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Internet Governance Coalition quoted in CNET – “Google’s Pixel hardware event is really about software”
Later this week, Google is expected to unveil a bevy of new products: phones, a smart home hub, a Wi-Fi router and possibly more. It’s all stuff you can touch and pick up — objects made of atoms. But don’t let the hype around the new hardware fool you. The launch event, taking place in…
Internet Governance Coalition quoted in Circle ID article: Internet Governance in Transition: The ITU as a Battleground for Rival Visions
During the past few years, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has been a battleground where governments promote rival visions of how the Internet should be governed. Although there has been a recent cease-fire as Internet governance debates have focused more on the role of ICANN, those skirmishes may soon restart at the ITU. Indeed, Internet-related…
Sustaining Principles for Internet Policy and Governance
The Internet Governance Coalition extends our sincere appreciation to Brazil for hosting the “Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance,” to be held in São Paulo. The Meeting is taking place at a time when the topic of Internet governance is an issue of great interest around the world… [more]
U.S. Senate Committee Hearing on “Preserving the Multistakeholder Model of Internet Governance”
U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation will convene a hearing on Wednesday, February 25, 2015, entitled “Preserving the Multistakeholder Model of Internet Governance.” As the U.S. government considers relinquishing control over certain aspects of Internet governance to the private sector, concerns remain that the loss of…
Internet Governance Coalition quoted in New York Times article: “At U.N., China Tries to Influence Fight Over Internet Control”
Over the last six months, United Nations diplomats have negotiated over the text of a document set to define the policies and frameworks of how the Internet is governed in the future, and who has a role in the process.The final version presented on Wednesday before the General Assembly contains a word that civil society…
Internet Governance Coalition quoted in Info Today article: “The End of the All-American Internet?”
The internet is an all-American invention—just ask Al Gore. Yes, I know that Gore did not “invent” the internet, and it is an urban legend that he claimed to have invented it. It is generally accepted, however, that the foundational structure of the internet was developed in the U.S. in the 1960s, largely through the…