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CWG-Internet discussions at ITU Council 2013
Photo credit: ITU pictures via Flickr After the divisive discussions about the ITU’s role in Internet issues at WCIT in December 2012, the harmony that appeared to reign at WTPF-13 in May this year...
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Only a few weeks ago, the ITU Council 2013 had a long debate over whether it was appropriate to open the Council Working Group on international Internet-related public policy issues (CWG-Internet) to...
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Internet governance in 2014: Let’s keep calm and carry on – Part 1
We spent the last quarter of 2013 developing all sorts if new activities to “fix” Internet governance, managing to thoroughly confuse ourselves in the process. A large percentage of these activities...
View ArticleMultistakeholder processes are messy
Thoughts from the WSIS+10 preparatory process I remotely followed, on and off, the third WSIS+10 High-Level Event Multistakeholder Preparatory Platform (MPP) meeting that was held in Geneva this week....
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Downloadable archive of NETmundial contributions
Post last updated: 13 March 2014 There were 189 contributions to NETmundial. There have been three sets of duplicate contributions: ICANN Cross Community Working Group on Internet Governance (duplicate...
View ArticleHow do you solve a problem like IANA?
Tracking where the fallout will be in the wake of NTIA’s announcement NTIA couldn’t have timed their big news announcement about IANA better if they’d tried. People had just received their NETmundial...
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What’s going on with WSIS+10? Part 1: Some context
WSIS+10 High Level Event Next week, the WSIS+10 High Level Event (HLE), coordinated by the ITU, will be held in Geneva as an extended version of the annual WSIS Forum. The WSIS+10 HLE began its life as...
View ArticleWhat’s going on with WSIS+10? Part 2: The upcoming HLE and yet another MPP
[Part 1 of this two-part post is here] A sixth MPP is now happening As far as I understood it, the May Multistakeholder Preparatory Platform (MPP) meeting ended with no agreement to have a future MPP...
View ArticleThe WSIS+10 HLE 6th MPP meeting and its aftermath
I was partly wrong and partly right when I blogged previously about how I thought the sixth and final Multistakeholder Preparatory Platform (MPP) for the WSIS+10 High Level Event (HLE) would happen. I...
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The endorsement of the WSIS+10 Vision document
The two WSIS+10 High Level Event (HLE) outcome documents were applauded in the room in Geneva at about 5:30 pm on the second, and last, day of the High Level Event. ITU Secretary-General, Dr Toure,...
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