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Internet Ungovernance Forum

September 04, 2014 to September 05, 2014

Internet Ungovernance Forum is for those of us who demand free, secure, and open internet for the people!
We're organizing the Internet Ungovernance Forum on September 4-5, for people who demand that fundamental freedoms, openness, unity and net neutrality remain the building blocks of the Internet. Our ambition is to talk about the real problems of the internet, how we can solve these and to chart a path for action.
Our forum will be in parallel to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2014 which will also be held in Istanbul between September 2-5. Interested parties all around the world will join and follow this important event. We see that at IGF the most urgent problems of the Internet do not get the right attention. Due to the "multi-stakeholderism" format, the main perpetrators of many of the Internet's problems, governments and corporations, are getting representation in IGF they don’t deserve. Given these circumstances, we decided to take initiative to defend the Internet as we know it and to create a space to raise the voices of civil society initiatives, activists and common people.
For us, the most vital problems today are censorship and freedom of speech; surveillance and privacy; excessive commercialization and super-monopolies; protective, prohibitionist and conservative governance approaches; awful governance examples as in the case of Turkey and the list goes on.

Location: Istanbul
Website: http://iuf.alternatifbilisim.org/
Categories: Communications Industry & Technology

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