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	<title>Kieren McCarthy [dotcom] &#187; IGF</title>
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		<title>United Nations continues to undermine Internet Governance Forum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first preparatory meeting for the 2011 Internet Governance Forum has ended with a significant degree of uncertainty thanks to ongoing bureaucratic delays.
Over two days, representatives from business, government, civil society and the technical community met in Geneva in order to decide the path forward for the sixth annual meeting of the Forum, dedicated to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2011/02/24/united-nations-continues-to-undermine-internet-governance-forum/</link>
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		<title>IGF Day 4: The end is not nigh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having spent the past three days grumbling and moaning about the Internet Governance Forum 2010, I pre-decided it was time to highlight the good stuff, the reason why people from 107 different countries bothered to attend.
If you asked pretty much anyone at the event if the numbers were up or down this year, everyone would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2010/09/18/igf-day-4-the-end-is-not-nigh/</link>
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		<title>IGF Day 2 and 3: Silence the Lambs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you were to list Internet conferences in terms of boredom, the IGF would come mid to top-table. 
It doesn’t have the razzmatazz or micro-celebrities of Web2.0 conferences but then it also doesn’t suffer the long, drawn-out pondering of intergovernmental talk-fests.
That’s why it’s so important that the Critical Internet Resources main session at the IGF [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2010/09/16/igf-day-2-and-3-silence-the-lambs/</link>
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		<title>IGF workshops: protecting the consumer and digital inclusion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was the remote moderator for two workshops at the IGF today: Digital inclusion: reaching the most socially excluded people in society (workshop 114); and Protecting the Consumer in an on-line world (workshop 112).
I&#8217;m not going to give rundown here but I am going to stick videos of both below &#8211; highlighting the excellent live [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2010/09/15/igf-workshops-protecting-the-consumer-and-digital-inclusion/</link>
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		<title>IGF Day 1: The sound and the fury</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania. And Lithuania is north-east of Poland and underneath Finland. 
In an exhibition center on the outskirts of Vilnius, over the Neris river from the big, beautiful Vingis park, are currently the 1,000 or so people in this world who spend their lives obsessing about Internet governance. I’m one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2010/09/14/igf-day-1-the-sound-and-the-fury/</link>
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		<title>The UN&#8217;s main IGF representative losing it on screen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I posted the video of the United Nations&#8217; representative Sha Zukang losing it about a week ago but forgot to stick up a blog post about it. 
It was a remarkable thing: Egypt&#8217;s first lady had inserted her own agenda into the Internet Governance Forum&#8217;s schedule &#8211; which caused no end of problems as everything [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2009/12/01/the-uns-main-igf-representative-losing-it-on-screen/</link>
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		<title>IGF 2009: Dull speeches and bad wine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I’m sat in the opening ceremony of the Internet Governance Forum in Sharm El Sheikh – a cosy cinema seat at the further front-right of a giant summit hall – watching the various dignatories giving a wide variety of dull speeches.
The first thing that strikes you is how much more professional this meeting has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2009/11/15/igf-2009-dull-speeches-and-bad-wine/</link>
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		<title>Welcome to Geneva &#8211; the entire city is fully booked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If anyone ever wondered whether the Internet was vital, or if the new Internet Governance Forum suffered from a lack of interest, worry no more.
Next week, a series of events will be held in Geneva covering the follow-up to the World Summit on the Information Society and most importantly a preparatory meeting for the next [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2007/05/16/welcome-to-geneva-the-entire-city-is-fully-booked/</link>
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		<title>Dynamic Coalition for Online Collaboration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just announced the creation of the &#8220;dynamic coalition&#8221; for online collaboration in the IGF meeting in Geneva. Effectively this is a group of people who plan to test and run online tools to help governments, businesses, civil society, NGOs and so on, have discussions and arrive at solutions, conclusions, recommendations, whatever. It is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2007/02/13/dynamic-coalition-for-online-collaboration/</link>
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		<title>Some stats on the IGF Athens meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Greek delegate has just spoken at the stocktaking meeting of the Internet Governance Forum in Geneva.
He gave some stats from the first Athens meeting in November 2006 that might be worth preserving:

1350 participants (including 152 media, and coming from 97 countries)
8 translation booths and 20 translators
50 buses
7 metal detectors
4 X-ray machines

By the way, there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2007/02/13/some-stats-on-the-igf-athens-meeting/</link>
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