Canadian Association of Internet Providers

CAIP is the Canadian Association of Internet Providers, formed in 1996 with the goal to develop and expand the internet and online service industry in Canada. It focuses on bringing the Canadian and international issues of mutual interest together and resolving them with international assistance. It also aims at creating a safer internet, free from any abusive or illegal content that may affect human dignity and the citizens of Canada.

Objectives

• To provide assistance: CAIP supports the effective ideas that need to be enforced respecting public policy and regulatory issues such as access to internet, privacy, e-commerce usage, and security and copyright issues. It supports ideas and policies that focus on the development and growth of the internet industry in Canada.
• To promote internet and its use: It proactively plans events that will create awareness among Canadians about the internet and related services. Their main focus is to educate the masses on various issues regarding the internet and CAIP and encourage the usage of the internet throughout the nation.
• To share internet-related information among members and users through regular communication.
• To implement and create policies that are beneficial not just for providers but also for internet service users.

CAIP cooperates to increase support of the CATA Alliance, the largest high tech trade association. The collaboration of CAIP and CATA is to magnify the CAIP’s role through public affairs lobby which is acknowledged to be the best in its sector.

The Code of Conduct

• CAIP will cooperate with all the government administrators, internet services providers around the globe and different authorities responsible for maintaining law and order. Law authorities seek to clarify the responsibility for each of the different functions performed by internet companies.
• CAIP members promise to abide by all the laws and regulation which binds these members to meet the CAIP set standards.
• CAIP members are responsible for educating the public about the uses and misuses of the internet, as well as various developments in internet technology.
• CAIP members must keep the personal information of their users private, only to be disclosed on demand by law enforcement officials.
• CAIP members may not host any illegal or abusive content on the internet. They must report any such content hosted by both CAIP members and non-members, in order to help in taking action against such criminal activities.
• Though it is not possible to keep a vigil on all web content, CAIP will take initiative for legal action against any web services who host illegal or abusive content that has been reported to them.
• Before taking any action against the provider of abusive content, CAIP will comply the following procedures:

1. Perform a review that will precisely provide information on the location and the nature of the abusive content.
2. Use the consultancy of legal authorities regarding the abusive content.
3. Provide a notification to the abusive content provider and give him a seven days time to reply, and then further initiate the proceedings of the legal actions.