Author Archives: Rohan Jayasekera

The future of internet governance? I wouldn’t start from here

14Dec12 – 6:43 pm

If there was ever any doubt that the UN’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) was the wrong body to run the internet, you only needed to look at its handling of its own World Conference on International Telecommunication (WCIT), which ended today in Dubai in a little resolution but a lot of dispute. With the conference [...]

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Why aren’t we talking about protecting free speech online at WCIT?

10Dec12 – 1:58 pm

Today is International Human Rights Day, so with the UN’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) meeting in Dubai to reframe its guiding texts, adding a few lines reminding states of their human rights obligations should be both desirable and simple. Not quite. The ITU’s 3-14 December World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) is seeking to update its rules for the internet [...]

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A tale of two Australians

20Feb12 – 8:33 am

Rohan Jayasekera: A tale of two Australians

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Friends of Index’s Tunisia Monitoring Group take place in new government

29Dec11 – 11:05 am

Rohan Jayasekera: Friends of Index’s Tunisia Monitoring Group take place in new government

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UAE 5 jail sentences a stain on Abu Dhabi’s independence celebrations

28Nov11 – 9:19 am

Rohan Jayasekera: UAE 5 jail sentences a stain on Abu Dhabi’s independence celebrations

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Wikileaks whistleblowers need care as well as attention

04Sep11 – 9:01 am

Rohan Jayasekera: Wikileaks whistleblowers need care as well as attention

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More guidance needed for judges sentencing Facebook “thought criminals”

19Aug11 – 11:43 am

Rohan Jayasekera: More guidance needed for judges sentencing Facebook “thought criminals”

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When speculation has its place

24Jul11 – 10:04 am

Rohan Jayasekera: Even in the midst of horror, speculation can still have a place

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Georgia out of its mind?

18Jul11 – 5:46 pm

Rohan Jayasekera:Saakashvili’s hunt for Russian spies could be cover for darker ambitions of his own

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Birth, death and rebirth of Sri Lanka’s habit of atrocity

15Jun11 – 1:00 am

Rohan Jayasekera: Birth, death and rebirth of Sri Lanka’s habit of atrocity

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