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View Country Profiles View Regional Overviews Main Filtering Map ONI's main filtering map shows the states and regions where each type of filtering ONI studies takes place. Social Media Map Our social media map serves as an easy visual guide to the states and regions where filtering of five major social media sites occurs.

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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] Performance impact when using VMware snapshots It is certainly not unheared of – “When I delete a snapshot from a VM, the thing totally freezes!“. The strange thing is, some customers have these issues, others don’t (or are not aware of it). Cyber Governance without Government? Even though Internet enabled cyberspace is roughly a quarter century old, we continue to gather at international fora to debate the proper role of government in its governance. Unfortunately, this intellectual task has taken on greater urgency in recent years as an increasing number of states partake in actions that reduce traditional Internet freedoms. For a comprehensive evidenced-based discussion of such instances see: Coincidentally, it has also been nearly a quarter of a century since esteemed International Relations scholar, James Rosenau, published Governance Without Government. At the time of writing, Rosenau and his co-authors sought to develop a new theoretical framework that would: 1) Address the failure of the realist school to predict the end of the Cold War, and 2) Account for the expanding number of public and private authorities involved in global governance.

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.'s Internet Governance Forum, the Internet Society, International Telecommunications Union, civil society, and other organizations and developments as they impact the operation of .nyc and more broadly, city-TLDs. The Internet Governance Archive Initiative During the Public Forum at the June 2008 ICANN Paris meeting, Connecting.nyc Inc.'

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Internet access as a Human Right By Stephen B. Wicker, Stephanie M. Santoso Communications of the ACM, Vol. 56 No. 6, Pages 43-46 10.1145/2461256.2461271 Comments (2) In a New York Times editorial,2 Google Chief Internet Evangelist and ACM President Vinton G. 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.

Password Safe - Quickstart Guide Quickstart Guide Steve McPherson has created this amusing clip highlighting the cooler features of PasswordSafe (Thanks, Steve!) HowToAnswer.com has written a nice introductory guide showing how to get started with PasswordSafe. Here's a short video demonstrating PasswordSafe's menus and features, courtesy of FindMySoft: [The following short guide is taken from Password Safe's online help] What are Human Rights Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination. These rights are all interrelated, interdependent and indivisible. Universal human rights are often expressed and guaranteed by law, in the forms of treaties, customary international law , general principles and other sources of international law. International human rights law lays down obligations of Governments to act in certain ways or to refrain from certain acts, in order to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms of individuals or groups.

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.

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