Internet Governance - Unpalatable, But Necessary
Leader Since deciding last December that the Internet was a 'global facility' whose management should be 'multinational, transparent and democratic', UN staffers have thrown their energy into the Working Group on Internet Governance.
[September 27, 2004, 14:00]
Public 'left Out' As Governments Plot Internet Regulation
News To this end, the UN has set up the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) to spend 12 months consulting and reporting on the way ahead. Individual Internet users are being frozen out of a key debate on the future governance of the Internet...
[September 24, 2004, 16:45]
Should The UN Administer The Internet?
News The UN working group on Internet governance provides us with a very good opportunity to look at this issue. Unfortunately we did not have a clear definition of Internet governance. Should the ITU be involved in Internet governance?
[March 30, 2005, 16:05]
MP Welcomes UN Indecision On Internet Policy
Talkback Wyatt's statements are not relevant at this time, as : a) In the first case re: failing to reach agreement - he is responding to something that does not exist, as the UN hasn't yet failed to agree on IG.b) In the 2nd case: As the UN was mandated...
[July 19, 2005, 15:10]
Cybersecurity Groups Work On White Papers
News Security experts formed five groups to focus on specific problem areas: creating awareness in home computer users and small businesses; establishing a cybersecurity early warning system; making information security part of corporate governance...
[December 5, 2003, 11:10]
MP Welcomes UN Indecision On Internet Policy
News It would be singularly inappropriate for that mid-20th century body, which is badly in need of a total refit, to take on anything as radical as Internet governance. The report says that "no single government should have a pre-eminent role in...
[July 18, 2005, 15:30]
ICANN Heads For 'substantive' Meeting
News The week of technology and policy events in Carthage, Tunisia -- which will be capped by a public meeting on Thursday and a closed-door board meeting on Friday -- comes at a time when interest in the arcana of Internet governance has sharply...
[October 28, 2003, 9:35]
A Year Ago: Domain Name Plan Resolved
News In response, the Boston Working Group, an informal organization representing a spectrum of corporate interests, legal specialists and small businesses, submitted a rival proposal in which they accused the new ICANN backers of ignoring "consensus...
[October 7, 1999, 7:30]
US Report: Domain Name Plan Resolved
News In response, the Boston Working Group, an informal organization representing a spectrum of corporate interests, legal specialists and small businesses, submitted a rival proposal in which they accused the new ICANN backers of ignoring "consensus...
[October 7, 1998, 11:27]
Whois Database 'contributes To Identity Theft'
News In a 18 September announcement, ICANN's Twomey noted that the group, which oversees domain name governance, already had convened a Whois workshop in June in an attempt to "advance work on Whois in a coordinated and cooperative manner".
[November 6, 2003, 12:00]
Violence Breaks Out Before Internet Summit
News The agenda posted at the event's Web site included topics such as privacy and data security, Internet governance, media diversity and freedom of expression. A global summit scheduled this week to address a power struggle over the Internet is...
[November 15, 2005, 9:05]
Resignation Rush Threatens Internet Watchdog
News Feather and David Kerr, chief executive, leave amid ongoing over talks over the future governance of the IWF. Feather will continue to represent the British telco Thus on the Internet Crime Forum -- a group set up by the Association of Chief Police...
[January 8, 2002, 13:50]
ICANN To Fast Track Internationalised Domain Names
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced its plans to fast track the development of country-coded top level domains (ccTLDs) and local language scripting at the Internet Governance Forum in Rio de Janeiro...
[November 15, 2007, 9:44]
Google Shares Android Source Code
News It is a maxim among open-source fans that projects that begin as open source fare better as such than those that begin as proprietary projects and are retrofitted with an open-source governance. Less than a year after announcing Android, the open...
[October 22, 2008, 8:30]
