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RIF 2016 ‑ almost everything about Internet governance and regulation

RIF 2016 was a programme accompanying the 7th annual conference on the development of the Internet globally and on the .RS and .СРБ domains in Serbia ‑ DIDS 2016 ‑ organised by the Serbian National Internet Domain Registry (RNIDS) Foundation. This second Regional Internet forum, held 16th March at the Hyatt Regency Belgrade hotel, was attended by some fifty representatives of national Internet registries from south‑eastern Europe, representatives of state bodies, local Internet communities and global Internet organisations and legal experts from the region. The topics of discussion at RIF 2016 included opinions and examples from the practice of professionals in the region in regard to the multistakeholder model of Internet governance, the development of e‑government in Serbia and the region, net neutrality and legal regulation in this area, as well as online security. In the first block of talks titled “What’s cooking in the region?”, discussion centred around the practical administration of the Internet, as well as successful business models in the domain business in the region. Gabriella Schittek, GSE Manager for Central & Eastern Europe at ICANN, explained that the multistakeholder model, the basis on which her organisation also operated, was a way for all interested parties, organisations and companies to get involved in the process of Internet governance....

17.03.2016.

DIDS 2016 ‑ on the Internet and the modern world

More than 370 visitors and 1300 online viewers watched 50 domestic and foreign speakers at the DIDS 2016 seventh Internet conference. This year’s Serbian Internet Domain Day was held on 15th and 16th March in Belgrade under the slogan Living the Internet... Globally ‑ Securely ‑ Locally, organised by the Serbian National Internet Domain Registry (RNIDS) Foundation. DIDS was held with the support of ICANN, with an accompanying programme the second day in the form of the Regional Internet Forum ‑ RIF 2016. Vojislav Rodić, Chair of the RNIDS Board of Governors, opened DIDS 2016 with an explanation that the role of RNIDS is “management of the national top‑level domains”, but “that the essence of this process is facilitating personal and national online identity”. One topic of this year’s DIDS was the future of the Internet at the global level, particularly in connection with the decision of the US government to relinquish supervision of the IANA functions, but also with regard to the security of information and communication systems in Serbia and the region. “Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us...

16.03.2016.

DIDS 2016 live streaming

More than 500 visitors have registered for DIDS 2016, the seventh annual conference devoted to the development of the Internet globally and on the .RS and .СРБ domains in Serbia. This year’s Serbian Internet Domain Day will be held on 15th and 16th March at the Belgrade Hyatt Regency Hotel under the slogan Living the Internet… Globally ‑ Securely ‑ Locally. Those who cannot attend in person will be able to follow the DIDS programme online, primarily atdids.rs and дидс.срб, but also via the RNIDS site and on several other sites belonging to our media sponsors: RTS, B92, Politika, Južne Vesti, LiveTV.rs, Netokracija, ITdogadjaji.com, Tajmlajn and MarketingITD.com. Online streaming of DIDS begins at 10am and will last until 3:30pm. We invite all the interested public to join the discussion and share comments and questions using the #DIDS2016 hashtag on Twitter. Here you may find more information about the DIDS 2016 programme and speakers. www.dids.rs www.prod.rnids.beeloc.rs/lat/video‑striming www.rts.rs/page/tv/ci/live.html www.b92.net/tehnopolis/dids www.politika.rs/scc/rubrika/33/Spektar www.livetv.rs/live www.netokracija.rs/dids‑steram‑2016‑114609 www.juznevesti.com/DIDS‑2016‑Uzivo.sr.html www.itdogadjaji.com/2016/03/10/dids‑2016 www.tajmlajn.rs/dids‑2016‑uzivo www.marketingitd.com/dids2016‑prenos‑uzivo

11.03.2016.

Are we living the Internet securely, at DIDS 2016

The seventh Internet conference, DIDS 2016, to be held 15th and 16th March, at the Hyatt Regency Belgrade hotel, under the slogan Living the Internet: Globally ‑ Securely ‑ Locally[MA1] , organised by the Serbian National Internet Domain Registry Foundation (RNIDS). The second block of the DIDS 2016 Internet conference, titled Securely, will be devoted to current issues of security on the Internet, with moderation by Slobodan Marković, ICT Policies and Internet Community Relations Advisor at RNIDS. This block concerns the plans for the implementation of the newly‑passed Law on Information Security, which envisages the establishment of CERTs ‑ Centres for the Prevention of Security Risks in ICT Systems. The experiences of similar organisations in the region will be considered, as well as the changes that have taken place in the area of Internet security in the last few years. A panel discussion will be joined by Gorazd Božič from Slovenia, director of SI‑CERT, Filip Vlašić from Croatia, computer security specialist of HR‑CERT, Sava Savić, Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications, Nebojša Jokić, Chief of the Interior Ministry CERT and Dušan Stojičević, member of the SEEDIG Executive Committee. This year too, DIDS is free of charge to all participants who have (due to the limited number of...

