The Regional Bureau in Latin America & Caribbean acts as an advisor to other Internet Society departments on issues affecting our work. It provides critical insight on local business, technology and policy issues to the Internet Society and its stakeholders. The Bureau works with Chapters to grow individual memberships, support their initiatives and help them advance in their support of the Internet Society’s mission and values. This includes the focus on building trust and providing transparent guidance for Chapters and helping each chapter develop strong projects.
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Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) 11 December 2017
Regional focus
Access: Policies and Infrastructure
IXPs, Community networks
Technical and policy capacity building
Digital Economy
Level playing field, taxation, jurisdiction, money flows
Development
Capacity Development: Training and Resources to Empower Communities
Benefits to people, communities of practice
Internet Governance
Internet Governance ecosystem, capacity and community building:
Advocating for the SDGs implementations, especially in Access/Infrastructure, Gender and Education and in promoting a healthy IG ecosystem (regional and national IGFs, WTDC-17,etc)
Shaping IG dialogue to promote on Internet for Sustainable Development
Strengthening policy relationships in LAC region
Privacy and security
Surveillance, filtering and blocking, user perspective
Assessing the impact of Internet access and restrictions (human rights)
Trust
Applying ISOC’s Trust Framework:
Case studies with chapters: landing the Trust framework principles and recommendations into practical examples from the LAC chapters/countries
Caribbean Cybersecurity Fora: bring together regulators and high level executives to develop a common plan on cybersecurity.
Trusted and Secured networks (MANRS)
9 May 2018
Join our first Open House event!
Latin American and Caribbean Bureau organizes the first Open House event on May 9, with the aim of sharing with the community a little about what we do, our Chapters, programs available for the community and our focus for 2018.
We have identified four campaigns as our focus for 2018 and in addition to our Open House, we will also be providing webinars throughout the month of May on these topics.
List of Sessions in May 2018
1. Open House LAC
Topic: General information about Internet Society and the focus for 2018
Taught by Nancy Quirós, Development Manager of LAC Chapters
a. Spanish Session: May 9, 18 UTC, https://isoc.zoom.us/j/294519650
b. English session: May 9, 20 UTC, https://isoc.zoom.us/j/727940863
2. Community Networks
Taught by Sebastián Bellagamba, LAC Regional Director
a. Spanish Session: May 16, 18 UTC, https://isoc.zoom.us/j/356349764
b. English session: May 16, 20 UTC, https://isoc.zoom.us/j/884482566
3. The importance of the Multi-Stakeholder Model
Taught by Raquel Gatto, Public Policy Advisor, LAC
a. Spanish: May 18, 16 UTC, https://isoc.zoom.us/j/260909682
b. English: May 18, 18 UTC, https://isoc.zoom.us/j/913369696
4. Internet of Things and Security
Taught by Shernon Osepa, Regional Affairs Manager, LAC
a. Spanish: May 28, 16 UTC, https://isoc.zoom.us/j/873334267
b. English: May 28, 18 UTC, https://isoc.zoom.us/j/324231757
5. Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS)
Taught by Christian O’Flaherty, Senior Development Manager, LAC
a. Spanish: May 30, 16 UTC, https://isoc.zoom.us/j/158335371
b. English: May 30, 18 UTC, https://isoc.zoom.us/j/978891382
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Unleashing the Internet in the Caribbean: Removing Barriers to Connectivity and Stimulating Better Access in the Region
The nations of the Caribbean region are scattered over an area of more than 2.75 million square kilometres. These...
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Connectivity in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Role of Internet Exchange Points
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A policy framework for enabling Internet access
This policy framework provides recommendations policymakers can use to flexibly create their own Internet-enabling environment.
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Ensuring Sustainable Connectivity in Small Island Developing States
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Latin America & Caribbean team
Sebastian Bellagamba
Regional Bureau Director for Latin America and The Caribbean
Raquel Gatto
Regional Policy Advisor
Nancy Quiros
Chapter Development Manager, Latin America and Caribbean Region
Christian O'Flaherty
Senior Development Manager for Latin America and The Caribbean Bureau
Shernon Osepa
Manager, Regional Affairs for Latin America & The Caribbean Bureau
Our Chapters and members in the Latin America & Caribbean
The Internet Society’s Latin America & Caribbean region currently counts 13,210 individual members, out of whom 8,748 are also members of one of our 27 Chapters in the region. In the last two years , the region has grown 80% in Chapters and 46% in total members.