Baher Esmat

The State Council Information Office of China issued a white paper entitled “The Internet in China”. The paper comes in 6 main sections, reviewing the history of Internet in China and its development over the past two decades; emphasizing how important the Internet is for China’s economic and social development; ensuring Chinese citizens’ right in [...]

In phase II of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) Member States asked the UN Secretary General to convene a new forum for multi-stakeholder policy dialogue called the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). The mandate of the Forum is set forth in article 72 of the Tunis Agenda. Its mandate in a nutshell, is to [...]