02.03.2016.

How we live the Internet globally, at DIDS 2016

This year sees the seventh Internet conference, DIDS 2016, held 15th and 16th March, at the Hyatt Regency Belgrade hotel, under the slogan Living the Internet... Globally ‑ Securely ‑ Locally, organised by the Serbian National Internet Domain Registry Foundation (RNIDS). The first block of the DIDS 2016 Internet conference will, as tradition dictates, be dedicated to current events in the Internet industry at the global level, trying to answer questions relating to the running of the global Internet ‑ “who, what, when, where and why”. “High politics” directly impacts trends and precedents in the way we live and work on the Internet globally: from the nature of global regulation, to the rights and obligations of companies, to acceptable practices of security services in regard to surveillance ‑ and the rights (and obligations) of users. Do we, as ordinary users, even have any influence on the creation of the policies that decide on the future of the Internet, and what are the global, regional and national mechanisms of our influence? DIDS 2016 will be opened by Gabriella Schittek, ICANN Global Stakeholder Engagement Manager CEE; ICANN as an organisation is supporting this year’s event, too. Danko Jevtović, the Director, and Vojislav Rodić, Chair of the RNIDS Board of Governors, will be giving words of...

25.02.2016.

New RNIDS Board of Governors

At an electoral session of the Conference of Co‑founders, held 20th February in the Zira Hotel in Belgrade, a new Board of Governors of the Serbian National Internet Domain Registry (RNIDS) Foundation was chosen. The new members of the Board of Governors are as follows (from left to the right at the photo): Goran Milanković Vojislav Rodić Biljana Romić Punoš Dragan Jeremić Vladimir Aleksić Mirko Mirković Miloje Sekulić At the first session, held 21st February, Vojislav Rodić was elected Chair of the Board of Governors, with Goran Milanković chosen as Deputy Chair.

23.02.2016.

Living the Internet... Globally ‑ Securely ‑ Locally

The seventh annual conference on the global development of the internet and the .RS and .СРБ domain spaces of Serbia ‑ DIDS 2016, will be held 15th and 16th March, at the Hyatt Regency Belgrade hotel, organized by the Serbian National Internet Domain Registry Foundation (RNIDS). The creative concept of this year’s DIDS briefly describes all our daily lives, as well as the three thematic blocks of the Conference, through the slogan: Living the Internet... Globally ‑ Securely ‑ Locally. The first block is traditionally dedicated to current trends in the internet industry on a global level. The second block will focus on the theme of internet security, and the third block is, as always, reserved for the presentation of successful internet projects on Serbian national domains. The program of the first day will be conducted through presentations, lectures and panel discussions, with around twenty speakers and moderators from the country and the world. On the second day the Regional Internet Forum ‑ RIF 2016, will be held, which will bring together invited representatives of national internet registries of Southeast Europe, as well as representatives of state bodies, the local internet community and global internet organizations. DIDS is held with the support of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ‑ ICANN, the leading organization...

17.02.2016.

Cyrbusters panel debate held: busting myths about Cyrillic on the Internet

A number of myths about the use of Cyrillic on the Internet ‑ for example that Google “doesn't like” our official script, that there are not enough Cyrillic fonts, that using Cyrillic makes it difficult to expand one’s online business and other beliefs ‑ were put to rest on 27th January 2016 at a panel debate entitled: Cyribusters, held at the Startit Center and organized by the Serbian National Internet Domain Registry (RNIDS). Google doesn’t like Cyrillic At the panel discussion led by multimedia creator Uroš Bogdanović, Ivan Rečević, a trainer at the Google Academy, debunked this first myth. According to him, in our area Google gives priority to searches in the Cyrillic script, but the content has to be adequately described in order for Google to know which language and script is being used, of which, in practice, there isn’t enough of. Specifically, the code of a web page should define the language in which it is written, whether it is Cyrillic or Serbian Latin (letters with diacritical marks), which the majority of Serbian sites do not do. "Google is a piece of large and complex machinery. Everyone who can help that machinery to understand and to locate content will be rewarded with a better search position. This...

