Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center is sending a team to record documentary coverage and conduct research at the United Nations-facilitated Internet Governance Forum in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Nov. 13-20. Students Andie Diemer, Eugene Daniel, Shelley Russell and Drew Smith and faculty member Janna Anderson will conduct interviews and provide daily coverage of the conference that will also become part of the documentation on the Imagining the Internet site (http://www.imaginingtheinternet.org).
This is the third time Elon student-faculty documentary crews have been on hand at the international IGF. Students involved in the project have previously collected data that has been presented at the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research and at the Broadcast Education Association conference, and they completed research that was published in a Pew Internet & American Life Project-funded report, “Realizing the Global Promise of the Internet: The Future of Internet Governance,” available at http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/internet_governance_forum_2007_IGF_Survey.xhtml .
The annual global events are focused on the discussion of the overarching issues tied to the future of information and communication technologies, including control over the internet architecture and numbering and naming system, security, intellectual property, openness, connectivity and access, cost and multilingualism.