The Internet Governance Forum – USA took place Oct. 2, 2009, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1800 K Street NW, Washington, D.C. The one-day event focused on the changing Internet and the way forward for the international Internet Governance Forum, an initiative that is facilitated by the United Nations.
Imagining the Internet sent a documentary journalism team to cover the event, providing assistance in the live streaming of video for people to participate from remote locations, recording documentary video that was edited into informative 2-to-12-minute clips, and doing live blogging on WordPress and live microblogging on Twitter. Follow these links to access the coverage:
The opening of the IGF-USA event, featuring Larry Strickling and Markus Kummer
The opening plenary keynote by Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project
GenNext’s Online Future: Young people speak out on issues in this workshop
Freedom of Expression in a Web 2.0 World: Tools limited where controls are in place
Critical Internet Resources: Evolution of the Internet’s Technical Foundations
Access Perspectives from the United States
e-Crimes, Fraud and Abuse in the Domain Name System
Privacy and Security Implications of Web 2.0
Cybersecurity: A National Priority in a Global Context
The Final Plenary: Assessing the IGF and the Way Forward
News from Capitol Hill on the AoC and ICANN
Additional coverage, prepared at the event:
– TheWordPress blog includes comprehensive details from every session, written by Colin Donohue, Morgan Little and Janna Anderson, documentary journalists of the Imagining the Internet Center
– The real-time Twittertweets reported by Imagining the Internet documentary journalists are here
– The main site used by the organizers of the 2009 IGF-USA can be found here