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Moving Beyond Remote Participation towards E-Participation #67



As the IGF continues with yet another year of remote participation, remote panellists were also prominent. Some even participated by phone.  This year an ether pad platform allowed those attending and participating remotely to write notes, and share principles and guidelines at an e-participation workshop. This…

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Added by Keisha Taylor on September 29, 2011 at 10:30am — No Comments

Summary Report of points discussed on Cloud Computing at IGF 2010

This is only a summary of some of the main points highlighted on Cloud Computing at the IGF 2010.



Sessions included:



Main session - Emerging Issues – Cloud Computing…



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Added by Keisha Taylor on September 26, 2010 at 8:00pm — No Comments

We need to develop a new Internet business model to maintain net neutrality



Representatives from Google, Verizon, Cisco, AT&T, French Telecom , Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority, Telefónica S.A, the Technology Policy Institute, Georgetown University and ISOC (see the names and affiliations of those… Continue

Added by Keisha Taylor on September 17, 2010 at 12:00am — No Comments

Speakers at IGF opening ceremony support multistakeholderism



A beautiful rendition of ‘What a Wonderful World’ opened this year’s IGF in Vilnius, Lithuania. It was acknowledged as ‘one of the biggest events that has ever been launched in Vilnius’ and ‘the greatest event in the field of information technologies by Mr.…

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Added by Keisha Taylor on September 14, 2010 at 11:30pm — No Comments

New Diplo Focussed Academic Discussion Space - DISCUSS

Countdown: one week left for #igf10 - to warm up, an exciting new focussed discussion space where you can discuss specific topics to a higher academic level



http://DISCUSS.diplomacy.edu



This will help to establish new parameters on the issues, and push the limits from 'brainstorming session' to 'think tank'.



We will discuss three issues which… Continue

Added by Diplo IGCBP on September 7, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

Teaming up in Internet governance

How to team up with successful professionals on the Internet governance field?


The Internet governance "usual suspect" has a lot to gain by reaching out to new faces. By sharing his knowledge, inspiring, offering wisdom and leveraging and connecting professionals who are serious about a specific subject.


Most of the times, however, he is so busy finishing reports, meeting…
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Added by Seiiti on August 14, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

Do you want a fellowship for the Vilnius IGF meeting? Read this.

Hey friends! Hope you're doing fine.


I'm getting some dozens of emails, Facebook and Twitter messages asking for the same thing: fellowships for the IGF Vilnius meeting.


So instead of replying to each individual, I thought it would be more transparent and efficient to write a blog post.


One thing that I love about the Internet is that people I never corresponded with can reach me easily and ask for the…
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Added by Seiiti on June 28, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Interview: Xu Jing, China

Today we interviewed XU Jing, a PhD & Associate professor for Peking University. Most of all, she prefers to communicate to us as a friend and a student, who took the IGCBP10 (Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme 2010).



XU Jing is Associate Professor at the Peking University, China



Diplo IGCBP: Jing, please introduce yourself explaining why you… Continue

Added by Diplo IGCBP on May 25, 2010 at 3:53pm — No Comments

Interview: Ginger Paque, Venezuela

Today we are publishing an interview that was made with Ginger Paque just a few days before the IGF February Open Consultations in Geneva.





Ginger doing a presentation at IGF Sharm El Sheikh using remote participation tools



Diplo IGCBP - Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme: Ginger, in addition to the great work you… Continue

Added by Diplo IGCBP on March 1, 2010 at 7:00pm — No Comments

WAIGF Communiqué

Shared by our colleague Lillian Sharpley (pdf file attached:WAIGF Communique.pdf )





WAIGF Communiqué

14-16 October 2009

Accra, Ghana







“Promoting the Multi-stakeholder Model for further Internet Development in Africa”



We, the… Continue

Added by Diplo IGCBP on October 26, 2009 at 1:16pm — 1 Comment

Diplo @ "The Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet Politics"

Great news! This evening, at a ceremony in the French National Assembly, Diplo received an award as one of “The Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet Politics” given by PoliticsOnline. Other laureates include Google and Twitter.

The Diplo Internet Governance Community - if you are a professional working with Internet governance, you can… Continue

Added by Diplo IGCBP on October 23, 2009 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

[Interview] Lillian Sharpley, AfriNIC

The second annual West Africa IGF starts today and Diplo had an interview with Lillian Sharpley, from AfriNIC!



DIPLO IGCBP: Lillian, can you tell us more about Adiel Akplogan?



LILLIAN: Adiel A. Akplogan is the Chief Executive Officer of AfriNIC and currently serves as the Chairman of the NRO Executive Council (Number Resource Organization –… Continue

Added by Diplo IGCBP on October 14, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

Last chance to join the IGF Impact Survey

Over the past days DiploFoundation has used its broad outreach to announce the IGF Impact Survey, and you probably heard of it many times in Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and on different mailing lists.



We have good and bad news. Since most of us do not like the bad news, let us go through that first:



More than one hundred and eighty Internet governance experts from all over the globe are part of the IGF Impact Survey. Are you one… Continue

Added by Virginia (Ginger) Paque on September 30, 2009 at 4:30pm — 9 Comments

US IGF: how to get involved

Are you ready to participate in the forthcoming US IGF taking place on 02 October (Friday) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC?



Here are some useful tips:





1. Connect to people



You can add the following people as friends on the Community: Janna Anderson,… Continue

Added by Diplo IGCBP on September 27, 2009 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

IGF Remote Participation

What do you know about Remote Hubs for the IGF? Marilia Maciel, on behalf of the Remote Participation Working Group, is sharing with us the document "Guidelines for Remote Participation".







Brazil and Argentina were a few of the many hubs organized last year in… Continue

Added by Diplo IGCBP on September 15, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

[EuroDig Interview] Vedran Djordjevic, Canada

Vedran Djordjevic comes from the City of Vancouver, where he works at the Municipal Government as a web content coordinator with the Corporate Communications department. Vedran took the Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme with Diplo and is joining the team in Geneva for the EuroDig.



DIPLO… Continue

Added by Diplo IGCBP on September 8, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Interview: Marilia Maciel, Brazil

This is the second interview we publish with Marilia Maciel (the first one is HERE) and there is a reason: she has tons of interesting things to share!





Marilia in IGF Hyderabad explaining the concept of Remote Hubs for the… Continue

Added by Seiiti on September 1, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

IGF Fellowship - Commonwealth Internet Governance Forum bursary program

Our friend Yasmeen has sent us news about a sponsorship initiative for the Internet Governance Forum. Thanks Yasmeen!!



Introduction



Commonwealth Internet Governance Forum seeks to encourage greater participation from Commonwealth member states on issues and discussions related to Internet Governance, with a view to coming up with informed solutions or the pooling of good practice to… Continue

Added by Diplo IGCBP on August 27, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Interview: Deirdre Williams, St. Lucia

This is a series of interviews made with some of our friends who attended the Second Regional Preparatory Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum in Rio de Janeiro. Today we have Deirdre, who has also shared an interesting story in the publication Capacity Development.





Deirdre… Continue

Added by Seiiti on August 24, 2009 at 2:35pm — 3 Comments

Oxford Union style Debates at IGF 2008 - what's next for 2009?

In 2008, Diplo held Oxford Union-style debates at the IGF Village Square.



The results of the exercise were great and here you have a short clip of the dynamics:





Do you like it? Want to join in a similar debate this year? Add your name here as a… Continue

Added by Seiiti on August 20, 2009 at 7:30pm — 2 Comments

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