All Blog Posts Tagged 'networks' (7)

Please find below a call for papers for the next GigaNet Regional Workshop, to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, on 17-18 May 2013 on:



 "The Governance of the Internet: Intergovernmentalism, Multistakeholderism and Networks".



The two-day event will include multistakeholder roundtables and academic presentations. Due to the short timespan,…

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1.      Introduction

There is now global recognition of the central role of the Internet in social and economic development.  This realisation is influencing government policies to improve access to affordable internet services.  To achieve this objective governments have pursued liberalisation and privatisation strategies to improve the state of telecommunication network infrastructure and services while the industry is employing strategies that will give them competitive…

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Do you have a  facebook, gmail, yahoo, twitter, linkedIn or other social network account?

 

You can get all your google mail chats

 

Do you have your cat, dog, niece, nephew as your facebook profile feature: Forget it…..…

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Why would any government want to have an ambition that will place their country at the back of the pack?

Internet freedom is facing a growing number of threats across the world, according to a new research report published by watchdog organization…

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Up until June of this year, I had never heard of Internet governance. Being one of 2 billion Internet users, I am familiar with the term 'Internet'. I am also familiar with the term 'governance'. I had just never put the two together. Then I got involved in producing the revised, updated, 4th edition of Jovan Kurbalija's book - An Introduction to Internet Governance - and a whole new world opened up...a world fed on an alphabet soup of abbreviations and acronyms. Initially (excuse the pun) I… Continue

The discussion turned out to be active and hot, although there were not many new issues raised. In my opinion, the most interesting part of the discussion was the information about the practices and initiatives that are already in place.



The first part of the debates was dedicated to the role and integrity of social network websites in the life of current generation, especially the youth. It turned out that there were a couple of young people in the audience that did not have… Continue

What do social media and its communities actually mean to us? This should be one of the base questions when asking why we use social media in our daily lives.



Online communities are not taken as seriously as they should be taken. In our own real-life communities we tend to join due to the safety and security aspects that they are able to offer. The sheer familiarity of the culture joined by friends and relatives bring in the comfort aspect. The same can be said about online… Continue