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.
Our Association, considering the silence on these topics as a shortcoming on the part of this event, which is IGF, where two thousand participants are expected to be received; and to compensate for these shortcomings by the IGF, decided to organize this event called Internet Ungovernance Forum. We can summarize this forum's purpose as “It is Internet's serious problems that we want to talk about, to find how to solve them and draw a trajectory for action.”
In the forum's website https://iuf.alternatifbilisim.org, we draw attention to the disadvantage of 'multistake-holder structure' caused by IGF by indicating that “the main perpetrators of many of the Internet's problems, governments and corporations, are getting representation in IGF they don’t deserve”.
We think that Internet's problems donot emerge from technology alone, that none of its problems are independent of the political, social and economic contexts within which Internet and other digital infrastructures integrated are. We want to re-structure Internet as the infrastructure basic to our society, cities, education, heathcare, business, media, communication, culture and daily activities. This is the purpose of the organization of this forum.
The significance of creating solidarity networks for a free and equal Internet has also emerged in the process of the event's organization.
Pioneered by Alternative Informatics Association, the event has gained support from many prestigious organizations worldwide in the field. In this two day event, basic topics are decided as 'Surveillance, Censorship and Freedom of Expression, Alternative Media, Net Neutrality, Digital Divide, governance and technical solutions'. Draft schedule of the event can be reached at https://iuf.alternatifbilisim.org/index-tr.html#program.
Internet Ungovernance Forum will have simultaneous translations in Turkish and English languages. To attend this event that will take place in Bilgi University Santral Campus on 4-5 September, you need to register by sending an e-mail to kayit@alternatifbilisim.org.
Developments on the event can be followed from https://iuf.alternatifbilisim.org/index-tr.html, Alternative Informatics Association's @altbilisim account, and the hashtag #ungovForum.
We will also have a special session on 3 September. To get details and attend this event, visit https://iuf.alternatifbilisim.org/gov_ungov_workshop.html.
We desire to see you in this event and expect your contribution. King regards
Alternative Informatics Association
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