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WEBCAST 28 MAR – AfICTA – The Role of AI in Governance & Digital Transformation
On Thursday March 28, 2024, at 09:00 UTC, the Africa ICT Alliance (AfICTA) convenes its 14th Quarterly eConference with the focus ‘The Role of AI in Governance & Digital Transformation‘. In an era of rapid technological advancement, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies into governance frameworks has the potential to revolutionize the […]
Blockchain course competition
As discussed in earlier posts, we are encouraging students and Somali IT community to take Ai and Blockchain innovation seriously. This is a very fast developing area with a lot of protentional in many sectors. To promote this idea, we are now launching a competition. The first 5 Somali persons in Somalia to complete this […]
The Curious Case of Bulgaria’s Impressive Internet Resilience
Strong competition and government support have helped Bulgaria establish a resilient Internet environment.
WEBCAST MAR 27 – PAYAIG – Community Engagement & Roadmap to ICANN 81 Fellowship
On Wednesday, March 27th, 2024, at 19:00 UTC, the Pan-African Youth Ambassador for Internet Governance (PAYAIG) presents a webinar ‘Community Engagement & Roadmap to ICANN 81 Fellowship‘. During this session, former ICANN fellows will delve into understanding ICANN and provide insights on applying for the ICANN 81 Fellowship set to take place in Istanbul, November 2024. […]
The Future is Now: A Young Changemaker’s Journey
The Night That Altered Everything One night a decade ago, an 11-year-old boy named Nojus Saad drifted off to sleep in rural northern Iraq, lulled by a cool breeze coming through the window and the song of crickets outside. Suddenly, this moment was shattered by frantic pounding on his front door. Only he and his […]
WEBCAST MAR 27 – Capacity Support & Testing Business Models for Last-Miles Connectivity in Unserved & Underserved Areas in Nigeria
On Wednesday March 27, 2024, at 09:30-14:00 WAT (08:30-13:00 UTC) the Initiative for Digital Inclusion (IDI) presents their study ‘Capacity Support & Testing Business Models for Last-Miles Connectivity in Unserved & Underserved Areas in Nigeria‘ This project, sponsored by the UK Foreign Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) through the Digital Access Programme (DAP), and supported by […]
WEBCAST Mar 26 – NYC Mesh Org Meetup
On Tuesday March 26, 2024 at 7pm EDT (23:00 UTC) NYC Mesh will hold its Monthly Org Meetup. Willard Nilges, Andy Baumgartner and Andrew Dickinson will demo and discuss the new meshdb Beta, and Chris McKallagat will present on the AmeriCorps VISTA program. LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/nycmesh-mar2024 PARTICIPATE F2F https://www.meetup.com/nycmesh/events/298731990/ TWITTER @nycmesh #growinternet #communitynetworks SIMULCASTS https://youtu.be/V6bF8e0-T6c (chat […]
WEBCAST MAR 26 – Internet Governance: Where technical protocols meet global affairs
On Tuesday March 26 2024 at 17:00-19:00 CET (16:00-18:00 UTC) Sciences Po and the Internet Society France Chapter host a panel discussion ‘Internet Governance: Where technical protocols meet global affairs‘. As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Internet, multilateral processes are discussing the future of its governance (the Global Digital Compact (GDC), the Summit […]
Building the Library of the Future: How the SOLE Lab is Empowering Indigenous Communities
The Internet has the potential to revolutionize learning, but more than access is needed. This is where Fundacion SOLE Colombia, a grantee of the Internet Society Foundation’s BOLT program, comes in. They created a SOLE Lab, a physical space where people can access and use the Internet collaboratively to answer questions important to the community. […]
WEBCAST MAR 26 – ISOC Nigeria – About Universal Acceptance
On Tuesday 26th March, 2024, at 11:00 WAT (10:00 UTC) the Internet Society Nigeria Chapter, in celebration of Universal Acceptance Day, hosts a webinar themed ‘About Universal Acceptance‘. HOST Engr. Kunle Olorundare, President, ISOC Nigeria SPEAKER Nabil Benamar, Vice Chair, Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) MODERATOR Dr. Adebunmi Akimbo, Vice President, ISOC Nigeria LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety/isoc-ng-ua […]
App Servers not ISPs are Blocking App Usage in India
Researchers show that app blocking in India is not performed by Internet Service Providers but by the app servers.
