Ministro Gil visita São Francisco e cidades do Vale do Silício, na Califórnia
O Ministro da Cultura Gilberto Gil cumpriu, no período de 28/9 a 2/10, em São Francisco e em cidades do Vale do Silício, intensa agenda de contatos na área da cultura digital. Acompanhado do Sr. Cláudio Prado, Coordenador de Políticas Digitais do MinC, manteve entrevistas com o Presidente da San Jose State University, autoridades do Escritório de Desenvolvimento Econômico da Prefeitura de San Jose, e com representantes da Yahoo, Fundação Hewlett, Movimento de Arte e Cultura Latino-Americana, Internet Archive, Second Life, Current TV e Creative Commons.
Blog Cultura-MRE sobre o IGF - 13/10/2007
Dialogue Forum on Internet Rights - Italy 2007
This is the Rapporteur's report about the "Dialogue Forum on Internet Rights", organized by the government of Italy and held in Rome on 27 September 2007, as a preparatory activity to the Internet Governance Forum in Rio.
The Internet Bill of Rights - 12/10/2007
On Its Way: One of the Biggest Changes to the Internet
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will launch an evaluation of Internationalized Domain Names next week that will allow Internet users to test top-level domains in 11 languages.
ICANN - 09/10/2007
The problems of viewing IDNs
Earlier this week, we inserted eleven new top-level domains in the DNS root zone. These represent the term “test” translated into ten languages, in ten different scripts (Chinese is represented in two different scripts, and Arabic script is used by two different languages).
ICANN Blog - 12/10/2007
The Internet Goes Polyglot
You won't have noticed, but yesterday the internet's plumbing underwent one of its most fundamental changes in 20 years. The domain name system now supports 11 non-English languages, for the first time in their native non-Roman scripts.
Datamonitor - 10/10/2007
Internet aprende a decir ".com" en ruso, árabe y chino
Internet, que ha sido dominada por el inglés desde su nacimiento, está a punto de dar un gran paso para convertirse en una red verdaderamente global.
La Nación - 12/10/2007
What's the Hindi Word for Dot-Com?
Long-dominated by English, the language of its founders, the Internet is about to take a big step toward becoming a truly world-wide Web.
The Wall Street Journal - 11/10/2007
ICANN testa endereços com caracteres não romanos
Naquela que Paul Twomey, presidente do ICANN, apelida de uma das maiores revoluções na Internet desde a sua criação, vão começar a ser testados na próxima segunda feira, dia 15 de Outubro, nomes de domínios com caracteres fora do alfabeto romano. Os caracteres árabes, cirílicos (das línguas eslavas como o Russo), gregos, coreanos, hebreus, tâmil (do sul e este da ásia), japoneses e do chinês simplificado estão entre as novas opções.
Tek Sapo - 12/10/2007
New languages crack Roman alphabet's Internet address dominance
The roman alphabet will lose some of its dominance of the Internet beginning Monday when the organization overseeing website addresses starts testing 11 new languages for domain names.
AFP - 12/10/2007
What's in a domain name?
It's said everyone loves chocolate, but only one bidder at a domain name auction Friday loved ChocolateCandy.com enough to spend $26,500 on it.
Miami Herald - 13/10/2007
China censors ratchet up Web monitoring
At first, Liu Xiaoyuan just fumed when his online journal postings disappeared with no explanation. Then he decided to do something few if any of China's censored bloggers had tried. He sued his service provider.
Miami Herald - 12/10/2007
Broadband Big Brothers
Few images capture the ugliness of Myanmar's recent military crackdown quite like the photos of a Buddhist monk's mud-covered corpse displayed in a slide show on the Web site of the Democratic Voice of Burma, a Burmese advocacy group based in Norway. The outraged messages posted in response show the Web's power to connect supporters around the world with the long-suffering citizens of an isolated and repressed country..
Forbes - 10/12/2007
U.S. Government Seeks To Deny The Internet To Its Enemies
The 2007 National Strategy for Homeland Security focuses on the "uninterrupted use of the Internet and the communications systems that comprise our cyberinfrastructure."
Information Week - 12/10/2007
NSA's Lucky Break: How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World
Much of the globe's international telephone traffic flows through the United States, as shown by this rendering of 2005 international phone-call traffic from telecommunications resarch firm, Telegeography.
Wired - 10/10/2007