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Posted in Community Grants | Posted on 24.04.13 by Carlos Vera | 0 Comments
Despues de haber ejecutado el proyecto que mereció un Grant de ISOC para desarrollar un programa de concientización a padres y maestros de varias escuelas del Ecuador, contamos con una guía de aplicación que puede ser empleada para capacitar en nuestros hogares y en nuestro entorno escolar, sobre las verdaderas medidas que pueden apoyar el uso responsable y seguro del Internet. La Internet...
Posted in Public Policy | Posted on 22.04.13 by Christine Runnegar | 0 Comments
Tags: Privacy & Identity
A micro blog for a micro survey.   What if you could decide what online data is covered by privacy and data protection laws? Why should that data be protected? How would you define "personal data"?   Earlier this year, in preparation for a workshop organized by the Internet Society at the WSIS+10 Review Event - “The New PII: Privacy-Impacting Information”, the Internet Society...
Posted in Tech Matters | Posted on 15.04.13 by Mat Ford | 0 Comments
This summer the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) will meet in Berlin but before the meeting even gets underway, teams of students from around the world will be coding and competing to win the Maniac Challenge 2013. The MANIAC Challenge is a competition to better understand cooperation and interoperability in ad-hoc wireless networks. The specific focus of this year's challenge is on...
Posted in Tech Matters | Posted on 28.03.13 by Mat Ford | 0 Comments
Tags: Awards, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) has been hosting some of the most interesting talks at recent IETF meetings as the Applied Networking Research Prize winners are given the stage to present the work for which they have been recognised. At the IETF86 meeting in Orlando earlier this month, Gonca Gürsun, a PhD student from Boston University and the most recent recipient of the ANRP, discussed...
Posted in Public Policy | Posted on 25.03.13 by Markus Kummer | 0 Comments
Tags: Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
On 25 February 2013, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General Wu Hongbo sent an open letter to the IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG), informing them that he had asked me to serve as Interim Chair for the Open Consultations and MAG Meetings. I was asked beforehand whether I would be ready to accept this role, but I had no confirmation that this would happen until the day the letter was...

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