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From Internet Governance to Digital Political Economy

IGP will hold its 7th Annual Conference, October 17-18, 2022 in The Hague, Netherlands. We invite scholars and practitioners in business and government to join us in a wide-ranging exploration of its theme: “From Internet Governance to Digital Political Economy.”

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US-China Platform Governance Conference

IGPs’ annual workshop, held June 23 – 25, 2021, ambitiously brought together Chinese and Western scholars to foster scholarly dialogue on pressing Internet governance issues.

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The Narrative: Lots of stuff happening!

September 30, 2022 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is having its Plenipotentiary meeting in Bucharest. These four-year events are always redolent with claims that Russia and China […]

New Research: Non-governmental Governance of Trust on the Internet

IGP is pleased to report that we have received a $150,000 grant from the Internet Society Foundation to study the CA/Browser Forum and its governance of Web, Code-signing and other […]

The Narrative: The Ethereum Merge; Vietnam’s Data Localization

September 15, 2022 What’s so great about The Merge? Ethereum finally upgraded its Proof of Work architecture to Proof of Stake, thus completing what was commonly being called “the merge.” […]

ICANN’s Accountability and Transparency: A Retrospective on the IANA Transition

Editors note: On the 5 year anniversary of the IANA transition, a group of people began collaborating on this report. It is being released in conjunction with ICANN 75 in […]

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Multistakeholderism and Platform Content Governance: An Assessment Framework with Applications

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Standardizing Security: Surveillance, Human Rights, and TLS 1.3

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Challenging the Social Media Moral Panic: Preserving Free Expression under Hypertransparency

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The Hidden Standards War: Economic Factors Affecting IPv6 Deployment

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Sovereign RUnet: What Does it Mean?

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Trade Regimes as a Tool for Cyber Policy

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