The Internet Ungovernance Forum (IUF) is an open forum for dialogue on issues of Internet censorship, freedom of speech, surveillance, privacy and community-centric governance approaches conceived by the

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."2014 Turkey - Internet Ungovernance Forum, official website"
Retrieved 30 October 2015. The first Forum was held in Turkey in September, 2014 and served as model for the organization of the Brazilian and Italian Forums of 2015.

History and development of the IUF

IUF Turkey 2014

The first Internet Ungovernance Forum was held in September 2014 in Turkey to demand that fundamental freedoms, openness, unity and net neutrality remain as the building blocks of the Internet. It was held in parallel to the

Internet Governance Forum The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is a multistakeholder governance group for policy dialogue on issues of Internet governance. It brings together all stakeholders in the Internet governance debate, whether they represent governments, the pri ...

(IGF), which was already taking place in Istanbul between 2–5 September 2014. Earlier that year, access to

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"YouTube blocked as cyber-censorship mounts in run-up to election"
Reporters Without Borders. Retrieved 30 October 2015. and

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had been blocked in Turkey."Internet Ungovernance Forum Turkey 2014"
Retrieved 30 October 2015. Issues of internet censorship,
Today's Zaman. Retrieved 30 October 2015. “preventive” website blocking orders without court's permission,"Bye-Bye Internet Freedom"
Reporters Without Borders. Retrieved 30 October 2015. surveillance "Turkey – smile, you’re being watched"
Reporters Without Borders. Retrieved 30 October 2015. and privacy "Turkey pushes through new raft of 'draconian' internet restrictions"
The Guardian. Retrieved 30 October 2015. in Turkey raised concerns among activists, and they started organizing the forum. They felt that issues such as

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and Freedom of Speech were not getting the right attention at IGF. Participants of the two-day conference included

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and

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IUF Brazil 2015

Because IGF fails to address issues such as: the controversies of the Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet;"New Brazilian Law Strips Citizen’s Rights"
Pirate Times. Retrieved 30 October 2015."Brazil: Not the Web We Want"
Spiked-online. Retrieved 30 October 2015. the fact that since 2013 law enforcement from Brazil has been acquiring surveillance devices from "Hacking Team" to be used against activists; the recent Brazilian laws institutionalizing mass surveillance"PROJETO DE LEI DO SENADO nº 494, de 2008"
Senado Federal. Retrieved 30 October 2015. and data retention of all of its citizens;"Projeto de Lei n. 1879/2015"
Câmara Federal. Retrieved 30 October 2015. the congressional attempts to increase custody of massive logs and data to all the population and the ongoing process of criminalizing as terrorism any kind of hacktivism,"PROJETO DE LEI DA CÂMARA nº 101, de 2015"
Senado Federal. Retrieved 30 October 2015. Brazilian activists decided to organize their own forum in November 2015, parallel to the IGF that was going to be held in Joao Pessoa, Brazil.

IUF Italy 2015

IUF Italy was held in Rome on November 7, 2015. Speakers included Internet Bill of Rights commissioner

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and

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representative Stefania Milan.

External links

2014 Turkey - Internet Ungovernance Forum
official website
2015 Brazil - Internet Ungovernance Forum
official website
2015 Italy - Internet Ungovernance Forum
official website

References

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