IGP's Jeanette Hofmann will co-moderate an open discussion examining the internationalization of critical Internet resources management including the transition to IPv6, the IANA contract and role of governments and the importance of new TLDs and IDNs to development at the upcoming Internet Governance Forum in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt on Monday November 16 from 10:00-13:00 (local time, 8:00-11:00 UTC), remote participation options will be available.   more »

IGP's Milton Mueller and other expert panelists will debate competing resource allocation mechanisms that could be used to address scarcity in the IP address space at the upcoming Internet Governance Forum in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt. The workshop will be held Tuesday, November 17 from 11:30-13:00 (local time, 9:30-11:00 UTC) in Room 7 (Luxor), remote participation options will be available.   more »

The 4th Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) Annual Symposium will be held in Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt, on November 14th, 2009 - one day before the IGF official opening at Maritim Sharm El Sheikh International Congress Centre (SHICC). The program includes presentations by IGP members Michel van Eeten, Jeanette Hofmann, Derrick Cogburn, Milton Mueller, and Hans Klein, as well as other recognized experts in the field. The symposium is free to attend but you must register.   more »

IGP's Michel van Eeten, along with numerous other practitioners and experts, will participate in a workshop, Securing Cyberspace: Strategy for the Future, at the upcoming Internet Governance Forum in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt on Tuesday November 17, from 14:30-17:30 (local time, 12:30-15:30 UTC) in Room 4 (Nile Valley), you can listen to the audio feed (ch 5).   more »

ISOC-NY is hosting a forum, "Civic Representation in ICANN: What Now?," tonight at NYU's Warren Weaver Hall from 18:45-20:45 (EDT). IGP's Milton Mueller, consumer advocate Beau Brendler, and longtime ICANN participant Danny Younger will debate the ongoing GNSO reforms occurring at ICANN, and the possible structures for civil society participation in its policy making activities. You can watch the debate live here and join the discussion.   more »

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.