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The Internet Governance Forum will start on Monday morning but already the debate has started – and it is surrounding freedom of speech online.
There are several reports that the Greek authorities arrested a man for linking – not writing, but linking – to blog posts that had satirised a businessman (possibly a TV evangelist). The [...]

At the IGF meeting this week, developing countries will try yet again to make their point about problems with Net access, while everyone else gallavants ahead with flashy new technologies.
I think one useful workshop would be to make everyone experience the Net the way, say, an African does. And, as luck would have it, I [...]

I’m sat on a particularly uncomfortable seat on Olympic Airlines flying to Athens to attend the first Internet Governance Forum as I write this.
Despite the best efforts of the chair-kicking imbecile behind me, I am piecing together readable versions of the various workshops going on in Athens to be posted on the IGF2006.info, and as [...]

I was out and about in London yesterday. Late for a conference on Cybersecurity because of a huge car crash on the M40, then off to Westminster to meet this Parliamentary aide who has been asked to produce a four-page info booklet on Internet Governance for UK MPs and Peers (god help him).
And then off [...]

The Internet Governance Forum is going to be held in just over a week’s time in Athens, and I’m not entirely sure how to make this clear enough but: if you have any interest whatsoever in the future of the Internet, you should take time out to review what happens there.

And you can do precisely [...]

I was grabbed after the recent IGF meeting in London by a young bloke who told me he was from some organisation in London that tried to involve and educate about various developing country issues. He wanted to involve “southern” journalists – by which I assumed he meant south-of-Equator – in the IGF.
I told him [...]

Nominet held a meeting over the IGF on Monday which has attracted a fair amount of attention, most of it revolving around Nitin Desai’s remarks at the end, picked up by the BBC.
I have grabbed the audio from the meeting and produced a series of MP3 files which you can download and listen to here. [...]

So Nominet held a big meeting in London on Monday covering the new Internet Governance Forum that will meet for the first time at the end of this month in Athens.

In some ways, it was a sort-of mini IGF in that it took the same free-ranging panel approach and that it explictly held two panels [...]

There is a big meeting on the future of the Internet in London tomorrow, run by Nominet, where I will be acting as the “chief blogger”. As such, I need your help.
In fact, I am the official chief blogger for the Internet Governance Forum itself in Athens at the end of this month. That basically [...]

I’ve just spoken to Markus [tag]Kummer[/tag], the man in day-to-day charge of the upcoming [tag]Internet[/tag] Governance [tag]Forum[/tag] in Athens in October, and have got an understanding of how the international meeting of governments, business and civil and private society is going to work.
I’ll do a piece for The Register on it (now up here), hopefully [...]