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Posted in Public Policy | Posted on 17.05.13 by Konstantinos Komaitis | 0 Comments
On May 15, 2013, a workshop entitled “Ethics in the Information Society” took place as part of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) Forum, hosted by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). The workshop was organized by Globethics.net, a “worldwide ethics network with the aim to ensure that people in all regions of the world are empowered to reflect and act on ethical issues...
Posted in Tech Matters | Posted on 15.05.13 by Mat Ford | 0 Comments
What can we learn about the way IPv6 is being used and configured on today's Internet from logfiles that we already have lying around? Is the use of privacy addressing commonplace? What kinds of transition mechanisms are still being employed by users and ISPs? Some simple analysis using newly released tools shows us that privacy addressing is now extremely common being by far the most typical...
Posted in Public Policy | Posted on 14.05.13 by Markus Kummer | 0 Comments
This blog post is written through a very subjective lens and makes no claim to historical accuracy – it is based on my personal memory and a quick scan of my personal archives. Any comments, corrections and pointers to other sources are therefore more than welcome.
It is striking to note the evolution of the concept of multistakeholder cooperation: from a vague notion in 2003, it has gained entry...
Posted in Public Policy | Posted on 14.05.13 by Karen Mulberry | 0 Comments
The ITU Strategic Dialogue session was held on 13 May at the CICG in Geneva. The focus of the pre WTPF event was to discuss broadband development and deployment through two panel discussions. The two panels were moderated by Raffaele Barberio, Director, Key4Biz.
The first panel was on “Building our Broadband”, which examined the role of broadband as critical infrastructure and a platform for...
Posted in Public Policy | Posted on 03.05.13 by Robin Wilton | 0 Comments
Classically, the encryption of data solves two simple problems:
how to store data securely when it's at rest,
how to communicate it securely when it's in motion.
On the face of it, that makes encryption look like an ideal tool for freedom of the press: it can render a journalist's stored data meaningless to unwanted readers, and protect transmitted data against interception.
Unfortunately,...