Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2010

14 Sep 2010 - 17 Sep 2010

Vilnius, Lithuania

Session reports

11:00 - 13:00 Introduction to the IGF for newcomers
11:00 - 13:00 New gTLD and IDNs for development: Importance and obstacles
11:00 - 13:00 Policy, governance, and participation: Harnessing all aspects of the net for youth activism
11:00 - 13:00 Routing and resource certification: Self-governance and security at the core of internet operations
11:00 - 13:00 Strengthening ccTLDs in Africa
11:00 - 13:00 Use of ICT by people with migrant background
12:00 - 13:30 Internet governance: Setting the scene
13:30 - 15:30 Freedom of connection: Freedom of expression
13:30 - 15:30 Freedom of expression or access to knowledge: Are we taking the necessary steps towards an open and inclusive internet?
13:30 - 15:30 The future of privacy
13:30 - 15:30 Priorities for the long-term stability of the internet
13:30 - 15:30 A proposal for setting a standard of care in international law for cross-border internet
13:30 - 15:30 Resilience and contingency planning in DNS
13:30 - 15:30 Sexual rights, openness, and regulatory systems
17:00 - 20:00 Open ceremony session
11:00 - 13:00 Developing civil society and youth participation in internet governance in Asia
11:00 - 13:00 Digital inclusion: Reaching the most socially excluded people in society
11:00 - 13:00 International trade and internet governance
11:00 - 13:00 Internet governance in Africa: Impact on Africa
11:00 - 13:00 Legal aspects of internet governance: International cooperation on cybersecurity
11:00 - 13:00 A multilingual internet in the light of the sovereign rights of language communities
11:00 - 13:00 Open Forum: Council of Europe: Internet openness and privacy
13:30 - 15:30 Advancing digital citizenship aspects in children's online/internet experiences: Contributing to internet governance for development
13:30 - 15:30 Applications for mobile internet access for persons with disabilities
13:30 - 15:30 Brazil best practice: Bill of rights
13:30 - 15:30 Dynamic coalition on open standards
13:30 - 15:30 Governance of social media
13:30 - 15:30 ICC’s policy and practice work on data protection and privacy
13:30 - 15:30 Open Forum: OSCE / freedom of the media in cooperation with the Council of Europe
13:30 - 15:30 Protecting the consumer in an online world
16:00 - 18:15 Internet: An instrument to foster democracy
16:15 - 18:15 Cybercrime: Common standards and joint action
16:15 - 18:15 Developing a policy understanding on information security: Glocal (global and local) perspective
16:15 - 18:15 Enhancing transparency in internet governance
16:15 - 18:15 Internet governance viewed through different lenses, with emphasis upon the lens of economic and social development.
16:15 - 18:15 Managing the network: What is appropriate in managing the network?
16:30 - 19:30 Freedom of expression and internet intermediaries: Where do we go from here?
18:30 - 20:30 Arab ICT organisation: Development of Arabic content facing the future internet
18:30 - 20:30 A development agenda approach to internet names and numbers
18:30 - 20:30 EuroDIG
18:30 - 20:30 How to measure communication and media in digital converging era
18:30 - 20:30 The new breed of location services: Challenges for child safety
18:30 - 20:30 Privacy and social networking
18:30 - 20:30 Public-private cooperation on internet safety / cybercrime
09:00 - IGF 2010 - Dynamic coalition on internet of things
11:00 - 13:00 From Athens to Vilnius: Beyond the UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities
11:00 - 13:00 Commonwealth proposals on child safety on the internet
11:00 - 13:00 Engendering confidence in the cloud: Answering the questions of security and privacy
11:00 - 13:00 How green is the internet cloud? Policies to unleash the potential of cloud computing in tackling climate change
11:00 - 13:00 Innovative internet governance idea and approaches: Open space for sharing
11:00 - 13:00 Internet governance and the wider world: Building relationships between the internet governance and other domains
11:00 - 13:00 Social networking and e-participation: What do young citizens look for (18+)?
13:30 - 15:30 Arab dialogue on internet governance
13:30 - 15:30 Best practices as a way of building capacity: What has actually been done to solve specific problems
13:30 - 15:30 Dynamic coalition for a global open localisation platform
13:30 - 15:30 Dynamic coalition on linguistic diversity
13:30 - 15:30 Implications of cloud computing
13:30 - 15:30 Remote participation in the IGF and in regional internet governance meetings
13:30 - 15:30 Transnational (or trans-border) enforcement of a new information order: Issues of rights and democracy
16:15 - 18:15 Data in the cloud: Where do open standards fit in?
16:15 - 18:15 Dynamic coalition on freedom of expression and freedom of the media on the internet
16:15 - 18:15 Openness: Towards digital copyright revolution and constant monitoring
16:30 - 17:30 Russia IGF
16:30 - 17:30 West African IGF
16:30 - 18:30 The role of internet intermediaries in advancing public policy objectives
17:00 - 19:00 Applying a code of good practice on information, participation and transparency in internet governance
17:30 - 18:30 Central Africa IGF
17:30 - 18:30 IGF USA
18:30 - 19:30 East African IGF
18:30 - 19:30 UK national IGF
18:30 - 20:30 Development and mobile broadband
18:30 - 20:30 Open standards: Ensuring accessibility and inclusiveness
11:00 - 12:00 Canada IGF
11:00 - 12:00 German IGF
11:00 - 13:00 Asia-pacific regional IGF 2021
11:00 - 13:00 Internet for youth: Beyond safety issues
11:00 - 13:00 Principles of internet governance dimension of open knowledge environment in bridging the digital divide
11:00 - 13:00 Use of Latin and native American languages on the internet
12:00 - 15:00 Emerging issues: Cloud computing
13:30 - 15:30 Child online protection in Northern Europe: Different national approaches
13:30 - 15:30 Core internet values and the principles of internet governance across generations
13:30 - 15:30 Deploying DNSSEC in a territory
13:30 - 15:30 Integrated approach for child protection online
13:30 - 15:30 Protecting women’s rights: Internet content from a gender perspective
13:30 - 15:30 Public sector information online: Democratic, social and economic potentials
13:30 - 15:30 Round table for regional and national meetings
13:30 - 15:30 Successes and failures of internet governance, 1995 – 2010, and looking forward to WSIS 2015
13:30 - 15:30 Why we need an open web: Open knowledge governance for innovation
16:30 - 18:30 Child online protection in Latin America: Building a framework for developing countries
16:30 - 18:30 City-TLD governance and best practices
16:30 - 18:30 The internet and FOSS: Applications and challenges for Africa
16:30 - 18:30 Local language content, access/diversity, transformation, and digital inclusion
16:30 - 18:30 Well-being on the digital networks
17:00 - 19:30 Taking stock of internet governance and way forward

The fifth annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was held in Vilnius, Lithuania. The theme of the conference was ‘Developing the future together’. 

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