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CIS Statement at ICANN 49's Public Forum: by Pranesh Prakash — published Mar 27, 2014 — last modified Jun 04, 2014 05:31 AM — filed under: IANA, IG4all, Internet Governance, Accountability, ICANN, North vs South
This was a statement made by Pranesh Prakash at the ICANN 49 meeting (on March 27, 2014), arguing that ICANN's bias towards the North America and Western Europe result in a lack of legitimacy, and hoping that the IANA transition process provides an opportunity to address this.
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CIS Submission on CCWG-Accountability 2nd Draft Proposal on Work Stream 1 Recommendations: by Pranesh Prakash — published Sep 13, 2015 — last modified Nov 23, 2015 02:58 PM — filed under: ICANN, Internet Governance
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) submitted the below to ICANN's CCWG-Accountability.
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CIS's Comments on the CCWG-Accountability Draft Proposal: by Pranesh Prakash — published Jan 29, 2016 — last modified Jan 29, 2016 03:17 PM — filed under: ICANN, Internet Governance
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) gave its comments on the failures of the CCWG-Accountability draft proposal as well as the processes that it has followed.
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CIS’ Efforts Towards Greater Financial Disclosure by ICANN: by Padma Venkataraman — published Oct 29, 2017 — last modified Oct 31, 2017 02:10 AM — filed under: ICANN, Transparency, Internet Governance, Accountability
CIS has been working towards enhancing transparency and accountability at ICANN since 2014. While initial efforts have resulted in ICANN revealing its sources of income in a granular fashion in 2015, we are yet to see this level of transparency become a default approach within ICANN. Here, Padma Venkataraman chronologically maps CIS’ efforts at enhancing financial transparency and accountability at ICANN, while providing an outline of what remains to be done.
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Comments from the Centre for Internet and Society on Renewal of .NET Registry Agreement: by Vidushi Marda — published May 31, 2017 — last modified Jun 06, 2017 01:35 PM — filed under: ICANN, Internet Governance
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is grateful for the opportunity to comment on the proposed renewal of the .NET Registry Agreement.
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Comments on the Draft Outcome Document of the UN General Assembly’s Overall Review of the Implementation of WSIS Outcomes (WSIS+10): by Geetha Hariharan — published Nov 18, 2015 — last modified Nov 18, 2015 06:33 AM — filed under: ICT4D, Call for Comments, WSIS+10, Access to Knowledge, Accessibility, Human Rights Online, Internet Governance, ICANN, IANA Transition, Open Source, Open Access
Following the comment-period on the Zero Draft, the Draft Outcome Document of the UN General Assembly's Overall Review of implementation of WSIS Outcomes was released on 4 November 2015. Comments were sought on the Draft Outcome Document from diverse stakeholders. The Centre for Internet & Society's response to the call for comments is below.
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Comments on the Proposed ICANN Community Anti-Harassment Policy: by Padma Venkataraman, Rohini Lakshané, Sampada Nayak and Vidushi Marda — published Jan 13, 2017 — filed under: ICANN, Internet Governance
ICANN sought community input on the Proposed ICANN Community Anti-Harassment Policy on 7 November 2016. In response to this the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) submitted its comments.
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Comments to ICANN Supporting the DNS Industry in Underserved Regions: by Jyoti Panday — published Jun 13, 2014 — last modified Jul 04, 2014 06:48 AM — filed under: IG4all, ICANN, Internet Governance, Accountability
Towards exploring ideas and strategies to help promote the domain name industry in regions that have typically been underserved, ICANN published a call for public comments on May 14, 2014. In particular, ICANN sought comments related to existing barriers to Registrar Accreditation and operation and suggestions on how these challenges might be mitigated. CIS contributed to the comments on this report, which will be used to determine next steps to support the domain name industry in underserved regions.
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Commonwealth Domain Name System Forum 2014: by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 21, 2014 — last modified Jul 03, 2014 09:27 AM — filed under: ICANN, Internet Governance
This event took place on 19 June 2014 from 09:00-17:30 BST at ICANN50 | London in the Viscount room. It was organized by the CTO, hosted by ICANN, and supported by Nominet and the Public Interest Registry.
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Control Shift?: by Pranesh Prakash — published Oct 08, 2009 — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:22 AM — filed under: ICANN, Internet Governance
The USA has ceded control of the Internet over to Icann, but only partially. (This post appeared as an article in Down to Earth, in the issue dated November 15, 2009.)
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