APDIP's Open Regional Dialogue on Internet Governance initiative zooms in on the Internet governance issues, priorities and challenges faced by five countries in Asia.
The report results are drawn from extensive consultations and a survey involving all stakeholders (government, the private sector and civil society), and region-wide research undertaken over the past year, as part of the Open Regional Dialogue on Internet Governance (ORDIG).
The reports show that all countries regard viruses, cyber attacks and spam as the most pressing issues for Internet governance. Issues on access, affordability, speed and reliability of the Internet feature high on the list of concerns in India, Indonesia and Thailand. While in India and Pakistan, more than two-thirds of the respondents regard the availability of local language software and local content as urgent concerns. Respondents from China are less concerned about this issue but are significantly more dissatisfied than those in other Asia-Pacific countries with the current system for allocating and managing IP numbers. The reports also detail the governance issues and opinions about two new and emerging technologies wireless Internet and Internet telephony.
These are a mere sample of the multitude of Internet policy issues that the reports examine. In the reports, all the various issues are grouped under four dimensions:
1. infrastructure dimension, which covers issues of physical network characteristics and roll-out
2. logical dimension, which comprises data routing and software development topics
3. content dimension, which covers local and illegal content
4. social and development dimension, which covers topics related to the development-oriented use of the Internet
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