Tag Archive for ‘Internet Governance’ at LIRNEasia

Tag Archive for 'Internet Governance'

Call for Papers: Infrastructure Regulation: What works, Why, and How do we know?
Deadline: 05 December 2008.

Shamistra blogs IGF

on November 18, 2007

Unfortunately we arrived a little late for this session because the opening ceremony and opening session dragged on for an extra half an hour. By the time we grabbed a quick, yummy lunch of “pao de queijo” from the coffee shop and checked out the IDRC booth, we were about twenty minutes late. I regret missing these first couple of minutes because Ms. Helani Galpaya of LIRNEasia was wrapping up her talk and one of her recommendations was the use of mobile phones as an alternative method of accessing the Internet. As I hope to discuss this topic further in the paper I am expected to write at the end of the conference, it would be have indeed been an useful presentation…

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Tags: Helani Galpaya, Internet Governance, mobile phones.

Patents holding back progress in the ICT sector

Rohan Samarajiva

on June 9, 2007

We have generally tried to focus on the fundamental issues of access to ICT infrastructure, and not the esoteric issues of Internet governance. However, after two and half years, we are beginning to think of broadening the scope a little. The anti-competitive uses of intellectual property have so far been discussed on this blog only in relation to attempts to claim a patent on the way the Sinhala language is standardized for the computer. Here is another aspect.

A Patent Lie - New York Times

Vonage developed one of the first Internet telephone services and has attracted more than two million customers. But last year, Verizon — one of Vonage’s biggest competitors — sued for patent infringement and won a verdict in its favor in March.

The Gates…

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Tags: Internet addresses, Internet Governance, Internet telephone product, Internet telephone services, Lie - New York Times, Verizon.

Internet or internet?

Rohan Samarajiva

on January 5, 2007

The significance of capitalizing the Internet (which LIRNEasia religiously does) and latest effort to decapitalize it and bring it under the thrall of international bureaucracy:

What’s in an ‘i’? Internet governance - Technology & Media - International Herald Tribune

When David Gross heard last month that the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency, wanted to lower-case the word Internet as a matter of official policy, he did not know whether to be alarmed or amused.

“We immediately thought, ‘Gee, what’s up with that?’” Gross, the coordinator for international communications and information policy at the U.S. State Department, said by telephone from Washington last week. “Who made the decision and on what basis? We didn’t have a clue if this was something insignificant or significant.”

But some others among…

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Tags: Antalya, David Gross, Department of State, International Herald Tribune, International Telecommunication Union, Internet Governance, Turkey, United Nations, Washington, word Internet.

LIRNEasia researcher at International Workshop on Building an Information Society: Road to Tunis, Dhaka

Ayesha Zainudeen

on October 19, 2005

LIRNEasia’s past researcher Chanuka Wattegama will be making a keynote address at an Internet Governance and Telecom Regulation session at the International Workshop on Building an Information Society: Road to Tunis that will take place on October 23-25 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.Some of the material in his talk will be based on some of the findings of LIRNEasia’s current research that Chanuka was involved in while he worked with us.

Chanuka was the lead researcher on a LIRNEasia project to Benchmark National Telecom Regulatory Authority websites of the Asia-Pacific Region, and recently took up a post at Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme in Colombo.

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Tags: Asia, Asia-Pacific, Bangladesh, Benchmark National Telecom Regulatory Authority, Chanukah, Colombo, DHAKA, Information Society, Internet Governance, Tunis.

UNDP Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (UNDP-APDIP) Releases ORDIG Policy Brief and Input Paper on Internet Governance 7 June 2005

Indi Samarajiva

on June 13, 2005

Voices from Asia-Pacific: Internet Governance Priorities and Recommendations:

After almost ten months of research and activities, UNDP-APDIP’s Open Regional Dialogue on Internet Governance (ORDIG*) has produced a two-part report entitled, “Voices from Asia-Pacific: Internet Governance Priorities and Recommendations” - consisting of 1) the ORDIG Policy Brief and Executive Summary, and 2) the ORDIG Input Paper for the UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) and the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

These documents stem from months of consultations involving stakeholder groups from the public and private sectors, as well as civil society.

ORDIG consulted over 3,000 stakeholders through sub-regional meetings, jointly organized with UNESCAP and others; a region-wide online forum that allowed for open and candid discussions on the issues; and a region-wide, multi-lingual, issues-based online…

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Tags: Asia, Asia Pacific Network Information Centre, Asia-Pacific, Canada, DNS, Information Society, International Development Research Centre, Internet Governance, Internet Governance Priorities, Islamic Republic of Iran, issues-based online survey, Ottawa, region-wide online forum, Tehran, UN Working Group, United Nations, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia, VOIP, wireless networks.

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