Enhancing sustainable capacity building on internet governance (IG)would have positive consequences within and beyond the African context. Considering the importance of the issues that fall under the framework of IG – ranging from providing...
Enhancing sustainable capacity building on internet governance (IG)would have positive consequences within and beyond the African context. Considering the importance of the issues that fall under the framework of IG – ranging from providing acc...
Author: Marilia Maciel
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Africa's active participation in IG is beneficial not only for Africa but also for a more inclusive, impactful, and informed global digital policy. Building IG capacity for African stakeholders is an urgent necessity. IG capacity building can facilit...
9 Mar 2021
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Ms Grace Mutung’u researches on information and communications technology (ICT) policy in Kenya and Africa, with specialisation in digital rights, governance, and development. She has been involved in ICT policy development over the past ten years an...
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Prof. Yolanda Kemp Spies was trained as a diplomat at the South African Foreign Ministry and at Oxford University, UK. She practiced diplomacy for 19 years, and lived and worked on four continents before she joined academia. She completed her doctora...
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Internet governance (IG) is a particularly challenging puzzle when viewed from the perspective of countries in the Global South. Many of these countries are asymmetrically integrated and constrained by structures of dependence established by more adv...
28 Jul 2020
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In 2019, the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) published the report Measuring digital development. The report presented several important facts and figures, including that an estimated 4.1 billio...
25 May 2020
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As Executive Director Government Affairs and Public Policy, Ms Anne-Rachel Inné serves as the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)’s primary link to governments of US, Canada and 26 Caribbean economies. Immediately prior to working for ARIN,...
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The overarching question of the WebDebate in March was: how can African states navigate multilateral diplomacy successfully?
Addressing this formidable question were Amb. Amr Aljowaily, Egypt’s ambassador to Serbia, and Dr Yolanda Kemp Spies, a se...
23 Mar 2018
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In our March WebDebate, we raise the question: How can African states navigate multilateral diplomacy successfully?
Although African states are incredibly diverse in terms of the challenges and opportunities they face, the question of how to engag...
6 Mar 2018
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As Internet governance (IG) grows increasingly important on international agendas, institutional coordination of the multistakeholder process is emerging as an important factor for successful IG outcomes. As laid out at the World Summit on the Inform...
22 Feb 2018
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The conference, hosted by the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) of the Republic of South Africa, will bring together African diplomatic academies, universities and research institutions.
The aim of the conference is to ...
28 Feb 2018
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Ms Carol Kiangura is an alumna of the 2013 Capacity Development course. She has a Masters Degree in Organisational Development from the United States International University (USIU) in Kenya. She has about fifteen year’s progressive experience gained...
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Many issues in Internet governance are discussed on both the global and regional levels. For example, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) makes policy on domain names, while the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) discusses a ...
16 Jan 2018
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Collective decision making is not alien to African culture. In many traditional societies, decisions were made by a council after listening to the views of different age groups and other societal groupings. In Kenya for example, bodies such as the Bu...
19 Dec 2016
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Small and developing states with limited geographical, human, and financial resources face the challenge of doing more with less: they need to employ all available methods to increase their representation, including networks, alliances, and informati...
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Small and developing states with limited geographical, human, and financial resources face the challenge of doing more with less: they need to employ all available methods to increase their representation, including networks, alliances, and informati...
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Capacity development has been emerging as a central approach within development for more than two decades. This approach has gradually shifted the focus of development practice from simple financial aid and technical cooperation towards a complex new...
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DiploFoundation and the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) recently signed a new memorandum of understanding on training for capacity development. The MoU builds on the established cooperation between Diplo and the Learning Network for Capac...
7 Jan 2016
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On 30 January 2015, the Zimbabwean president Robert G. Mugabe was appointed chairperson of the African Union (AU) for the year. As chairperson, Mugabe divides the audience: some perceive him as a nationalistic hero and true pan-Africanist, while othe...
5 May 2015
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