The first IGF-USA will take place this Friday, Oct 2 from 8:45-5:30 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, located at 1800 K Street, NW, in Washington, DC.  The forum will engage civil society, government, industry, technology/research and academia in workshops and plenary sessions covering a variety of Internet issues including: The Future of the Internet, GenNext's Online Future; Cyber Security; Freedom of Information in a Web 2.0 World; Critical Internet Resources; Privacy and Security Implications for Web 2.0; and Access Perspectives, Challenges and Opportunities. 


Speakers in the morning plenary session will include Markus Kummer of the UN Secretariat for the global IGF, Larry Strickling of NTIA and Lee Rainie of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, with participants such as Marc Rotenberg, Electronic Privacy Information Center; Phil Bond, TechAmerica; Lee McKnight, Internet Governance Project and others. The closing plenary will include Ambassador Phil Verveer and Richard Beaird, U.S. State Department, as well as other participants from business and civil society including IGP's Milton Mueller. This plenary will address the upcoming deliberations regarding the future of the global Internet Governance Forum - a process now in its fourth year that was originally chartered for an initial five-year period and whose future is being debated.

Registration for the event is free and can be done on the IGF-USA website.  Remote participation is also available.

The Korean Journal of Policy Studies (KJPS) at Seoul National University (SNU) and the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) invite you to a Regional Conference on global Internet governance. The one-day event sponsored by Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) will be held in Seoul, Korea at Seoul National University on October 23, 2009 – the Friday before the Seoul ICANN meeting (25 October - 30 October) from 2:00 to 6:00 pm. View the program.

The KJPS is published biannually by the Advanced Center for Administrative Development (ACAD), Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University, to provide an international forum for academics and practitioners who are interested in public administration and policy. The KJPS publishes articles that examine a broad range of issues in public administration and public policy, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and on both theoretical and empirical research. Although there is no limitation on subject areas, papers focusing on the East Asian countries and/or adopt a comparative perspective are particularly welcome.

The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GIGANET) is a scholarly community that promotes the development of Internet Governance as a recognized, interdisciplinary field of study and facilitates informed dialogue on policy issues and related matters between scholars and governments, international organizations, the private sector and civil society.