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The workshop will review for the second time the experience of the Schools on Internet Govenance, experience that started in Meissen, Germany, as a pioneer project, and has been replicated in Latin Amrica and Egypt.
The Schools main...
The approach to the issues of protection of children in the online environment is not integrated within the national plans of many countries and fall under some specific ministries as add on tasks. A close coordination between different...
This workshop discusses issues related to the Citizens Civil status documents exchange between the public administrations in Europe, with the key objective to contribute to the European standardisation policy, working in a direction to reach a...
We will address and discuss core Open Source issues for sustainable development and governance and its impact on the key areas listed below. We will also give a quick overview of the workshop held at IGF2009 on Mitigating the Financial Crisis...
The SA IGF that has been taking place from 1 - 3 september, http://www.ngopulse.org/saigf , has seen Diplo Foundation work being highlighted in various sessions.
In the opening session, Diplo Foundation was thanked for its contribution to the establishment of the SA IGF through the workshop held in Gaborone in 2010.
Twenty research papers, written by alumni of the Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme, have just been completed. The papers focus on various Internet governance issues, including child safety, social media, e-participation, data protection, electronic commerce, and e-health systems.
COMNET is an independent Foundation whose mission is to help realise the transformational potential of Information and Communication Technologies for Development, among Commonwealth and other developing countries. The Foundation’s major thrust is to facilitate the sharing of experience and capacity building. Activities in the recent past have included assistance in the development of national ICT strategies, Telecommunication Regulation, and eGovernment services, through training and consultancy.
Will the cutting off of Internet access in Egypt affect the future of Internet governance and policy? Are you concerned about Internet governance in the aftermath of the WikiLeaks CableGate incident? Will guidelines and regulations be affected? What do you think about the reactions of governments and private companies such as Amazon and PayPal to the WikiLeaks phenomenon?
Will the cutting off of Internet access in Egypt affect the future of Internet governance and policy? Are you concerned about Internet governance in the aftermath of the WikiLeaks CableGate incident? Will guidelines and regulations be affected? What do you think about the reactions of governments and private companies such as Amazon and PayPal to the WikiLeaks phenomenon?
Dear friends, you may be interested to know that DiploFoundation is currently accepting applications for course participants for the 2011 Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme (IGCBP11).
This online programme is designed to improve IG-related knowledge and skills for participants from both developed and developing countries and assist them to participate in the global decision-shaping debates on IG. The programme also facilitates community building among individuals with different national, cultural and professional backgrounds.
DiploFoundation’s 2011 foundation courses in Internet Governance and ICT are now open for applications. A call for applications for Diplo’s ACP Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Internet Governance (IG) Capacity Development Programme Foundation Course has been issued to all government and sub-regional/regional institutions of ACP countries involved in ICT and IG policy as well as civil society, business, academia, media, and other interested individuals or groups.
Diplo Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme (IGCBP): Karlene, it is a pleasure to have you sharing an interview with us! Can you please introduce yourself to our friends?
Karlene Francis: My name is Karlene Francis, I am the Project Manager for the OECS Electronic Government for Regional Integration Project.
Lagos, Nigeria hosted the annual meeting of West Africa Internet Governance Forum. A number of guests from the region and the world debated Internet Governance within the region and all over the world. The event details are below:
Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN) is a social enterprise seeking to help deliver ICT for socio-economic opportunities in Nigeria. Having worked with government, civil society, private institutions and international organisations, PIN has set standards in ICT education, telecentre support, ICT applications in rural areas, and other ICT4D interventions in Nigeria.PIN provides five key services: Consulting, ICT Capacity Building, Research, Telecentre Support and Youth-led Social Technopreneurship.
On Thursday, March 27, 2008, a new set of twenty-five young people graduated from the Ajegunle.org project, a train-the-trainer capacity building initiative by Paradigm Initiative Nigeria that uses a positive peer pressure concept to transform Ajegunle.Ajegunle.org has received tremendous media coverage and has been presented in various for a across the world (Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt, United Kingdom and Switzerland) as a case study on how ICTs can be used to aid development in underserved communities.
One interesting workshop I attended today dealt with the issue of core Internet values and the principles of Internet Governance across generations. It brought together both young people, rather new to the Internet governance debate, and people that have taken part in the IG debates from the very beginning and/or are familiar with and to these debates.
The workshop addressed several basic questions: what makes the Internet what it is, what are values of Internet? Are these values changing over time? Is any of the core values to be preserved?
I started the last day of IGF 2010 with a workshop on principles of Internet Governance dimension of open knowledge environment in bridging the digital divide.
The main idea of the workshop was that the access to knowledge is a very importat issue for developing countries, as it could act as an accelerator of innovation and also contribute to the bridging of the digital divide.
The second workshop I attended today was dedicated to the international summer schools on Internet Governnace (ISSIGs).
Wolfgang Kleinwachter, Avri Doria, William Drake, Olga Cavali, Bertrand de la Chapelle, in their quality of initiators of and faculty members for the ISSIGs, presented to the participants the ideas and the efforts behind these summer schools, as well as their motivation for going on with this project and expanding it to now cover several regions in the world.
Tomorrow I am going to be moderating a panel which is being organised by eIFL and OER Brazil on “Open Knowledge Governance for Innovation”. This will be a great chance to explore the role libraries can play in Internet Governance and it will be a good opportunity for librarians around the world to get involved in the discussion.
Here’s all the information:
Title: “Why We Need an Open Web: Open Knowledge Governance for Innovation”
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:
I attended today two wokshops that dealt with some more or less technical aspects of the Internet.
The first one was on gTLDs and IDNs. In the context of ICANN launching of new gTLDs (discussions are still held inside ICANN on a draft version of the Applicant Guidebook, known as DAG 4) and IDNs (IDNs already launched for Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirats, Russia, China, Taiwan), the aim of this workshop was to discuss the impact of these processes on developing countries, and how these countries can benefit from them.
Ginger Paque http://www.diplomacy.edu/ig/Community/display.asp?Topic=GingerPague speaks at the IGF Opening Ceremony. She represents the Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus http://www.igcaucus.org/ but stresses the overlapping roles people play and multiple hats they wear. Ginger remains a powerful voice for Civil Society, Capacity Building, Women, LAC and Users Everywhere. Key points she raised include:
IGF officially kicked off today with live Jazz Playing and the Lithuanian Government impressing the need for Open Discussion on Internet Governance Issues as well as welcoming the diverse international participants.
For Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific, the dialogue had already kicked off yesterday at Diplo’s Capacity Building.
Keeping in view the dire need of Internet Governance issues understanding and capacity building among youth and Internet professionals of Pakistan, NUST SEECS in collaboration with Internet Society (ISOC) Pakistan Chapter is establishing remote participation hub for fifth annual IGF Meeting at NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Sector H-12, Islamabad.