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Ms Melinda Clem
Ms Melinda Clem is Vice President Strategy for Afilias, the world’s second largest domain name registry. She has worked in corporate development, strategy, and marketing positions in the domain name registry industry since 2000, and with Afilias sinc...
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Geneva Dialogue on Responsible Behaviour in Cyberspace
How can you participate in this dialogue? Switzerland invites states, the private sector, the tech community, civil society, academia, cybersecurity experts and other interested parties to participate in this dialogue either by joining online disc...
 1 Oct 2018
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July online courses
Diplo offers four interactive postgraduate-level online courses starting the week of 23 July 2018 21st Century Diplomacy Diplomatic Law: Privileges and Immunities Internet Technology and Policy: Challenges and Solutions Multilateral Diplo...
 23 Jul 2018
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Capacity Development in Multilateral Diplomacy for the Caribbean
Small and developing states with limited geographical, human, and financial resources face the challenge of doing more with less: they need to employ all available methods to increase their representation, including networks, alliances, and informati...
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Capacity Development in Multilateral Diplomacy for Africa
Small and developing states with limited geographical, human, and financial resources face the challenge of doing more with less: they need to employ all available methods to increase their representation, including networks, alliances, and informati...
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Internet and analogies: Riding a bus through the submarine fibre
How does the Internet work? Well, let's think of a traditional phone, or telegraph - imagine it as the Einstein's cat... Or, think of data packets as letters... or envelopes. Better still: think of packets as passengers. Or cars, or buses. Or... H...
 9 Sep 2016
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Technical Innovation for Digital Policy
The conference on Technical Innovation for Digital Policy, on 25 April, will gather leading Internet innovators and policy experts to discuss technical innovation and potential solutions to critical areas affecting Internet users worldwide. The progr...
 25 Apr 2016
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Internet Technology and Policy: Challenges and Solutions
The critical Internet infrastructure is no longer a dry tech-geek topic. It has drawn attention from the wider Internet community through discussions on Internet names and numbers (domain names such as .amazon, .wine), the Internet of Things (sel...
Start date:   26 Jul 2021
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Capacity Development
Capacity development has been emerging as a central approach within development for more than two decades. This approach has gradually shifted the focus of development practice from simple financial aid and technical cooperation towards a complex new...
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Introduction to Internet Governance
Internet governance (IG) may be more important to you than you realise. Have you been reading and worrying about cybersecurity threats? Does online surveillance concern you and your colleagues? These are important IG issues. Learning more about IG...
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Cybersecurity
Today’s headlines often feature the word ‘cyber’, reporting on threats related to the virtual world: online child abuse, stolen credit cards and virtual identities, malware and viruses, botnets and denial-of-service attacks on corporate and governmen...
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Two new 'Internet Governance Lite' videos
Ever wondered how the Internet works and what all these terms and abbreviations stand for? You don't have to be an engineer to understand it. Diplo has produced two new animated videos in the ‘Internet Governance Lite’ series of vide...
 22 Mar 2013
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IGCBP12 Islands and Americas meeting with Shernon Osepa
Caribbean Internet infrastructure expert Shernon Osepa will be a special guest at the IGCBP12 Islands and Americas class meeting today, to answer questions about critical Internet resources, especially for Caribbean and island countries. ...
 1 Apr 2012
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This research presents an example of how evidence-based policy-making can lead to bandwidth optimisation in a university network, giving rise to improved network performance and cost savings.

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Internet governance research paper
 Maduka Kingsley Attamah, 2010
 
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From an Internet governance perspective, multilingualism and security have been two of the cornerstone themes since its inception. The security theme addresses topics regarding the Domain Names System (DNS), Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Internet attacks, security awareness, and policies and legal measures to ensure a safe and secure Internet experience. Security is a very diverse area where multiple topics should be tackled, and ignoring one or more topics while securing other areas would still jeopardise the safety of Internet users.

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Internet governance research paper
 Rumbidzayi Gadhula, 2010
 
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Online courses in Internet governance and ICT policy: apply now!
The courses offer in-depth understanding of a wide range of topics. They take place on Diplo’s e-learning platform, supported by Web 2.0 interactive tools, allowing participants to learn and participate in a flexible, convenient way. The rich ...
 13 Jun 2011
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