DAY 1, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015
9:00-9:30 Registration
Opening Keynotes
Prime Minister / Minister
Frédéric Donck, Director European Regional Bureau, Internet Society
Fadi Chehadé, President and CEO, ICANN
Igor Mkrtumyan, President, Internet Society Armenia
Frédéric Donck, Director European Regional Bureau, Internet Society
Fadi Chehadé, President and CEO, ICANN
Igor Mkrtumyan, President, Internet Society Armenia
9:30 – 10:00
Multi-Stakeholder Model of Internet Governance for Armenia
Speaker: Grigori Saghyan, VP, ISOC AM
10:00 – 10:30
10:00 – 10:30
.հայ Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) for Armenia
Speaker: Lianna Galstyan, Board Member, ISOC AM
10:30 – 11:00
10:30 – 11:00
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
Universal Acceptance:
Recent Achievements
Speaker: Dušan Stojičević, Chair, Serbian National Internet Domain Registry RNIDS
11:30 – 12:00
11:30 – 12:00
Digital Public Library of Armenia:
a Dream or a Reality
Speaker: Tigran Zargaryan, Director, National Library of Armenia
12:00 – 12:20
12:00 – 12:20
Internet of Things: Big Data and Big Opportunities for Economies
Speaker: Vahan Hovsepyan, Director, ARMIX Foundation
12:20 – 12:40
12:20 – 12:40
ICANN accountability and IANA transition
Speaker: Michael Yakushev, VP Stakeholder Engagement, ICANN
12:40 – 13:00
12:40 – 13:00
13:00-14:00 Lunch
New Media - Ani Hall
14:00 – 15:30
Keynote Speakers: Boris Navasardyan, President, Yerevan Press Club
Samvel Martirosyan, New Media Expert
Key participants:
Ara Ghazaryan, Lawyer
Tigran Kocharyan, Information Security Specialist
Moderator: Petros Ghazaryan, Journalist
Rapporteur: Lusine Movsisyan, Journalist
Session description
The rapid development of the Internet, its diversity and dynamic changes led to the creation of the New media, where the importance is not only given to the content, but also to the participation of society in the creation and distribution of the content. The concept of the New media is rapidly developing and continuously changing in contrast to “old”, traditional medias. The fact, that the content is created by the society of Internet users, that an individual can become a media, that a trustworthy person can be anonymous and other similar circumstances make this sphere hard set, as well as difficult to regulate. In analogical situations it is very important to discover, discuss and give probable solutions to the problems of the New media.
Questions to be discussed during the Session:
– The influence of the new media on traditional press. Positive and negative developments.
– How do the Mass Media Law and other RA laws deal with the problems arising in new media?
– International experience. What solutions are there about regulating the new media.
– How do the human rights and national security deal with the anonymity in the sphere of new media and detection of sources.
Keywords
Social network, User Generated Content (UGC), new media, anonymity
Format
Session with panelists, moderator and rapporteur. Duration: 90 minutes.
Close
Round Table - Nairi Hall
14:00 – 15:30
(IGC, ICANN cooperation, RCC, ITU)
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
Network Neutrality - Ani Hall
16:00 – 17:30
Keynote Speaker: Holly Raiche, ICANN ALAC ALT
Key participants: Vahan Hovsepyan, Director, ARMIX Foundation
Thomas Mazejian, Information Systems Department Manager, K-Telecom CJSC, (VivaCell-MTS)
Armen Muradyan, Director, Arpinet LLC
Public Services Regulatory Commission representative
Moderator: Grigori Saghyan, VP, ISOC AM
Rapporteur: Misak Khachatryan, GNC Alfa Administrator
Session description
The sessions represents the concept of Network Neutrality, which has no clear and precise definition by telecommunication regulatory authorities. A broad understanding of Net Neutrality supposes that all Internet protocols have the same priority, they are all equal. This means, that in the channels with low capacity the protocols will transfer the information with the same problems – the video will be stuck, the voice will be cut, the characters of games will be killed. Generally, International Telecommunication Union ITU does not refer to the definition of the concept, moreover, ITU contradistinguish the concept of Network Neutrality with the concept of Service Quality and consistently demands and provide quality standards set for network. The development of the Internet led to the fact, that operators has taken the role of the pipe, nowadays, by which other companies provide their Over the Top services, such as Facebook, Google, Viber, and gain huge income, that is not shared with the operators. In the RA the law does not provide any distinction between telecommunication services, all are called Electronic communications services. But according to the current practice, voice services are called ”voice communications” or ”voice services e. 164 numbering plan”, which are missing in current law. Voice services provided by Internet are regulated only with one document – to ensure the required free peering between Internet service providers. The Law defines another category for telecommunications on the basis of reciprocity, when the volume of minutes is compared and a mutual settlement is done. Among the European countries The Netherlands defined the Network Neutrality by Law, FCC announced that will regulate this issue in USA and in some counties it is being discussed. Armenia confirmed the network neutrality principles on governmental level, what needs legislative and regulatory changes for implementation of the NN principles.
