Category: IGF

May 16, 2007

IGF/Internet/Journalism/WSIS

Welcome to Geneva – the entire city is fully booked

If anyone every wondered whether the Internet was vital, or if the new Internet Governance Forum suffered from a lack of interest, worry no more. Next week, a series of events will be held in...

February 13, 2007

IGF/Internet/Journalism/WSIS

Dynamic Coalition for Online Collaboration

I have just announced the creation of the “dynamic coalition” for online collaboration in the IGF meeting in Geneva. Effectively this is a group of people who plan to test and run online tools to...

IGF/Internet/Journalism/WSIS

Some stats on the IGF Athens meeting

The Greek delegate has just spoken at the stocktaking meeting of the Internet Governance Forum in Geneva. He gave some stats from the first Athens meeting in November 2006 that might be worth preserving: 1350...

February 12, 2007

ICANN/IGF/Internet/Journalism/WSIS

The Internet rollercoaster starts up the track again: IGF in Geneva

I am in Geneva for a stock-take of the first Internet Governance Forum in Athens last November. It should be an interesting meeting. The one thing that no one is any doubt about is that...

January 25, 2007

ICANN/IGF/Internet/Journalism/Technology/WSIS

So, I took this job at ICANN…

Starting 5 February, I will be the “general manager, public participation” for ICANN – an organisation I have closely followed and frequently criticised almost since its inception in 1999. I’m excited about it, and the...

January 5, 2007

ICANN/IGF/Internet/Journalism/Podcast/Technology

Vista and Net governance discussion on the BBC

I took place in a discussion with various notables just before Xmas for an edition of the BBC’s Digital Planet radio programme and just remembered it has now come out and you can download and...

December 7, 2006

ICANN/IGF/Internet/Journalism/Technology/WSIS

Online participation: the possibilities and the realities

I’ve spent quite a bit of time recently building and running online participation websites – or, in English, trying to get people on the Internet learning about and interacting with physical meetings. Both have been...

November 16, 2006

Funny/ICANN/IGF/Internet/iPod/Journalism/Nominet/Oxford/Photos/Podcast/Sex.com/Technology/WSIS

How to avoid learning perhaps a little too much about Kieren’s life

I mentioned about a month ago how I was considering setting up a second blog so I could more easily separate my personal and professional life. And yesterday, twice, I was reminded that there is...

November 13, 2006

IGF/Internet/Journalism/WSIS

UN asks for Net governance forum feedback

The secretariat of the Internet Governance Forum, part of the United Nations, has updated its website to include all the session transcripts, plus Markus Kummer’s “informal summing-up” of them. More interestingly though it has also...

November 9, 2006

IGF/Internet/Journalism/Technology/WSIS

Guardian article on the IGF

I’ve a piece in The Guardian today which is a broad summary of the IGF last week. It basically says that what could have been a disaster ended up being a success and finishes with...