The Board of Commissioners of the Information and Communications Commission held its 22nd regular session at the Commission’s headquarters, and discussed many issues and took a number of important decisions.
The Board of Commissioners said in a statement: “The meeting took the following decisions:
First: To approve the UNESCO Iraq plan to organize the digital space.
Second: Adopting the designation (Iraqi Commission for Communications and Media) in correspondence and letters issued in line with what was stated in Order 65 in force.
Third: Directing the executive body to amend the draft strategy for the transition to the sixth version of the Internet Protocol (IPV6) and to include it in the following remarks of the Council:
1: Establishing laboratories in Baghdad at the University of Technology and Al-Nahrain University initially, and expanding to the rest of the provinces later.
2: Bringing specialized trainers to Iraq for the purpose of training and not approving sending trainees in this regard.
Fourth: To protect society and its inherent values from extraneous terms that have become connotations contrary to public order and public morals, the Board of Commissioners decided:
1: Preventing the use of the terms (gender), (social gender), and (homosexuality) in all communications with the Commission because of these terms’ negative connotations in Iraqi society.
2: Directing the media and sectoral companies operating in Iraq to prevent the promotion of these terms because of their idiomatic meaning in the media and social networking sites, and to use the real term (homosexuality) instead of other words.
3: Preventing companies licensed by the Commission for mobile phone services, Internet services and others from promoting or dealing with these terms through using them in their applications, websites, programs and electronic forms.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency
