zazai Ahmad Waleed Khaliqi Mohibullah Utmankhil Abdul Khalil Azizi Shamsullah Shams Nasrat Khalid

The Afghanistan School on Internet Governance (AfSIG) Helps Interested Students, academics, researchers, and individual professionals from the Academia, Civil Society and NGOs, Government and Public Sector, Technical Community and Private Sector to understand better the global Internet Governance controversy and to get a comprehensive and structured knowledge on the various aspects of Internet Governance. Organized by National IT Professional Association of Afghanistan (NITPAA) the AfSIG is an annual school covering the political, legal, economic, socio-cultural, technological dimensions of the Internet Governance in regards to the global and Afghanistan’s National necessities.

OBJECTIVE:

The main aim of the AfSIG is to help individuals from Afghanistan in order to better understand the national, regional and international Internet Governance issues, settings, and processes, while gaining access to comprehensive and structured knowledge on various aspects of Internet Governance, and the actors, issues and settings surrounding it. The relevant global organizations like APNIC, APTLD, ISOC and ICANN support such initiatives. According to their policy, they are committed to strengthen the understanding of Internet Governance within stakeholder groups.

Topics covered during AfSIG:

• Internet Governance Introduction, history and principles
• Multistakeholder Model and the Stakeholders
• Internet Ecosystem in Afghanistan
• DNS System
• Asia and the Next Billion: Challenges in Digital Inclusion
• Local Language Support
• Local Content Development
• Panel Discussion: Internet Access, Infrastructure, government policy for its development
• Digital Divide
• IG Perspectives: Governmental – Telecom Regulation
• IG Perspectives: Governmental – Asan Khedmat
• Cyber Security
• IG Perspective: Human Rights on the Internet
• Domain Name Industry & .AF
• Panel: ICT for Education

AfSIG 2017

On 26th and 27th April 2017, the first edition of Afghanistan School on Internet Governance was held with 38 participants and 20 local and international speakers from 7 countries in Kabul. Most of the international speakers presented remotely. The AfSIG 2017 was organized by National IT Professionals Association of Afghanistan (NITPAA). It was supported by APSIG, apTLD, ICANN, APNIC, Karwan University, Liwal Soft, Wasel Telecom, Io global,

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