So yesterday I took part in my first panel session and as I write this I have just finished my second. Actually being part of things instead of just listening is very rewarding here at the IGF, because the quality of the panellists and also the questions from the floor is very high.
Yesterday I took [...]
So I am post-lunch and pre-workshop. I am currently in the speaker’s preparation area which sounds reasonably grand but in fact is an tiny room on the top floor of the HICC with a faulty printer and a desktop computer that refuses to take memory sticks.
I’ve just come from a couple of meetings with UNESCO [...]
I thought I would get a chance to write another post yesterday but it was not to be. There’s a lot of rushing about here at the IGF, from session to session, from conference centre to bus, from buffet to buffet. Yesterday was full of sessions again, full of chance meetings in corridors and, later, [...]
Day two at the IGF. Yesterday finished with a session on developing an Internet Bill of Rights, a topic which agitated and invigorated the participants in equal measure. Trying to find any one document about user rights that will be acceptable to all parts of civil society and THEN to all countries of the world [...]
Access
The second panel session of the morning was run along the same lines as the first and concerned the theme of access. What came across most for me was the way the panelists returned regularly to the idea of alternative business models for access, although these were never elaborated on in depth. Driving costs down [...]
Less talk of taxis today and more on the content of the conference – over one or more entries. Today is the first day proper and the sessions have started (Find the schedule here, the live streaming of events here, and remote participation opportunities here). This morning I attended the session on multilingualism which was [...]
One of the first things that has become apparent about my stay in Hyderabad is that I am going to be spending a lot of time in taxis or shuttle buses. The airport hotel might as well be on the moon as far as taxi drivers are concerned and this afternoon my Finnish companion and [...]
So I have arrived in India. One of the major worries in the past week has of course been the fallout from the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, and the organisers of the IGF have been at pains to ensure that security for IGF participants is present in all parts of the conference experience. Yesterday this [...]
Welcome to my IFLA blog, a little experiment before the new IFLA website goes live in 2009. The occasion? The Internet Governance Forum, or IGF, which is taking place in Hyderabad, India between 3 – 6 December.
My name is Stuart Hamilton, the Senior Policy Advisor at IFLA, and I’m going to attempt to guide you [...]