Organizers Internet Society France (Lucien M. CASTEX, Francesca Musiani) Savoir*Devenir (Divina FRAU-MEIGS, Pascale Garreau) UN Youth Coalition on Internet Governance / Sunium (Nadia Tjahja) Tencent (Liyun Han) Programme Speaker 1: Emmanuel ADJOVI, Organisation…
It’s no surprise that buying behaviors have seen significant change over the past several years. Global online e-commerce sales are expected to double between 2016 and 2020. According to the…
The amount of freedom on the global Internet has declined for the eighth straight year, with a group of countries moving toward “digital authoritarianism,” according to a new report from…
Last year, the Internet Society unveiled the 2017 Global Internet Report: Paths to Our Digital Future. The interactive report identifies the drivers affecting tomorrow’s Internet and their impact on Media &…
In this post for the Internet Society Rough Guide to IETF 103, I’m reviewing what’ll be happening at the IETF in Bangkok next week. IPv6 deployment hit another milestone recently,…
Happy Halloween! In some parts of the world, people are celebrating this holiday of horror by dressing up as monsters or other frights and watching scary movies. But sometimes these…
Asylbek Sanarbekov, a social worker in the village of Suusamyr, Kyrgyzstan, can often be seen standing outside of his office building, phone in hand. He goes there to connect to…
Lack of an affordable and accessible community healthcare is a challenge in rural communities across the globe, and an obstacle in ensuring a healthy population in remote indigenous communities across…
Not surprisingly it has been a busy 4 months in IoT, and IoT-related work in IETF has been buzzing right along. This post is intended to highlight some of these…
The Internet Society Nominations Committee is now inviting nominations for candidates to serve on the Internet Society Board of Trustees. In 2019, Internet Society Chapters and the IETF will each…
Two weeks ago, the Editorial Board of the New York Times published a piece predicting that the Internet is heading for a breakup. Based on the comments made by Alphabet…