Today, the Second Edition of Nigeria Internet Governance Forum 2013 holds here in Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria. The planning for this elaborate event has been on, for the better part of the last four months, and it brings together technocrats, civil society, the private sector, government representatives, intellectuals from the academic communities and other stakeholders from all parts of Nigeria to deliberate on critical issues revolving around internet governance in the…

Today, the Second Edition of Nigeria Internet Governance Forum 2013 holds here in Abuja, the Capital city of Nigeria. The planning for this elaborate event has been on, for the better part of the last four months, and it brings together technocrats, civil society, the private sector, government representatives, intellectuals from the academic communities and other stakeholders from all parts of the country to deliberate on critical issues revolving around internet governance in the…

Cybercrime concerns are nothing new in international debates. The topic has been continuously raised within…

Over the past month, I have been actively involved in the organisation of the “Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue on Network Neutrality and Human Rights”, which took place on 29-30 May in Strasbourg, under the auspices of the Council of Europe.

This two-day long event has summoned some of the most renowned network-neutrality experts at the European level and provided a unique occasion to share opinions and concerns on an equal footing.

The main purpose of the conference was to shed…

A local ISP recently sent emails to their email users advising that the ISP will be migrating to the Google apps platform . As a result customers will be able to take advantage of the benefits and apps available.

In my opinion the new functionality would be great, access to my documents from anywhere, ability to collaborate online etc..However I'm concerned about what is not being said.

For example

Where will my emails be stored ?

Which government will have…

The role of governments in Internet governance is under wider scrutiny this month. Debates during the ITU's World Telecommunications Policy Forum (WTPF) in Geneva, legal developments from the US House of Representatives, and the tumultuous developments at ICANN and its Government Advisory Committee (GAC), have cast a spotlight on governments' role and the multistakeholder model.…

               Facial recognition (FR) involves the automatic processing of digital images where individuals are recognized by their unique facial features. Specifically, FR facilitates the notion of matching the name with a face and increases the risk of revealing one’s sensitive information. This paper discusses the privacy and data-protection implications surrounding the proliferation of facial recognition technology (FRT) and presents a harmonized approach to…

The Swedish Internet Governance Forum 2013 officially started today and will end tomorrow on May 23, 2013. I will be participating in an opening panel tomorrow morning on internet freedom. Look out for more information on twitter at #sif2013.…

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The IGF Secretariat has announced the composition of the new MAG in a press release. We thank everyone who participated in the selection process: first, those who offered their names for consideration, then those involved in the discussions, encouragement and endorsement processes around the world. You can read more about Diplo's MAG member endorsement process…

On May 13 at CICG, Genève, the ITU will host…

During the online classes on cyber security at Diplo Foundation a lot was discussed about cyber security and cyber crime. At that time most of the discussion points seemed alien to some of us from developing countries, sorry my country Uganda is not a developing nation but an underdeveloped country with out a cyber security team in police, no CERT teams whatsoever in the nation and a very naive society as regards cyber…

The recent DDoS attack on Spamhaus, dubbed 'the biggest ever of such kind', shook the Internet community. Not only was it carried out on a very large scale, but the ripple effects created by this attack were similarly alarming.…

  18 April 2013 ITU released The annual Trends in Telecommunication Reform 2013: Transnational aspects of regulation in a networked society, a document that reflects the collaboration between the world's ICT policy-makers and regulators towards promotion and development of information technologies. The aim of the report is to expose innovations in the IT market that result in new applications and services, and create…

A few years ago the …

Last week I participated in the ICANN 46 meeting in Beijing as a fellow. It was the second experience in this capacity and I won't get into the details of the ICANN fellowship program and fellows bonding spirit which deserves a separate posting (for a quick glimpse on it you may check this…

I recently completed  the Diplo Foundation Internet Governance Advanced course in Privacy (Aug 2012) and the Introduction to Policy Research (Nov 2012). My project proposal sought to draw attention to the quality of the stakeholder consultation process as a precursor to legislative changes. Specific focus was given to the HIPCAR project on St. Kitts-Nevis which has resulted in proposed and in some cases actual legislative changes in the interception of communications, e-commerce, …

How do you explain to lawyers the meaning of botnet? In short, botnets are the…

Recently Kaspersky Lab…

For all those interested in this topic (and with a LinkedIn account): I am running a specialized news group on cyber hate and cyber terrorist content on the Internet. Just about every day I am posting articles, reports, links etc. All with specific information on where this content can be found, what can be done to reduce it etc. The group is called Network TAHITI . Please join! 

The multistakeholder approach adopted for the development and evolution of the internet since its early development which has served the internet community so well over the past years leading to breakthrough innovationns was called into question at WCIT-12.…