By tVPN Admin on February 9, 2010
tVPN was created to maximize social flourishing through virtual worlds, social media, computer games and other convergent media. As part of this mission we seek to make information as widely known as possible. To this end all content on the tVPN site is now licensed under Creative Commons unless stated other wise. We encourage any group wishing to commission or work with tVPN to follow this practice where practicable.
Small print tVPN is using the standard Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License, standard form details are as follows: the Virtual Policy Network by the Virtual Policy Network is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. Based on a work at www.virtualpolicy.net. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at www.virtualpolicy.net.
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By tVPN Admin on February 8, 2010
tVPN has added twitter to its stable of social media resources. The twitter feed can be found at http://twitter.com/VirtualPolicy. This compliments the tVPN Facebook group and YouTube Channel.
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By tVPN Admin on November 30, 2009
November 2009 in Sharm el Sheikh marked the 5th annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) - a meeting convened under the auspices of the United Nations with the purpose of bringing together a wide range of groups to discuss matters of internet governance.
Quick Links:
Continue reading “Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2009″
Posted in Council of Europe, Governance, News, OECD, Policy, UN: Internet Governance Forum | Tagged IGF CoE OECD BIS BERR UK UN |
By tVPN Admin on November 13, 2009
The UK Government’s Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) has proposed a workshop on virtual worlds and public diplomacy to be held as part of the 2009 United Nations’ Internet Governance Forum meeting being held between 15 and 18 of November 2009 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
Wednesday 18th (Day 4) 15:30 - 17:00 Room 9 - Siwa Room.
Continue reading “UN IGF: Public Diplomacy in the Digital Age”
Posted in Governance, News, UK, UN: Internet Governance Forum | Tagged BIS, IGF, UN, UN: Internet Governance Forum |
By tVPN Admin on September 24, 2009
24 September 2009 LSE: tVPN in conjunction with the IGDA (Independent Game Developers Association) hosted a policy evening at the London School of Economics.
Continue reading “Tax breaks, Game Ratings & the UK Game Dev”
Posted in Business & Innovation, News, Taxation, UK | Tagged EGDF, EGDFO, ELSPA, event, IGDA, LSE, Policy |
By tVPN Admin on June 19, 2009
CONTENTS
> OECD: Virtual Worlds Report
> Council of Europe ‘New Notion of Media’
> EU Kids Online I & II
> Events: State of Play
> tVPN News
Continue reading “Newsletter June 2009″
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By tVPN Admin on June 17, 2009
The EU Kids Online research network concluded their work with a one day conference in London on 11 June 2009. The network also published a Final Report provides a unique summary of EU-Based research on children online.
The Final Report and other resources can be found on the network website here: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/EUKidsOnline/
Your attention is drawn in particular to the Online Database of European Research (Repository) collated by the network.
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Posted in Children & Child Protection, EU, News, Policy | Tagged EU, Kids, Research |
By tVPN Admin on June 10, 2009
On the 28th and 29th of May 2009 the Council of Europe (CoE) Ministers responsible for Media and New Communications Services met to discuss ‘A New Notion of Media’: http://www.ministerialconference.is/
Continue reading “CoE: A New Notion of Media”
Posted in Council of Europe, EU, Governance, News, Policy | Tagged Council of Europe
By Ren Reynolds on May 1, 2009
tVPN has just moved to a CMS based web site. This allows us to bring you many more resources and use the power of social media to make you part of the policy debate.
New features include:
- Category based database of resources
- Discussion threads
- Social media links
As with any technology change there may be a few teething problems. If you find a problem with the site do mail us at info AT virtualpolicy.net.
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By Ren Reynolds on May 1, 2009
In 2008 The Council of Europe released Guidelines for protecting human rights on the Internet. These comprised two documents:
The Guidelines seek to outline how these two industries can promote rights as defined in the “Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms” (in particular Article 10 – Freedom of expression) in the context of their customers and citizens generally.
Continue reading “CoE: Guidelines Protecting Human Rights on the Internet”
Posted in Children & Child Protection, Council of Europe, EU, News | Tagged Council of Europe, EU, Human Rights, law, TerraNova |