Assorted Materials: Johnny Ryan

Posts Tagged ‘internet governance

Speech at European Commission public private dialogue.

Posted by: johnnyryan on: 22 November 2009

On 27 November 2009 I will be in Brussels speaking at a conference organized by the European Commission. My contribution is below…

The IIEA and the European Commission have just signed a contract to begin a study on non-legislative measures that might prevent the spread of violent radical content on the Internet. Our job is to examine the measures currently in practice, determine whether any are appropriate and functional, and whether these would work if applied across [...]

(I just published this article on the online magazine http://www.nthposition.com/, which Seamus Sweeney introduced me to.)

Odd as it might seem in a world of ubiquitous computing and hand held email devices, the first ever web browsing software made its debut in 1991. Not until the mid 1990s did the Internet begin to make any commercial [...]

I spoke on the issue of Internet governance at the Swiss Government’s counter terrorism seminar on 29 April 2008. Here is the presentation.

EU should not attempt to censor the ‘Net

Posted by: johnnyryan on: 6 July 2007

I was interviewed about this on RTE’s Prime Time TV programme, 5 July 2007. Adrian Lydon’s report, and my contribution to it, are available here. See also my letter to The Times (London), published on 6 July 2007.


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I'm interested in 4 things: A) THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNET AND ITS LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE; B) Ireland’s Digital Competitiveness; c) the Political Impact of the Internet; D) How ideas - including violent political ideas - are communicated online.