By Lily Xiao On 7 June 2016, ongoing discussions between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama culminated in the US-India Cyber Relationship Framework, expected to be signed within 60 days. As part of a deepening strategic partnership between the US and India, the Framework… Read More

One of the important outcomes of the WSIS+10 review was the establishment of the CSTD (Commission on Science and Technology for Development) Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation (WGEC). Subsequently, the establishment of the WGEC was announced in February with Peter Major as its chair and the nomination… Read More

By Gangesh Varma The World Economic Forum (WEF) held its annual meeting at Davos from 20-23 January, 2016. The theme of the meeting was ‘The Fourth Industrial Revolution’ which referred to advent of new technologies that converge “the physical, digital and biological worlds” to… Read More

The original article was published on The Wire on 5th January, 2016. Plenty of Loose Ends. Credit: Pascal Charest/Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The international community’s attempt to shape a new agenda for the Information Society by taking forward the Declaration of Principles and the Tunis… Read More

By Gangesh Varma The last quarter of 2015 alone witnessed three key events that displayed the diversity of views on internet governance. Namely, the 10th Internet Governance Forum (IGF), the United Nations WSIS+10 High Level Meeting, and the 2nd World Internet Conference (WIC) in… Read More

The agreed text draft of the outcome document of the WSIS+10 Review has been released. The agreed text is a product of the final negotiations between Member States over the past few days. This draft will be adopted at the High Level Meeting of the General… Read More

The 10 year Review of the World Summit on Information Society(WSIS) +10 Review will culminate next week in New York. A High Level Meeting will conclude the review process and adopt an outcome document which is currently in its final stages of negotiations. The co-facilitators recently conducted a briefing at… Read More

The draft outcome document for the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) High Level Meeting in December has been released today (it can be accessed here). This draft is a revision of the Zero Draft based on discussions held in New York last month i.e., the 2nd Preparatory… Read More

To help readers navigate our coverage of the 2nd Preparatory Meeting, we have indexed our posts from the last 3 days. Please find them below: Summary of Day 1 https://ccgnludelhi.wordpress.com/2015/10/20/2nd-preparatory-meeting-of-wsis10-review-summary-of-day-1/ India’s Statement on Day 1 https://ccgnludelhi.wordpress.com/2015/10/20/wsis10-zero-draft-indias-statement-at-the-2nd-preparatory-meeting/ Summary of Day 2- ICT4D https://ccgnludelhi.wordpress.com/2015/10/21/2nd-preparatory-meeting-of-wsis10-review-summary-of-ict4d-discussions-on-day-2/ Summary of Day 2- Internet… Read More

India made a third statement today, this time on the Implementation and Follow up of the WSIS Review. Below is the Statement: The essence of what we’ve been discussing is Implementation and Follow-up. Talking about action lines is also talking about implementation. It is an assessment of whether… Read More