The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) announced recently the creation of an ambitious new initiative, Business Action to Support the Information Society (BASIS). This project will lend business expertise and experience to the emerging global dialogue that is shaping the agenda on Internet governance and information and communication technologies (ICTs), particularly in multi stakeholder discussions at the United Nations and following the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialized agency for telecommunications, and infoDev, a multi-donor program focusing on information and communication technologies (ICT) for development, today launched the second module of their collaborative online ICT Regulation Toolkit, the Legal and Institutional Framework.
Internet users are being urged to stand up for online freedoms by backing a new campaign launched by human rights group Amnesty International.
In just a few years the internet has moved from the periphery to the centre of our lives. We have not seen such a life-changing communications technology since the invention of television. As a result it is often easy to forget that the world wide web is still in its infancy: today just 10 per cent of the world’s information is available online. Like any child, the internet is pushing at the perimeters of established systems – business models from the last century, traditional media, long-a ...
The Head of the SBU Special Telecommunication Systems and Information Protection Kostyantyn Boyko reckons it is necessary to introduce regulations within the Ukrainian segment of the World Wide Web. He initiates such innovation in order to avoid the threat to the national safety of Ukraine.
The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration today published a notice of its intent to award a sole source contract to ICANN to perform key technical functions supporting the Internet Domain Name System.
The Department continues to believe that ICANN is uniquely qualified to perform these services that are critical to the stability and security of the Internet.
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Name and Numbers) has been performing the Int ...
The head of the agency that authorizes Internet address names insists that its rejection of an address for pornography sites this month was neither politically motivated nor unduly influenced by the U.S. government, despite accusations of meddling from both the European Commission and the U.S. company hoping to manage the address.
In caving to U.S. pressure, ICANN may have traded short-term gain for long-term pain. In the short-term, ICANN has staved off immediate government pressure and has likely ensured continuing support from the U.S. government. Looking ahead, however, proponents of a multi-lateral Internet governance framework will cite this case as a classic illustration of why the ICANN approach must be altered to ensure transparency, independence, and to better reflect the needs of the global community.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today established an Advisory Group to assist him in convening the Internet Governance Forum, a new forum for a multi-stakeholder dialogue on Internet governance. The Group includes 46 members from Government, the private sector and civil society, including the academic and technical communities, who represent all regions of the world (see list below). It is chaired by Nitin Desai, the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser for the World Summit on t ...
The handbook is designed to be useful to two groups of people. First, it aims to help government and NGO officials to plan, initiate, evaluate and improve ICT-based enterprise projects for women. Second, it is intended for facilitated use by groups of poor women themselves who want to start up, manage and improve ICT-based enterprises.
The "Women's ICT-Based Enterprise for Development" project is coordinated by the University of Manchester's Institute for Development Policy and Management ...
One of the most significant outcomes of the World Summit on Information Society, which took place in Tunis between 16 and 18 November 2005, was the birth of the Internet Governance Forum.
The roles and functions of the Forum are set out in paragraphs 72-79 of the “Tunis Agenda for the Information Society” (see: important documents). Briefly, its main purpose will be to discuss a wide range of issues related to Internet Governa ...
Venue: Athens, GreeceThe roles and functions of the Forum are set out in paragraphs 72-79 of the “Tunis Agenda for the Information Society”. Briefly, its main purpose will be to discuss a wide range of issues related to Internet Governance, and, where appropriate, to make recommendations to the international community. The working and function of the Forum will be multilateral, multi-stakeholder democratic and transparent.
Greece has offered to hos ...
Venue: Athens, Greece“Governance” is not the final objective in terms of a “final regulatory regime” but an exploratory notion for the present step by step process towards an “effective international rule of law” (comprising private governance tools). In this process states still are actors of primary importance; but in governance reality the state is competing with foreign, international and private governing authorities or is joining them in hybrid efforts.
The issues pertaining to Internet governance are a ...