Internet 🡪 Digital Space�&�Internet Governance 🡪 Digital Governance

2021.12.14

Kilnam Chon

KAIST

APSIG 2021.11.29rev12.07

Table of Contents

• 2021 IGF
• Digital Space and Digital Governance
• AI and AI Governance
• Reference
• Appendix Low Earth Orbital (LEO) Satellites for Internet
• Appendix Internet of Things (IoT)

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2021 Internet Governance Forum (IGF)

2021 IGF covers the following six areas;

Economic and social inclusion and human rights

Universal access and meaningful connectivity

Emerging regulation: market structure, content and data

Environmental sustainability and climate change

Inclusive Internet governance ecosystems and digital cooperation

Trust, security, stability

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Recommendation: APSIG may look into similarly transformation from� Internet governance to Digital governance.

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Digital Space

Digital Space may cover the following and other areas

(under Digital Economy and Digital Society);

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Internet

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Data

Cybersecurity

Blockchain

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AI and AI Governance

• AI Governance is maturing now covering the following areas;

Ethics

Transparency

Safety

• AI and Data come together

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• Stanford established Institute for Human-Centered AI.

AI100 Reports

AI4All

(many more interesting activities

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Recommendation: Hands-on experience (like AI4All) is strongly recommended.

Recommendation: “Human Compatible AI” by Stuart Russell covering AI and AI Governance.

One Hundred Year Study on AI by Stanford, 2021.

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References

AI4All.org.

Kilnam Chon, Chapters 2 and 3, Asia Internet History, 4^th Decade, 2021.

Internet Governance Forum, IntGovForum.org, 2021.�Henry Kissinger, et al., Age of AI, 2021.

One Hundred Year Study on AI (AI100), ai100.Stanford.edu, 2021.

Starlink, Wikipedia, 2021.

Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, 2021.

Stuart Russell, Human Compatible AI, 2019.

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Appendix Low Earth Orbital (LEO) Satellite Constellation

• Low Earth Orbital Satellites (1,000 ~ 10,000 satellites or more) for Internet;

Starlink, Project Kuiper, OneWeb, Telesat,….

• Major new opportunities on Internet access

Remote areas in the world

For emergency

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• Example – Starlink;

Starlink has 1884 satellites servicing 20 countries now, and

charges $500 for antenna and $100 for monthly access now.

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Appendix Internet of Things (IoT)

• 30 billion IoT devices in 2020 (with yearly growth of 30%)
• Almost every aspect of our society and economy
• Very important to South Asia

- IoT device manufacturing at small companies in South Asia

- maintenance

• Security is one of the important IoT governance issues

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