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France24 (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Two Spanish tourists were missing at sea after a dive boat capsized off the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Thursday, medical and security officials said. Fourteen other Spanish tourists and seven Egyptian crew members were rescued. The boat was on its way to Ras Mohammed, a popular diving site about two hours away from Sharm el-Sheikh by boat. A security official said the boat, the Coral Princess,...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Nigeria Internet community would canvass for the appropriate security regulation and application, mostly on Internet Protocol (IP) blocking at the on-going Internet Governance Forum (IGF) holding in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
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RConversation (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The Internet Governance Forum is winding down today in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. There have been a lot of very constructive conversations in workshops and panels over the past four days about how to advance security, privacy, child protection, AND...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Internet traffic will have increased six fold by 2012 in a five-year period as more users view and post videos online, delegates at an Internet forum heard on Wednesday. From 2007 to 2012, "traffic will increase sixfold," Robert Pepper, a vice president of Cisco, told the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. "It's growing at a compound annual...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Ten Tunisian representatives from civil society are taking part in the 4th meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which is taking place from November 15 to 18, 2009 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
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France24 (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The first applications were accepted on Monday for internationalised domain names (IDNs), in one of the most significant steps to making the Internet more accessible around the globe. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has opened the application process, ending the exclusive use of Latin characters for website addresses. On the first day, "we have already received...
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday called for a free and open Internet during a town hall meeting with Chinese university students in Shanghai. "I'm a big believer in technology," the president said. "And I'm a big believer in openness when it comes to the flow of information." It's doubtful the ruling class in Beijing will pay much attention to Obama's calls for greater Internet...
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T Jantunen.com (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
internet marketing Egypt should not have been picked as the venue for a key net talking shop, say human rights activists. Reporters Without Borders said it was "surprised" that the Internet Governance Forum will take place in Egypt’s Sharm-el-Sheikh resort. Set up by the UN, about 1,400 participants are expected to attend the three day [...]
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Information Policy (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Rabia Garib An anti-censorship group holding an event Sunday at the United Nations-sponsored Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, was disrupted by UN officials who demanded removal of a poster that mentioned Internet firewalls in China. According...
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
An anti-censorship group holding an event Sunday at the United Nations-sponsored Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, was disrupted by UN officials who demanded removal of a poster that mentioned Internet firewalls in China. According to a Pakistani delegate, Shahzad Ahmed of Bytesforall.net, a reception hosted by Open Net Initiative (ONI) was rattled by IGF security, who objected...
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IP Lab Blog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Special to ag-IP-news Agency SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT - Under the patronage of Tarek Mohamed Kamel, the Egyptian Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific an... (source: AG IP News) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com
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Xinhuanet (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The 4th Ministerial Conference of the China-Africa Cooperation Forum (FOCAC) wrapped up in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday, with the adoption of the Declaration of Sharm el-Sheikh and Sharm el-Sheikh Action Plan, defining new programs of cooperation between the two sides in the next three years.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The 4th Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) will be convened next week in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, some African heads of state, Premier Wen Jiabao of China, the Chairman of the AU Commission and the UN Secretary-General will attend the opening ceremony of the conference. Two ministers of the FOCAC member states will be invited to...