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  • A sign of success of the Internet is the degree to which we take it for granted. Do you trawl Lifehacker and TechCrunch to find the next need-to-have social media tool or cloud service support for your professional or personal pastimes? You're confident that there will be a next thing, even if you don't quite know where it is going to come from. Perhaps it's going to come from you – you are building the next great Internet-based service and are looking for Kickstarter funding to make it real. Who do you need to ask in order to set up the service and make it available over the Internet? No one...
    Tech Matters
    Date published 22 April 2014
  • We felt compelled to issue a statement on the recently leaked Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) draft.  The Internet Society is concerned that Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) provisions currently under discussion by the negotiators risk harming the global Internet. We do not believe that these provisions are consistent with basic principles of transparency, due process, accountability, proportionality and the rule of law. By issuing a statement, we deviate from our past practice of not commenting on leaked documents. Leaked texts normally provide only a snapshot of the issues...
    Public Policy
    Date published 18 November 2013
  • On my way to Bali for the 2013 Internet Governance Forum (IGF), I realize that there are a lot of expectations and hopes for this meeting. Lately, the Internet governance landscape has been changing in important and dynamic ways. Whether one thinks about surveillance and privacy or whether one’s concerns are about the demarcation of roles and responsibilities of the participating actors, the Internet governance framework is going through a phase where discussions are moving fast and in all directions.  The theme of this year's IGF could not be more timely -- "Building bridges:...
    Public Policy
    Date published 23 October 2013
  • What made an organization like the Internet Society draft an issues paper on Intellectual Property? What is the aim of this paper? How does the paper relate to overall Internet governance discussions? And, what – if any – impact does it aim to have on the discussions regarding Intellectual Property? At a time when there is a desire to resolve policy considerations by employing technological measures, the Internet Society, through an issues paper, amongst other things, seeks to chart a path forward: for the Internet Society, it is vital that policy makers develop public policy approaches that...
    Public Policy
    Date published 18 June 2013
  • There is a ‘book famine’ – in the North, apparently, less than 5% of the books published are available in a form accessible by the blind community. In the South, this figure is no more than 1%.  The WIPO Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Persons with Print Disabilities[1]will hopefully address this issue as Member States are negotiating a final text before the Diplomatic Conference in Marrakech in June 2013. Before June, however, WIPO Member States still have to agree on the text of the Treaty, the most controversial aspects of which appear to relate to the definition of...
    Public Policy
    Date published 03 March 2013