The final countdown: After two delays, SpaceX has launched a rocket containing 60 satellites designed to deliver broadband to Earth-bound people, Marketwatch reports. SpaceX plans to eventually deploy up to…
Last month, the Chapters Advocacy Workshop for the Middle East, took place in Beirut Lebanon. The two-day event hosted Chapter leaders and representatives from Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia,…
Les membres du comité d’organisation annoncent la tenue du prochain Forum sur La Gouvernance de l’Internet France le jeudi 4 juillet 2019 de 8h30 à 19h30, Université Paris Descartes, 45 rue des Saint-Pères,…
In November, a routing incident in Nigeria caused Internet traffic to be rerouted through Russia and China. It lasted for just over an hour, but during that time, it significantly…
No cameras, please: The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted to ban the use of facial recognition technologies by the policy and other agencies over privacy and civil liberties…
How can the brightest minds help transform the Middle East for the better? The MIT SciTech Conference hoped to find answers. The annual three-day conference, which took place 19-21 April in…
On 13 May, more than a billion users saw the messaging application WhatsApp being updated. At the same time reports appeared that a vulnerability had been used in attacks that…
Dead end: ProPublica has a story about Kentucky’s $1.5 billion broadband expansion program, which the story calls an information highway to nowhere. The program is behind schedule and over budget,…
Vendredi 10 mai, Mark Zuckerberg, PDG et fondateur de Facebook, était reçu à l’Elysée par Emmanuel Macron. A cette occasion, Nicolas Chagny, président de l’Internet Society France, a écrit une…
An ordinary day on 9th April 2019 was turned in to an extraordinary one, as our efforts bore fruit and we finally succeeded in chartering the Internet Society Special Interest…
This week, 8-9 May, we’ll be at IoT613 in Ottawa, Canada, talking about our work on “Trust by Design” – the idea that privacy and security should be built into…