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Internet Ungovernance Forum is for those of us who demand free, secure, and open internet for the people!

We organized the Internet Ungovernance Forum on September 4-5, 2014 for people who demand that fundamental freedoms, openness, unity and net neutrality remain the building blocks of the Internet. Our ambition has been to talk about the real problems of the Internet, how we can solve these and to chart a path for action.

Our forum was held in parallel to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2014 which was also in Istanbul between September 2-5. Interested parties all around the world joined and followed this important event. We have seen that at IGFs, the most urgent problems of the Internet do not get the right attention. Due to the "multi-stakeholderism" format, the main perpetrators of many of the Internet's problems, governments and corporations, are getting representation in IGF that they don’t deserve. Given these circumstances, we decided to take initiative to defend the Internet as we know it and create a space to raise the voices of civil society initiatives, activists and common people.

For us, the most vital problems today are censorship and freedom of speech; surveillance and privacy; excessive commercialization and super-monopolies; protective, prohibitionist and conservative governance approaches; awful governance examples as in the case of Turkey and the list goes on. Further, we do not see any of these problems independent of the greater political, social and economic contexts in which the Internet and related digital infrastructures are embedded in. We call on our participants to resist seeing the problems of the Internet as only technological and void of its materiality. We want to reclaim the Internet as a fundamental infrastructure of our societies, cities, education, health, work, media, communications, culture and everyday activities.

Today, it is more imminent than ever to strengthen networks of solidarity and connect struggles across the globe for the Internet we want. For this we envision the Ungovernance Forum to be a space in which we can discuss the problems and solutions of the Internet openly, with courage, and without shying away from conflict. To develop the program of the forum we have relied on our powerful but inevitably limited existing networks. We therefore invite all of you to use this event and expand our collective imagination and circuits of action.

As Alternative Informatics Association, we underline the necessity of the Internet as a free, equal and basic human right and regard it as fundamental to struggles of justice. If you want a free, secure and open Internet and you’re fighting for it, we ask you to join and support us at the Internet Ungovernance Forum in Istanbul!

Photograph: Protest against Internet censorship in Istanbul, Turkey 2011

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VIDEO ARCHIVE

Full video documentation of the two-day conference.

Julian Assange Keynote 01:07:00

Alternative Media and Citizen Journalism 01:37:00

Solidarity Against Dispossession in the City and on the Internet 01:43:00

Internet Ungovernance Forum Day 2 01:10:00

Jacob Appelbaum Keynote: 'Be the next Snowden' 01:08:00

Surveillance & Net Neutrality 01:37:00

Internet Ungovernance Forum Workshop - 2 01:20:00

Internet Ungovernance Forum Workshop - 1 01:03:00

Internet and Human Rights in Turkey 01:20:00

Internet Ungovernance Forum opening session 01:03:00

Video live stream and archive is provided by Çapul TV.

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Venue & Transportation

Internet Ungovernance Forum took place at the Istanbul Bilgi University Santral Campus.

Program & Speakers

Simultaneous interpretation provided for English and Turkish.

3. September, Wednesday
SPECIAL SESSION 13.00 - 18.00 at Taksim MMO (Map) Governance or Ungovernance: A Strategy Workshop for Internet Activists Invited Guests: Milton Mueller, Robin Gross, Melih Kirlidog, Meryem Marzouki Registration required, click here for more information

	4. September, Thursday		5. September, Friday
	Room/Salon A	Room/Salon B	Room/Salon A	Room/Salon B
10:00	Opening and Introductions
10:30	Keynote Yaman Akdeniz - Bilgi University
11:15	Break/Ara (15 min/dk)		Mapping Internet Governance Announcement
11:30	Internet and Human Rights in Turkey (Mod: Aslı TelliAydemir - Sehir University & AIA) Elif Küzeci, Bahçeşehir University Kerem Altıparmak, Ankara University, Law Faculty Ben Wagner Agnes Callamard - Columbia University	Cryptoparty (Istanbul Hackerspace, Kemgözlereşiş, Article19)	Solidarity Against Dispossession in the City and on the Internet (Mod: Burak Arikan - AIA) Elif Ince - Radikal Gazetesi Yasar Adanali - Mutlu Kent, 1Umut Joana Varon Niels ten Oever - Article19 Aslı Telli Aydemir - Sehir University & AIA	Bitmask Workshop (Harry Halpin - W3C)
13:00	Lunch Break		Lunch Break
14:00	Unconference Click here to see workshop proposals		Citizen Journalism and Alternative Media (Mod: Isik Mater - AIA) Elif Akgül - Bianet Tuba Güneş - Çapul TV Sarphan Uzunoğlu - jiyan.org Fırat Yumuşak - Ötekilerin Post Gillo Cutrupi, Tactical Tech Mallory Knodel, APC dokuz8	Cryptoparty (Istanbul Hackerspace, RSF, Kemgözlereşiş, Article19)
15:45	Coffee Break (15 dk)		Coffee Break (15 dk)
16:00	Surveillance & Net Neutrality (Mod:Orkut Murat Yılmaz - AIA) Katitza Rodriguez - EFF Amelia Andersdotter - Pirate Party, Sweden Melih Kırlıdoğ - AIA Chris Soghoian - ACLU Markus Beckedahl - Netzpolitik.org	Workshop Data protection and secure communication practices for media members Transparency International Istanbul HackerSpace	Keynote Harry Halpin - W3C Power to the People! Revolutionary Philosophical Implications of Internet Governance
			Forum Web We Want Solidarity Networks (mod: Renata Avila - Web We Want)
18:00	Keynote Jacob Appelbaum - Tor Project		Christopher Soghoian ve Special Guest
19:00	Shuttle from Bilgi University Santral Campus to Taksim
20:00	Reception/Kokteyl (Studio Live, Taksim)