Diplo took part in various activities of the first Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting which was held in Athens. This event was the culmination of nine months of training for participants of Diplo’s Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme (IGCBP). More...

The participants followed the discussions on the various workshops and reported back.  View Blog here.

“The Internet is a mirror of society,” Google’s vice president Vinton Cerf explained during an hour-long private meeting with participants and tutors of DiploFoundation’s Internet Governance Capacity Buliding Programme (IGCBP).

“If you look at the mirror and you don’t like what you see, you don’t fix the mirror; you try to fix yourself,” Dr Cerf said in an analogy to the Internet. The team had the opportunity to discuss some Internet Governance aspects, including net neutrality, security, openness and access. Also present for the meeting was Marc Furrer, President of the Swiss Federal Communications Commission. More...

Highlights from the meeting with Vint Cerf were recorded and can be viewed here.

Jovan Kurbalija was one of the speakers at the first joint Asia-Pacific and Europe-CIS inter-regional ICTD/e-Governance Community of Practice meeting. Attending the meeting were government counterparts, representatives of the business community and civil society. The meeting was organised by the UNDP Regional Centre Bangkok (RCB), UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre (BRC) and the e-Governance Academy of Estonia. More…