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This workshop will discuss the findings of a recent study of perceptions of public libraries by policy makers in 6 countries in Africa. The study reveals that policy makers still think of libraries in terms of printed media, and not as spaces for catalysing internet...

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The establishment of principles that should govern and enlight future regulation of key aspects of the Internet are at the core of the debate over Internet Governace. In a multistakeholder approach (being multistakeholderism itself a fundamental internet governance...

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With the rapid development of e-commerce in recent years, online shopping has become one of the most popular Internet applications, especially Chinese netizen. According to Ministry of Commerce of China, transaction value of China e-commerce in 2010 reached 4.5...

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An increasing number of parliamentarians have attended IGF meetings and engaged in dialogue in workshops and plenary sessions. Many of these have questions and concerns associated with feedback and comments from their constituents and from media reports. They need to...

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The Top Level Domain ecosystem has gone through many changes and challenges during the past 20 years. Local community support, relations with the governmental authorities, management of the IANA service by ICANN including the delegation and re-delegation processes, de-...

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Professionals, such as teachers, are often at the frontline and are increasingly the target of online harassment and victimisation often with catastrophic consequences on their professional integrity and livelihood. New research conducted in the UK by University of...

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Cyberattacks have been increasing both in number and ferocity.
Top-level domains are particularly at risk because of the breadth of
the consequences when failures or service degradations occur. When
a country code top-level domain is attacked,...

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This workshop will focus on:
1) Policy/legal frameworks that will enable mobile and cloud services for development, such as cross-border data flows and not applying legacy regulation to new online services;
2) Future of mobile and cloud services,...

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Considerable efforts are being undertaken across the world to develop new transborder solutions to online copyright infringement. Countries, regional and international organisations are also reviewing legal frameworks to assess whether they need to be updated in light...

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Cyberattacks have been increasing both in number and ferocity.
Top-level domains are particularly at risk because of the breadth of
the consequences when failures or service degradations occur. When
a country code top-level domain is attacked,...

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While the communication technologies that use the radio spectrum continue to develop at a brisk pace, our general approach to regulating the spectrum has not changed much since the 1930s when the spectrum was regulated to a very high degree in order to assure that...

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Mobile internet is no longer luxury in Africa, it has become a vital tool for fostering Social, Economic and Technological Development in Africa.
This workshop will discuss:
- The Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats that face Mobile...

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Access to Internet services concerns human rights and fundamental freedom, as well as the exercise of democratic citizenship. Access and diversity are not an aim in itself. Access and diversity are important for democracy and human rights because they ensure the...

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This workshop looks at mainstreaming the disability perspective and the future of accessibility. For society to be truly inclusive of persons with disabilities, steps must be taken in law, policy and practice to ensure that the disability perspective is mainstreamed...

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Maximizing the value and impact of broadband on education, and in particular higher education, is a fundamentally important issue for the next generation of any country or region. Broadband access,and the opportunities for the youth and the next generations, are an...

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The internet is a social space in which families with children are one of the key and not the least important constituency of users.

A number of excellent "cyber charters" have emerged in recent years. They seek to embody a comprehensive framework of rights...

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The workshop seeks to elaborate the impact of regulation, between Free and Open Source Software and Enterprise. It will look at the following key areas:
Education, Software development,Digital Content, Empowering persons with disability, FOSS for disaster...

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The workshop will consist of a roundtable discussion, in order to ensure maximum interaction among participants. The issues will be framed as questions, in order to foster a more focused debate and to reach more concrete outcomes.
Building up on the positive...

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The main themes to be covered in this workshop are: an explanation of how Internet bandwidth, the capacity to route Internet traffic, is produced within Internet exchange points, an overview of the distribution of Internet exchange points globally, and discussion of...

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This workshop explores common claims about the impact of the Internet on children and young people & invites participants to explore the evidence base for each. It will identify where policy initiatives are based on misconceptions about young people and the...

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The IGF this year takes place in a location where the Digital Divide has been most prominent. However, interesting changes are prevalent in the area of connectivity and access in the Sub-Saharan region, for example, the massive uptake of mobile phone technology, the...

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UNESCO, OECD and ISOC aim to organize a workshop on economic aspects of local content creation and local infrastructure. The partners involved in the study support the efforts and progress made within the framework of enhanced cooperation in shaping Internet policy...

