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What Happens When the Internet Shuts Down?

In Manipur, India, residents had to live their lives without the Internet for over seven months when they experienced an Internet shutdown.

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Some Thoughts on Cybercrime within the IGF in Vilnius

Yesterday, there were two relevant workshops, one on “Legal Aspects of Internet Governance: International Cooperation on Cybersecurity” and “Cybercrime Common Standards and Joint actions”. Some of the relevant points that ...
IGF 2010 in Vilnius, Lithuania gets underway with Internet Society (ISOC), DiploFoundation, GigaNet and APC Events
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IGF 2010 in Vilnius, Lithuania gets underway with Internet Society (ISOC), DiploFoundation, GigaNet and APC Events

Back in USSR … or so I might have thought. Quite the opposite actually. IGF 2010 in VilniusLithuania has gotten underway with a series of pre-activities at the stylish Litexpo venue – a bastion of ...
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Workshop No.26 “Teaching Internet Governance: experience of the Schools on IG”

This is the information about another interesting meeting, which you might want to attend -   No.26 “Teaching Internet Governance: The experience of the Schools on Internet Governance” , which will ...
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Management of Critical Internet Resources in Trinidad & Tobago

In a such as the , the Management of Critical Internet Resources has proven and will continue to be a challenge.  While the global developed world community (especially the OECD ...
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4th Internet Governance Forum Meeting, Sharm El Sheikh, 14 – 18 November, 2009

I arrived in Sharm El Sheikh on the 14th November around 1am and checked in my hotel about an hour later. The morning of the 14th saw me in the ...
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Promoting Cultural Diversity through Cultural Heritage in Cyberspace

: Knowledge is to do with interactions between people in society – individuals, groups, government, professional societies, etc, each with their own agendas. How do we tie society to IT? ...
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Measuring the impact of internet governance on sustainable development

The objective of this workshop was to explore the range of indicators needed to monitor whether internet policy and governance choices are leading to an Internet that is supporting social, ...
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Social Media and internet governance – legal issues and challenges

Today the Internet has seen a radical dramatic shift. In many senses, this dramatic shift is symbolized by the emergent new social media revolution. Social networking websites have taken the ...