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Posted in IGF Ambassadors | Posted on 09.11.12 by Kris Seeburn | 0 Comments
Interesting platform of panelists and the subject matter on its own is a real challenge. However this workshop makes way for an interesting discussion point which really gets everything together in a sort of synergy.  The new world of cyberspace is undoubtedly changing the role of geography in civic life. Originally, even in the Greek polis, geography was destiny, and who you could interact with...
Posted in IGF Ambassadors | Posted on 09.11.12 by Tracy Hackshaw | 0 Comments
Tags: Access
I will be posting a report here shortly on what I consider (perhaps I am biased) to be the most important workshop at IGF 2012 - Internet Governance & Sustainable Development: the Case of Small Island Developing States. The Workshop was a Feeder Workshop into the Main Session on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) held on Wednesday 7 November 2012. Suffice to say, this Workshop...
Posted in IGF Ambassadors | Posted on 09.11.12 by Tracy Hackshaw | 0 Comments
Tags: IGF Ambassadors Program
Repost from: http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2012/11/supporting-bottom-up-mult...   Supporting bottom-up, multi-stakeholder Internet governance Monday, November 5, 2012 | 9:09 AM Labels: Free Expression, Internet Governance The Internet has been built from the bottom up. From its origins as a US Government research project, private business, public authorities, civil society, academia...
Posted in IGF Ambassadors | Posted on 09.11.12 by Tracy Hackshaw | 0 Comments
Tags: IGF Ambassadors Program
Quote of IGF 2012: "By analyzing what is said, you can discover what is unsaid" - Jovan Kurbalija, Director, DiploFoundation   How did the use of the most important Internet governance concepts  evolve in the IGF's language from the first IGF in 2006 to the sixth meeting in Nairobi in 2011? What word was most frequently at the IGF meetings to date? Who has been more talkative: men or women? ...
Posted in IGF Ambassadors | Posted on 08.11.12 by Tracy Hackshaw | 0 Comments
Tags: Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
  Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel for over 30 hours, arrive just in the nick of time for a meeting starting merely 4 hours after you finally check into your hotel, use all of your available energy to shake off the jetlag, keep going without sleeping for a further 16 hours, attend a Google Big Tent meeting masterpiece .... all without your luggage, and with no hope in sight...

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