Questions to be discussed during the Session:
– How do RA operators prepare to act in case of spread OTT services?
– How does PSRC plan to regulate OTT services? Does it really plan?
– Are the interconnections between local operators and Viber, Skype OTT service providers legal?
– Is it possible to unite concepts of peering and interconnection?
– How can the Internet exchange point(s) provide the necessary volume without being in the regulatory field? What criteria the traffic exchange point(s) should be guided by, to ensure uninterrupted recording of e. 164 protocol voice services?
– What should be done to ensure the use of the principle of network neutrality in cellular networks?
Keywords
Network neutrality, Protocols equality, Internet exchange
Format
Session with panelists, moderator and rapporteur. Duration: 90 minutes.
Close
E-tools for e-Society (Applications) - Nairi Hall
16:00 – 17:30
Keynote Speaker: Hayk Chobanyan, UITE Armenia
Key participants:
Ali Almeshal, ISOC Bahrain Chapter
Arman Atoyan, Founder, Director, X-TECH
Armen Manukyan, Masis company
Vahagn Poghosyan, Instigate
Armen Nazaryan, ISOC AM Manager of Blinds Program
Moderator: Artur Tunyan, EKENG Director
Rapporteur: Anna Karakhanyan, ISOC AM Board Member
Session description
Since 1990s, we are talking about digital economy based on the Internet. Since then Internet has been transformed from millions of interconnected computers to the virtual world of mobile and electronic devices. In modern world the physical and the digital are paired with each other, as people and organizations are becoming more and more interconnected. Digital development is considered to be the main engine of social and economic development. It is everywhere. Digital development boosts innovations, increases productivity, develops economy in general. It annually creates economic result in the size of hundreds of billions of dollars, new jobs, enhances the quality of life in society. It is considered that the increase of digitization of the country by 14% leads to an increase in the gross national product by 1%. Electronic tools and digital technologies revolutionize businesses and jobs, radically change business models and breaking down barriers. The best examples are the VoIP technologies and e-commerce. Amazon within 10 years increased the sales for 16 times from 3 billion to 48 billion. Digitalization facilitates outsourcing. More and more organizations are interested in transferring their non-core services to other organizations with more experience in this area. It is necessary to continue efforts to introduce e-services and e-governance, in order to become more efficient. For the successful promotion, it is necessary to develop certain principles to define goals, priorities, use native language, technical standards and other events. These are the issues to be considered during the Forum.
Keywords
Digitalization, innovation, electronic tools
Format
Session with panelists, moderator and rapporteur. Duration: 90 minutes.
