Open Call for Multistakeholder Advisory Group Renewal for 2013 The Multistakeholder Advisory Group 2012 (MAG-12) has been instrumental in planning the program for India Internet Governance Conference (IIGC) related meetings and main conference during August-October 2012. IIGC was held in New Delhi on 4th and 5th October 2012, with onsite participation of over 350 delegates, Read more…

Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force, its areas, and its working groups, for review after which it may be introduced as an RFC for comments. Johan Pouwelse has introduced an “Internet Draft” at the Internet Engineering Task Force which describes some scenarios in which one can imagine that the ability of Read more…

The annual APRICOT conference is a unique and successful educational forum for Internet builders in the Asia-Pacific region, to learn from their peers and leaders in the Internet community. Senior practitioners from the Asia Pacific and around the world contribute their time to APRICOT as presenters, teachers and trainers, to produce a non-commercial high quality Read more…

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/on-internet-rules-india-now-more-willing-to-say-icann/article3994985.ece It is very positive that India has distanced itself from extreme positions as reflected in its CIRP / IBSA proposals. The Minister’s announcement is a clear sign that India values multi-stakehoder institutions and is beginning to embrace the multi-stakeholder model of policy-making for Internet Governance. India’s position now is exemplary for many other nations Read more…