With the Telecommunications Report 2014, the Federal Council is presenting a further report on the development of the Swiss telecommunications market. Following reports in 2010 and 2012, with the 2014 Report the Federal Council is therefore fulfilling a parliamentary mandate to analyse developments in the telecommunications market and identify requirements for legislative action. The report also contains information on the Confederation’s majority holding in Swisscom.
Geneva, 20 November 2014: Following ICANN President Fadi Chehadé's opening speech, more than 250 experts from all stakeholder groups, including some 50 leading figures/authorities and high-ranking officials in Internet governance, participated in this high-profile event, scanning significant pending Internet governance issues.
As background for the GIC session: Evidence in Internet governance: measurement and data-mining on 19 November, this paper by Goran S. Milovanović :
• provides a simple explanation of what cognitive technologies are.
• gives an overview of the main idea of cognitive science (why human minds and computers could
be thought of as being essentially similar kinds of systems).
• discusses in brief how developments in engineering and fundamental research interact to result
in cognitive technologies.
Download the Geneva Internet Conference Programme (15 November 2014)
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Summaries for the three questions discussed in the build-up to the Geneva Internet Conference.
# 1: How to overcome IG policy silos on global and national levels?
# 2: Whom do I contact if I want to raise my Internet governance (IG) concern?
# 3: Evidence and measurement in IG: What sort of data and numbers are we talking about?
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Confidence building measures and international cyber security
Ambassador (ret.) Daniel Stauffacher, Editor
Camino Kavanagh, Rapporteur
Geneva, 2013
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A role for civil society?
ICTs, norms and confidence building measures in the context of international security
Camino Kavanagh and Daniel Stauffacher
Geneva, 2014
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Baseline Review: ICT-related processes & events
Implications for international and regional security (2011-2013)
Camino Kavanagh, Tim Maurer and Eneken Tikk-Ringas
Geneva, 2014
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Copyright 2014 Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Pendant longtemps, l'Internet a incarné une ressource mondiale tranascendant l'Etat. Il était synonym d'absence de frontières et de mondialisation. Main en 2013 cette vision a été ebranlée jusque dons ses bases par l'affaire Snowden. Dans la lutte actuelle pour la réorganisation de la gouvernance d'Internet la Suisse se positionne en tant que mediatrice importante.
Bern, 05.11.2014 - As part of the universal service, the minimum data rates for broadband internet connections will be doubled. This is one of the consequences of the Federal Council's approval of various amendments to ordinances in the telecommunications sector. These amendments improve transparency and the indication of prices for telecommunications services and value-added services and strengthen the means available to the Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM) in order to combat frequency spectrum interference.
The Geneva Internet Platform is an initiative of the Swiss authorities
Members of the Steering Committee are FDFA, OFCOM, Canton of Geneva, ETH-Zürich, and the University of Geneva
