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Internet Governance Forum Opens in Athens

08:40 | editor | Oct 31st, 2006 7:38am |

Some 1,500 delegates from across the globe are meeting in Athens, Greece for the inaugural Internet Governance Forum, or IGF. Everything from Icann to cyber-security to phishing attacks will be up for discussion in the week long forum. Amnesty International’s Steve Ballingerl spoke with PodTech’s Clark Boyd about keeping human rights high on the IGF agenda. Reporter’s Notes: You can learn more about Amnesty International’s irrepressible.info campaign here. To follow along with events in Athens this week, you can visit the general IGF website, or the host nation’s website. The Greek site includes webcasts and all sorts of extras.
- Clark Boyd

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Tags: Internet Governance Forum, IGF, Amnesty International, Steve Ballingerl, human rights

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Internet Governance Forum « Etherized:
October 30th, 2006 at 2:22 pm

[…] Basically, WSIS — an alphabet soup in and of itself — spawned even more acronyms. Today in Athens, the Internet Governance Forum, or IGF, met for the first time. The IGF is supposed to continue the “conversation” stated in Tunisia and earlier in Geneva. So, for PodTech, I decided to interview Steve Ballinger of Amnesty International about what human rights groups will be doing this week in Athens. The podcast is here. […]