The UN Internet Governance Forum will meet in November at Sharm El Sheikh. The IGF has matured into a useful tool. But it is under threat. Stakeholders should speak up!
It’s IGF season again. Representatives of key stakeholders are meeting again in Geneva to prepare the ground for the forthcoming fourth meeting of a body that [...]
Working for Symantec, the world leader in information security, when invited to write about the main security threat facing the UK part of the internet you might expect me to cite the latest technical sounding hacker or Trojan attack currently causing havoc on the cyber superhighway. Don’t get me wrong I could easily do that. [...]
The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is currently in the process of reviewing the desirability of the continuation of the Forum as per paragraph 76 of the Tunis Agenda. As part of this consultation Nominet has submitted comments to the review process and these can be summarised as:
The IGF environment encourages an open exchange of ideas [...]
The IGF have launched a formal consultation with Forum participants in accordance with Paragraph 76 of the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society. The questionnaire is available on the IGF website at: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=FormalConsult032009.