Twitter under atack in Brazil

A post from Ladybug Brasil

September 9th, 2008 · 10 Comments

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Everyone knows Brazil is new to democracy. This year, the justice department of election passed a law saying that the web is similar to tv and radio networks (wich are public concessions). But it isn’t. We maintain our sites and blogs with our own resources, sometimes with a crappy and expensive service wich should be overseen by government but isn’t. And its agency, Anatel, which supposedly was created to regulate the telecommunications is under attack from inside government, that is still frozen in time, with laws created TWENTY years ago, when telephones e cellphones were luxury articles, not available to everyone. This is the current scenario.

Today twitter, the most used micro blog here in Brazil is under attack. One of our elections sections, in Ceara, has ruled that a fake political profile should be taken down by the service.

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Internet Governance Forum (IGF) - Hyderabad, India, Dec'2008 - provisional schedule

INTERNET GOVERNANCE FORUM
HYDERABAD, INDIA
03-06/12/2008

SCHEDULE REV.18/09/2009


Day 1 (3 December 2008)
Reaching the Next Billion

Morning: Panel Discussion:
 Access
 Multilingualism
Tutorials /Workshops/Other events
Lunch
Afternoon - Opening Ceremony
Open Dialogue Workshops/Other events

Day 2 (4 December 2008)
Promoting CyberSecurity and Trust

Morning: Panel Discussion:
 Dimensions of cyber security and cybercrime
 Fostering security, privacy and openness
Workshops/Other events
Lunch
Afternoon: Open Dialogue Workshops/Other events

Day 3 (5 December 2008)
Managing Critical Internet Resources

Morning: Panel Discussion:
 Transition from IPv4 to IPv6
 Global, regional and national arrangements
Workshops/Other events
Lunch
Afternoon Open Dialogue Workshops/Other events

Day 4 (6 December, 2008)
Morning
Main Session:
 Emerging issues: The Internet of tomorrow:
Innovation and the evolution of the Internet.
Workshops/Other events
Lunch
Afternoon
Main Session:
 Taking Stock and the Way forward
 Closing Ceremony
Workshops/Other events

The European Commission and the JPA

Source: http://www.justsearching.co.uk/news/us-loosens-its-grip-on-the-running-of-the-internet.html

September 15, 2008

The EU has hailed a decision taken by the US government to grant full autonomy to the not-for-profit organisation, which manages internet domain names by 2009. The EU has always criticised the control over internet governance exercised by the US. Now things will change a bit thanks to the new developments.

Icann, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, was set up in 1998. It is based in California. The Corporation would no longer be required to report to US authorities after every six months. It would do so annually to the whole internet community under arrangements that just took effect as a prescriptive agreement lapsed.

The newly signed three-year ‘joint project agreement’ can be subjected to a review at its halfway point. It states that the department of commerce ‘will be holding regular meetings with Icann senior management to assess progress,’ rather than the earlier process under which it reported to the US government.

The commissioner of EU information society and media, Viviane Reding, said:

Cyber-repression, whether required by governments or supported by commercial firms, is incompatible with Europe’s fundamental rights and its open, pluralist model of society.