Conference Resolutions for 2017 and Way Forward We, participants to the MISA Zimbabwe facilitated National Internet Governance Conference held on 21 September 2017 in Harare, Zimbabwe; Having debated and deliberated developments in Zimbabwe’s internet ecosystem with focus on the Cybercrimes and Cybercrimes Draft Bill (2017) and access to the internet in Zimbabwe; Informed by presentations on internet governance developments from 2015 to date by government representatives, experts in ICTs, internet based businesses, online content producers, academics and civil society representatives in Zimbabwe and the African continent; Affirming our support for the Zimbabwe Internet Governance Forum (ZIGF), in line with global and continental best practices as established under the World Summit on Information Societies (WSIS) and International Telecommunications Union (ITU), both of which our country Zimbabwe is signatory to; Emphasizing that our new constitution specifically recognises the rights of all Zimbabweans to freedom of expression, media freedom, access to information and privacy, which equally apply online as they do offline; Hereby resolve to remain guided by the principles and actions on internet governance in Zimbabwe as adopted in the first Multi Stakeholder conference of 2015. Internet Regulation Principles: 37 • That internet regulation must be guided by the following key principles: • Protecting the democratic rights of all citizens to freedom of expression, access to information, privacy and protection of intellectual property. • Ensuring that all Zimbabweans have unhindered access to the internet. Access to the internet must be affordable and predicated on net-neutrality. • Infrastructure development and competition must be friendly to the environment and predicated on environmental sustainability. • Competition between telecommunications corporations, internet service providers, content providers and other ancillary services be fairly regulated in the interest of promoting access, diversity and affordability and respect for human rights Misa Zimbabwe Second Internet Governance Multi Stakeholder Conference 21 September 2017