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This worshop has been organized in the IGF of Sharm el Sheik and in the IGF of Vilnius and we plan to organize it for the third time in Kenya.
Although some latin languages like Spanish and Portuguese are spoken by hundreds of million people, there is not a...

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African Top Level Domains Organization (AFTLD) acts as a focal point for all the African TLDs Managers, to discuss matters of policy that affect ccTLDs globally.

To improve the abilities of African ccTLD organizations to maintain business continuity the...

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This workshop will bring together different perspectives (government, industry, technical coordinators and users) to shed light on and discuss the inevitable challenge of embracing the IPv6 era.

Specific topics of discussion will include:

- IPv6: What...

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Global Internet governance comprises a highly distributed ecosystem of shared institutional frameworks. These vary greatly along multiple dimensions, such as their social purposes, creation, organizational settings, legal forms, strength, scope of issues, domain of...

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It is neither easy nor simple to follow or effectively participate in the organizations that manage the Internet’s resources. This session will look at what the barriers are, what efforts are being made to remove them, and how everyone from civil...

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This workshop will explore where and how Internet Governance decisions
are currently taken. What are the relevant fora and decision-making
bodies? In what topic areas do they make decisions and with what
kinds of impacts? How can...

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The Motor Vehicles Manufacturers Association in America before World War II shared inventions among its members without a licence fee of any kind the same way home cooking recipes have been shared across kitchens since the beginning of human culture. In the field of...

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The Council of Europe celebrates this year the 30th Anniversary of its Data Protection Convention (Convention 108) which has served as the backbone of international law in over 40 European countries and has influenced policy and legislation far beyond Europe’s shores....

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Effective cybersecurity requires effective transnational and global cooperation, as well as true multi-stakeholder engagement from governments, industry and citizens. This workshop will focus on three key issues of cybersecurity and the emerging issues/opportunities...

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Policymakers around the globe are trying to identify appropriate national policy solutions to combat illegal online activities such as child pornography, violation of intellectual property rights and other cybercriminal activities. Some of these solutions propose...

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Cybersecurity has become a policy priority of many governments. This is reflected in cybersecurity policies or strategies that have been adopted or that are in preparation in all regions of the world.

Such cybersecurity strategies combine political and...

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The Internet has become a key instrument for social, political and economic activities in developed countries and, as broadband penetration increases, will arguably become so also in developing ones. This implies a strong dependency on both the basic infrastructure of...

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The Internet has now been in existence for several decades and provided a wide range of benefits to individuals, states and the global community as a whole. However, as its use grows, so do the risks it presents to children and young people, who are more vulnerable to...

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Cyberattacks have been increasing both in number and ferocity.
Top-level domains are particularly at risk because of the breadth of
the consequences when failures or service degradations occur. When
a country code top-level domain is attacked,...

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Cyberattacks have been increasing both in number and ferocity.
Top-level domains are particularly at risk because of the breadth of
the consequences when failures or service degradations occur. When
a country code top-level domain is attacked,...

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•Moderator introduces key issues and panellists
•Panel discussion
•Q&A session (including remote participation)
Traditional approaches to ‘online privacy’ are often based on ‘compliance’ with a patchwork of local laws (where...

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Cyberattacks have been increasing both in number and ferocity.
Top-level domains are particularly at risk because of the breadth of
the consequences when failures or service degradations occur. When
a country code top-level domain is attacked,...

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The Internet and mobile technologies have made great inroads in the life of young people and Africa is no exception. The continent presents unique characteristics in terms of the understanding of these technologies, their deployment and the interventions (or the lack...

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Cyberattacks have been increasing both in number and ferocity.
Top-level domains are particularly at risk because of the breadth of
the consequences when failures or service degradations occur. When
a country code top-level domain is attacked,...

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As a participant in the CSTD's Working Group on Improvements to the IGF, the Government of India recently provided a set of "Proposed Improvements to IGF Outcomes, in Keeping with the UN General Assembly Mandate". Although there was no consensus around this proposal,...

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Paragraph 60 of the Tunis Agenda acknowledges that “there are many cross-cutting international public policy issues that require attention and are not adequately addressed by the current mechanisms”. To fill this gap, the Agenda provides for the establishment of the...