A bit of a late post on yesterday’s goings on now, starting with the workshop on a legal survey of Internet censorship and filtering. IFLA representative Dr. Sohair Wastawy was presenting at this session and she concentrated on the situation relating to Egypt and other Arab countries. It was a great presentation, taking in everything [...]
Strong words uttered by the editor of the new GIS Watch report, Alan Finlay. The report is being launched here at the IGF in about five minutes, and I urge all of you in an interest in IGF topics to download a copy or get your hands on a print copy as soon as you [...]
I’ve had a look at few sessions today and will report later, but for now here’s a mention of some controversy which is currently going on at the IGF. The BBC has the full story here but in brief: UN officials apparently took down posters for the new book on Internet censorship ‘Access Controlled’ that [...]
This year’s opening ceremony and session followed the same format as last year: – ministers from the host country (this year including the Prime Minister) welcomed everyone, reminded us of the importance of the Internet, encouraged us to have free and frank discussions etc. ITU Secretary General Hamadoun Toure, who last year made some rather [...]
Lunchtime on day one. This morning I attended a session on mobile Internet issues which had some interesting points but overall lacked a bit of cohesion. Surprisingly to me, the audience was rather small, despite the hot topic and the presence of Tim Berners-Lee on the panel.
The presentations varied a bit, from a [...]
And we’re off. Registration successfully completed yesterday and a rendezvous with the other members of Team IFLA: Dr. Sohair Wastawy and Dr. Omnia Sadek. A quick planning session later, and we were ready to go. Right now I’m at the venue, as usual 100s of people in dark suits (despite the heat), and a wide [...]
So it’s been quite a day to get to this point…up at 4.45am to brave the rather intense security situation at Tel Aviv airport (casualties last time included my nearly-new laptop (dented) and digital camera (broken beyond repair)), at the gate raring to go to Jordan for my connecting flight to Sharm El Sheikh by [...]
Our session at the Minerva conference took place this morning from 11.30 – 13.00. Prior to that I sat in on a session about APENET (Archives Portal Europe) and access to the Swedish National Archives’ digitized collection (AKA the Sondera project)…not something I deal with regularly, but as an ex-Medieval studies student I found the [...]
It’s been a long time since I posted anything to this blog but I’m hoping to make up for that in the next 10 days or so. It’s time once again for the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), and this year it’s taking place in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt (yes, the world of international Internet governance [...]