2016 Role Play Class - [Final Report]
Theme: Connecting the Next Billion: Challenges for Asia-Pacific
Case Studies
China: Internet +
India: Digital India
Private Sector: Free Basics,....
Format
Participants will be divided into four stakeholder groups (in case some groups are smaller, others will be assigned to them by the RP organizers). Inputs on the responses by different countries may be provided through documents, references, class-room sessions, directly from participants within the group or a combination of these (for India, the session by Mahesh Uppal may be an important input; there may be other similar lectures).
Each stakeholder group will have a Chair and a Editor/Rapporteur. The former would organize the conduct of the meetings and the latter would record discussions and present them, and also prepare a one/two page report at the end of the RP.
We will have the following four classes:
S1 (Session 1: short) Introduction: Group formation, process description and explanation of the theme.
Moderator: Kilnam Chon
M5 & M6 (Session 2) Debate I: all participants 16:00 - 17:30
Moderataor: Amrita Choudhury
2.2 IGF Community Intersessional Program on New Billion/ Kilnam Chon
2.3 Case Study I: Public Sector Projects/Kilnam Chon
2.4 Case Study II: Private Sector Projects/Kilnam Chon
2.4.1 Free Basics/Mahesh Uppal. [ppt]
2.5 2016 IGF Workshop: Asia and Next Billion (Satish Babu) [ppt]
2.6 Open Discussion: all participants
Split (Stakeholder) Meetings; 17:30 - 18:30
T5 (Session 3) Debate II: all participants 17:00 - 18:00
Moderator: Kilnam Chon with Editors
3.1 Progress report of 4 stakeholder groups
Governments: [ppt] [text]
Technical/Academic: [ppt] [text]
3.2 Open discussion
Split (Stakeholder) Meetings: 18:00 - 19:00
W3 (Session 4) Final presentations and wrap-up 14:00 - 15:30
Moderator: Kilnam Chon with Editors
Remark: Stakeholder debate will be held during M6(Sessions 2) and T5(Session 3), and elsewhere; over breakfast, lunch, dinner, evening.
The outcome reports of the four Stakeholder Groups are to be combined into a single report with addition of the introduction and concluding remark,
and it will be passed on to APSIG for dissemination.
2016 Role Play Class Chairs and Editors
Role Play Class Chair: Satish Babu
Chief Editor: Kilnam Chon (introduction)
Editor/Chair for each stakeholder: Governments/Dr.Govind
Private Sector/ Jim Foster
Civil Society/Jeremy Malcolm
Technical-Academic Community/KS Park
Moderators: S1/Kilnam Chon, M5/Amrita Choudhury, T5/Kilnam Chon, W3/Kilnam Chon
Remark: 2016-9-11 Sunday 16:30 - 17:30 Role Play Group Pre-Meeting at Lobby of AITCC.
References
Abjijit Bose, Why Facebook failed with Free Basics, 2016.
CIS, TRI Consultation on Different Pricing, Background Paper on 2016 IGF Workshop Proposal, 257.
Chinese Government, Internet +, 2015. [bilingual article] [Forbus' article]
Chinese Government, Made in China 2025 Plan, 2015. [article in china daily] [csis article]
Kilnam Chon, The Other Billion, Techfest, Mumbai, 2015.
Digital India, www.digitalindia, gov.in. Wikipedia.org.
Facebook, Internet-beaming drone, Wired, 2016
Google, International links with cashing.
Google, Project Loon.
Mahesh Uppal, Free Basics, TRAI - Net Neutrality, Tailor NN to suite Indian market, What to do about NN?, Where the challenge is......, 2015.
Mahesh Uppal, Mandating US-Style Network Neutrality Makes Little Sense For India, Huffington Post, India, 2016.5.28.
Microsoft, Connecting villages, Digital India.
SpaceX, Low orbital satellites.