My Experience at inSIG 2019 | inSIG (India School on Internet Governance) | Ashwin Reddy
“inSIG is a School, not a conference; Please be on Time” – Amrita Choudhury
ISOC Delhi-Chapter at inSIG 2019 
“India School on Internet Governance”
This is my post-Youth IGF India 2019 experience, inSIG was a follow-up event to YIGF India 2019. This year, 4th edition of inSIG was being conducted in Kolkata from (15th Nov-17th Nov) at Ecohub, by Internet governance community organisers jointly by the Delhi, Trivandrum, Kolkata and Mumbai Chapters of Internet Society. India School on Internet governance 2019 brought together fellows, IG experts & representatives of different stakeholders (domestic & international).
To read my experience before and during YouthIGF India 2019 check this out – https://ashwinreddy.me/youthigf-india-2019/
Table of Contents
inSIG 2019 Fellows
‘Indian Fellows” 
“International & Local Fellows” 
Returning & ISOC Chapter Fellows
Day 1: [15th November 2019] Registration
Day 1: #inSIG2019 #IndiaInternetWeek pic.twitter.com/82J6KpFFv0
— Ashwin Reddy (@Ashwin_Reddy_) November 15, 2019
Keynotes: Internet Governance
Perspectives on Current State and Future of IG by Maarten Botterman,
(Chair, ICANN Board) and Paul Wilson (Director General, APNIC)
Keynotes by Maarten Botterman,
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Chair, @ICANN Board, Paul Wilson @apnic on What is Internet Governance? &
Current Challenges faced in IG today.
Importance of Multistakeholder Model & Participation of different stakeholders in IG Ecosystem, at #inSIG2019 pic.twitter.com/KM9WhI7sue
Internet Governance in India: A brief history
Dr Govind, inSIG
Internet Governance in an Indian Perspective by Dr. Govind
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Fake News / Internet Shutdown / IDNs / Multistakeholder vs Multilateral / IOT & AI/ Data Protection/ Data Privacy / Data Localization / Digital Economy & many more issues, at #inSIG2019 #IndiaInternetWeek pic.twitter.com/KQhrlpvwc4
History and Principles of Internet Governance
Internet Timeline
- 1969 – First Packet Switching
- 1972 – First Electronic Mail was Sent: [email protected]
- 1973 – NCP – Network Control Programme
- 1974 – TCP/IP with IPv4 was Designed from Computers to Networks
- 1985 – DNS Introduced (MIL/GOV/COM/NET/ORG/EDU/INT)
- 1988 – USENET | Large Networks/BITNET/USENET/30000 Nodes
- 1990 – Commercial services started operation (Peering Connections)
- 1991 – Commercial Internet Exchange
- 1992 – HTML was Invented, ISOC was Founded
- 1994 – First IBM web page Browser Mosaic
- 1994 – [April]: WebCrawler
- 1995 – Yahoo / Internet Explorer / Alta Vista
- 1996 – Ask Jeeves Search Engine (UK)
- 1998 – Google, ICANN was Founded
- 2005 – Video Sharing (Youtube)
Internet: History/ Ecosystem/ Internet Timeline/ Change in Business World/ Governance Organisations – Complete Insights by Olivier Crepin-Leblond, ICANN At-Large at #inSIG2019 #IndiaInternetWeek
— Ashwin Reddy (@Ashwin_Reddy_) November 15, 2019
Everyone loves hearing from him pic.twitter.com/pXS7h8o7ts
Panel Discussion : Emerging Challenges in Cyber Security
Moderator: Rajnesh Singh (ISOC)
Samiran Gupta (ICANN India Head), Sushobhav Mukherjee, Tathagata Dutta
Panel Discussion : Emerging Challenges in Cyber Security Moderated by @RajneshSingh Insights on Challenges of Cyber security in IOT Devices by Samiran Gupta (@ICANN India)
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Is Internet Secured? by Sushobhan Mukherjee
Incident response & Ransomware attack by Tathagta at #inSIG2019 pic.twitter.com/i9IIJnxBHK
The Dutch approach to Internet Governance
Arnold van Rhijn, Netherlands Government
He currently serves as Senior Policy Coordinator Global Internet Governance at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy of the Netherlands.
