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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

Net Neutrality Remains Controversial #ws17

The subject of Network Neutrality remains controversial with 129 different definitions that are testament of the varied social, technical, economic, political interests and the diverse variables that exist in various markets. A common thread that emerges, from Network Neutrality is the need to break down the categories or themes that could fall under Network Neutrality, such as:-

• Access;

• Universal Service;

• Network Management;

• Interconnection;

• Socio-Economic… Continue

Added by Sala T on September 17, 2010 at 2:19pm — No Comments

Day 2 -#igf10#WS123: Legal Aspects of Internet Governance: International Cooperation on Cyber-security

In his contribution to workshop Legal Aspects of Internet Governance: International Cooperation on Cyber-security (Workshop 123 ) Vint Cerf recommended that cybercrime should not be the only motivation to develop legal agreement; in addition to legal mechanisms digital signatures could be used to validate information. However there is need for uniform agreement to justify legal structures on cybercrime. Caution however should be applied in viewing cybercrime strictly as legal abuse/criminality,… Continue

Added by Mwende Njiraini on September 15, 2010 at 11:30pm — No Comments

How to organize a remote participation hub for the #igf10

By now you probably know that the Internet Governance Forum - IGF has an annual meeting: last year it was in Egypt and this year (2010) it will be in Lithuania.


Perhaps you are not sure whether you will manage to go there, or maybe you are already sure that you have other commitments and cannot attend in person.


(Hint: if, by now, you have not yet found a sponsorship to cover your travel costs for the event, chances are very small of doing it…
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Added by Seiiti on July 5, 2010 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

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 - Nnenna Nwakanma

To continue with our interviews with alumni who took the Internet Governance Capacity Building programme, today we have the honour of talking to Nnenna Nwakanma, Founder and CEO at Nnenna.org, Côte d'Ivoire





Diplo Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme: Please introduce yourself explaining why you decided to take the time to pursue Internet governance… Continue

Added by Diplo IGCBP on June 27, 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

Russian IGF and DiploFoundation



"If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.



But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of… Continue

Added by Diplo IGCBP on May 20, 2010 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Internet Governance Diplomats in Nairobi

Internet Governance Diplomats in Nairobi



NAIROBI, Kenya (Diplo) - This 30-storey building is the Kenyatta International Conference Centre in Nairobi, where the forthcoming ICANN meeting n. 37 will be held from 7 to 12 March 2010.…



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Added by Diplo IGCBP on March 2, 2010 at 5:02pm — 3 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

EuroDIG 2010 preliminary draft programme ready!



Our friend Sandra Hoferichter reports that the EuroDIG 2010 preliminary draft programme is ready for comments. Although you can add your input here, it is even better if you do it on the EuroDIG website



PRELIMINARY DRAFT ROLLING PROGRAMME

based on discussions during the EuroDIG preparatory meetings in…

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Added by Diplo IGCBP on February 22, 2010 at 12:00am — No Comments

[Interview] Charity Gamboa-Embley - IGF Remote Participation Working Group

Charity Gamboa-Embley (IGCBP 2007) is from the Philippines and as a member of the IGF Remote Participation Working group she agreed to give us an interview.



DIPLO Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme - IGCBP: Charity, you have been involved in a project that is getting a lot of attention over the recent years - remote participation for the IGF. Can you explain to us more about what is this initiative? What is the benefit that the group is… Continue

Added by Diplo IGCBP on February 7, 2010 at 8:30pm — 4 Comments

Jean-Yves Gatete and the Game Changer Awards

Our friend Jean-Yves Gatete is from Burundi and was recently nominated for the We Media Game Changer Awards. Jean-Yves took the Internet Governance Capacity Building in 2008, with Jean Paul Nkurunziza as his tutor.



Since then, Jean-Yves has continued his engagement on… Continue

Added by Diplo IGCBP on January 27, 2010 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

Diplo IG - 2009 retrospective

Wow! 2009 was such an intense year! We are almost done with January and we cannot let go the opportunity to make a retrospective of significant events on Diplo Internet governance.



We asked some of our friends and here is what they replied:



Marília Maciel from Brazil:



"Diplo always succeeds to make a difference on all the thematic areas… Continue

Added by Diplo IGCBP on January 18, 2010 at 4:46pm — 8 Comments

Could ENUM be discussed at IGF?

Hello... For some time, I have been thinking that there are some missing themes which could be discussed at IGF, in the critical resources arena, because they could offer great potential to change and progress to the Internet. For example, ENUM (e.164 number mapping), that have the potential to act as a catalyst to the technologic convergence between the telephone networks, and the Internet. ENUM is currently managed jointly by IAB and ITU, more as a telecommunications resource, than as an… Continue

Added by Antonio M. Moreiras on January 16, 2010 at 9:00pm — 2 Comments

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

[Interview] Sergio Alves Júnior, Brazil

DIPLO IGCBP: Sergio, what is occupying your mind these days? We heard you will present one research at the III Giganet annual meeting in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt - can you tell us more about it?



SERGIO: Many stakeholders have been proposing a myriad of technical and legal solutions, such as international cooperation platforms (e.g. International Telecommunication Union’s Global Cybersecurity Agenda) and multilateral agreements (e.g.… Continue

Added by Diplo IGCBP on October 6, 2009 at 3:35pm — 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

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

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Xu Jing (China)
Gao Mosweu (Botswana)
Jamil Goheer (Pakistan)
Virginia (Ginger) Paque (Venezuela)
Tim Davies (UK)
Charity Gamboa-Embley (Philippines)
Rafik Dammak (Tunisia)
Jean-Yves Gatete (Burundi)
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Marilia Maciel (Brazil)
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