EFF: EFF at Cyberspace Events in Delhi: Protecting the Public Core of the Internet
EFF at Cyberspace Events in Delhi: Protecting the Public Core of the Internet Last week EFF attended the Global Conference on Cyberspace (GCCS) in New Delhi, India, as one of a small handful of nonprofit organizations invited to participate. This was the fifth in a series of conferences sometimes called the London Process, after the first event that was held in London in 2011. Focusing on international cybersecurity issues, it is a counterpart to other regular government-organized Internet conferences, such as the Freedom Online Coalition (FOC) conference which focuses on Internet freedom and human rights, China’s World Internet Conference which focuses on the digital economy, and the International Telecommunications Union’s WSIS Forum which tracks Internet for development goals. What these government-led conferences have in common are a lot of long speeches by dignitaries, a schedule of panels or workshops, and usually the issuance of a fairly anodyne closing statement or set...
