Almost at Zero Budget, three short duration events happened at Isoc India Chennai in three locations, 4-6 hours of travel between the locations. Dr Olivier Crepin LeBlond, Chair of ICANN At Large led a session on IPv6 at Technoforum, Pondichery where I was asked to organize another 3 hour session on the History of Internet Read more…

Internet was on strike on January 18 in protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act. The public participation online and on the streets was huge. U.S. Congress observed all these developments, paid attention to the public opinion and is postponing the votes on SOPA and PIPA and has agreed to revisit both bills. Internet Society Read more…

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…

New generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) promise to expand the domain name system (DNS) and change the Internet forever. Your chance to apply for your own gTLD is nearly here. The decision to apply for a new gTLD should not be entered into lightly. Applying to run your own gTLD is not the same as registering Read more…

For the Internet Governance Leaders of Tomorrow: Learning in a multistakeholder environment Meissen, Germany, July 31, 2010 Do you want to understand the multilayer, multiplayer mechanisms of Internet Governance? Do you want to know what the political, economic, social and legal implications of Internet Governance are? Do you want to learn what is behind cryptic Read more…