On April 28 the United States released the result of its attempt to rekindle a positive vision for Internet governance. It is called “A Declaration for the Future of the Internet” and has been endorsed by about 60 countries. How it evolved Let’s talk first about the background of the...
March 8, 2022 The Russian invasion of Ukraine has put global interconnection to the test as never before. Every media outlet is now talking about “Splinternet.” The ruptures extend beyond the internet and web to include many forms of cooperation and trade, especially in financial systems. This Narrative briefly comments...
Ukraine’s representative to ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) has sent a letter to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to remove Russian-administered top level domains (.RU, .SU and .рф) from the DNS root zone. In a separate letter, Ukraine’s representative also asked RIPE NCC to withdraw the...
We are aghast at the suffering and destruction caused by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. A wide-ranging debate is occurring about how the world should respond, short of direct military conflict. There is a danger that in our moral revulsion at Russian actions that we can damage a number of rule-based...
Representatives of the Biden administration are now saying that its “Alliance for the Future of the Internet” will be launched "in coming weeks.” Despite our earlier article indicating that the initiative might have some promise, the more we’ve heard, the more pessimistic we are about it. The Alliance has three...
https://youtu.be/Gf9Mx7thSOA Jyoti Panday, Brenden Kuerbis, Milton Mueller and Daniel Perez Fernandez debrief on the 16th UN IGF. On the agenda: hybrid meetings, confusion about digital sovereignty, assessing multistakeholder initiatives in content moderation, the U.S. "announcement of a future announcement" of an Internet "alliance," and digital cooperation, UN-style.
The United States is attempting to assert moral leadership again in the field of internet governance. I refer here to the "new covenant" or "new alliance for the future of the internet" that Biden administration advisor Tim Wu is developing. Wu addressed the UN Internet Governance Forum Thursday in a...
The 2021 edition of the Internet Governance Forum, which will be held in Katowice (Poland), kicks off in less than a week. For the occasion, the IGP and the Free University of Brussels have come together to organize a session titled Beyond hype: what does digital sovereignty actually mean?. As...
At this point, it’s certainly not news that the Kremlin has been seeking to exert full control over what it regards as its national, Russian-only information space (информационном пространстве). For almost a decade – that is, since Putin returned to office for his third presidential term in 2012 – the...
The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change has issued a report "The Open Internet on the Brink: Recommendations for a Future Model." The report claims to attempt to advance liberal values. And its diagnosis of Internet problems is in line with those values. "Restrictions on internet freedoms are increasing globally,...
“In characteristically rigorous fashion, Mueller’s outstanding book punctures the alarmist myth of Internet fragmentation and helps us to understand what is really at stake as nations and other groups vie for power over the Internet.”
