The U.S. Internet Governance Forum is convening in Washington DC July 21 (Wednesday) to discuss the challenges of Internet governance. It will cover key areas such as privacy, openness, security, critical internet resources and child online safety. Launched in 2009, the IGF USA’s purpose is to engage US-based civil society, government, technologists, resea […]
The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) is seeking submissions of research about Internet Governance to be presented at the Fifth GigaNet Annual Symposium, on 13 September 2010, held one day before the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF), in Vilnius, Lithuania. GigaNet is a scholarly community that promotes the development of I […]
NPR concluded yesterday a series on "the newest arena of international conflict - cyberspace." To be honest, it was very gratifying to hear major media bringing the vitally important topic of global Internet governance to a wider audience. By and large it was good reporting, highlighting the increasing contention as national governments world-wid […]
There is so much going on this week and next week in Internet governance and IGP is so involved that we barely have time to blog about it. Here is a quick summary and some links to more information; it includes tales of ITU and the RIRs, the Council of Europe, ICANN Nairobi, and Google-Italy. […]
The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) invites you to participate in its third scholarly workshop to be held in Montreal (QC), Canada, on 30-31 May 2010. This workshop is organized in cooperation with the Canadian Communication Association and Media@McGill, during the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS) 2010 […]
IGP note: This is a comment Professor Wolfgang Kleinwachter made regarding the future of the Internet Governance Forum. At the recent Geneva consultations, there was a disagreement over whether the UN Secretary-General's recommendations on the continuation of the IGF should be delivered through the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) o […]
Although I attended both IGF 2008 and 2009, I did not have time to blog about them. Here are links to the ISOC blogs on IGF 2008 (Hyderabad, India) and IGF 2009 (Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt) which give some coverage on the sessions and events:IGF 2008: http://isoc.org/wp/igf2009/IGF 2009: http://isoc.org/wp/igf2008/ […]
Hi all, This is the second day of the IGF 2009 and the 4th and last day of my journey. There was a lot to write about, and I had little time back in Israel, so it took a while to publish. I recommend you read my closing statement. Scroll to the titles that interest [...] […]
This year’s IGF was characterized by intensified rivalry between the backers of the Internet Society/ICANN and the supporters of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), which would like to contest the former’s hegemony over Internet names and number governance. Many workshops and main sessions of the Forum get sucked into this polarity one way or th […]
Now, don't get me wrong. I've written to express my support for the continuation of the IGF's five-year mandate. So rather than scrap the IGF, I'd much prefer that it take on board the suggestions that I and others have made - for example, that it form working groups to produce recommendations for the consideration of the broader IGF, and […]
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