Report from 10th Internet Day in Morocco, with Misoc and W3C Office

2009/05/26: W3C Morocco Office partnered Morocco Internet Society (MISOC) for the 10th Internet Day in Morocco, entitled "Internet Governance: Issues and challenges for Morocco", Thursday 26 May 2009,  Rabat, Morocco. Topics to  discussed were around the global governance of the Internet, the digital divide, the ongoing international negotiations on the management of domain names and on Standards, Technical Services and future of the Internet.
Here is the program

The event took place at INPT in Rabat. There were over 40 participants from academia, government and business world. (photos)

Experts/speakers invited:

• Frederic DONCK (Director Public Policy, Internet Society),
• MassimilianoMINISCI (Manager, Regional Relations - Europe (ICANN)
• Daniel DARDAILLER (Associate Chair Europe, Director International Relations, W3C)
• Odile AMBRY(President of ISOC France)
• Olivier DUPONT (Chief Technology Officer, Cisco, USA),

Panellists:

• Taïeb DEBBAGH (General secretary, IT Dept, Morocco)
• Moez SOUABNI (President of "Tunisian association for  Internet and  Multimedia", Tunisia)
• Olivier DUPONT (Chief Technology Officer, Cisco, USA)
• Ali BOUALLOU (IT Advisor, Morocco)
• Mohammed DRISSI MELYANI (Project Manager , ANRT, Morocco),
• Mohammed TIJANI BEN JEMAA Director of Mediterranean federation of Internet, Tunisia),
• Hamida BELNLEMLIH (".ma" Manager, ANRT);
• Redouane MRABET(Director of l’ENSIAS, Co-President of Misoc)
  
• Nassr Hajji (Member of Parliament and Former minister for telecom)
• Najib Tounsi (W3C Office in Morocco)

The first opening conference was made by A. Hilali, president of MIsoc, who gave a survey of the Governance of the Internet, and the state of the current negotiations. He then spoke about limits of the actual addressing mechanisms (IPV4, DNs, TLD) to argue for the rapid adoption of IPV6 and IDNs.

The second opening conference was made by , who talked about Keys for a African, Mediterranean, Arab and world Governance of the Internet. Internet success is due to its model: "end to end", open standards, multi-stakeholder, community work, no centralised control. After presenting the major challenges faced by Internet at the global level (user choice, universality, stability, trust&identity) he advocates for a multi-parts approach at the political level and  for the localisation of the Internet governance to enrich the international level by the local level and conversely.

Daniel Dardailler gave a talk on behalf of the Morocco Office entitled "Improving Society through Better Use of Web Standards ". Daniel presented the technology challenges faced by the society and has shown that open standards and W3C's Web standards proven to work, as online services and access to data becoming a right.
Najib Tounsi spoke about the role of W3C membership, at panel on the Future of Internet.