The intersection of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity has rapidly ascended to the top of the Washington policy agenda. Following the administration’s June 2, 2026, Executive Order on AI cybersecurity, the Congressional Internet Caucus recently convened a panel of industry experts, policy analysts, and former officials to discuss the shifting threat...
Across most of the developing world, the story of the last two decades has been a hopeful one: as people come online, the digital economy grows, services expand, new businesses take root, people make more money and lift themselves by their bootstraps. Tanzania was supposed to follow that script, but...
On April 7, Anthropic published a 244-page system card for a model that will not be made generally available for now. Claude Mythos Preview, the company's newest frontier model, is “capable of identifying and then exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and every major web browser when directed...
In mid-January 2026, the Chinese government allegedly announced a sweeping ban on cybersecurity software from more than a dozen U.S. and Israeli firms, including industry giants like Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, and Check Point. The stated reason: concerns that foreign software could collect and transmit confidential information abroad. This move...
The Internet Governance Project's coverage in 2025 documents a troublesome ongoing global shift from "multistakeholder" governance and ICT liberalization norms toward an era characterized by aggressive techno-nationalism and state-centric control over networks, software applications, and expression. However, there were also important positive developments surrounding decentralized digital currency, a pragmatic transition...
It is a depressing sign of our illiberal times: the assassination of a right-wing youth organizer who embraced public debate and engaged in provocative free speech has provoked sweeping new threats to public debate and freedom of expression – from his own supporters. Even before we knew who the...
On July 1, 2025, dubbed “Content Independence Day”, Cloudflare announced a bold initiative to block unauthorized AI crawlers from accessing websites by default and to create a marketplace where content owners and AI model providers can transact. This move marks a pivotal shift in the contest over who controls, benefits...
What should become of the World Summit on the Information Society? The WSIS+20 review process, culminating at the UN General Assembly in December 2025, will assess progress made since the original WSIS and chart a course for its future. The UN is preparing a "Zero draft" and asked for comments...
AfriNIC, the Internet Protocol address registry for the African continent, has been operating without a Board since 2022. The election for a new AfriNIC board is currently underway, with electronic voting having commenced on June 18, 2025, and in-person voting scheduled for Sunday, June 23, 2025. This election is the...
The future of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) process will be one of the main topics of the 2025 Internet Governance Forum. Many in the IG community are heavily invested in the renewal of WSIS. They imply that if it is not renewed, there will be major, negative...
Declaring Independence in Cyberspace tells the story of the struggle between governments and the global Internet community over control of the Internet registries (IANA). It offers new insights into a pressing question with profound implications: is state sovereignty the immutable foundation of global governance, or can new technological capabilities change the model?
“This is a book that needed to be written, and no one is better placed to write it than Milton Mueller. This full, rigorous account provides researchers and policymakers with a precious resource on global internet governance.”
