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Who Governs the Internet? Implications for Freedom and National Security: by Sunil Abraham — published Apr 04, 2014 — last modified Apr 05, 2014 04:23 PM — filed under: Surveillance, Internet Governance, Privacy
The second half of last year has been quite momentous for Internet governance thanks to Edward Snowden. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff became aware that they were targets of US surveillance for economic not security reasons. They protested loudly.
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C-DoT's surveillance system making enemies on internet: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 21, 2014 — last modified Apr 04, 2014 09:45 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Reporters Without Boundaries says it gives unbridled power to law- enforcement agencies to snoop on citizens.
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February 2014 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 28, 2014 — last modified Apr 07, 2014 07:27 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Digital Humanities, Openness
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) welcomes you to the second issue of its newsletter (February) for the year 2014:
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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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The Critical Life of Information: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 11, 2014 — last modified May 05, 2014 04:41 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
Nishant Shah and Malavika Jayaram will be speaking at the event organized by Yale University on April 11, 2014.
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Facebook launches FB Newswire for journalists; loses part of its immunity under IT Act 2000: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 26, 2014 — last modified May 06, 2014 05:41 AM — filed under: IT Act, Internet Governance, Social Media
A bus accident in California, a fire in New Jersey and another in Vasant Kunj, NASA's successful test flight of its vertical take-off and landing craft, a ceremony to honour the sherpas who died during an avalanche at the Everest last week, and, Israel's suspension of talks with Palestinian authorities. These were some of the news that were disseminated on the first day of Facebook's newest social tool: a newswire to aid journalists and newsrooms.
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Filtering content on the internet: by Chinmayi Arun — published May 06, 2014 — last modified May 06, 2014 09:33 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
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