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Principles for Internet Governance: NETmundial 2014 — What do the Contributions Reveal?: by Geetha Hariharan — published Apr 21, 2014 — last modified Apr 23, 2014 04:01 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, NETmundial
The Global Multi-stakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance (NETmundial) is scheduled for April 23-24, 2014. Towards its stated end of establishing "strategic guidelines related to the use and development of the Internet in the world", NETmundial sought contributions from stakeholders around the world on two topics: (1) Set of Internet governance principles; (2) Roadmaps for the further evolution of the Internet governance system.
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NETmundial and Suggestions for IANA Administration: by Smarika Kumar — published Apr 22, 2014 — last modified Apr 23, 2014 04:00 AM — filed under: ICANN, IANA, Internet Governance, NETmundial
Following NTIA's announcement to give up control over critical Internet functions, the discussion on how that role should be filled has gathered steam across the Internet governance space.
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NETmundial - Which Countries Have Not Submitted Contributions to NETmundial?: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Apr 22, 2014 — last modified Apr 25, 2014 09:40 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, NETmundial
This set of analysis of the contributions submitted to NETmundial 2014 is part of the effort by the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, India, to enable productive discussions of the critical internet governance issues at the meeting and elsewhere.
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Brazil passes Marco Civil; the US-FCC Alters its Stance on Net Neutrality: by Geetha Hariharan — published Apr 24, 2014 — last modified Apr 24, 2014 10:05 AM — filed under: IANA, Internet Governance, NETmundial, ICANN, Marco Civil
Hopes for the Internet rise and fall rapidly. Yesterday, on April 23, 2014, Marco Civil da Internet, the Brazilian Bill of Internet rights, was passed by the Brazilian Senate into law.
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CIS Comments: Enhancing ICANN Accountability: by Geetha Hariharan — published Jun 10, 2014 — last modified Jun 10, 2014 01:03 PM — filed under: IANA, Internet Governance, NETmundial, ICANN, Accountability
On May 6, 2014, ICANN published a call for public comments on "Enhancing ICANN Accountability". This comes in the wake of the IANA stewardship transition spearheaded by ICANN and related concerns of ICANN's external and internal accountability mechanisms. Centre for Internet and Society contributed to the call for comments.
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NETmundial - Comparing Appearance of Fifty Most Frequent Words: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Apr 22, 2014 — last modified Apr 25, 2014 09:59 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, NETmundial
This set of analysis of the contributions submitted to NETmundial 2014 is part of the effort by the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, India, to enable productive discussions of the critical internet governance issues at the meeting and elsewhere.
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NETmundial - Contributions by Types of Organisation: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Apr 22, 2014 — last modified Apr 25, 2014 09:57 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, NETmundial
This set of analysis of the contributions submitted to NETmundial 2014 is part of the effort by the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, India, to enable productive discussions of the critical internet governance issues at the meeting and elsewhere.
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NETmundial Roadmap: Defining the Roles of Stakeholders in Multistakeholderism: by Jyoti Panday — published Apr 23, 2014 — last modified Apr 28, 2014 12:51 PM — filed under: ICANN, IANA, Internet Governance, NETmundial
NETmundial, one of the most anticipated events in the Internet governance calendar, will see the global community convening at Sao Paolo, with an aim to establish 'strategic guidelines related to the use and development of the Internet in the world.' This post analyses the submissions at NETmundial that focused on Roadmap, towards an understanding of stakeholder roles in relation to specific governance functions and highlighting the political, technical and architectural possibilities that lie ahead.
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NETmundial Day 2: by Achal Prabhala — published Apr 25, 2014 — filed under: ICANN, IANA, Internet Governance, NETmundial
Fadi Chehade, the ICANN boss, closed NETmundial 2014 with these words "In Africa we say if you want to go first, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together." He should have added: And if you want to go nowhere, go multi-stakeholder.
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Net Freedom Campaign Loses its Way: by Sunil Abraham — published May 10, 2014 — last modified May 27, 2014 11:07 AM — filed under: ICANN, Internet Governance, NETmundial
A recent global meet was a victory for governments and the private sector over civil society interests.
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