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Posted in Tech Matters | Posted on 29.11.12 by Mat Ford | 0 Comments
We've just published a report of the technology roundtable we held last month on the topic of bandwidth management. The agenda for this invitation-only meeting was kept deliberately broad and encompassed everything from rates of submarine cable deployment to active queue management algorithms in residential broadband gateways. We hoped for an interesting and informative two days and that's...
Posted in Public Policy | Posted on 26.11.12 by Markus Kummer | 0 Comments
Should the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) have gone to Baku? This question dominated discussions before and during the recent IGF and was an issue discussed widely among participants as well as in the blogoshpere. Many people, who I highly respect, held the view that hosting the IGF in countries, like Azerbaijan, was a mistake: “Azerbaijan is the wrong place to hold a forum on Internet freedom....
Posted in Tech Matters | Posted on 21.11.12 by Leslie Daigle | 0 Comments
On many levels, the Internet is about making diversity whole – bringing together disparate groups of people with common interests, connecting independent networks to communicate, and so on. On a human level, that diversity comes together through collaboration and new ways of beneficial social and economic organization. At a technical level, it is made possible by interoperability – technology...
Posted in IGF Ambassadors | Posted on 18.11.12 by Faisal Hasan | 0 Comments
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The 7th IGF has been the first IGF for me. However, before joining this important global event in person, I did not expect it to be such a captivating and fruitful conference. Perhaps, having finished the NGL e-Learning course on “Internet Governance” in a time when YouTube has been blocked in my country, I hit the sessions right on time.
From the very first day I was...
Posted in IGF Ambassadors | Posted on 17.11.12 by Tracy Hackshaw | 0 Comments
On November 8, 2012, I stood in as moderator of an extraordinary workshop for a colleague who was unable to make it to this year's IGF covering the topic: "The Internet of Humans - Online Human Behaviour & IG Policy Impacts".
This was an interesting mashup of Sociology, Social Psychology, ICT and Internet Policy dimensions with several of the panelists dipping their toes into more than one of...