Source: Fast Company
At the ongoing ITU conference in Dubai, bureaucrats from 193 countries are rewriting the obscure UN legislation that oversees how the Internet works.
Tag Archives: Internet governance
Russia, China, Saudi Arabia call for worldwide DNS restrictions
December 10, 2012 – 4:34 am
Russia backs down on proposals to regulate the Internet
December 10, 2012 – 4:17 am
Source: Reuters
A Russia-led coalition on Monday withdrew a proposal to give governments new powers over the Internet, a plan opposed by Western countries in talks on a new global telecom treaty.
Citizen Lab at the IGF 2012 meeting in Baku
December 6, 2012 – 9:51 am
Citizen Lab Senior Advisor Robert Guerra and Post-Doctoral Fellow Brenden Kuerbis represented the Citizen Lab at the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) that was held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 6-9 November, 2012.
WCIT splits over the issue of “operating agencies”
December 6, 2012 – 9:23 am
Source: Kieren McCarthy, .ntx
The World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) has dramatically split and may grind to a halt until a key distinction over whom precisely the resulting international treaty apply to is decided.
Multi-stakeholder approach to internet governance
December 6, 2012 – 5:02 am
Source: Jillian C. York, Al Jazeera
The World Conference on International Telecommunications started in Dubai on December 3 and will continue till December 14, 2012.
Let us not put a straightjacket on the internet at Dubai ITU meeting
November 1, 2012 – 4:58 am
Source: Rohan Samarajiva, Daily FT
In the bad old days when in most countries half the population was waiting for a phone and the other half was waiting for a dial tone, national telephone monopolies had a system for sharing the revenues of international calls called the accounting-rate regime.
Who controls the internet?
October 17, 2012 – 12:13 pm
Source: Jemima Kiss, The Guardian
Have you ever noticed that wherever you are in the world, every telephone keypad looks the same? Or wondered why satellites don’t crash into each other?
Internet governance world meets in Toronto amid new domains controversy
October 13, 2012 – 9:46 am
Source: Michael Geist, Toronto Star
The Internet governance world gathers in Toronto this week as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) holds one of its meetings in Canada for only the third time.
ITU ill-suited to regulate cybersecurity
September 6, 2012 – 2:25 am
Source: Centre for Democracy and Technology
The issue of cybersecurity perfectly illustrates why the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) should not be given expanded regulatory authority to include matters of Internet governance.
Privatizing the ITU-T: Back to the future
August 16, 2012 – 5:35 am
Source: Anthony Rutkowski, CircleID
The awkwardly named International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) by any measure is a highly unusual body.
