At the annual Dutch "delegation" dinner at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Vilnius, Lithuania, I voiced that it may be a good idea to start a Dutch IGF. This followed a discussion in which we discussed the possibilities of involving more people and organisations from the Netherlands in Internet governance. The, now, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation followed this thought and made it possible for the ECP/EPN foundation to start the NL IGF.

Posted by Wout de Natris on Fri, 05/27/2011 - 19:19

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From a far, I participated in three workshops that addressed the emerging issue of Cloud computing.

The first workshop was entitled Engendering confidence in the cloud-answering the questions of security and privacy, the second workshop on Implications of Cloud Computing and the third workshop on Data in a cloud where do open standards fit in? All of these workshops tackled the issue from technical, business, political and social perspectives.

Posted by Paul Muchene on Thu, 09/16/2010 - 16:39

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John Morris CDT is about to talk about cloud computing and citizen risk as related to privacy and security #IGF10 #Privacy #Sec #Security

The Workshop Developing a Policy Understanding on Information Security: Glocal (Global and Local) Perspective offers probes the issue with a tapestry of points being raised.
Key points include:

Posted by Sheba Mohammid on Wed, 09/15/2010 - 15:18

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