While intermediary liability is becoming an issue of increasing importance in internet governance discussions, little is being made at the institutional level to minimise conflicts across jurisdictions and ensure the compliance of intermediary liability laws with fundamental rights and the freedom to innovate.
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Internet governance
Trials and tribulations of changing oversight of core internet infrastructure
The whole family of internet self-governing bodies are busy preparing their takes on how to reign the future Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). As a coordinator of core infrastructure services for naming (ICANN), numbering (Regional Internet Registries) and standardisation (IETF), IANA has been in the middle of quite some fights. This one
Internet access
IGF Bali: pervasive surveillance, no pervasive access
Access to the net, while a core topic of the Internet Governance Forum, has seen more reporting than big visionary pictures. Universal access remains a huge challenge.
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Internet Governance Forum: poor stepchild in trouble
Will the IGF 2013 take place in Bali or not? News is expected any hour now. Yet those close to the process are sure that the event will not be cancelled despite financial troubles.
Generic top level domains (gTLDs)
Domain name decision-maker growing into a big machine
ICANN gets closer to presenting new domain names for the net, but discussions on safeguards and obligations for the domain industry continue.
Ten years after the first World Summit on the Information Society, WSIS+10 was held in February 2013 at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Internet governance scholar Francesca Musiani attended and reports back with a critical assessment of the “multi-stakeholder” approach to global governance of information and communication technologies.
International Telecommunications Regulation
Net neutrality bumps into International Telecommunication Regulations
Starting this week, the internet will never be the same again. The rules of the game will change in Dubai, so the rumour goes. This article looks at a three-letter acronym that is causing a real stir at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WICT) : The ITRs.
