Sixth Internet Governance Forum
The Internet Governance Forum is
a multi-stakeholder policy dialogue space convened by the UN
to “foster the sustainability, robustness, security, stability and
development of the internet”. It acts as a pressure valve for
some of the most controversial internet governance issues. APC
will be publishing our final assessment of this year's IGF held in
September in Kenya in the next newsletter but here are some of
statements during and after the meeting.
APC’s
closing statement to the IGF (Sept 30)
It’s
time for human rights to be the centre of the internet governance
debate (Press release Sept 29)
Can
we have internet governance without internet rights? (Press release
Sept 27)
Let's get spectrum right:
It's time to start making use of TV white spaces (Press release Oct 3)
WELLINGTON
(Joy Liddicoat for APC) – APC's human rights expert Joy Liddicoat
outlines the state of human rights online and the major challenges
facing activists and human rights defenders. As levels of
censorship and surveillance are increasing worldwide including in
democratic countries threaten the lives of democracy activists, APC
calls for the theme of the 2012 IGF to focus exclusively on human
rights.
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RIO
DE JANEIRO (GenderIT.org for APCNews) - Gender Centred –the bulletin on
topical gender and ICT policy themes-- comes to you this month from
Nairobi. The The newsletter will include news on the Gender Report Card
initiative proposed by the APC which allowed participants to gather
long-awaited information about gender representation at the forum. More>
SAN
FRANCISCO (Robin Gross for APC) - The Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN) was established in 1998 by the USA to run the
root-servers that control the internet among other things. This new
paper investigates ICANN's processes, the role of civil society within
decision-making, and highlights lessons learned from this
multi-stakeholderism experiment as well as recommendations for future
similar initiatives. More>
RIO
DE JANEIRO (Marília Maciel and Carlos Affonso for APC) – A new analysis
of multi-stakeholder participation in internet governance processes,
including international experiences like the Internet Governance Forum
(IGF) and the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development
(CSTD) as well as the national level process in Brazil. More>
MONTEVIDEO
28 September 2011 (APC) -- APC produces scores of publications every
year. If you are an eagle-eyed copy-editor looking for freelance work
we are interested to hear from you. More>
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