July 2015 Blog Posts (18)

This week, IETF 93 in Prague was among main events on internet governance ecosystem. My pleasure to share with you informations on this event as well as articles on IANA transition; .Africa; Cyberpolitics, internet of things ...



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IETF 93



Rough Guide to IETF 93: The IANA Transition…

This week, IETF 93 in Prague was among main events on internet governance ecosystem. My pleasure to share with you informations on this event as well as articles on IANA transition; .Africa; Cyberpolitics, internet of things ...



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IETF 93



Rough Guide to IETF 93: The IANA Transition…

This topic attempts to provide the space to discuss a variety of

emerging issues in the Internet space.



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1. The mandate of WSIS, a meeting of the UN that took place in 2005 in

Tunis is coming to an end. The WSIS process gave birth to the Internet

Governance Forum (IGF) which is up for renewal at  end of this year.

From IGF discussions, there are no concrete proposals…

1. Is there an over arching national policy to guide infrastructure

deployments within the country?

2. What is the current state of fiber optic cable across the country?

Is there any redundancy on the cables laid across the country?

3. Are there policies in place for infrastructure sharing to avoid

each operator laying their own cable thus passing the cost to the…

The rise of the Internet economy in Kenya has been defined by

different strokes. On  one hand there are small entrepreneurs doing

their side hustles from offices, small shops and car boots. They

advertise their merchandise and services on social media and in a

rudimentary form, some deliver merchandise in backpacks from door to

door.

Enter the bigger players who have large…

Kenya has had its fair share of high profile cyber threats, hacking etc, the latest being the alleged compromise of the IFMIS system at NYS/Ministry of Devolution. The country and  Africa at large is making efforts to assure cyber-security. These include among others her involvement in the Africa Union Convention on Cybercrime and a proposal for a Cybercrime law, an initiative led by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. Significant financial resources have also been…

Since promulgation of the Constitution, Kenya has become a litigious society, and the ICT/Internet sector has not been spared. For instance, the processes used to constitute public ICT bodies was contested while a good part of the digital migration process also played out in the public galleries.

Complaining about expensive prices and bad services is definitely the most repeated talk anyone would hear in Tunisia and the internet is no longer excluded. In fact, internet is not only a tool to gather people for a cause, organize boycott campaigns or even protests. Internet and more precisely slow internet and its cost became the subject of the protest today.…

This week; Internet Governance Forum USA 2015, ICANN announcement on .AFRICA and ICANN CCWG Accountability meeting in Paris are among most commented topics in Internet Governance news. See below some articles relating to those topics and events as well as documents on cyberpolitics, WSIS + 10, domain name, etc...

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IGF - USA

The Internet Governance Forum for the United States 2015…

Friends, the second issue of the Digital Watch newsletter is out. The newsletter provides updates on Internet governance and digital policy developments, with a special focus on Geneva. Here's a break-down of the contents of this month's newsletter:

• The…

Algeria is at all times lagging behind in terms of Internet use, but this doesn’t necessarily mean that Algeria has an effective Internet situation. The Algerian Internet end-user knows better than anyone the extent of shortcomings in Internet services and broadband connectivity.



However, this reality is even more difficult to accept for citizens who realize that the poor and destitute grow everyday in Algeria in terms of utilizing IT…

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This week; InterCommunity 2015, the US Congressionnal hearing on IANA transition, Africa DNS Forum, Nethui 2015 were part of main events on internet governance ecosystem. Below; some articles, thoughts and news relating to those events along with documents on Cyberpolitics, BRICS summit, Netmundial, ICANN, Domain name, etc...

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INTERCOMMUNITY 2015

InterCommunity 2015…

Diplo alumni, expert and tutor (watch for the upcoming IGMENA course) Rafik Dammak was interviewed by APC news in We need to avoid a situation where the DNS is used to police content': A conversation with ICANN's Rafik Dammak.

There are too many interesting points to summarise here, so I suggest you read the article, but here are a…

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This week; United Nations WSIS+10 Informal Interactive Stakeholder Consultation, APrIGF 2015 in Macao, the Global Internet Governance Alliance and The meeting of the coordination council of the NETmundial Initiative in Sao Paulo were main events in Internet Governance landscape. Below, my pleasure to share with you articles and comments relating to those events as well as some informations on Cyberpolitics; Child protection, Net Neutrality, Internet of Things etc.…