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 Marie Curie, [...]
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 few years ago. And [...]
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 faster growth in [...]
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 [...]
This is great news as 2008 approaches - finally some common sense and perspective that will restore some balance.
Daily Mail, December 27 2007 -
The words “war on terror” will no longer be used by the British government to describe attacks on the public, the country’s chief prosecutor said Dec. 27.
Sir Ken Macdonald said terrorist fanatics [...]
Booglegum is the Aboriginal Place name for a hill now known as Pine Mountain, near Possum Creek, also near Bangalow and Byron Bay, in NSW Australia.
In the 1920s it was adopted as the property name for the original Possum Creek homestead of Frank O’Meara, formerly known as Jerseyville, which overlooks Pine Mountain from a nearby [...]
Believe it or not, a credible UK report suggests that information technology produces as much carbon gas as the airline industry. An Inefficient Truth is the first research report produced by Global Action Plan on behalf of the Environmental IT Leadership Team. The Leadership Team is a unique gathering of major UK ICT users from [...]
I guess I had better write something about the Internet Governance Forum meeting in Rio de Janeiro (November 2007).
I have to say that, even for someone who has been involved in the discussions and the lead up for several years, the meeting was unusual. And that might be its strongest attribute.
It was unusual [...]
While in Rio for the Internet Governance Forum I had the opportunity to attend a couple of pre-conference events of the Association for Progressive Communications (www.apc.org)
I’d had very little to do with APC for a long time – but back in 1989 I attended a preliminary meeting in Epe Holland to establish the organisation, and [...]