On Wednesday and Thursday January 26-27 2022, the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) in partnership with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Cluster Office for the Caribbean (UNESCO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) hosts ‘ICT in … Read the rest “WEBCAST JAN 26-27: ICT in Education – A Caribbean Forum”
On Sunday January 2 2022, in the eighth installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights, features a ‘Talking Tech: Girls and Women in ICT‘ conversation between Sophie Patrick, of … Read the rest “#12Streams 2021 8 – Talking Tech: Girls and Women in ICT – Rinalia Abdul Rahim and Sophie Patrick”
Today, Monday March 22 2021 at 11:00-15:15 UTC the World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2021 (WSIS 2021) opens its High Level Sessions with two sessions, 133 and 154, on “Bridging Digital Divides“.
On Thursday March 18 2021 at 12:00-13:30 UTC the International telecommunications Union (ITU) held a webinar ‘The Road to Addis – Connect2Include. Include2Connect’ as part of the run up to the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC), … Read the rest “SIMULCAST: The Road to Addis – Connect2Include. Include2Connect RoadToAddis #ITUWTDC @ITU #Connect2Include”
On Monday 22 February 2021 at 10:30-12:00 BKK/JKT Time (03:30-05:00 UTC) the ITU Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific will host a webinar ‘Last-Mile Connectivity in Asia-Pacific: planning tools to address the Gaps‘. This webinar will feature … Read the rest “WEBCAST MON: ITU Webinar: Last Mile Connectivity in Asia-Pacific: planning tools to address the Gaps”
On Wednesday 24 June 2020, at 11:00-12:00 UTC ITU-D Study Groups will host a webinar ‘Digital accessibility during COVID 19‘. COVID-19 has emphasized the need to intensify all activities related to digital/ICT accessibility as a means to … Read the rest “WEBCAST TODAY: @ITU Webinar on Digital #accessibility during #COVID19 w/ @ITU_BDTDirector @undesadspd @UNDESA @EU_Commission @best_lidia @NADP_official @G3ict #a11y”
On Wednesday 29 April 2020 at 9:30am EDT (13:30 UTC) the Office of the Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General, working on Digital Cooperation presents the third in the UN/ITU Webinar series ‘Digital Cooperation during COVID19 and beyond… Read the rest “WEBCAST TODAY: ‘The ‘Infodemic’ – misinformation and disinformation during COVID-19’ #DigitalCooperation @UNSGdigicoop @UN @ITU @UNESCO @UNDP”
Today, Thursday September 27 2018 at Noon EDT (16;00 UTC) New America, DiploFoundation, and ISOC-DC together present a panel – The Battle for the Global Internet . The coming months are filled with important processes that could play … Read the rest “WEBCAST TODAY: The Battle for the #GlobalInternet @NewAmCyber @DiplomacyEdu @ISOCDC”
Today, Monday April 9 2018 at 9am EDT (13:00 UTC) the Internet Society Livestream Channel will webcast R Street Institute‘s panel Does the UN Want to Take Over the Internet? which was held at the Dirksen Senate Office Building … Read the rest “WEBCAST TODAY: Does the UN Want to Take Over the Internet? @RSI w/ Larry Strickling @InternetSociety, Fiona Alexander @NTIAgov, + Milton Mueller @IGPAlert”
From my point of view, I don’t believe the UN wants to take over the internet.
And indeed, the way is another.
It wants to ensure that the Internet is broad, secure and integrated because freedom of communication embodies human rights and increases wealth.
Freedom of communication guarantees a globalized world and that is the solution to reduce poverty.
And it will not happen without internet broad access.
But a concern for ITU has been the monopoly.
No country can have internet monopoly
So I see that dual root for DNS should always be a reason for surveillance.
IF ICANN has the Internet in hand this is correct because the principles within ICANN are in the same sense as the United Nations and there is a collective conscience to the detriment of monopolizing powers.
There is no competition between UN, ICANN and ITU , but there is cooperation.
Governance is done through cooperation and this achieves humanitarian ends without being an obstacle to corporate profits.
The Internet Society Accessibility Special Interest Group (in formation) will this week be at 1pm ET on Wednesday Oct 11 2017. Please join and share your #a11y interests. This week we will review the pre-event – Together for an #accessible … Read the rest “Join the @InternetSociety @a11ysig hangout 1pm ET Today Weds Oct 11 we review #a11y at #wtdc #wtdc17”
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