May 18, 2011

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is a two-phase United Nations (UN) summit that was initiated in order to create an evolving multi- stakeholder platform to address ICT at the national, regional and international levels. The goal of WSIS is to achieve a common vision, desire and commitment to build a development-oriented Information Society where everyone can create, access, utilize and share information.

Dr. Imad Hoballah, TRA acting Chairman and CEO is participating in WSIS Forum 2011 that is being held in Geneva from May 16 till May 20, 2011 . This event builds upon the tradition of annual WSIS May meetings, and its new format is the result of open consultations with all WSIS Stakeholders.

Dr. Hoballah participated on May 16 in a panel discussion titled “AL C6 Cloud Computing” that tackled the following topics:

- Cloud Computing definition
- Critical Information Infrastructure
- Regulatory needs versus Standardization
- Government responsibilities for Cloud Computing
- Role of the public and the private sectors
- Transparency, data integrity, availability, and security
- On-shore and off shore data storage and exchange

For more info about this event click here
To view the agenda of the panel discussion, click here