Nominet IGF meeting audio recordings

1. Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » IGF in Athens: searching globally for the Internet’s common ground

   October 30, 2006 at 6:02 am

   […] ‘The Internet has become a global commons, providing a uniform platform for commerce, communications, debate and research for all nations. But, with the rapid rise in Asian Internet users, the Internet runs the risk of becoming balkanized’, Nitin Desai, chair of the U.N.’s Internet Governance Forum (IGF), warns. Speaking at a conference hosted by Nominet, the UK body in charge of domain names ending .uk, Desai pointed in particular to a problem that could lead Asian nations to break away from the current Internet structure and create their own, separate Internet: most Asians don’t know the Latin alphabet, the basis of all domain names. [mp3 files] U.N. Official Warns of Internet Balkanization – IP & Democracy […]

2. Eco-Rama » Blog Archive » IGF in Athens: searching globally for the Internet’s common ground

   October 30, 2006 at 8:46 am

   […] The first meeting of the Internet Governance Forum – IGF, which aims to be a a place for a “multi-stakeholder policy dialogue”, starts tomorrow, going from 30 October to 2 November in Athens, Greece. The idea of the forum emerged during last year’s meetings of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis which sought to be an alternative to the stalemated debate about the future constituency and role of the all powerful ICANN, or Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Approximately 1300 participants are estimated to attend the workings of the meeting, one third of which are state representatives (84 different delegations of countries), while the other two thirds consist of representatives from the civil society and the private (business) sector. What Will Be the Outcome of the Internet Governance Forum Meeting in Athens? – CircleID ‘The Internet has become a global commons, providing a uniform platform for commerce, communications, debate and research for all nations. But, with the rapid rise in Asian Internet users, the Internet runs the risk of becoming balkanized’, Nitin Desai, chair of the U.N.’s Internet Governance Forum (IGF), warns. Speaking at a conference hosted by Nominet, the UK body in charge of domain names ending .uk, Desai pointed in particular to a problem that could lead Asian nations to break away from the current Internet structure and create their own, separate Internet: most Asians don’t know the Latin alphabet, the basis of all domain names. [mp3 files] U.N. Official Warns of Internet Balkanization – IP & Democracy […]

3. Gerência de Informações Estratégicas » Blog Archive » Rumo ao Fórum de Governança da Internet - IGF / Atenas 2006

   March 20, 2007 at 11:52 pm

   […] O coordenador do comitê da ONU que assessora a realização do IGF, o indiano Nitin Desai, em seminário preparatório recentemente ocorrido em Londres (mp3) afirmou que existem tensões sobre a regulação da rede no futuro e também na questão do gerenciamento dos domínios. Em cinco anos existirão muito mais usuários da rede na Ásia do que na Europa ou América, mais páginas em chinês do que em inglês, e o uso da rede nestes locais pode diferir bastante do que hoje ocorre nos países ocidentais. É justo, por exemplo, que estas culturas desejem grafar seus domínios nos caracteres das línguas locais, e no entanto, ao mesmo tempo, parece ser importante para todos que não haja uma balcanização da Internet. Por outro lado, o ataque das teles ao princípio de neutralidade da rede (net neutrality) nos EUA põe em risco a integridade da Internet que nos acostumamos a usar. […]

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