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The Asia Pacific School of  Internet Governance (AfSIG) is a regional event  that Helps Interested Students, academics, researchers, and individual professionals from the  

The Asia Pacific School of  Internet Governance (APSIG) is a regional event  that Helps create a multistakholder learning opportunity for Interested Students, academics, researchers, and individual professionals from the Academia, Civil Society and NGOs, Government and Public Sector, Technical Community and Private Sector to create a collaborative learning platform.  

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.

AfSIG has collaborations with various other Schools on Internet Governance across the world and is working closely with Asia Pacific School on Internet Governance (APSIG)<ref>[https://sites.google.com/site/apsigasia/ Asia Pacific School on Internet Governance]</ref>

Asia Pacific School on Internet Governance (APSIG) intends to serve these 500~1,000 Internet governance leaders and experts in Asia through professional courses on the Internet governance and other programs. We expect  local and other SIGs and IGFs to serve the 5,00 ~10,000 Internet governance practitioners  through their courses. 

== OBJECTIVE: ==

== 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.

* Asia Pacific School on Internet Governance (APSIG) intends to serve Internet governance Internet governance experts and leaders in Asia Pacific on their professional upgrades and collaboration. 

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.

* APSIG collaborates with national SIGs and IGFs in Asia Pacific which serve several thousand Internet governance practitioners on their capacity development through introductory, general and advanced courses. 

== Topics covered during AfSIG: <ref>[http://sig.afig.af/ AfSIG Program Schedule]</ref> ==

== Scope: ==

* Internet Governance Introduction, history and principles

* Develop open courseware on the Internet governance

* Multistakeholder Model and the Stakeholders

* Offer courses on the Internet governance for IG leaders and experts

* Internet Ecosystem in Afghanistan

* Collaborate with other SIGs and IGFs through All SIG Meetings.

* DNS System

* Offer APSIG/Amazon fellowships for IGF participation

* Asia and the Next Billion: Challenges in Digital Inclusion

* Panel Discussion: Internet Access, Infrastructure, government policy for its development

* IG Perspectives: Governmental – Telecom Regulation

* IG Perspectives: Governmental – Asan Khedmat

* Domain Name Industry & .AF

* Panel: ICT for Education

== AfSIG 2017 <ref>[http://sig.afig.af/ First Edition of Afghanistan School on Internet Governance]</ref> ==

== APSIG Program – Tracks and Classes ==

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,

# Internet Governance - Perspectives (Legal, Social, Tech/Eng, Economics/Business)

# Internet Governance - Stakeholders (Multistakeholder Model, Global Internet Users/Non-Users)

# Internet Governance - Institutions (Eco System, Standardization, Names and Numbers )

# Human Rights (General, Privacy, Gender)

# CyberSecurity (General, Crime, Surveillance, Warfare)

# Internet Governance – Extended (Digital, IoT, Data, Security, AI, Blockchain/Digital Commerce)

=== Participants: ===

=== Participants: ===