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  isoc-ny 11:05 am on February 14, 2014 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: briefing, igf ( 190 ), isoc ( 151 ), webinar ( 3 )   

  WEBINAR RECORDING: The Evolution of the Internet Governance Forum #igf #igf2014 @InternetSociety 

  On Friday 14 February 2014 the Internet Society invited members to attend a webinar – The Evolution of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). The Internet Society’s public policy staff shared insights and discussed the IGF, how it works today, the experiences that it has helped us acquire and how it can evolve.

  2014 will be a pivotal year for the future of the Internet. The open question is whether there will be an international consensus on the multistakeholder Internet governance model or a shift towards a more intergovernmental model – Markus Kummer, Vice President, Public Policy

  The primary topic was an Internet Society proposal that the IGF 1) be transformed into a body that would develop non-binding policy outcomes, and 2) engender a structured policy development process between meetings. A recording is below:

  View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/1YCc1A53HdY
  Download audio: http://isoc-ny.org/misc/Feb_14_2014_The_Evolution_of_the_Internet_Governance_Forum.mp3
  Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/vruM8qRDnZd5/
  Twitter: igf2014

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  isoc-ny 3:17 am on September 3, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: briefing, cloud ( 19 ), Economist, farber, netneutrality ( 13 ), Vint Cerf ( 94 ), zittrain ( 9 )   

  The Economist briefing: The Future of The Internet 

  The Economist has published a comprehensive briefing A virtual counter-revolution on the state of The Internet – including Net Neutrality and trends towards balkanization.

  The briefing notes that Net Neutrality concerns are a peculiarly American obsession, due to the lack of provider competition:

  America’s operators have long insisted that open-access requirements would destroy their incentive to build fast, new networks: why bother if you will be forced to share it? After intense lobbying, America’s telecoms regulators bought this argument. But the lesson from elsewhere in the industrialised world is that it is not true. The result, however, is that America has a small number of powerful network operators, prompting concern that they will abuse their power unless they are compelled, by a net-neutrality law, to treat all traffic equally. Rather than trying to mandate fairness in this way—net neutrality is very hard to define or enforce – it makes more sense to address the underlying problem: the lack of competition.

  The briefing notes increasing nationalistic trends in government control of Internet traffic, and worries that nations will ultimately go rogue on the DNS system; also that the predicted dominance of tightly controlled cloud-based apps which will turn the Internet into a series of ‘walled gardens’ aka ‘islands’ – inhibiting generativity. However such trends are not seen as inevitable:

  Yet predictions are hazardous, particularly in IT. Governments may yet realise that a freer internet is good not just for their economies, but also for their societies. Consumers may decide that it is unwise to entrust all their secrets to a single online firm such as Facebook, and decamp to less insular alternatives, such as Diaspora.

  The briefing concludes that it’s anybody’s guess how it will all turn out.

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