UK Internet Governance Forum launched
News The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was established in 2006 by the United Nations to give companies, governments, organisations and individuals the opportunity to debate how the internet is changing and developing.
[March 6, 2008, 16:19]
Internet best practice contest launched
News Nominet, which runs the .uk domain registry, is a participant in the worldwide Internet Governance Forum (IGF). Kummer admitted that the IGF had a "fuzzy mandate" — it has no decision-making power — but insisted that this situation led to "a free...
[June 6, 2007, 13:56]
Oracle proposes safe-data standards
News This should help safeguard personal data such as credit card details, Oracle said on the release of IGF on Wednesday. The IGF would let companies with sensitive data, such as banks, control how identity attributes are used by applications.
[November 30, 2006, 8:06]
Global Web: An Internet governance run-down
News The US and its critics effectively cut a deal this week that shifts the debate to the IGF. The deal creates a UN body — the IGF — that's devoted to just discussions and has no power to regulate. What's most likely to happen is that the IGF will...
[November 17, 2005, 15:50]
Identity Governance Framework
White Papers Identity Governance Framework (IGF) will help enterprises easily determine and control how identity related information, including Personally Identifiable Information (PII), access entitlements, attributes, etc.are used, stored, and propagated...
[December 18, 2006, 0:00]
EC: Web 2.0 means power and responsibility
News Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, was addressing the first meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) on Monday. The IGF, a UN-sponsored "forum for multi-stakeholder policy dialogue" was established last...
[October 31, 2006, 13:14]
Tech giants back ID interoperability project
News The organisation aims to create technologies based on open standards, including IAF, ID-WSF, IGF, Information Card, OAuth, OpenID SAML 2.0, WS-*, XACML and XDI, according to Kantara. Intel, Oracle, BT and a number of other high-profile IT companies...
[June 18, 2009, 17:09]
