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LIRNE Coordinator, Amy Mahan and Bruce Girard, Director of Comunica, are participating in the LACNIC Consultation Meeting, being held in Montevideo on 19 -20 August 19.

LACNIC is summoning a consultation meeting with the aim of informing the actors of the regional Internet community (governments, civil society organization, business chambers and associations, academic networks) its activities, projects, achievements and goals, as well as to receive their opinion on the issues most relevant to the community.

LACNIC is committed to the agreements of the World Summit on the Information Society, which concluded in 2005 with the adoption of the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society, and particularly to the calling these agreements make to reinforce cooperation between all parties interested in the issue of Internet Governance and the administration of critical Internet resources. Consequently, this meeting represents one further step to facilitate the participation of different actors in relation to issues that are of regional interest.

For more information: comunicaciones [at] lacnic.net
Click here for online streaming of the event.

Milton Mueller, well known for his work on global internet governance, has been appointed as the first XS4ALL Professor at the Delft University of Technology. During the three-year research appointment, Mueller will serve as Chair of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) section in the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management. Professor Mueller will also continue to teach at iSchool at Syracuse in addition to his work with the Internet Governance Project.

XS4ALL, a Dutch service provider, describes itself as having its roots “in a close-knit international internet community which played a large part in the creation of the internet. We therefore cherish and seek to protect the original values of the internet as a worldwide computer network that allows the free and uncensored exchange of data, information and ideas for everyone. XS4ALL therefore believes it has a special responsibility for the development of the internet.” Click here to read XS4ALL’s full statement on their Motives & Ambitions.

Read the full story at the Internet Governance Project blog or in Dutch at TUD: Milton Mueller eerste XS4All hoogleraar bij TU Delft.

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