The IGF was not the only institutional reform to the Internet governance regime that was approved at WSIS, though it was the best-formed.

Posted by on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 20:23

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In the 4th paper of our series analyzing the European Commission papers on ICANN, we examine their paper on country code top level domains (ccTLDs). As usual, the EC’s primary concern is not the interest of the Internet-using public or the health and vitality of the internet, but the privileges and powers of itself and its member governments.

Posted by Milton Mueller on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 18:48

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From: www.diplomacy.edu/ACP/el.asp

Diplo is about to launch a new publication, Emerging Leaders for the Digital World, during the 6th IGF meeting in Nairobi on 27-30 September, 2011.

Posted by Diplo IGCBP on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 18:30

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A further sign of the weakening of commitment to a multi-stakeholder process for Internet governance, by governments in particular, came at a December extraordinary meeting of the CSTD, which resolved to establish the Working Group on Improvements to the IGF that ECOSOC had called for as a government-only group.

Posted by on Tue, 09/20/2011 - 22:34

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On September 12 China, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan released a Resolution for the UN General Assembly entitled "International code of conduct for information security." The resolution proposes a voluntary 12 point code of conduct based on "the need to prevent the potential use of information and communication technologies for purposes that are inconsistent with the objectives of maintaining international stability and security and may adversely affect the integrity of the infrastructure within States..." The Code seems to be intended to preserve and protect national sovere

Posted by Milton Mueller on Tue, 09/20/2011 - 16:36

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Two new blog posts have been posted on our E-diplomacy blog.

In 'Plug in and learn' (http://edip.diplomacy.edu/plug_in_and_learn), Mary Murphy talks about online learning, and refers to the online learning experience of Diplo's IG courses alumni. Can you relate to Mary's thoughts?

Posted by Diplo IGCBP on Tue, 09/20/2011 - 11:25

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On the 1st and 2nd of September in Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian foreign relations ministry, the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) and the Center for Technology & Society (CTS/FGV) held what they called a “Seminar” on Global Internet Governance. But while “seminar” has an educational, even academic ring to it, this event was more than that. It was actually a preparatory conference for a major political initiative regarding Internet control.

Posted by Milton Mueller on Sun, 09/18/2011 - 00:35

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