APIGA India 2025

APIGA India 2025

APIGA India 2025 is a two-day capacity development workshop focused on Internet governance-related topics to be held on 21 & 22 March 2025. This localized version brings together stakeholders from the Internet Governance ecosystem to discuss, share knowledge, and build capacity.

Through dynamic workshops, real-world simulations, and expert-led sessions, you'll gain practical insights into:

• The evolving landscape of Internet policy
• Critical issues in digital rights and cybersecurity
• Multi-stakeholder approach to Internet Governance
• Youth representation in policy and advocacy

About ICANN

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is a global multi-stakeholder group and nonprofit organization headquartered in the United States responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces and numerical spaces of the Internet, ensuring the Internet's stable and secure operation. ICANN performs the actual technical maintenance work of the Central Internet Address pools and DNS root zone registries pursuant to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) function contract. Much of its work has concerned the Internet's global Domain Name System including policy development for internationalization of the DNS, introduction of new generic top-level domains (TLDs), and the operation of root name servers. The numbering facilities ICANN manages include the Internet Protocol address spaces for IPv4 and IPv6, and the assignment of address blocks to regional Internet registries. ICANN also maintains registries of Internet Protocol identifiers.

ICANN's primary principles of operation have been described as helping preserve the operational stability of the Internet; promoting competition; achieving broad representation of the global Internet community; and developing policies appropriate to its mission through bottom-up, consensus-based processes.

The Multi-Stakeholder Model of Internet Governance

Internet governance refers to the rules, policies, standards and practices that coordinate and shape global cyberspace. The Internet is a vast network of independently-managed networks, woven together by globally standardized data communication protocols (primarily, Internet Protocol, TCP, UDP, DNS and BGP). The common adoption and use of these protocols unified the world of information and communications like never before. Millions of digital devices and massive amounts of data, software applications, and electronic services became compatible and interoperable. The Internet created a new environment, a complex and dynamic "cyberspace."

While Internet connectivity generated innovative new services, capabilities and unprecedented forms of sharing and cooperation, it also created new forms of crime, abuse, surveillance and social conflict. Internet governance is the process whereby cyberspace participants resolve conflicts over these problems and develop a workable order.

Internet governance is the development and application of shared principles, norms, rules, decision-making procedures and programs that shape the evolution and use of the Internet.