The workshop entitled "The Future of ICANN: After the JPA, What?" will be held Thursday, December 4, 2008 from 11:00-12:30 (local Hyderabad time, 5:30-7:00 UTC) at the upcoming Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad, India. Co-sponsored by the IGP, the Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus, Pharos Global and The Go Daddy Group, Inc., the workshop brings together several experts and practitioners in the field Internet governance to explore future models for governance of critical internet resources. The event will be webcast and online attendees will be able to submit questions through the IGF host website.   more »

The main session panel entitled "Transition from IPv4 to IPv6 " will be held Friday, December 5 2008 from 9:30-11:00 (local Hyderabad time, 4:00-5:30 UTC) at the upcoming Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad, India. The panel brings together experts and practitioners in the field Internet governance to explore the IP address governance regime and issues of IPv4 scarcity and the transition to IPv6. Operational, social and economic aspects will be explored, as well as policies and incentives being considered. The event will be webcast and online attendees will be able to submit questions through the IGF host website.   more »

Milton Mueller, appointed as professor to the Chair of Security and Privacy of Internet Users within the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at the Delft University of Technology will present an Inaugural Address, "The Future of Freedom on the internet: Security, Privacy and Global Governance" on Friday, 17 October 2008 at 3:00 PM (Central Europe time), 9:00 am US Eastern time. The 30 minute address will be webcast.

Milton Mueller will be a keynote speaker at the upcoming Privacy in Social Network Sites Conference to be held October 23-24, 2008 at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). The program is available here. Recently, Social Network Sites (SNS) have been used to support the American presidential campaigns and to smuggle photos of the natural disaster out of the country of Myanmar. However, the centralized collection, processing and dissemination of such as large amount of identity-relevant information has lead to increased disclosure of sensitive information, identity theft and physical and mental harm. This calls for a thorough consideration of why we should restrain access to our identity-relevant information and how a concept of ‘privacy’ in Social Network Sites could be developed. This conference will deal with a wide range of topics that relate to Social Network Sites, varying from moral reasons to protect privacy to concrete ways to protect users’ privacy.