Workshop on Internet Governance

Dr Gulshan Rai, (National Cyber Security Coordination Centre, or NCSC), Mr Sanjay Verma, Ministry of External Affairs, Mr. Samiran Gupta, India Head of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers or ICANN), among others, participated in a day-long workshop on Internet Governance, organised the VIF. The focus of the workshop was on having Indian concerns met in the system of global internet governance. A wide range of issues to include India’s growing tele-density, increasing dependence on the Internet for delivery government programmes and services, transparency and accountability in internet governance, multi-stakeholders model of internet governance, location of servers, domain names, and intellectual property rights, among other issues, were discussed in depth.