September 2009 Blog Posts (100)

With the end of the JPA in short time, the discussions on the need to reform ICANN are more and more intense. This reform should take into account issues such as:

-ICANN should remain private sector lead, but, at the same time, it should be accountable to the global Internet community;

-Governments participation in ICANN should be improved, especially when it comes to developing countries;

-ICANN needs to be based in the USA;

-participation of all other…

The Internet is not always public, there is a wide spectrum separating private communication from public communication on the Internet.

Users should be aware of what happen on their online content. They have to be careful with what they publish about themselves and what they don’t. They must be aware of the fact that the information published may be used in different purposes by different actors.

Social networks are a great opportunity for collecting data for marketing…

The issues discussed during this session included:

- access to the Internet – the question of gatekeepers;

- users ability to access the content and applications they want on the Internet, without any restriction (this principle is seen as the application of human rights law to the Internet);

- ISPs reliability for Internet content.

There were discussions on the question of what is open access and open Internet? “Open” does not mean that all content should be…