Today Monday February 11 2013 from noon til 2pm the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) will host a webinar What’s Next After The Collapse of the ITU’s WCIT-12 Dubai Talks. Particpation is free but there is 200 person limit.

What: Webinar: What’s Next After The Collapse of the ITU’s WCIT-12 Dubai Talks
When: Monday February 11 2013, 12 Noon – 2pm EST | 1700-1900 UTC
Register: Email Jason Adam Buckweitz at jab2322@columbia.edu
Twitter: #WCIT12 | #WCIT
Panel:

• Milton Mueller, Professor (Syracuse University School of Information Studies)
• Sally Shipman Wentworth, Public Policy (The Internet Society)
• Luigi Giambardella, Chairman – Executive Board (ETNO)

Moderator: Raul Katz, Director of Business Strategy Research, CITI
Topics:

• Is there anything non-controversial in the revised treaty that could be agreed upon by all countries (e.g. universal number for emergency services, greater transparency in mobile roaming prices, improvement in the energy efficiency of ICT networks)
• Are we, as The Economist says, at the beginning of a “digital cold war” between signatories and non-signatories? What would the implications of a “cold war” scenario be for the future of the Internet?
• Or, alternatively, are we dealing with a “too much about nothing” scenario, where after ratifications and delays, little would have changed?
• How has the conference affected the future of the ITU?
• Will a split regulatory scenario of the Internet affect its regional implementation?

#citi, #etno, #milton-mueller, #sally-wentworth, #wcit

The annual Internet Days Conference is underway in Stockholm (Oct 22-24 2012). There is a live webcast, most of which – but not all – is in Swedish. Stockholm is 6 hours ahead of NYC, or UTC+2.

Jan Flodin of ISOC-SE is conducting a session on Net Neutrality on Wednesday at 15:10 (0910EDT|1310UTC) in which he will skype in ETNO President Luigi Gambardella. This session has its own twitter tag #ind12nn for submitting comments and questions.

What: Internet Days Conference
Where: Stockholm Waterfront, Sweden
When: October 22-24 2012
Program: http://www.internetdagarna.se/nyheter/sv-livesandningar
Webcast: http://bambuser.com/channel/stiftelsen
Twitter: #ind12

#etno, #isoc-se, #net-neutrality, #sweden

As the WCIT approaches the ETNO (the former state telco’s in Europe) have issued  ‘contribution 109′ arguing that they should be compensated by content owners for carrying their traffic – an end run around net neutralirty. The European chapters of the Internet Society have reacted with this statement (below  or PDF)

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#etno, #isoc-eu, #itrs, #net-neutrality, #wcit