The Internet’s status as a communication medium that is decentralized, scalable and global continues to pose challenging new problems in governance and regulation. GigaNet, an international scholarly community created in 2006, holds a two-day conference to explore issues such as IP address scarcity, ICANN accountability, the role of social media in toppling dictatorships, censorship, privacy online, and the tensions between national security and Internet freedom. Assistant Secretary for Commerce Larry Strickling (NTIA) will provide the keynote speech during lunch on Thursday, May 5.

Date: May 5-6, 2011

Location: American University School of International Service, Abramson Family Founders Room, Terrace Level (Washington, DC)

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Public Interest Groups to Discuss Controversial Plans to Add New Domains at San Francisco ICANN Meeting Pre-Event

craigslist Founder Craig Newmark to Keynote Internet Policy Conference

(San Francisco)  ICANN’s Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) is pleased to host a policy conference “NCUC@ICANN: Internet Governance and the Global Public Interest”on Friday 11 March 2011 at the Westin St. Francis Hotel at Union Square in San Francisco.

The all-day civil society policy conference will be held immediately before the 40th International ICANN Meeting and is targeted at international Internet governance participants, as well as Bay Area law and policy experts, digital rights activists and other civil society actors concerned with Internet governance policies.

Panelists will explore a number of Internet policy issues in which NCUC is engaged, including panel discussions on censorship, privacy, intellectual property rights and domain name take-downs. The conference will also examine the appropriate role for national governments vis-à-vis other stakeholders in Internet governance, and consider ICANN’s ability to address the concerns of developing countries and serve the global public interest.

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ISOC-NY is delighted to present Milton Mueller’s first full exposition of his new book Networks and States: The Global Politics of Internet Governance at NYU on Tuesday December 14 2010. Prof. Mueller is a co-founder of ICANN’s NonCommercial User’s Constituency and a renowned cyberlibertarian. His 2002 book Ruling the Root has long been the definitive work on governance. We are excited to hear details of what, in his mind, has changed in the last 8 years. This event is open to the public and will be webcast live.

What: Networks and States: The Global Politics of Internet Governance
When: Tuesday December 14 2010 : 7-9pm
Where: Rm 317, Warren Weaver Hall NYU, 251 Mercer St NYC (& W. 4 St)
Who: Public welcome. No RSVP needed. Photo ID required.
Webcast: http://www.livestream.com/isocny
Hashtag: #isocny
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=175907139093951
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The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) invites you to participate in its third scholarly workshop to be held in Montreal (QC), Canada, on 30-31 May 2010. This workshop is organized in cooperation with the Canadian Communication Association and Media@McGill, during the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS) 2010 Congress week in Montreal. Building on the success of its first two editions, respectively in Paris, France in June 2008 and in Brussels, Belgium in May 2009, the purpose of this third GigaNet workshop is twofold.   more »

IGP's Brenden Kuerbis will convene a break out group of civil society participants from the Noncommercial Users Constituency during the Code of Good Practice workshop. The workshop, hosted by the Association for Progressive Communications, along with the UNECE and Council of Europe, will be held at the Internet Governance Forum at Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt on Wednesday 18 November from 9:00-10:30 (local time, 7:00-9:30 UTC) in Room 3 (Suez Canal).   more »

IGP's Derrick Cogburn will join other experts in the workshop Implementing the WSIS Principles: A Development Agenda for Internet Governance at the upcoming Internet Governance Forum in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt. The workshop will be held on Day 3 of the IGF, Tuesday 17 November, from 9:30-12:30 (local time, 7:30-9:30 UTC) in Room 3 (Suez Canal). Remote participation is available.   more »