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Global Tech Outage Demonstrates Need for Resiliency in Software Systems

Today’s global outage of many systems was not an Internet outage, but it demonstrates the need for greater resilience in all our technical systems.

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Access to Internet – A fundamental human right

I have had a chance to attend a workshop on Access and Diversity of Broadband Internet Access Center for Science, Development and Media studies on the first day of IGF ...
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Blocking Internet content: harmful or efficient?

Many governments in the world are imposing DNS blocking/filtering measures as solutions to fight illegal online content. Either we talk about child pornography, copyright infringement, drugs or online gambling, governments ...
The words of IGF
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The words of IGF

A lot of discussions are taking place at the IGF and I am very much interested in the discourse developing here.  Conveniently, the IGF makes verbatim transcripts available, so I ...
IGF 2010 in Vilnius, Lithuania gets underway with Internet Society (ISOC), DiploFoundation, GigaNet and APC Events
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IGF 2010 in Vilnius, Lithuania gets underway with Internet Society (ISOC), DiploFoundation, GigaNet and APC Events

Back in USSR … or so I might have thought. Quite the opposite actually. IGF 2010 in VilniusLithuania has gotten underway with a series of pre-activities at the stylish Litexpo venue – a bastion of ...
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Workshop No.26 “Teaching Internet Governance: experience of the Schools on IG”

This is the information about another interesting meeting, which you might want to attend -   No.26 “Teaching Internet Governance: The experience of the Schools on Internet Governance” , which will ...
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Management of Critical Internet Resources in Trinidad & Tobago

In a such as the , the Management of Critical Internet Resources has proven and will continue to be a challenge.  While the global developed world community (especially the OECD ...
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4th Internet Governance Forum Meeting, Sharm El Sheikh, 14 – 18 November, 2009

I arrived in Sharm El Sheikh on the 14th November around 1am and checked in my hotel about an hour later. The morning of the 14th saw me in the ...
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Promoting Cultural Diversity through Cultural Heritage in Cyberspace

: Knowledge is to do with interactions between people in society – individuals, groups, government, professional societies, etc, each with their own agendas. How do we tie society to IT? ...