Internet Governance Activities
Third meeting of the IGF (UN sponsored Internet Governance Forum) took place in Hyderabad from 3rd to 6th December, 2008. NIXI acted as co-host for this event,and took up a number of ramp up activities. These included:
Sponsoring Host Country website http://www.igf2008.in/
Seminars on Internet Governance Issues at various locations. eIndia 2008 at Delhi (29 July, 2008) and NICT, 2008 in Guwahati on (29 August, 2008) and at S.V. University, Tirupathi (9 September, 2008).
An Online Capacity Building Course on IG issues, in association with Diplo Foundation. 30 persons participated in this course and top twelve were given fellowships by NIXI to physically participate in Hyderabad IGF meeting.
NIXI commissioned a series of articles in the monthly magazine i4d (Information for Development).
Part I: Introduction to Internet Governance Issues
Part II: Internet Governance Issues - Access
Part III: Internet Governance Issues - Critical Internet Resources.
Part IV: Internet Governance Issues - Cybercrime in India
Part V: Social networking and Internet governance
Part VI: What are the advantages and disadvantages of migrating to IPv6?
Part VII: Content monitoring: The debate continues .
