OECD Ministerial On Internet Wraps Up: Openness A Concern 24/06/2016 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch 2 Comments The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) should not wait 8 or 10 years before its next Internet Ministerial, said OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria at the closing session in Cancun Mexico yesterday. Gurria called for a faster pace for government and regulators to adapt to the digital markets. Better data on the data economy will help, as reflected in the new Cancun Declaration.
OECD Ministerial On Internet: Trust, But Whom? 23/06/2016 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment Beware “digital protectionism.” That was one of the key messages of United States Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, speaking at the official opening of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Ministerial on the digital economy in Cancun, Mexico.
As OECD Gathers, Call For New Internet Social Compact – With Some Open Questions 21/06/2016 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment On the eve of the third internet-related Ministerial Meeting of the Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) starting on 22 June in Cancun, Mexico, the Global Commission on Internet Governance (GCIG) published a think report on “One Internet.” Calling for a new “social compact” for the internet, the 140-page report that was fed by 50 research studies has a number of well-known recommendations, some surprisingly technical and some interesting ones.
Amid Allegations Of IP Theft By Corporations, Local Kenyan Innovators React 10/06/2016 by Fredrick Nzwili for Intellectual Property Watch 3 Comments NAIROBI, Kenya – As start-up and innovation centres spring up across Africa, Kenya – which birthed the continent’s tech movement – is emerging as one of its leading innovation nuclei. But concerns are intensifying here that young inventors are losing their innovations to conglomerates, in what is alleged as intellectual property theft or abuse.
NTIA, ICANN Tick Another Box On Way To IANA Transition 09/06/2016 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment The United States Commerce Department National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced today it found the proposal developed by the global internet multistakeholder community to fully privatise oversight over the central root zone of the internet domain name system (DNS) satisfactory.
EuroDIG 2016: Multi-Stakeholder Soul-Searching 09/06/2016 by Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment Some 800 registered participants gathered for the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) in Brussels today to talk about internet privacy, security and access. Besides the topical issues, the opening sessions speakers came back time and again to the discrepancy of theory and practice of the much-belaboured “multi-stakeholder principle.”
Transition Of Core Internet Functions (IANA) Oversight From US Government No Done Deal 24/05/2016 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment Will the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) be able to handover oversight over the management of the DNS root zone and other core databases of the internet in September? At a hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee in Washington today, proponents and opponents showed off and Senator Marco Rubio, former presidential candidate, strongly […]
WSIS Forum: Support For General Assembly Decisions On Internet Governance 03/05/2016 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Support from information and communication technology for implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030 is the programmatic topic of the first post-WSIS+10 edition of the World Summit Information Society Forum (WSIS Forum), taking place this week.
ICANN CEO Atallah: Gearing Up For Next Round Of New Internet Domains 03/05/2016 by Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment One controversial issue from early days of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) could come to final closure ten years later: the decoupling from US oversight of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which manages the central root zone for the domain name system. Meanwhile, the next round of new internet domains is being teed up, the head of the domain name system oversight body has said.
WSIS2016: Software Licensing Matters – To Everybody 02/05/2016 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment A special committee at the World Intellectual Property Organisation on software licensing, a globally harmonized software licence model and a dispute resolution system were among the ideas presented to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) at panel it hosted at day one of the 2016 WSIS Forum meeting in Geneva.