The 2nd International Conference “Keeping Children and Young People Safe Online”, took place in Warsaw, on September 18-19, 2008.

IGCBP08 community member Agnieszka Wrzesień, project co-ordinator for the Saferinternet.pl - Polish Safer Internet Node, was the chair of the Organising Committee representing Nobody’s Children Foundation.

The conference brought together representatives from the education sector, NGOs, law enforcement, government and industry. It addressed a wide variety of issues relating to children and young people’s safety online, such as cyber bullying, social networking sites, child safety and mobile phones, and online gaming. The conference raised awareness of the new challenges and opportunities in fighting Internet threats and helped sharing best practices across different sectors.

IGCBP08 community member Thiago Tavares, who has been leading the work against pedophily in Brazil also attended the conference after the IGF Open Consultations in Geneva.

Paper abstracts of the conference are available here.

26 September 2008

On September 16, 2008, the final Internet Government Forum (IGF) Open Consultations prior to the Hyderabad IGF concluded with very positive outcomes.

Markus Kummer, executive co-ordinator of the IGF Secretariat, highlighted the support of the IGF Secretariat towards its partnership with DiploFoundation: "So this is basically a very positive programme which gives us capacity, and at the same time it gives the fellows participating through the programmes, gives them capacity when they return back to their country."

Another highlight during the open consultations was the release of a statement on the proposal for IGF hubs read out by Olga Cavalli (IGCBP07 participant) on behalf of the Remote Participation Working Group. In addition, the Wikipedia initiative also had a statement read out – this is an initiative undertaken by DiploFoundation community members to post a comprehensive Wikipedia entry on the IGF.

19 September 2008

DiploFoundation community members have joined forces to improve the entry in Wikipedia on the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), in Arabic, English, French, Kinyarwanda, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili and Taglog.
The initiative was facilitated by Rafik Dammak from Tunisia. The community members involved in this initiative were: Charity Gamboa, Raquel Gatto, Fabio Marinho, Marilia Maciel, Luis Henrique Almeida de Oliveira, Silvia S. Soares, Stephanie Psaila, Olga Cavalli, Ginger Paque, Carolina Rossini, Chipo Kanjo, Emmanuel Edet, Joachim Boko, Joseph Mokaya Gichana, Victoria Aikins, Hanane Boujemi, Bernard Sadaka, Fouad Bajwa, Violeta Bonchanoska, Andres Piazza, Everton T. Rodrigues, Alfonso Avila, John Ngahu, Emmanuel Habumuremyi and Seiiti Arata Jr.

16 September 2008

DiploFoundation has been a key resource partner in an executive training programme delivered in Botswana, Africa.

The programme, "Building SADC Capacity in Internet Governance", was organised by the Centre of Specialisation in Public Administration and Management (CESPAM), which was set up by Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries. The training programme, supported by the Commonwealth Secretariat, was held on August 19-22 in Gaborone, Botswana.

The four-day seminar was attended by 15 participants, including government officials, regulatory authorities, business and civil society representatives from SADC countries. Through highly interactive sessions consisting of lectures, discussion panels, cases and simulations, a thorough understanding of the meaning of Internet Governance was provided. Key global challenges and processes have also been identified, while the African perspective has been discussed and analysed in detail.

At the end, participants came up with their own recommendations on the issues, and with actions of highest priority for the SADC region. The participants also came up with many ideas for a way forward and for follow-up activities for Africa.

16 September 2008

Seoul, Korea - June, 2008

DiploFoundation community members Ndeye Maimouna Diop Diagne, Fouad Riaz Bajwa, Carolina Rossini and Katitza Rodriguez were interviewed by the Imagining the Internet project during the meeting of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on the Future of the Internet Economy, in Seoul, Korea, on June 16-18, 2008.

26 August 2008

DiploFoundation community member Jean Philemon Kissangou has received support from the DiploFoundation community and has recently been elected to hold one of the two seats representing the central African sub-region for a three-year term.

18 August 2008

Pedro Campos, DiploFoundation community member from the Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme (IGCBP08) from Brazil has received a scholarship for the Internet Governance Online Course from RITS, co-ordinated by Graciela Selaimen and DiploFoundation community member Gustavo Gindre. For details in Portuguese visit this website.

18 August 2008

Closing Session of the IGCBP2008 in Second Life

Students in the fourth generation of the Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme have gathered on Thursday, 3 July, for a virtual closing ceremony at Diplomacy Island in Second Life. To enable participation of students with weak bandwidth, Diplo has provided a software bridge between Second Life and the Diplo classroom chat rooms.

Besides over 50 students of the 2008 programme and their group tutors, the meeting was attended by Mr. Jovan Kurbalija, Director of DiploFoundation, Mr. Markus Kummer, Executive Coordinator of the Internet Governance Forum Secretariat, and Mr. Rajesh Agarwal from NIXI, the organisers of the forthcoming Internet Governance Forum meeting in India. They have congratulated to participants with emphasizing the importance of Capacity Building and Diplo’s efforts in that direction, and have presented future plans of their respective institutions.

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4 July 2008

 

International meetings: LACNIC, OECD, ICANN, GigaNet

The participation of Diplo's IG community has been prominent in the past weeks, as  a number of members of the IG community participated in various IG-related events worldwide.

Our colleague Raquel Gatto, one of the best participants of the IG Capacity Building Programme 2008, has been granted a LACNIC fellowship to attend the LACNIC XI meeting in Salvador/Bahia, Brazil, from May 26-30, 2008. Other associates were present as well: Fabio Marinho, Francisco Obispo, Ruth Puente and Nigel Cassimire.

The OECD Ministerial Meeting, "The Future of the Internet Economy", held in Seoul, Korea, on June 17-18, 2008, was attended by Diplo associates Carolina Rossini, Charity Gamboa, Fouad Bajwa and Katitza Rodriguez Pereda, who took an active part on several panels, as well as promoted the Seoul Declaration advanced by representatives of civil society.

Paris has been a hot spot of IG events in June: the ICANN 32nd Public Meeting, held on June 22-26, 2008 and the GigaNet International Workshop, "Global Internet Governance: An Interdisciplinary Research Field in Construction", on June 23, 2008. These events were attended by Diplo associates, including Hanane Boujemi, Radif Fatani, Siranush Vardanyan, Adela Danciu, Didier Rukeratabaro Kasole, Sokol Haxhiu and Olga Cavalli.

To read informal reports of our associates who were present, visit Diplo's Community blog.

26 June 2008

 

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