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veryone knows the fable of the tortoise and the hare; Being in too much of a hurry and full of self-confidence can lead to bad decisions and missing the goal on time. But what does this tale have to do with the domain business and the internet?
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By Jeremy Malcolm
EFF was amongst a handful of user representatives invited to attend the initial scoping meeting of a new global convening called the NETmundial Initiative, which was held today in Geneva. In introducing the event, Virgílio Almeida of Brazil's Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation gave his prediction that the new Initiative could eventually come to take its place amongst other high-profile Internet governance institutions such as the IGF, ITU and ICANN.
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The organisation will also present a report analysing the human rights dimension of ICANN´s role and making proposals to address it.
Strasbourg, 29.08.2014 – The Council of Europe aims to trigger a debate on how to empower Internet users´ to exercise their human rights online at the 9th Internet Governance Forum (IGF) taking place in Istanbul from 2 to 5 September.
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Those who want to have basic rights and freedoms, openness, wholeness and net neutrality as the Internet's constituent parts will gather on September 4-5 at the Internet Ungovernance Forum.
Internet Ungovernance Forum will happen in parallel to Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2014 that will be held in Istanbul between 2 September and 5. Important names from around all the world will be in there Turkey for IGF. Internet Governance Forum will include fundamental topics like sustainability and security of the Internet's and effects to the development. IGF is criticized to exclude topics like 'censorship', 'efforts decentralization', 'monitoring' which are the Internet's the indeed most basic problems. One of the most basic criticisms of IGF is that despite taking place in Turkey, it does not talk about the pressure and control on the Turkey's Internet.
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Estonia could become one of the first countries to create digital embassies in an effort to cut costs and space.
The digital embassies could replace physical embassies in an effort to free up space and go digital.
Taavi Kotka, Deputy Secretary General of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications in Estonia said data embassies could help secure the digital continuity of the state and its work in potential crisis situations, such as cyber attacks or occupations.
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