Internet Governance after Busan
The Plenipotentiary of the United Nation’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) ended last week, and the general consensus seems to be that biggest loser may be the rhetoric of the United...
View ArticleLive Now: Internet Governance After Busan
The Council on Foreign Relations is holding a half-day, multisession symposium to bring together leading policymakers and experts for analysis of the Internet governance landscape and to discuss new...
View ArticleHow Long Will the Good Feelings Last in Internet Governance Discussions?
What a difference two years make. In 2012, the World Conference on Information Technology meeting ended with a high degree of acrimony, with the United States and fifty-four others refusing to sign new...
View ArticleThe Top Five Cyber Policy Developments of 2014: The IANA Transition
Over the past few days, Net Politics has been examining the top five developments in cyber policy of 2014. Each cyber policy event has its own post, explaining what happened, what it all means, and its...
View ArticleGuest Post: Two Years Later, the EU’s Cybersecurity Strategy Stumbles Forward
Alexander Klimburg is senior research fellow at the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) and an affiliate of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. It is...
View ArticleGuest Post: A Case for Looking Instead of Leaping on a Model for the IANA...
Byron Holland is the CEO of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, which manages the .ca domain, as well as the chair of ICANN’s country code name supporting organization. This week, the leading...
View ArticleThe Relationship Between the Biological Weapons Convention and Cybersecurity
Today, the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)—the first treaty to ban an entire class of weapons—marks the 40th anniversary of its entry into force. Reflections on this milestone will examine the...
View ArticleIs the UN finally moving beyond Internet governance to focus on what really...
Nick Ashton-Hart is the Executive Director of the Internet & Digital Ecosystem Alliance (IDEA). He has been the senior permanent representative of the Internet sector to the UN and its agencies and...
View ArticleBrazil’s Internet Law, the Marco Civil, One Year Later
Ronaldo Lemos is a professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro and co-founder and executive director of the Institute for Technology and Society. He helped draft the Marco Civil. You can follow...
View ArticleIndia’s Internet Diplomacy: Reading the Tea Leaves
Arun Mohan Sukumar is a lawyer, journalist, and former senior fellow at the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi. You can follow him on Twitter @arunmsukumar. The...
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