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Internet Governance - Unpalatable, But Necessary
Leader The United Nations should be applauded for its commitment to Internet governance. Since deciding last December that the Internet was a 'global facility' whose management should be 'multinational, transparent and democratic', UN staffers have thrown...
[September 27, 2004, 14:00]
Internet Governance Battles To Continue
News According to the agreement inked in Tunisia this week, UN secretary-general Kofi Annan will create a new Internet Governance Forum that will meet for the first time in 2006. A brief cessation of hostilities between the United States and its critics...
[November 18, 2005, 15:50]
UK Internet Governance Forum Launched
News The inaugural UK Internet Governance Forum was held at the Houses of Parliament on Thursday and featured representatives from Nominet, the Specialist Crime Directorate, several MPs and a British ambassador.
[March 6, 2008, 16:19]
Global Web: An Internet Governance Run-down
News But a last-minute deal at the WSIS effectively shifted the debate to a new United Nations "Internet Governance Forum" that's scheduled to meet for the first time next year. Thousands of representatives of national governments, corporations and non...
[November 17, 2005, 15:50]
US Endorses Internet Governance Forum
News UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, on the other hand, said the agreement highlights "the need for more international participation in discussions of Internet governance issues. Governance Forum" that will meet for the first time in 2006 under the...
[November 16, 2005, 13:40]
Bush Challenges EC Over Internet Governance
Talkback Well I want .xxx but I don't want to pay for E-Mail.
[October 21, 2005, 19:08]
Bush Challenges EC Over Internet Governance
Talkback In addition, the existing institution of internet governance, ICANN, really does nothing more than regulate the *business* practices of the domain name industry - ICANN does not actually have its hands on any of the knobs and levers that control...
[October 21, 2005, 19:48]
Bush Challenges EC Over Internet Governance
Talkback If the US refuses to favour decentralized control of the Internet we might as well bite the bullet and get it over with before we find reasons that we should have done so before it was too late. There's really not that much to be scared about.
[October 22, 2005, 22:55]
Global Web: An Internet Governance Run-down
Talkback I donot know why they keep meeting , The digital gap will still widen and the US will still control the net . Meetings and free meals is a good way to pass teh time any way
[January 28, 2006, 15:02]
France Fears Internet Governance Stalemate
Talkback Should things work out for the worse. It's still better to endure one big pain then a lot of small ones. And it's better to get things worked out before the politicians move in. That said, having global control in the hands of just one entitiy is...
[November 11, 2005, 21:53]
France Fears Internet Governance Stalemate
Talkback The internet is managing to run fairly well at present and is developing continually under commercial pressure. Certainly there is a need for governments to work together to eliminate the few nasties like child pornography, racial or religious...
[November 15, 2005, 19:38]
Bush Challenges EC Over Internet Governance
News For all of you involved in Internet governance and the model that has been set up, we support it and we believe it's what's good for the world," said Josette Shiner, the State Department's undersecretary for economic, business, and agricultural...
[October 21, 2005, 11:30]
EC: Web 2.0 Means Power And Responsibility
News The move towards Web 2.0 will stir the debate over internet governance and make businesses and individuals more powerful and responsible web users, a top European official has told a key forum in Athens.
[October 31, 2006, 13:14]
Public 'left Out' As Governments Plot Internet Regulation
News Individual Internet users are being frozen out of a key debate on the future governance of the Internet, Web visionary Esther Dyson warned on Friday. To this end, the UN has set up the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) to spend 12 months...
[September 24, 2004, 16:45]
Australia Backs Internet Status Quo
News Australia has backed the current Internet governance regime in the wake of the Bush administration's surprise announcement it would not relinquish control of the Net to any other body. When asked if Australia supported the Bush administration's...
[July 8, 2005, 17:30]
UN Summit Reopens Debate Over Control Of The Net
News Officially, the inaugural meeting of the United Nations' Internet Governance Forum is designed to explore topics like free speech, security, spam and multilingualism. But a subsequent analysis by the Internet Governance Project, a group of...
[October 27, 2006, 16:00]
MP Welcomes UN Indecision On Internet Policy
News The report says that "no single government should have a pre-eminent role in relation to international Internet governance". It would be singularly inappropriate for that mid-20th century body, which is badly in need of a total refit, to take on...
[July 18, 2005, 15:30]
MP Welcomes UN Indecision On Internet Policy
Talkback The negotiations will start soon, and after the Intergovernmental negotiations conclude, only then the UN can be said to decide (or fail to) on the way forward for Internet Governance. Wyatt's statements are not relevant at this time, as : a) In...
[July 19, 2005, 15:10]
UN Proposes Net Governance Changes
News Similarly, Amnesty International has sent a delegation here to the Internet Governance Forum to emphasise the need for protecting free speech. The Internet Governance Forum needs to know that the online community is bothered about free expression...
[October 31, 2006, 11:12]
US Voices Openness To Private Net Control
News It ultimately reported it had not relinquished its Net authority but instead forged a broad agreement with its international counterparts to create an "Internet Governance Forum" under the auspices of the United Nations, scheduled to meet this...
[July 27, 2006, 16:20]
