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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 Day 0: by Achal Prabhala — published Apr 23, 2014 — filed under: Internet Governance, NETmundial
Day O of NETmundial began at Arena NetMundial, an alternative-ish, Brazilian counterpart to the official "multistakeholder" meeting being organised at the very expensive Grand Hyatt. Arena NETmundial began today and will extend until the last day of NETmundial; it's being organised at the very democratic Centro Cultural São Paulo - free to all, no registration required - and offers space for a whole host of organised and spontaneous activity.
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NETmundial Day 1: by Achal Prabhala — published Apr 24, 2014 — filed under: ICANN, IANA, Internet Governance, NETmundial
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's speech at the opening of NETmundial in São Paulo was refreshingly free of the UN-speak that characterised virtually every single other presentation this morning. The experience of sitting for five hours in a room where the word "multi-stakeholder" is repeated at the rate of five mentions per minute is not for the faint-hearted; it almost makes you wish for more of the straight-talking tough-love of people like Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt.
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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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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: Tracking *Multistakeholder* across Contributions: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Apr 24, 2014 — last modified Apr 25, 2014 09:53 AM — filed under: ICANN, IANA, 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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Network Disruptions Report by Global Network Initiative: by Akriti Bopanna — published Jun 12, 2018 — filed under: Network Disruptions, Internet Governance
Around 70% of all known shutdowns in the world took place in India in 2017. The same year Telecom Authority of India (TRAI) released the “Temporary Suspension of Internet Services” giving State and Central Government officials the power to terminate Internet services as per the guidelines.
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Network Neutrality Regulation across South Asia: A Roundtable on Aspects of Differential Pricing: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 13, 2016 — last modified Jan 17, 2016 02:41 AM — filed under: Privacy, Free Basics, Internet Governance, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Event
The Centre of Internet and Society (CIS) in association with Observer Research Foundation, and IT For Change in collaboration with the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce a roundtable on ‘Network Neutrality Regulation Across South Asia: Aspects of Differential Pricing” that will take place on January 22, 2016 from 11.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. at TERI in Bangalore.
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Networked Economies and Gender Action Learning: by Admin — published Oct 02, 2018 — filed under: Gender, Internet Governance, Privacy
Elonnai Hickok, Sunil Abraham and Ambika Tandon participated in a meeting organized by IDRC for grantees under their networked economies programme to discuss gender-based outputs and development outcomes in their work. The event was held in Ottawa on September 20 - 21, 2018, facilitated by Gender at Work.
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Networking its way to better governance: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 28, 2011 — last modified Apr 01, 2011 03:13 PM — filed under: Internet Governance
New policy to regulate Government presence on social media. This article by Deepa Kurup was published in the Hindu on March 28, 2011.
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