from heise online: International Telecommunication Union criticised for its role in internet snooping

At EuroDIG, the first European Dialogue on Internet Governance, the scientists and experts of the Council of Europe have sharply criticised the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for acting behind closed doors in its initiatives towards cybersecurity standardization. Bertrand de la Chapelle, godfather of the first EuroDIG on behalf of the French government, said EuroDIG should tell the ITU to allow all interest groups to participate in discussing new technology standards. The recent meeting in Strasbourg emphasized the idea of cooperation between governments, the industry and users as one of the central points to be presented at the UN Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad.

(read the entire article at heise online - click here)

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 Future of the Internet: A Political View

The Future of the Internet: A Political View

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By Geoff Huston

On June 17th and 18th the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) hosted a Ministerial Meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy, attended by Ministers for communications from the 30 OECD member nations and some 15 other nations, all to talk about the future of the Internet Economy.

This was not the only dedicated Internet gathering on the 2008 calendar for governmental delegations, which includes the normal load of two meetings of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) a year as well as three ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) meetings. The track record of the lasting value of such meetings does not appear to be overly impressive, and it appears to be difficult to make the claim that the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and the subsequent set of IGF meetings have actually achieved anything at all. In fairness to the IGF, however, achievement of particular outcomes was never a part of the IGF agenda, and in providing a venue for this multi-stakeholder discussion the it is often claimed that the IGF has kept the worst excesses of the political wolves at bay. Without these forums for inter-governmental dialogue and forums for engagement between governments and other organized sectors of common interest it is often asserted that all could've turned out so much worse in terms of politically inspired governmental meddling with the Internet. But lets face it, gathering a collection of ministerial delegations to laboriously recite prepared speeches to each other sounds about as exciting as watching paint dry. And observing meetings where the major outcome appears to be limited to the scheduling of the next meeting can become somewhat tedious after a while. It should not be surprising that the level of expectation of tangible outcomes for such governmental meetings is invariably abysmally low.

So what's the value of adding yet another meeting to governments' schedule? What makes this OECD-hosted meeting so unique in the context of the Internet's current political landscape and its political future? Why would a meeting about the dismal science of economics hold any interest at all? (...)

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Internet Governance Forum: A Commentary on the Second Meeting

IISD Publications Centre
» Maja Andjelkovic, IISD, 2008.

Commentary, copyright: IISD

IISD advisor Maja Andjelkovic comments on the November 2007 Rio meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). She describes the meeting as "another sound step in building a new model for sharing governance of a global resource," but notes that very few explicit linkages between Internet governance and sustainable development have been made at the IGF.


http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2008/com_internet_gov_forum.pdf