Information Policy

EU push for worldwide ‘right to be forgotten’ laws tests internet freedom

By Vanessa Emilio

I wrote an article in May which commented that the rest of the world was not sure how the ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling would be managed outside of the European Union.

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The IGF Secretariat is accepting Remote Hub requests for the Ninth Annual IGF Meeting that will be held in Istanbul, Turkey on 2-5 September 2014. 

Deadline for submissions is midnight UTC 15 August.

Source: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/igf-2014-istanbul/remote-hubs-registrations

by Joshua Bleiberg and Darrell M. West

n March the United States announced that it would relinquish its oversight of The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). ICANN is an enormously important organization that administers the Internet.  There is an emerging consensus that international governance of ICANN is coming but there are many unanswered questions.

By Adeyemi Adepetunand and Ayoyinka Jegede

Lagos and Uyo — AS Nigeria prepares to showcase its Information and Communications Technology (ICT) war chest at the October 2014 GITEX technology exhibition in Dubai, UAE, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is optimistic that the country's participation at the forum could enable the ICT sector increase its GDP contribution from the current nine per cent to over 20 per cent after the forum.

Innovative approaches to governing the internet are needed, say experts from a new global internet policy commission set up to find and propose such solutions to governments over the next two years.

Intelligence contractor Edward Snowden’s exposure of online surveillance by the US-government has shaken the multi-stakeholder model of internet governance by undermining trust among stakeholders, according to Tobby Simon, a member of the Global Commission on Internet Governance (GCIG).

Internet Governance Forum Remote Hub

The IGF Secretariat is accepting Remote Hub requests for the Ninth Annual IGF Meeting that will be held in Istanbul, Turkey on 2-5 September 2014. 

Deadline for submissions is midnight UTC 15 August.

Source: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/igf-2014-istanbul/remote-hubs-registrations

Deciding Who Will Govern the Internet

by Joshua Bleiberg and Darrell M. West

n March the United States announced that it would relinquish its oversight of The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). ICANN is an enormously important organization that administers the Internet.  There is an emerging consensus that international governance of ICANN is coming but there are many unanswered questions.

Nigeria's ICT Sector Eyes 20 Percent GDP Contribution Through Gitex

By Adeyemi Adepetunand and Ayoyinka Jegede

Lagos and Uyo — AS Nigeria prepares to showcase its Information and Communications Technology (ICT) war chest at the October 2014 GITEX technology exhibition in Dubai, UAE, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is optimistic that the country's participation at the forum could enable the ICT sector increase its GDP contribution from the current nine per cent to over 20 per cent after the forum.

Commission seeks new ways to govern the internet

Innovative approaches to governing the internet are needed, say experts from a new global internet policy commission set up to find and propose such solutions to governments over the next two years.

Intelligence contractor Edward Snowden’s exposure of online surveillance by the US-government has shaken the multi-stakeholder model of internet governance by undermining trust among stakeholders, according to Tobby Simon, a member of the Global Commission on Internet Governance (GCIG).