I was at the United Nations in Geneva last week to watch what was happening to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) as it prepares for its third outing, this December in Hyderabad, India. Actually I...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
[I just posted this on the ICANN Participation website – and realised maybe I should have only posted it here on my own blog. So here is some daft repetition.] The Nominating Committee of ICANN...
So I was asked by ICANN’s “executive officer and vice president for corporate affairs” Paul Levins to do an online participation website for its meeting in São Paulo, starting officially on Monday. Paul was at...
I am very tired so I have had to check what the new dotcom agreement – amended and then approved late yesterday by the US government’s Department of Commerce – actually says several times before...