January 2012 Blog Posts (12)

Hi everyone, in the light of the recent SOPA/PIPA strikes and the Megaupload case, our next IG webinar will be on copyright infringement. Information below, and here. 

 

[Webinar] Copyright infringement: from SOPA/PIPA to Megaupload

Dubbed the largest…

Friends, due to the positive and encouraging feedback we received, as of this month, our Internet governance webinars will become a regular event. More info below, and here.

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Aldo Matteucci, Diplo's resident (self-styled) contrarian (I think he is more of a word artist), posted an excellent piece on controlling narrative. He starts with the fight for control of the narrative about the Costa Concordia shipwreck and illustrates further with examples from diplomacy. He introduces two types of controlling narrative: internal (in the conference room) and external (public). Worth reading for anyone involved or following global policy making: …

http://www.escwa.un.org/information/meetingdetails.asp?referenceNum=1759EConsultation meeting to establish an Arab IGF

DiploFoundation has joined the global community in the SOPA Strike today, the online protest to stop Internet censorship bills SOPA and PIPA. Diplo's website, www.diplomacy.edu, is blacked out. 

Instead, the website is showing the Press Statement by the Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus on Censorship, a statement which Diplo is endorsing.

Are you/your organisation supporting…

A joint campaign with Fundacion Via Libre. The Spanish version of this article is available here.

Two years ago, the UK dismantled their national ID scheme and shredded their National Identity Registry in…

Wow, 2012 is going to be exciting--rather--2012 is already exciting for IG and Diplo... The latest? A blog post, Google...stop thinking for me! by Mary Murphy, which brings together some very important and controversial hot topics from this week: see…

We are at the beginning of what will undoubtedly be a very eventful year in Internet governance. Can we expect a continuation of the main developments from 2011 or will the current situation catalyse the emergence of new controversies? We invite you to our first webinar of 2012, on 12 January at 14.00 GMT, to brainstorm as we seek to foresee the unforeseeable. For this crystal ball…

Since before Christmas I have been considering a question, and persuading myself that it would be naïve to ask it. It’s an ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’  type question. But the recent discussions of the article by Vint Cerf in the New York Times  coupled with the…

Vint Cerf says: '...…

The continued exponential growth of Internet usage has led to the diminishing of the IPv4 address pool hence IPv6; IPv6 is the new protocol that was introduced to replace IPv4 in the long term. This exponential growth has mainly been accounted for by the rapid adoption of the Internet in the developing world (DW) which is a “newcomer” onto the Internet scene. The early transition to IPv6, therefore, offers several opportunities the developing world (DW) can benefit from as discussed…