Close
DAY 2, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2015
9:00-9:30 Registration
Children Safety on the Internet
Speaker: Narine Khachatryan, Safer Internet Armenia
09:30 – 09:55
09:30 – 09:55
Problems of the National Research and Education Network (NREN)
Speaker: Vladimir Sahakyan, NAS RA
09:55 – 10:20
09:55 – 10:20
Intellectual Property Rights and Free Access to Internet Resources
Speaker: Sarkis Knyazyan, Intellectual Property Rights Center of Armenia (IPRC)
10:20 – 10:45
10:20 – 10:45
The impact of Internet on further development of Armenian SMEs
Speaker: Gagik Sargsyan, Noy Firm
10:45 – 11:15
10:45 – 11:15
11:10-11:30 Coffee Break
Content - Nairi Hall
11:30 – 13:00
Keynote Speaker: Sargis Darbinyan, RU BlackList Lawyer
Key participants:
Arpine Hovhannisyan, Minister of Justice of RA
Mher Bekaryan, “Wikimedia Armenia” Scientific-Educational NGO Co-Founder, Board Member
David Alaverdyan, Mediamax
Samvel Hovsepyan,Police of RA
Haykaz Baghyan, Director, Media Education Center
Moderator: Petros Ghazaryan, Journalist
Rapporteur: Siranush Vardanyan, ISOC Armenia Board Member, ICANN At-Large APRALO Chair
Session description
Today there is a strong confrontation between supporters of open Internet and the copyright owners. The situation in Armenia is regulated by Armenian Law on Copyright and related rights.
There is a National Commission on Television and Radio, which requires to make royalty payments to Intellectual property owners or to their representatives.
There are collectors, who have rights to collect royalties from licensed cable and ethereal TV companies. Some Internet providers also have to pay royalties for TV movies and other video content, distributed with use of IPTV technology in multicast mode. But for Internet TV sing unicast technology there is no any practice to collect royalties for watching TV programs.
During a session the panelists will discuss the following issues:
– Is it possible to provide any royalty to the copyright owners in Internet era?
– The Intellectual property law and current practice.
– How to monetize mass media production in the Internet era? Financing sources today.
– How to create free of charge yet high-quality content?
– Online education how to bring into line traditional education sources in the Internet education process. Is it possible to use Wikipedia in this process?
Keywords
Intellectual property, Copyright, Piracy
Format
Session with panelists, moderator and rapporteur. Duration: 90 minutes.
Close
Cyber Security - Dvin Hall
11:30 – 13:00
Keynote Speaker: Bagrat Ghazinyan, Head of Legislative Department, Ministry of Justice
Key participants: Karen Gasparyan, Head of IT Security, UCom
Vaagn Toukharian, Director, OWASP
Gagik Makaryan, President, Republican Union of Employers of Armenia
Moderator: Ruben Muradyan, CIO, PanArmenian Media Group
Rapporteur: Inna Kholodova, Board Member, ISOC AM, CERT-AM Administrator
Session description
Convention on Cybercrime, signed by the RA in 2006, identifies cybercrime. But there is also an “information security” concept developed in 2012 by the Security Council of RA. There is a fundamental difference between these two concepts, namely cybersecurity does not refer to the content, does not contain propaganda and contr-propaganda components while the information security does not exclude content-related components. In this session the concept of “cybersecurity” is used. From this perspective, the session will promote the discussion about reliability of infrastructure functioning, in particular, the accessibility in case of DDoS attacks or Internet infrastructure physical damages for the citizens of the RA as well as for international users. The second factor is security issues inside companies: How to prevent data leakage? The relevance of the issue is due to the new Law on “Personal Data”, which implies that all organizations processing of personal data must undergo an audit by public or private organizations specializing in audit. The third factor is the implementation of the DNSSEC protocol which will distinctively identify the source of the information. These are all issues of the initiation, implementation and supervision.
Questions to be discussed during the Session:
– The use of open source operating systems for processing personal data – is there a risk of leakage?
– To what extend should the influence be by the state on private companies in order to provide the cybersecurity?
– What is preferable to ensure audit or not to demand it?
– To ensure it by the state body or by the efforts of private organization?
– Is the self-certification acceptable in terms of cybersecurity?
– What are the corruption risks if State audit is conducted?
– Is there enough professional potential in RA to force well-known organizations for audit?
– Will the new Law succeed?
Keywords
DLP, certification, infrastructure functioning reliability
Format
Session with panelists, moderator and rapporteur. Duration: 90 minutes.
Close
13:00 - 13:30 - Conclusions and final remarks
13:30-14:30 Lunch