IGF Workshop 106 Children in the Age of Mobile Access: The promises of Internet co-examined with the increasing challenges to Child Safety
   

This is the audio recording of the workshop was jointly organized (1)the European Commission, Safer Internet programme, eNACSO, (2)ECPAT International and (3)ISOC India Chennai as a workshop that merged three workshops individually earlier proposed by the three organizers.

“Young people no longer talk to each other. They walk side by side instant messaging each other” - C K Prahalad, Author of The Bottom of the Pyramid at a TiE Annual Meeting in Delhi.

The full description of the workshop is at this Internet Governance Forum webpage

The workshop was chaired by Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond with Anjan Bose, Ms Gitte Staldt, Jon Soinnen, Ruben Rodriguez and Rudi Vansnick.

IGF Workshop 319: Workshop on Fundamentals: Core Internet Values
   

An audio recording of the core values workshop organized by Isoc India Chennai at IGF 2009 Sharm el Sheikh

What is the Internet? What makes it what it is? What are its architectural principles? What are the core values? And what is happening to the core values in the process of its evolution? What is it that needs to be preserved and what changes are inevitable?

The panel was chaired by Lynn St Amour, President of the Internet Society and inlcluded Daniel Dardailler, Patrick Falstrom, Ambassador Yrjo Lansipuro, Rt. Hon’ Alun Michael, MP., Nathaniel James, Alejandro Pisanty, Ian Peter, Markus Kummer with apologies from Jonathan Zittrain, Issac Mao and Milton Mueller

IGF Worskhop 323 Roundtable: Balancing the need for Security and the concerns for Civil Liberties
   

An audio recording of one of the Security Vs Civil Liberties roundtable organized by Isoc India Chennai at IGF 2009 Sharm el Sheikh

Security threats are real. Governments are concerned about Cyberwarfare and related threats, business entities suffer from cybercrime in various ways while the average user faces various forms of security threats online. These threats are real but the measures against these threats are considered disproportionate and happen to cause greater harm sometimes than the threats to be warded off. 

( Detailed description is at the Internet Governance Forum website )

This panel was chaired by Alejandro Pisanty with Bruce Schneier  Zahid Jamil, Wolfgang Benedek,  Jean-Marc Dinant, Simon Davies as panelists present: