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IGF: send in your comments ... via SMS. Will you?
IGF: send in your comments ... via SMS. Will you? 31 October 2006 APC

Is this a shift of power? Is it just a form of tokenism? Does it work? Will it really involve the diversity of people across the globe? Kieren McCarthy posted to the Governance mailing list and Plenary list an announcement of how SMS questions can go to the IGF main session. Full details on the ...

Is the environment taken seriously at the IGF?
Is the environment taken seriously at the IGF? 31 October 2006 APC

At the Internet Governance Forum today APC held two worshops, while also taking part in the ‘openness’ plenary session. A quite intensive day that saw issues around copyright on the web, environment democracy on the net, as well as content regulation from a gender perspective debated ...

Environment as part of internet governance
Environment as part of internet governance 30 October 2006 APC

I just ran into Pavel Antonov from APC-member organisation BlueLink in Bulgaria. He just flew into Athens from Riga where he was giving a training to leading Latvian state-TV and national newspaper journalists in how to report on sustainable energy. Pavel is the chair of a workshop here at the I...

The internet governance is a process
The internet governance is a process 30 October 2006 APC

"IGF is a process," said Natasha Primo during her speech at the opening ceremony of the first (of three) Internet Governance Forum. What she means by this, is that "Athens will not be the a one-time show. The discussions and debates around how the internet is to be governed will continue way beyo...

The IGF is on, does that mean we'll get an "internet as a free-zone"?
The IGF is on, does that mean we'll get an "internet as a free-zone"? 30 October 2006 APC

Here I am, sitting in a plenary room at the opening session of the Internet Governance Forum in Athens. This forum was set a couple of months back, in Tunisia, where the second summit on the information society (WSIS) was drawing to a close. Some of you might have noted back then that the two mai...

IGF... who's saying what
IGF... who's saying what 28 October 2006 APC

Everyone talks, but no-one listens…. Spam, multilingualism, cybercrime, cybersecurity, privacy and data protection, freedom of expression, human rights, interconnection …. The Internet is one of the most powerful inventions of the digital age…. Given the huge impact of the Inte...

A last ditch pitch that makes sense, don't you think?
A last ditch pitch that makes sense, don't you think? 27 October 2006 APC

The leader of a Netherlands-based non governmental association at the very end of the World Congress on Communication for Development, here in Rome, probably best summarised how development practitioners (communicators, donors and those benefiting from the development at the end of the line) need...

Indigenous Peoples and the Right to Communicate
Indigenous Peoples and the Right to Communicate 27 October 2006 APC

The session started with music and song, a rarity in conferences, especially one that is convened by international bodies like the World Bank. But so is a panel of indigenous peoples in forums on communication and development. The invisibility and marginalisation of indigenous peoples from the de...

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