December 2014 Blog Posts (10)

Le multilinguisme est au cœur du débat sur la gouvernance d’internet. Le sujet a été évoqué  lors de la 9ème édition du Forum sur la Gouvernance d’Internet qui a eu lieu à Istanbul du 1^er au 5 Septembre 2014 sous le thème « Languages on the Move : Deploying Multilingualism in the Net »

La diversité des populations au niveau mondiale se traduit par une diversité linguistique rendant complexe et sensible toute communication en direction…

In the Middle East and North African Region, technology has become a tool that mediates a vast set of relationships that touches fundamental aspects of the dailyuser’s life on the internet. This includes issues that concern cyber security, human rights, and anti-surveillance measures.

The numbers of individuals that can understand, build, and work with these evolving technological tools and platforms remains relatively small in the Arab world. Further, these people are…

During my last participation at the third Arab IGF in beyrouth, I noticed a strong participation of the Tunisia civil society, hence, Tunisia delegation was ranked third with 22 participants after Egypt 23 and of course at the first place Lebanon as the hosting country. This great number of participants, involvement and the high level of engagement from the Tunisian Civil society is new after decades of dictatorship and essentially due in fact to the new democratic climate in Tunisia after…

How to improve inclusion in the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) process through…

Hi everybody,

As a new MAG member, the Open Consultation and MAG meetings in Geneva last week were very exciting for me. One very important point brought out in our discussions, is that the IGF 2015 should be organised in a bottom-up way, with sufficient consultation with the IG community. We decided that consulting YOU about the overarching theme and sub-themes for the IGF in Brazil was very important. Please respond to the call for participation - think about it seriously, join the…

If you live in one of the two Arab government countries that allow having access to its data, Jordan and Tunisia, according to Open Government Partnership, you might not be as lucky as Finland citizen who has a broad band as "Legal Right" or a Brazilian who judge his government performance figures via the project Dados Abertos (Open Data). But definitely you are…

There is a new website AfricaOverflow, designed to promote freedom of expression and the free flow of ideas through questions, answers and discussions in relation to any topic (politics, technology, religion, news, music, health, education, etc) especially those concerning Africa and the rest of the word. 

I think this website offers an interesting opportunity for freedom of expression while still maintaining privacy as they have chosen to comply…

The message below is an update following the successful Geneva Internet Conference which took place on 17-19 November. The outcome document, Strengthening Internet Governance: the message from the Geneva Internet Conference, is also available on the GIC website at giplatform.org/gic

Dear colleagues,



With…