Increasing internet access and freedoms with IGF participation

Author

Kumar, Nanda ; Mowshowitz, Abbe

Author_Institution

Comput. Inf. Syst. Dept., CUNY, New York, NY

Volume

27

Issue

2

fYear

2008

Firstpage

33

Lastpage

36

Abstract

The Internet has in a short period of time stimulated changes in commerce, work life, and leisure activities as well as in the provision of information. These changes have brought out policy issues such as intellectual property rights, free speech, spam, privacy, terrorism, and child pornography. These issues demand solutions that require global cooperation. To provide all stakeholders - Internet users, corporations, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) among others - a forum to address these issues, the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was created in 2005 as an outcome of the discussions held at the UN-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

Keywords

Internet; legislation; IGF participation; Internet Governance Forum; Internet access; child pornography; data privacy; free speech; intellectual property rights; nongovernmental organizations; spam; terrorism; Business; Discussion forums; Domain Name System; IP networks; Internet; Power system management; Privacy; Space technology; Speech; Terrorism;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Technology and Society Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0278-0097

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MTS.2008.924869

Filename

4538980