Content regulation remains remains a critical area where competing rights and interests are played out. Within this, sexuality and sexual rights lie at the centre of the debate. Protection from the "harm" of pornography and other sexually related...

Considerable efforts are being undertaken this year in various forums to assess whether existing privacy principles remain relevant and effective. 2010 and 2011 represent important milestones for Privacy: 2010 marks the 30th anniversary of the...

This workshop is a follow-up of well attended discussion on Internet Censorship and Filtering by the participants of IGF 2009 in Sharm el Sheik. UNESCO would also take the occasion to release an in-depth analysis and report entitled Freedom of...

Issues of Cyber-security have been around for some time. This Workshop has two unique focal points with respect to cyber-security: it focuses on (i) legal aspects and (ii) international cooperation regarding those legal aspects.

This...

Internet use is growing at an exceptional rate, with new products, services and networks online, but also new and inexperienced - users. With the expanding profile of the Internet comes an increase in crime and threats to online security....

The 2009 IGF in Sharm el Sheikh has highlighted, in particular during the Emerging Issues Session on the last day, the impact on many Internet governance topics of the emergence of Social Media (social networks, user generated content, micro-...

Brazil is going through a very unique moment of internet regulation. By the end of 2009 a process of public consultation was created - in a collaborative way to establish a civil-rights based regulatory framework for internet in Brazil. This...

In 2009 Lithuania took over the biennial chairmanship of the Community of Democracies. The Internet is one of important present-day issues in democracy discourse. While creating numerous challenges to modern democratic societies it can also be...

Most countries are concerned about the growing threat of cybercrime, and many tools and instruments against cybercrime are available. The Budapest Convention on Cybercrime not only provides a framework for comprehensive legislation and...

Getting the management of the networks that make up the internet right is critcally important. As a "network of platforms" takes shape what management tools are appropriate? This workshop aims to build on the succesful workshop and remaining open...

There are overlapping facets of Security: Information Security, Cyber Security and Network Security. While we need to delve into the aspects of Information security vis--vis security in the traditional environment, there is also a pressing need...

Over the past five years, the Internet Governance Forum has demonstrated the value of open, wide-ranging communication between the many stakeholders with an interest in Internet governance. Better understanding of the varied concerns of different...

The complex system of networks that constitutes the Internet creates social, economic, and political communities. Those relationships and transactions are enabled by Internet intermediaries, which provide a platform, forum, or other connection...

Information about a persons physical location is sensitive, particularly if it is rendered in real time or it discloses historic patterns of movement. Where the information relates to the physical whereabouts of a child it becomes doubly...

Thanks to digitalization all media are converging more and more into a common space with other forms of communications.
Press, radio, television and internet and even their receiving tools are progressively integrating. The former barriers...

This workshop will build upon outcome from High Level Debate on Social Networking at WSIS Forum 2010 to be organized by UNESCO, and serves a follow-up of previous discussion on social networking at IGF 2009 in Sharm el Sheik.
Based on the...

What is the goal?
The workshop aims at raising a dialogue on a strategic level, so that a concerted international approach can be realized. During the workshop the subject of Internet safety and all the aspects that go with it will be...

The main aim of the workshop is to explore challenges which are brought to intellectual property protection by the internet. The workshop would be intended to balance different, and even conflicting, viewpoints of stakeholders: right holders,...

To reach the needs of innovative research and education from developing countries, governance dimension of Open Knowledge Environment in bridging digital divide become one of critical issues in internet governance and bridging digital divide....

In past IGFs, a lot of emphasis has been placed on young people's safety on the net. The risks associated with content such as violence and profanity have been discussed widely, as have been issues of cyber bullying and identity theft. While...

In the past, workshops at IGF dealt with the question of core Internet values such as openness, layered architecture, end-to-end principle, etc. and addressed principles of internet governance, describing it as multilateral, transparent,...

Relevance:
Since the IGF in Hyderabad (68. OECD Best practice Forum on the Enhanced Internet-enabled access and use of public sector information) significant developments in this field: inter alia, OECD Recommendation adopted at Seoul. EU...

The workshop will discuss the concept of openness for maximizing creation and sharing of knowledge in the networked digital environment. The workshop will aim to provide an holistic, ecosystem-based approach - called "knowledge governance" - to...

This workshop is a follow-up event which has been widely requested by the participants of IGF 2009 workshop on The challenges of becoming literate to foster participatory cultures, the final conclusions of which called for further dialogue on...