the Virtual Policy Network (tVPN)

is a think tank dedicated to stimulating a balanced policy debate about virtual worlds, online games and other convergent media - with the goal of maximizing the social good of these technologies.

tVPN brings together industry, policy makers, academics and civil society through events, research projects and online debate. This site contains a database of policy resources including briefings, event summaries and videos, and guides to global governance any policy making.

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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.

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tVPN on Twitter

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.

Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 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.

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UN IGF: Public Diplomacy in the Digital Age

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.

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Tax breaks, Game Ratings & the UK Game Dev

24 September 2009 LSE: tVPN in conjunction with the IGDA (Independent Game Developers Association) hosted a policy evening at the London School of Economics.

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Newsletter June 2009

CONTENTS

> OECD: Virtual Worlds Report
> Council of Europe ‘New Notion of Media’
> EU Kids Online I & II
> Events: State of Play
> tVPN News

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EU Kids Online

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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CoE: A New Notion of Media

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/

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tVPN Site Update

tVPM

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.

CoE: Guidelines Protecting Human Rights on the Internet

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.

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