Emerging Issues

(No.112) Evaluating Internet Freedom Initiatives: What works?

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Emerging Issues
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Internet Freedom Initiatives (IFIs) have been sprouting up like mushrooms in North America and Europe in the last few years. Internet freedom has become a foreign policy priority for many Western states. Driven by a decline in online freedoms globally, several North American and European countries have implemented policies and funding schemes to promote Internet freedom and openness in countries around the world.

(No.164) The evolving Internet ecosystem: A two-sided market?

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Economists have been increasingly interested in recent years in “two-sided markets,” cases where some platform intermediates between the two sides of the market in order to ensure that there is sufficient subscription and use on both sides of the market. Free-to-air broadcast television is often given as one example, where the television network intermediates between advertisers and viewers; credit card systems are another, intermediating between merchants and consumers.

(No.98) A Plan for Rights-Respecting Telecoms

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(No.93) Around the ccTLDs world: The journey continues

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The workshop intends to show the diversity of country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) policy models and the best practice exchanges in this context. There are more than 250 ccTLD extensions globally. Each ccTLD represents the country’s national identity on the web. The ccTLDs and gTLDs community has been defined as one of the backbones of the Internet ecosystem. During the 2012 ICANN meeting in San Jose, Costa Rica, ICANN celebrated 27 TLDs that have hit the 25-year mark.

(No.92) The role of Internet-based services for the Disaster Communications

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In recent years, during and post disaster period, Internet based services are increasingly used among the devastated people and those who try to rescue and help restoration works.

(No.148) INTERMEDIARIES ON THE INTERNET - INSTRUMENTS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT OR CRUSADERS OF FREEDOM AND PRIVACY?

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The proposed workshop will look at the recent emergence of intermediaries across the globe and the role that intermediaries are today playing in the context of free flow of information, access to information and with respect of human rights. What are the various rights, obligations and duties of intermediaries? What kind of due diligence are intermediaries expected to exercise and whether intermediaries are acting as an impediment to Internet freedom?

(No.146) Intellectual property rights and the freedom to share: are the two compatible?

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One of the fundamental tensions in Internet-related policy worldwide is the tension between the proponents of fundamental intellectual property rights and the proponents of a more liberal freedom to share, which is a unique attribute of the emerging information society and represent the quintessence of the right to receive and impart information and ideas. Indeed, the pervasive and widespread use of file-sharing services, peer-to-peer exchanges and social media - particularly by youngsters - also results in their abuse for illegal distribution of copyrighted content.

(No.34) Standards for Sustainable Digital Culture

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The workshop will address the question of how digital works which are shared via the Internet (either with permission, e.g. granted by means of a Creative Commons license, or without permission) can be effectively linked to a website of the artist(s) or author, so that they can have a significant positive marketing effect (and not just the effect of often undesired competition to commercial offerings). The workshop will focus in particular on audio formats like MP3 and OGG and the possible addition of standardized URL metadata.

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