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etc: Surfers in Russia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE will soon be able to use their non-Latin alphabets to enter URLs.
Surfers in Russia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE will soon be able to use their non-Latin alphabets to enter URLs.
Continue reading »Spurring IPv6 upgrades through "cash for (network) clunkers"
At the Internet Governance Forum meeting here in Egypt, a session on critical Internet resources started with yet another discussion of the transition from IPv4 to IPv6. This time, talk turned to paying for the upgrade to IPv6—a real issue in poorer countries. Rod Beckstrom, the head of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number (ICANN), offered his own novel approach to the problem: a worldwide “cash for clunkers” program targeted at old networks.
Continue reading »Human rights and universal access key net priorities
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- The protection of human rights, ensuring universal online access as a public service, and promoting media literacy, should be key priorities in Europe. So concluded 200 representatives from business, governments, parliaments and civil society in Geneva, on September 14 and 15, at the 2nd European Dialogue on Internet Governance. “There was consensus among participants on the importance of maintaining a multistakeholder approach to Internet governance related issues following the UN Internet Governance Forum model and the Tunis Agenda (the conclusions of the World Summit on the Information Society), and that EuroDIG is the ‘European IGF’, where a common European perspective should be discussed and carried to other fora,” says EuroDig in a statement.
Continue reading »ACTA threat to WIPO’s future
When the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement was first announced in October 2007, “my first blog posting on the issue was titled Is ACTA the New WIPO?,” says Michael Geist , going on »»» I return to that theme in an opinion piece just published by the Swiss-based Intellectual Property Watch. While the first part of the piece focuses on the ACTA transparency issues, the second half discusses the short and longer-term implications for the developing world and the World Intellectual Property Organization.
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