Google and facebook were warned yesterday that their websites can be “blocked” like in China if they fail to devise a mechanism to check and remove objectionable material from their web pages. As a further development, the Government of India granted sanction to prosecute 19 other social networking websites, apart from Facebook and Google. The Read more…

Afilias, NIXI, NamesBeyond sponsored our IPv6 Workshop, Seminar and a Discussion on Core Internet Values at Chennai during June 26-29. We thankfully acknowledge the support from our sponsors. Both the events on June 26 were webcast live to external audience with help from Joly MacFie of ISOC New York. The Webcasts are archived at http://www.livestream.com/internetsocietychapters/folder?dirId=66211246-2197-4f71-a994-adebb20b91cb Read more…

The Internet Society has announced that it is inviting applications for its latest Internet Society Fellowships to the IETF, part of its Next Generation Leaders (NGL) programme (www.InternetSociety.org/Leaders). The Fellowship programme allows engineers from developing countries to attend an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting. IETF is the Internet’s premier standards-making body, responsible for the Read more…

  The national broadband network will enable speeds of one gigabit per second on its fibre optic network, 100 times faster than originally planned, the company building the network will announce today. The speed is significantly faster than the maximum speeds promised by the Australian opposition in its broadband policy, and highlights the growing gap Read more…

(This is as posted in the Isoc Chennai mailing list) The last date for filing an application for this fellowship is July 20. Those with an interest in Internet and Internet Governance are encouraged to apply. NIXI Fellowship Programme National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) invites applications from qualified young Internet professionals from Academia, Industry, Read more…