Thanks to the great work of Imagining the Internet, I am happy to be able to post these links to the three workshops I was involved with at IGF 2009, along with summaries and videos. Thanks Janna and team for your excellent work – and thanks also to all the organisers and participants in the [...]
This year, the Internet Governance Forum will meet in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, in early November. This is year four of this interesting United Nations sponsored event, and the first to be held in the wake of increased independence for ICANN. There is a lot on the program – here’s just a summary of some [...]
It’s time we stopped talking about network neutrality and redescribed what we are trying to achieve here. The term has been distorted greatly to become a series of arguments about traffic shaping, network management, carrier profitability, and endless nit-picking technical arguments. This is distorting some important matters about the future of the Internet and only [...]
Below are my edited opening remarks from the Plenary Session on Emerging Issues at Hyderabad, India, December 6 2008 Thank you very much, and good morning, everybody. I think it helps in examining subjects like this to pull ourselves away from our immediate environment and, as best we can, look into the future, and see [...]
What follows is my comments at the Hyderabad meeting of the Internet Governance Forum following the Chinese Government’s comments as regards the root zone authorisation role continued by the US Government . I again want to take up the comments from the government of China, and to say thank you very much for those comments. [...]
At the Internet Governance Forum meeting in Hyderabad I will be chairing a workshop entitled – “The Transboundary Internet – Jurisdiction, Control, and Sovereignty”. I am delighted to be working with very knowledgeable panelists here including. Meryem Marzouki – European Digital Rights (EDRI), Europe & National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) – Univ. Pierre et [...]
In August 2008 Ian Peter was elected as a Co-ordinator of the Internet Governance Caucus, an international alliance of non government organisations and individuals involved with the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (www.intgovforum.org). He joins Parminder Singh of ICT4Change in India as co-coordinator.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/ 2008/02/22/AR2008022202283.html From essentially zero, we’ve passed a watershed of more than 3.3 billion active cellphones on a planet of some 6.6 billion humans in about 26 years. This is the fastest global diffusion of any technology in human history — faster even than the polio vaccine. “We knew this was going to happen a [...]
IDC have published an update on the size of the digital universe. The full report can be found from http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080312-study- amount-of-digital-info-global-storage-capacity.html Here’s a summary The digital universe in 2007 — at 2.25 x 1021 bits (281 exabytes or 281 billion gigabytes) — was 10% bigger than we thought. The resizing comes as a result of [...]
This has appeared in a few places now, reposted here as well. Internet governance still has a few issues to address! A British citizen, living in Spain, with his Internet server in the Bahamas, is subject to censorship by US authorities? By Joel Hruska | Published: March 07, 2008 – 04:36PM CT The United States [...]