Bringing Civil Society to Internet Governance
As the controversy over the future role of civil society in ICANN continues, the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) at ICANN released the following:
Top Ten Myths About Civil Society Participation in ICANN
Myth 1
“Civil Society won’t participate in ICANN under NCUC’s charter proposal.”
False. ICANN staffers and others claim that civil society is discouraged from engaging at ICANN [...]
ISP Fellows Present at IP Scholars at Cardozo School of Law
Fellow ISP Fellows Lea Shaver and Victoria Stodden both presented at the annual Intellectual Property Scholars conference on August 6th, at the Benjamin J. Cardozo School of Law. Lea spoke on The Right to Science and Culture and Victoria spoke on Licensing Academic Research: Legal Attribution and Academic Citation.
Opening Innovation through Opening Standards
Yale ISP Executive Director, Laura DeNardis, in a keynote address “Opening Innovation through Opening Standards” at the Paris Interoperability Workshop on June 24, 2009, discussed the linkage between open standards and innovation policy. DeNardis presented two examples – in the areas of synthetic biology and Internet video – in which greater openness in interoperability standards [...]









