«Es un evento más bien técnico, pero buscamos que esto tenga incidencia en el internet de la región y obviamente en la vida de los latinoamericanos», dijo hoy a Efe Óscar Robles, director ejecutivo del Registro de Direcciones de Internet para América Latina y Caribe (Lacnic), una de las entidades organizadoras.
The idea of this meeting, which will end next Friday and whose organization also involves Antel and the Agency for Electronic Government and Information Society and Knowledge (Agesic) of that country, is to address the issues of the moment: security, privacy, IPv6 deployment and governance.
Algunos de los desafíos a tratar en este evento están referidos al «internet de la región, la ciberseguridad, crecimiento de la red y el acceso a todas las personas» a través de foros y discusiones en las que se decide qué es lo que funciona y qué se desecha, explicó Robles.
The event will be attended by the president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), Steve Crocker, and cybersecurity expert Paul Twomey, promoter of the Cybergreen Initiative, among others.
Crocker will speak on innovation and the future of the network, while Twomey will speak on how governments could address market failures and significantly improve the health of the cyber ecosystem.
Along with the two of them, other leaders arrived in the Uruguayan capital to analyze the impact of the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean and the new threats to cybersecurity.
This event will be held as part of the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Lacnic, the organization responsible for the allocation and administration of Internet number resources in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is based in Montevideo.
Robles destacó que la celebración de una vigésimo quinta edición «da una idea de la fortaleza que tiene la organización», no solo en cuanto a la participación de público, que ha ido en aumento, sino porque se ha convertido en una comunidad «más activa, con diferentes iniciativas, diferentes foros técnicos y diferentes iniciativas paralelas».
«Buscamos siempre tener resoluciones que nos ayuden a hacer ese ajuste fino a los retos operativos que tienen las redes en la actualidad, que nos ayudan a generar iniciativas de colaboración para resolver temas de ciberseguridad, por ejemplo», señaló Robles.
The event will also have a space for the Internet Society (Isoc) on the future of the Internet as part of the celebration of its 25th anniversary.
Isoc will present a panel discussion on whether all segments of society will have equal opportunities to meaningfully participate in and benefit from the Internet.
Taking advantage of the event, Agesic and Lacnic will organize a hackathon for network operators to work with programmers and other users in the development of innovative tools.
As one of the highlights, a Uruguayan will receive the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award.
This distinction will recognize an outstanding personality of the Internet community for his or her contribution to the development of the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Source: EFE
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