This hearing will be held jointly with the Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade and the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations read more
A petition to de-fund the U.N.’s telecom arm emerges just as the ITU readies to hammer out internet governance plans at the World Telecommunication Information and Communication Technology Policy Forum meetings in February and May 2013. read more
SOUTH Africa has signed up to a controversial treaty that has internet companies and free speech advocates up in arms. Among the major issues raised at the ITU’s global conference on international telecommunications, held over the past two weeks in the United Arab Emirate of Dubai, was the insertion of a resolution on the internet. …
Even as the Internet keeps growing and evolving, the fallout from major regulations expected in 2013 threaten to change its very nature. The dust has yet to settle in the wake of the contentious International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) conference in Dubai, but its repercussions could spit the Internet into two parts: read more
In the end it was a disappointment that the treaty on International Telecommunications regulations (ITRs) that had been under negotiation for two weeks at the ITU World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12) was not acceptable to 55 countries, and that, as a consequence, these countries did not sign the final version of the international treaty …