Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Brenden Kuerbis analyzes the latest development in the debate over Internet identity governance with a focus on the issue of public involvement.
Tag Archives: Internet governance
Getting users into identity governance
May 2, 2012 – 12:19 pm
Googler Sergey Brin cries crocodile tears on threats to ‘open Internet’
April 27, 2012 – 5:07 pm
Source: Dwayne Winseck, The Globe and Mail
Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founder, kicked off The Guardian newspaper’s “Battle for the Internet” series last week with a full-throated defense of open data and an open Internet.
CPJ’s Danny O’Brien on Cyberdialogue 2012
March 22, 2012 – 6:02 pm
Source: Danny O’Brien, Irish Times
In Toronto this week, I sat with what they like to call “multiple stakeholders” and we talked about the future of the internet, as you do.
U.N. threat to Internet freedom
February 21, 2012 – 11:15 am
Source: Robert M. McDowell, The Wall Street Journal
On Feb. 27, a diplomatic process will begin in Geneva that could result in a new treaty giving the United Nations unprecedented powers over the Internet.
Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert interviewed by the National Post
February 11, 2012 – 3:00 pm
Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert was interviewed earlier this week as the Internet briefly went dark in Iran.
The failure of governance in a hyperconnected world
January 10, 2012 – 4:46 pm
Source: Lee Howell, The New York Times
Most of us are taught to think about the long-term consequences of our actions, but it is a life lesson that is easily forgotten — both on an individual and an organizational level.
Freedom and security in cyberspace
October 6, 2011 – 10:44 pm
Source: The Economist
Later today (Thursday) Britain’s foreign secretary, William Hague, will take questions from the public via Twitter on the London conference on cyberspace that he is organising for next month. As a journalist, I cannot help but feel that this a bit of a stunt: communicating in 140 remotely typed characters, the questioner has little chance of putting a politician on the spot. Still, I suppose one should not criticise ministers for trying to communicate with the public.
Who should run the internet?
October 1, 2011 – 9:53 pm
Source: The Economist
NETHEADS build, run and protect the internet. They often profit from it too. More than 2,000 of them from more than 100 countries descended on Nairobi this week for the latest Internet Governance Forum (IGF), a conference organised under United Nations auspices.
Key quotes and tweets from the Internet Governance Forum
September 29, 2011 – 9:58 pm
Source: Global Voices
As the Internet Governance Forum is a truly epic event both in the online and in the offline world, it’s really hard to do justice to the whole complexity of the discussions and debates that are taking place amongst hundreds of representatives from governments, companies, civil society, the technical community, and grassroots activists who have gathered for four days in Nairobi, Kenya.
What “multi-stakeholderism” really means for governments
September 29, 2011 – 9:37 pm
Source: Internet Governance Forum
In multistakeholder settings, national governments often claim that they should have special status because they represent “the public interest” in policy deliberations. But how true is that claim? Do governments actually intervene in these processes with a judicious, impartial eye toward policy solutions that are the best for everyone?