The Dutch approach to Internet Governance, by @arnoldvanrhijn Insights on NL Government Position/ Multistakeholder Cooperation in NL/ NLIGF, relation with EuroDIG & IGF/ Geopolitical Challenges/ Funding of IGF/ Organising IGF in Other Countries at #inSIG2019 #IndiaInternetWeek pic.twitter.com/XXOMT7SD2B
— Ashwin Reddy (@Ashwin_Reddy_) November 15, 2019
Day 2: [16th November 2019]
Panel: Governance of Online Content
Moderators: Amrita Choudhary (ISOC-Delhi) & Prateek Pathak (ISOC-Mumbai)
Panel: Dr. Sumit Narula (Amity), Nehaa Chaudhary (IKIGAI Law), Shashank Mohan (SFLC.in)
Day 2: #inSIG2019 – Big Debate of the Day! #FakeNews What is Fake News? How do we tackle it? How do we see this problem on an International Grounds? How much should judiciary get involved in their particular country? How much are platforms responsible? #IndiaInternetWeek pic.twitter.com/HxAsxTV9rf
— Ashwin Reddy (@Ashwin_Reddy_) November 16, 2019
IG and Multilingual Internet: IDNs & UAI
Satish Babu (APRALO), Harish Choudhary (UA Ambassador)
Principles of UA:
- Accept
- Validate
- Store
- Process
- Display
Why is Universal Acceptance Important?
Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Twitter, Google and many other platforms have already started translating content into many different languages. Navlekha is a platform for Digitisations and Monetisation in local languages has helped local bloggers blog in local languages. Google searches are also increasing by 400% every year. IoT devices like Google Home & Alexa are already supporting other languages. This will help EAI (Email Address Internationalisation), which starts getting prominent along with IDNs. Online transactions have not yet started in other languages, but it will surely contribute to Digital Economy if every platform on the Internet can be UA ready.
IG & Multilingual Internet #UASG – Universal Acceptance is an Initiative to make Internet available in different scripts that includes Domain Names and Email Address compatable with Browsers, Apps & Websites. @Intern3t4All addressing #inSIG2019 Importance/Principles/Benefits pic.twitter.com/ZrT7RN70go
— Ashwin Reddy (@Ashwin_Reddy_) November 16, 2019
Multistakeholder Roleplay
- Technical Moderator – Sabarinath G Pillai
- Business Moderator – Sneha Tambe
- Civil Society Moderator – Amrita Choudhury
- Government Moderator – Shashank Mishra
Day 2 of #inSIG2019
— Rajnesh Singh (@RajneshSingh) November 16, 2019
Multistakeholder Roleplay in session.
These sort of sessions help participants gain a deeper understanding of stakeholder concerns, cross-interaction between them and the dynamics within #netgov #IGF @InternetSociety pic.twitter.com/YehIQIr5dK
Panel: ISOC, IGF, APSIG, APNIC, APRALO and APrIGF: Regional and Global Perspectives
Panelists: Olivier Crepin-Leblond (ICANN At-Large), Rajnesh Singh (ISOC APAC), Sabrina Lim (ICANN), Ihita G. (India YIGF)
too kind @KejriwalVinayak. honoured to have been invited to share alongside heavyweights @Olivier_CL @RajneshSingh @Inkmedia and gal pal @g_ihita 🙏🏼 #inSig2019 https://t.co/6wPCi38Ssg
— Sabrina Lim (@sabrinaontherun) November 18, 2019
Day 3: [November 17th 2019]
Panel: Digital Economy, Innovation and Inclusion
Moderator: Satish Babu; Panelists: Mansi Kedia (ICRIER), Samiran Gupta (ICANN)
Day 3: #inSIG2019 #IndiaInternetWeek Panel on Digital Economy, Innovation and Inclusion Insights on Cryptocurrency/Data Flow/Dark Web/Data Tax/Digitisation by @Samiran01 (@ICANN India) & Mansi Kedia (ICRIER), moderated by @satish_babu pic.twitter.com/Hu2JzVyRJG
— Ashwin Reddy (@Ashwin_Reddy_) November 17, 2019
IG Issues: Human rights, Culture, Democracy
Moderator: Dr Govind
Panelists: Nehaa Chaudhary (IKIGAI Law) Shashank Mohan (SFLC.in)
Cybersecurity Incident Roleplay
Srinivas Chendi (Sunny), APNIC
Cybersecurity Incident Roleplay at #inSIG2019. Management Team, Technical Team, Legal Team & Communication Team are working hand in hand to solve the threat with real time problems arising with new Emails, legal notices, social media trends rising #IndiaInternetWeek pic.twitter.com/4jlQTDxFiX
— Ashwin Reddy (@Ashwin_Reddy_) November 17, 2019
Routing/DNS Roleplay
Concluding Session: inSIG2020, Certificates and Feedback
FINAL NOTE
Special thanks to all the Delhi, Trivandrum, Kolkata and Mumbai Chapters of Internet Society.
And also my buddies at inSIG 2019.