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Digital Civil Rights in Europe

Digital Civil Rights in Europe
By Heini Järvinen The EU Commission has published a public consultation on modalities for investment protection and on investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS) in the EU – US trade negotiations (TTIP / TAFTA). ISDS is the most controversial aspect of these negotiations. The ISDS mechanism gives multinationals the right to sue states before special tribunals if changes in law may lead to lower profits than expected. These tribunals can overturn decisions of our supreme courts. Many civil society organisations see ISDS as a threat to democracy.

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France: sauvons internet 0 ont signé la pétition. Ensemble allons jusqu'à 200 000 Publié le 29 Juin 2011Le gouvernement Sarkozy veut censurer internet par un décret qui pourrait bloquer des sites et pages de recherche que nous utilisons tous les jours. Consumer Reports WebWatch: The leader in investigative reporting on credibility and trust online Consumer Reports Web Watch was, until 2009, the Internet integrity division of Consumer Reports. The project was funded by grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the Open Society Institute. We assisted Consumer Reports’ editorial division in evaluating the credibility of Web sites, we investigated Web sites on behalf of consumers, and we advocated for consumer-focused Internet policy and governance. While ConsumerWebWatch.org is no longer a stand alone website, the work is still being done.

Légamédia/Educnet: TICE, protection des mineurs, Education et internet Vous souhaitiez sans doute accéder à une page de l'ancienne rubrique Legamedia.Ces ressources ne sont plus maintenues actuellement. Si vos interrogations concernaient les aspects juridiques des usages des TIC et de l'internet, il est possible que vous trouviez la réponse à vos questions à partir du portail Internet responsable du ministère, ou encore dans le dossier correspondant du site de l'ESEN. L'adresse du portail Internet responsable est la suivante : Il existe aussi un guide juridique du chef d'établissement, mis à jour régulièrement : Vous pouvez également effectuer une recherche thématique sur le site éduscol. Pour toute remarque concernant ces informations vous pouvez nous contacter via la page de contact éduscol.

Techdirt. The Debate Over Internet Governance: Introduction Welcome to the Debate Over Internet Governance: A Snapshot in the Year 2000 This website was prepared as a final project for the course Internet & Society: The Technologies and Politics of Control at Harvard Law School. This site aims to do that which might seem impossible in a medium that changes so quickly and so dramatically to freeze a particular moment in the debate over internet governance. [Note: as of May 2005, the legal landscape has continued to change. Here is a link with more recent information about internet governance] Have You Been Writing Your Own Poetry? - Download Our Author's Guide At FriesenPress, we respect your privacy. Any and all personal information that we collect is strictly used for the purposes of conducting business with you. Under no circumstances will we ever sell or rent your personal information to any third parties. What information do you typically collect? From time to time we require some personal information from you, such as your email address, phone number, contact information, payment information, and such in order to communicate with you, receive orders and payment from you, and deliver books or other materials that you have requested from us.

National Advanced IPv6 Centre of Excellence The Internet represents as one of the most successful examples of sustainability and its benefits owing to the continuous investment and commitment to research and development of Information infrastructure. The Internet today as a widespread information infrastructure involves many aspects; technological, organizational and community. It has influenced not just computer communication but the entire society ranging from e-commerce to information acquisition and community operations. Commercialization of the Internet changed the landscape completely. It created a market for global data delivery service. An amazing transformation has taken place from vendors providing networking products and service providers offering network connectivity and basic Internet services to a commodity service.

gnarl » Internet governance After posting my previous ramblings on the subject of Internet Governance (IG) I’ve been quite busy in my head, thinking about where I stand on this subject and how best to define the various aspects of IG within the so-called «Nordic model» that applies to Government, Business and Citizen of Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark (the Nordic countries). This time, I’m exploring parts of IG in the Nordics, as seen from Norway. First of all, I’m not so sure that the Internet are seen in the same way in the Nordic region as a whole. I might be wrong, but Finland seem to be ahead of both Norway and Sweden, with Iceland and Denmark fast approaching from behind. Internet access is written into law as a citizen right in Finland and Sweden but not in the other countries (yet).

Governance Ecology - Global Element - - CoActivate last modified January 5 by tomlowenhaupt Faced with managing a global resource, global society has experimented with a number of governance organizations and processes since the Internet's founding. Here we focus on the ICANN and touch on the IETF, the U.N.' E-G8 Forum Sarkozy addresses the E-G8 Origin[edit] The idea for the event came up on a blog post by Tariq Krim in which the founder of Netvibes complained that France doesn't have its own CTO.[2] The blog post was reposted by Arnaud Dassier and Loïc Le Meur, and read by the Elysée's technical counsellor Nicolas Princen, who then convinced Nicolas Sarkozy to take a step towards the French digital natives after the failure of Hadopi.[3] Attendees[edit]

Top 10 Countries Censoring the Web When the World Wide Web was created in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee (not to be confused with the Internet itself, which is the core network developed many years earlier), its main objective was to enable the free exchange of information via interlinked hypertext documents. Almost 20 years later, that objective has been accomplished on most parts of the world, but not in all of them. Some countries are trying hard to keep an iron hand over the flow of information that takes place on the Web. Below you will find the most controversial ones.

Internet governance Internet governance is the development and application of shared principles, norms, rules, decision-making procedures, and programs that shape the evolution and use of the Internet. This article describes how the Internet was and is currently governed, some of the controversies that occurred along the way, and the ongoing debates about how the Internet should or should not be governed in the future. Internet governance should not be confused with E-Governance, which refers to governments' use of technology to carry out their governing duties. Background[edit] No one person, company, organization or government runs the Internet.

Who Controls the Internet? Beyond the Obstinacy or Obsolescence of the State - Eriksson - 2009 - International Studies Review With the Internet being a truly global phenomenon, understanding how this is controlled should yield observations of relevance for the study of global governance more generally. The Internet, and how it is controlled, should therefore be a concern for all students of world politics, and not only for the smaller albeit multidisciplinary community of scholars engaging in “Internet studies.” A first step is to acknowledge that Internet control varies across time, space, and issue-areas. To better understand such complex patterns of governance, we need to go beyond universal generalizations. In an attempt to support the middle-range theorizing, which arguably is needed, this essay introduces and briefly unpacks three analytical questions: What are the key aspects of Internet control? What actors might control what aspects of the Internet?

Who Controls the Internet? The Internet is subject to control because its infrastructure is subject to control Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World is a 2006 book by Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu that offers an assessment of the struggle to control the Internet.[1] Starting with a discussion of the early vision of a borderless global community, the authors present some of the most prominent individuals, ideas and movements that have played key roles in developing the Internet.

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