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…

Call for applications for the Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme 2007 are now closed.  Please sign up for DiploNews, our e-mail newsletter, in order to be informed about future opportunities with DiploFoundation.

Diplo’s Discussion Papers in Internet Governance and Policy are accessible online as PDF and hypertext documents.  We encourage young scholars and policy makers from developing countries in particular to contribute to discussion papers.  More...

Diplo in collaboration with the Graduate Institute of International Studies and the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation organized a seminar on Internet and Diplomacy, which was held at the Institute in Geneva. Photo Gallery. More...

Association for Technology and Internet (APTI) and Strawberrynet Foundation held a workshop to raise Internet Governance awareness in Romania. The workshop was supported by the ICT Policy Portal Programme of the Association for Progressive Communications.   More...

The Commonwealth Connects International e-Partnership is launching a high-profile event from the 23-24 March 2007 in New Delhi, India. The Summit will bring together ICT Ministers from around the Commonwealth, CEOs, Managing Directors and other senior people from the private sector and ICT world, Government officials, international agencies and senior representatives from Civil Society.

Diplo associate Dr.Dhrupad Mathur will be attending the Summit in an effort to raise awareness on IG issues related to bridging the digital divide.

The Commonwealth Connects Programme aims to bridge the deepening Digital Divide across the 53 countries of the Commonwealth.

Diplo associate John Walubengo ran an online discussion, from January 22 – 10 February 2007,  on the issues surrounding the East-African Submarine Optical Fiber.

The East African Coast remains the only seabed that is yet to be covered by International Submarine Optical Fiber Cable (OFC) Connectivity. More...

The Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme for 2007 was launched last week.  In response to the demand for the programme, the 2007 programme has increased its intake to 138 participants, supported by a larger tutoring team.  The programme will run from March - October. More...