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 The
Internet Governance Forum in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, Nov. 12-15, 2007, was the second of
five annual global events that attract stakeholders
from all walks of life who come together to discuss
issues tied to the future of information and
communications technologies.
This Web page offers links to full IGF coverage,
including daily written and video reports assembled by
Imagining the Internet. It explores
key concerns, with expert interviews with
people from around the world, including a survey on the future of Internet governance, six documentary
packages, a multimedia slide show and 13 blogs. Most of the reports on this page were filed at IGF, as it took place, by
an eight-person group from Elon University's School
of Communications; other site content was processed in the months following the event. Thank you to Markus Kummer and
the UN IGF Secretariat, as well as the
many IGF participants who helped out with the
gathering of this content.
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Click here to see a four-minute audio/slideshow from
the opening session
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< Click here to go to the data gathered for the IGF-Rio Internet Policy Survey >
< Click here to go to a page with links to individual IGF-Rio video interviews >
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November 11,
2007 - The Internet was invented in
the global North, and it is currently dominated
by Northern culture and languages. How can we
expand the scope and diversity
of content online? How can we support more local,
user-generated content? How can we assure that
content reaches disabled people? The elderly? The
illiterate?
<View Video on DIVERSITY - by
Dannika Lewis >
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View Video on INTERNATIONALIZATION -
by Dan Anderson
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Diversity: All
languages, cultures,
abilities
- by Janna Anderson
Internet standards undergo
scrutiny - by Janna
Anderson
GigaNet showcases academic
work - by Connie Book
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November 12,
2007 - The Digital Divide was one
of several key points of focus on the first
official day of IGF Rio 2007. How can we
allow more people access to the
Internet? What are the infrastructure barriers?
What are the cost barriers? What about people in
developing countries, rural areas, islands? And
what about the threat of economic barriers that
could impede access to parts or all of the
Internet?
<View Video on ACCESS - by
Anne
Nicholson >
< View Video I from Access Dynamic
Coalition
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View Video II from Access Dynamic
Coalition
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View Video III from Access Dynamic
Coalition
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View Video IV from Access Dynamic
Coalition
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View Video V from Access Dynamic
Coalition
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View Video VI from Access Dynamic
Coalition
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Getting the
next billion people
online
- by Janna Anderson
More press shows success of IGF
Rio - by Janna Anderson
A meeting of Internet actors
- by Connie Book
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November 13,
2007 - Openness in
the world's networks was a key theme of
day two at IGF Rio. Those in attendance talked
about ways to foster freedom of
expression, protecting privacy and property
rights without limiting freedom of expression,
and they discussed the Internet
filters imposed by governments and
corporations.
<View Video on OPENNESS - by
Michele
Hammerbacher >
Openness:
Expression collides with
control
- by Janna Anderson
New spin on network
neutrality
- by Connie Book
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November 14,
2007 - Internet
security was one of the
main topics of day three at IGF Rio.
Attendees discussed strategies
to deal with threats to countries,
businesses and individuals. Some threats include
identity theft, cybercrime, cyberterrorism,
cyberwar, pornography, spam, viruses and network
attacks.
<View Video on SECURITY - by
Eryn Gradwell >
Internet security
issues loom large
- by Janna Anderson
Working the crowd
at IGF 2007
- by Connie Book
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November 15,
2007 - Throughout the 2007 Internet
Governance Forum, participants discussed the future
of critical Internet resources,
the infrastructure, control systems and protocols
that allow the Internet to function as a stable
global network.
<View Video on CIR - by Anne
Nicholson >
<View Video I from CIR Main
Session
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<View Video II from CIR Main
Session >
<View Video III from CIR Main
Session >
<View Video IV from CIR Main
Session >
The struggle over critical Internet
resources - by
Janna Anderson
Internet Resources
session draws big crowd - by Janna
Anderson
Experts: Move to IPv6 must be
accelerated -
by Janna Anderson
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To see additional individual videos featuring IGF-Rio participants, go to:
http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/igf_interviews_2007.xhtml
To see the videos in MPEG4 format
(smaller file size), go to:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ImaginingtheInternet
To find out more about IGF and see details on
upcoming activities, go to:
http://www.intgovforum.org
Links to IGF-related content produced by the
NGO IP Justice can be found at:
http://ipjustice.org/wp/campaigns/igf/
The videos on this site
are offered for use under a
Creative Commons Noncommercial License allowing no
derivative works. Executive producer, Janna Anderson;
associate producers, Daniel Anderson and Connie Book;
videographer and editor, J McMerty; and reporters, Anne
Nicholson, Michele Hammerbacher, Dannika Lewis and Eryn
Gradwell.
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