28.01.2016.

January edition of RNIDS Info

Issue 27 of the RNIDS Info corporate newsletter brings an overview of events at RNIDS and in the local and global Internet community in the last quarter of 2015. A regular session of the RNIDS Conference of Co‑founders was held, as well as a public session of the Board of Governors and the first RSNOG Conference. Alongside an overview of .RS and .СРБ domain name registration statistics for the period October‑December 2015, there is also news about the new software for domain name registrations and monitoring of DNS services for the .RS and .СРБ domains. Subotica was the setting for a free educational programme called Pitajte.RS, and there were also numerous activities to mark European Cyber Security Month. International activities included participation by RNIDS representatives at meetings abroad and in international working groups. DOWNLOAD: RNIDS News 27 (PDF, 1.21 MB)

27.01.2016.

First RSNOG Conference held

On 25th November the Belgrade Sava Centre was the venue for the first RSNOG Conference, with some 130 network experts from the major Serbian telecomms providers and Internet companies, (such as: Telekom Srbija, Telenor, Vip Mobile, Serbian Open eXchange, Pošta Srbije, Mainstream, EUnet, Radijus Vektor, AVcom, Beotel, Optima Grupa), manufacturers and integrators of telecommunications equipment (Alcatel, Ericsson, Saga, Pupin Telekom, Datacom), academic and research institutions (the University of Niš, the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Technical Sciences, the Academic Network of Serbia, the University of Belgrade School of Electrical Engineering, the Faculty of Computer Science, the Polytechnic Academy), state bodies (the Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications, the Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications, the Ministry of Defence, the Administration for Joint Services of Republic Bodies, the Belgrade Higher Court, Belgrade City Assembly, Obrenovac municipal council) and civil society organisations (the SHARE Foundation, the Society for Information Technology of Serbia). The conference was additionally watched by an audience of around 300 via an Internet stream and was supported by RNIDS and RIPE NCC. The conference was opened by Dušan Stojičević, Chair of the RNIDS Board of Governors, who said that RNIDS had strategically supported the RSNOG community from the very beginning, as...

26.11.2015.

First RSNOG Conference

On 25th November, the Belgrade Sava Centre will be the venue for the first RSNOG conference, bringing together around twenty Serbian network experts. The conference is sponsored by RNIDS and RIPE NCC and participation is free of charge. Serbian Network Operators’ Group (RSNOG) is an informal community of local network experts, gathered around a shared interest in improving the quality, performance, stability and security of Internet networks and services in Serbia. RSNOG actively encourages the exchange of ideas, knowledge and best practices among network professionals in Serbia, as well as collaboration with similar groups in the region, Europe and all over the world. The first RSNOG conference will begin at 2 pm in the Japanese Room with presentations by Vladimir Simić (JUNIS), Nenad Krajnović (Belgrade School of Electrical Engineering), Boško Radivojević (Mainstream), Zoran Perović (Serbian Open eXchange), Milan Anđelković (Radijus Vektor) and Peđa Radoičić (Telenor). At 5 pm there will be a discussion on the topic “Open Networking in practice”. After an introductory presentation by Goran Slavić (Serbian Open eXchange), the debate will be joined by Mina Tomić (Vip Mobile), Pavle Vuletić (AMRES), Petar Bojović (Faculty of Computer Science) and Goran Slavić. The Serbian National Internet Domain Registry Foundation (RNIDS) is a professional, non‑party,...

10.11.2015.

October issue of RNIDS Info

Issue 26 of the corporate newsletter RNIDS Info contains an overview of events at RNIDS, in the local Internet community and internationally during the third quarter of 2015. The RNIDS Conference of Co‑founders gained new management and the redesigned RNIDS website was launched. Alongside the regular .RS and .СРБ domain name registration statistics, for the period July‑September 2015, there is also news about three resolved domain disputes. A talk titled “Big Data and Cyber Security” was held at the Faculty of Security Studies and was co‑organised by RNIDS. This year’s educational and promotional campaign, “I Know You From the Net!”, is also presented in this issue. The international activities covered in this issue include those of RNIDS delegates in events abroad and in international working groups, and there is also a report from the 48th CENTR Legal and Regulatory Affairs Workshop, which was held in Belgrade. DOWNLOAD: RNIDS Info 26 (PDF, 1.26 MB)

05.11.2015.