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East of Europe

CSOs, businesses and governments in non EU countries on the East of Europe are rather passive in IG discussions. Why does this happen? Lack of awareness? Lack of interest? What could be done about this? What is needed - education or propagation?

8 hours ago

Francois Sekyere and Kwasi Opare are now friends

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Henry Owera, Ljubisa Gavrilovic and Diplo IGCBP joined Tim Davies's group

Social Reporting

Exploring how Social Reporting can be used to support exploration of Internet Governance, raising awareness of Internet Governance Issues, and including new voices in the Internet Governance debate.

21 hours ago

Richard Jonathan commented on Richard Jonathan's blog post 'IGF09 – Internet Governance Forum 2009 – ‘n Oorsig (Afrikaans - my second language in South Africa)'

Hi Henry et al. hope to post the translated version soon. I had understood the request from Nikola was for us to do such posting in our native tongue but have not seen any other yet. Will be better inspired to translate when I see your and the ot...

21 hours ago

Henry Owera commented on Richard Jonathan's blog post 'IGF09 – Internet Governance Forum 2009 – ‘n Oorsig (Afrikaans - my second language in South Africa)'

Jonathan, I feel it. The diversity on the net. I bet many others feel it too.Could you please translate it.

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Stephanie commented on Henry Owera's photo 'DSC02387'

Henry, you did capture this moment! LOL my heart missed a beat when I saw this photo :P

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IGF.Colombia 2009

Added by Antonio Medina Gómez
Vlada about WSIS at IGF2009

Added by Nikola Bozic
Orientation Session Nov 15 Ginger Paque

Added by Virginia (Ginger) Paque
Remote Participation Workshop Ginger

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Interview with Ms Megan Richards

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About the Community

Welcome to a global community of former participants in the Internet governance capacity building programme from DiploFoundation. The IGCBP (Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme) Community is ground central for the capacity development initiatives linked to the Internet Governance Forum.

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Blog Posts

Ups and Downs of URL Shorthening

As you twitt, you quickly learn about bit.ly, tinyurl.com and other URL Shorthening services to make your long URLs suitable to mobile phone. Perfect! Excellent idea! However it only works while service is available. And it may stop being available overnight. Ponder that. Are we coming to "quick in - quick out" internet service?

Learn about tr.im case .... http://blog.tr.im/post/160697842/tr-im-resurrected

Posted by Ljubisa Gavrilovic on November 25, 2009 at 6:08pm

Digital Word games: Digital Diving, Digital Natives ...

Hi guys,
I like words, so I like playing with words....

I see that Digital Diving, Digital Natives, Digital Migrants are the new online slang.

I suppose the Founders of the Internet are neither Natives, nor Migrants, but just that, Founders.

BUT.... what about those of us who are not "Digital Natives" because the Internet wasn't even a dream when we were born. BUT we are not "Digital Migrants" either, because we didn't "move into" the Internet. We played with computers th… Continue

Posted by Virginia (Ginger) Paque on November 19, 2009 at 10:13pm — 4 Comments

Taking Stock and Closing session @IGF 2009

I had an opportunity to capture this.....big thanx to Ginger.....if anyone got an opportunity to capture the speech by ITU and ICANN...I would appreciate it if they shared it...

Taking stock at IGF 2009;
Ms. Y.J. PARK, Delft University of Technology.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for giving me an opportunity of contributing to the Internet Governance Forum in a capacity of academia. As many previous speakers addressed, IGF has done a
tremendous job of implementing multi-stakeholder principl… Continue

Posted by Judi on November 18, 2009 at 8:15pm — 4 Comments

The Internet Governance Forum: what does it mean for Africa? (research article)

The Internet Governance Forum: what does it mean for Africa? (Le forum sur la Gouvernance de l'Internet : quel sens pour l'Afrique?)

By Ken LOHENTO - Octobre 2009

SUMMARY OF THE ARTICLE

This article seeks to understand the representation and interest of the IGF process within the African ICT community, and to give illustrations of its eventual impact. To do this, we, primarily, have analyzed exchanges on two key discussion lists on which African views on Internet governance are conveyed. To c… Continue

Posted by Lohento on November 18, 2009 at 7:00pm

Workshop 318 - Promoting Cultural Diversity through Cultural Heritage in Cyberspace

Various issues were raised such as dealing with material that is still under copyright and those to which copyright no longer applies as well as organisations doing their own projects such as Google and their digitizing of books project.

Panel of experts from Arab states and UNESCO among others discussed various issues and provided examples of initiatives in countries like Egypt and India. A new way to deal with access to publications and payment was mentioned. Some initiatives such as UNESCO's… Continue

Posted by Marsha Guthrie on November 18, 2009 at 5:21pm

IGF09 – Internet Governance Forum 2009 – ‘n Oorsig (Afrikaans - my second language in South Africa)

Die 4de Byeenkoms van hierdie Forum het vanaf 15-18 November 2009 in die betowerende Sharm El Sheikh in die Sinai Provinsie van Egipte plaasgevind.

Hierdie raadgewende forum het dit ten doel om die Sekretaris Generaal van die Verenigde Nasies in staat te stel om die mandaat van die World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) (WêreldByeenkoms oor Inligtingsgemeenskappe) uit te voer met betrekking tot die bevriordering van ‘n veelvuldige party dialoog (multi-stakeholder policy dialogue)
In der… Continue

Posted by Richard Jonathan on November 18, 2009 at 5:15pm — 2 Comments

Live Blogging ARchive

Some of us at IGF2009 have been making use of the CoverItLive live blogging platform to capture some of the sessions that have taken place.

I can't embed the archive of content directly into Ning, but… Continue

Posted by Tim Davies on November 18, 2009 at 2:38pm

Five reflections on moving the youth participation into the Internet Governance mainstream

This is reposted from an original on the Practical Participation blog.

Since the key role of young people as leaders was written into the WSIS Geneva declaration, there has been some level of involvement of young people in the Internet Governance Forum.

… Continue

Posted by Tim Davies on November 18, 2009 at 1:30pm