Results for node/net neutrality

March 1, 2006

Recommendations – Conference "Where to go from Tunis?"

On 21-22 February the Danish network on WSIS and the WFUNA Task Force on WSIS hosted the international conference “Where to go from Tunis” in Copenhagen. The conference was aimed at following up on the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), which concluded on 18 November 2005 with an agreement among world leaders on […]

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June 20, 2012

Prague ICANN meeting to discuss Whois data

An ICANN meeting will be held in Prague between 24-29 June 2012, where issues and topics impacting users, consumers and registrants, like whois access and the extension of domain space with ongoing new gTLD program, will be discussed. As a reminder, ICANN is an Internet governing body managing mainly IP addressing and domain names and […]

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July 30, 2003

Report about Paris inter-sessional WSIS meeting

Between 15 and 18 July an inter-sessional meeting for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) took place in Paris, with a special focus on human rights in the information society. In this Human Rights caucus, made up of 25 organizations, 2 EDRI-members participated, the French IRIS and the Danish Digital Rights. The HR […]

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March 12, 2008

EDRi's Statement at WIPO SCCR

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 11 March 2008 Ville Oksanen, representing EDRi at the WIPO SCCR, made the following statement on the agenda item related to limitations & exceptions: “European Digital Rights, EDRI, represents 28 privacy and civil rights organisations from 17 different countries in Europe. As this is the first […]

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August 24, 2011

US Hotline reports vast improvements in removal of child abuse websites

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [US-Hotline verzeichnet große Erfolge bei der Löschung von Missbrauchsdarstellungen | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.16_US_Hotline_verzeichnet_große_Erfolge_bei_der_Loeschung_von_Missbrauchsdarstellungen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110901] In the course of the past year the US National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) made huge improvements in its handling of both domestic and international reports of web-based child abuse material. These sudden and […]

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September 7, 2011

The EC tries to increase government control of the Internet

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäische Kommission will staatliche Kontrolle des Internets ausbauen | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.17_Europaeische_Kommission_will_staatliche_Kontrolle_des_Internets_ausbauen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110907] The European Commission (EC) Information Society and Media Directorate-General have recently drawn up a series of six policy papers intended to increase government control over the Internet. The policies have in view measures that include governmental control over […]

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September 25, 2003

Reporters sans frontieres banned from WSIS

Reporters Sans Frontieres, a non-governmental organisation fighting for freedom of the press, was banned from further participation in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). According to a letter from the Executive Director of the Summit, RSF was excluded for ‘administrative reasons’. The exclusion is in fact a direct result of a protest RSF […]

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August 29, 2012

Some governments want more control over the Internet via ITU

There has lately been controversy over proposals made by several countries, such as Russia and China, to give more control over the Internet to the UN International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Key functions of the internet as naming, numbering, addressing and identification are now carried out by ICANN, based in the US independent IANA, and national […]

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April 12, 2007

ENDitorial – About EFF Europe

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) As some of our readers already know, the biggest digital civil rights NGO from the United States has opened this year a new office in Brussels to work with EU policy issues. EFF’s new European Affairs Coordinator, Erik Josefsson, was previously the president of the Swedish chapter […]

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October 22, 2003

Report of WSIS prepcom 3

From 15 to 26 September 2003 governments and civil society assembled in Geneva for the third preparatory conference for the World Summit on the Information Society. The two weeks ended with many key issues still unresolved, and with a last-minute proposal to reconvene for an extra session from 10 to 14 November. EDRI members IRIS […]

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October 5, 2011

ENDitorial: Countries start signing ACTA, preparatory docs still secret

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Partner unterzeichnen ACTA, zahlreiche Dokumente noch immer geheim | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.19_ENDitorial_Partner_unterzeichnen_ACTA_zahlreiche_Dokumente_noch_immer_geheim?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111011] Last weekend, some of the EU’s ACTA “partners” started the process of acceding to the Agreement (US, Canada, Singapore, Australia, South Korea, Japan and Morocco). Due to the controversial nature of the Agreement, this is happening in […]

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May 10, 2006

Role of the developing countries in WSIS process

A special panel discussed the role of the developing countries in the WSIS panel at this year conference Computers, Freedom and Privacy 2006 (CFP 2006) that took place in Washington DC between 2-5 May. The participants tried to identify what was the place of the developing countries in shaping the future of the Internet in […]

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