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Workshop Details of Big Data in the Global South International Workshop
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 06, 2015 02:03 AMBios and Photos of Speakers for Big Data in the Global South International Workshop
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 06, 2015 02:01 AMBreaking Down ICANN Accountability: What It Is and What the Internet Community Wants
— by Ramya Chandrasekhar — last modified Nov 05, 2015 03:29 PMAt the recent ICANN conference held in Dublin (ICANN54), one issue that was rehashed and extensively deliberated was ICANN's accountability and means to enhance the same. In light of the impending IANA stewardship transition from the NTIA to the internet's multi-stakeholder community, accountability of ICANN to the internet community becomes that much more important. In this blog post, some aspects of the various proposals to enhance ICANN's accountability have been deconstructed and explained.
Connected Trouble
— by Sunil Abraham — last modified Oct 28, 2015 04:47 PMThe internet of things phenomenon is based on a paradigm shift from thinking of the internet merely as a means to connect individuals, corporations and other institutions to an internet where all devices in (insulin pumps and pacemakers), on (wearable technology) and around (domestic appliances and vehicles) humans beings are connected.
Do we need a Unified Post Transition IANA?
— by Pranesh Prakash, Padmini Baruah and Jyoti Panday — last modified Oct 27, 2015 12:46 AMAs we stand at the threshold of the IANA Transition, we at CIS find that there has been little discussion on the question of how the transition will manifest. The question we wanted to raise was whether there is any merit in dividing the three IANA functions – names, numbers and protocols – given that there is no real technical stability to be gained from a unified Post Transition IANA. The analysis of this idea has been detailed below.
Policy Brief: Oversight Mechanisms for Surveillance
— by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Nov 24, 2015 06:09 AMThe 'Global Multistakholder Community' is Neither Global Nor Multistakeholder
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Nov 03, 2016 10:42 AMCIS research shows how Western, male, and industry-driven the IANA transition process actually is.
Comments on the Zero Draft of the UN General Assembly
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 16, 2015 02:41 AMComments on the Zero Draft of the UN General Assembly’s Overall Review of the Implementation of WSIS Outcomes (WSIS+10)
— by Geetha Hariharan — last modified Oct 16, 2015 02:44 AMOn 9 October 2015, the Zero Draft of the UN General Assembly's Overall Review of implementation of WSIS Outcomes was released. Comments were sought on the Zero Draft from diverse stakeholders. The Centre for Internet & Society's response to the call for comments is below.
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