In our families, in our jobs, in our political dynamic at a national level, we always try to persuade others, first and foremost.
Welcome to our resource page on Network Neutrality and Open Internet. Here you will find various resources: from declarations, discussion research papers, and reports from conferences, workshops and events, to videos and illustrations, online resources, and other documents.
Persuasion is indeed at the heart of diplomacy, as anyone exposed to this profession
knows through his/her life experience. In this essay, I propose to explore the linkage
between persuasion and trust, given that the one is impossible to practice without the
other.
‘Computers did not have a place in my life. I could not understand how one could stay for hours staring at this ‘dead’ box. What has always kept me going is passion, and, in whatever I do, I must be passionate about it for it to succeed.’
‘I strongly believe that personal development is most important for my teaching and research. Indeed, I have always been keen to improve my areas of expertise and share newly acquired knowledge with my students.’
‘Indeed, the Internet can be a doubleedged sword. Consequently, given man’s innate quest to have stability, reliability, and certainty in his life, governance of the Internet is only a natural evolution'
This paper examines the role of women in conflict management, using Sierra Leone as a case study.
‘Witnessing the open community policy development process at the AfriNIC community led me to further appreciate the importance of the Policy Research Phase of the Diplo IGCBP.
The publication contains research project summaries written by students of the 2011 Research Phase of the Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme (IGCBP2011). The summaries were presented during EuroDIG 2011.
Paper delivered by Ambassador Victor Camilleri during the E-diplomacy panel on Diplomatic Reporting in the Internet Era after WikiLeaks, held on 9 February, 2011.