WEBCAST MAR 23 – NYC School of Data 2024
On Saturday March 23 2024 BetaNYC hosts NYC School of Data 2024 at CUNY School of Law in Queens. This year’s event celebrates the 12th anniversary of the City’s transformative open data law and concludes NYC Open Data Week 2024. NYC School of Data is a community driven conference with a focus on open data, […]
WEBCAST MAR 23 – NYC School of Data 2024
On Saturday March 23 2024 BetaNYC hosts NYC School of Data 2024 at CUNY School of Law in Queens. This year’s event celebrates the 12th anniversary of the City’s transformative open data law and concludes NYC Open Data Week 2024. NYC School of Data is a community driven conference with a focus on open data, […]
Joint cross-sectoral statement: Concerns Regarding the Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill
Release Date: 22 March 2024 The UK Chapter of the Internet Society is a co-author and co-signatory of today’s Joint cross-sectoral Statement that saw Civil Society organisations work with academics and TechUK, to express concerns about a Bill that is reaching Report Stage in Parliament on Monday 25 March 2024. The Statement was picked up […]
Educate yourself with IT skills
The following are courses that are available to all and the Chapter encourages its members and the community at large to take advantage of this opportunity and to do these courses. Visit this site and please enrol to these free courses. To succeed as leaders in Internet technology, policy, and business, the next generation of […]
Boas notícias vindas do Canadá sobre a liberdade do uso da E2EE
O Ministro da Justiça e Procurador geral do Canadá explicou durante uma conferência de imprensa porque é que a Legislação Online Harms Bill, proposta pelo Governo liberal do Canadá, não abrange explicitamente os serviços de mensagens privadas, usem ou não E2EE (End-to-End Encryption).
Benin Universal Acceptance Workshop
En marge de la journée internationale de l’acceptation universelle qui se tiendra cette année pour la première fois le 28 Mars 2023, pour sensibiliser la communauté au Bénin pour un internet inclusif et multilingue, un atelier sera organisé les 24 Mars 2024. L’objectif de cet atelier organisé par le Chapitre Bénin d’Internet Society (https://isoc.bj/) et […]
WEBCAST MAR 20 – Tendances mondiales du droit à l’oubli / Global Trends in the Right to be Forgotten
On Wednesday March 20 2024 at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) Columbia Global Freedom of Expression presents a webinar ‘Global Trends in the Right to be Forgotten‘ How has the so-called Right to be Forgotten evolved over the last decade since the landmark ruling Google Spain SL v. Agencia Española de Protección de Datos in 2014? […]
WEBCAST MAR 21 – Internet Development Initiatives in Africa
On Thursday March 21, 2024 at 09:00-11:00 UTC the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) presents the second webinar in its 2024 AFRINIC Webinar series, with the theme ‘Internet Development Initiatives in Africa‘. AFRINIC, alongside esteemed partners and community leaders, is actively spearheading transformative projects to overcome connectivity challenges and drive digital innovation across the continent. […]
DNSSEC and RPKI Deployment: A New Narrative
Provide feedback on a new draft narrative to persuade decision makers to adopt two important Internet standard security technologies.
Formation sur le chiffrement
La protection et le renforcement du chiffrement sont essentiels pour rendre Internet plus sûr pour tous. Dans le but de sensibiliser toutes les parties prenantes de l’Internet et de tous horizons à la valeur du chiffrement et encourager les utilisateurs à utiliser des services chiffrés de bout en bout, le Chapitre Bénin de l’Internet Society […]
WEBCAST MAR 21 – UA Day 2024 – BhashaNet: Impetus Towards Universal Acceptance
On Thursday 21st March 2024 at 09:45-17:00 IST (04:15-11:30 UTC) the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), under the aegis of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, hosts UA Day 2024, with the theme ‘BhashaNet: Impetus Towards Universal Acceptance‘, at the Dr. Ambedkar International Centre in New Delhi. Bhashanet is […]
Internet access disruptions – and what to do about it?
INTERNET SOCIETY SOMALIA CHAPTER STATEMENT ON THE RUPTURE OF OPTICAL FIBER SUBMARINE CABLES. Many in Somalia are feeling intermittent stressed internet access outages and without clear explanation many are working on their access points, or their equipment, etc. However, the problem lies elsewhere. Recently Thirteen countries across Africa experienced Internet outages due to damage to […]
What Governments Can Learn from Canada when Regulating Online Harms
The Government of Canada introduced Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, on 26 February 2024. As the name implies, the Bill seeks to address certain harms that people see online through various public platforms. The Internet Society was extremely concerned about this legislation, mainly because early discussions of what the Bill might do contained alarming ideas about what […]
How Governments Can Reduce the Impact of Internet Outages
Governments play an essential role in improving their country’s Internet resilience.
Inclusion numérique : Internet Society Togo entame des pourparlers avec Starlink
Internet Society Togo a l’honneur d’annoncer le début des négociations avec Starlink, la société dirigée par Elon Musk, pour élargir et démocratiser l’accès à l’internet au Togo. Cette initiative suit l’annonce de l’arrivée de Starlink au Togo l’année dernière. Dans un esprit de collaboration, le conseil d’administration de Internet Society Togo a souligné à l’équipe […]
Internet Society Togo, partenaire officiel de l’édition inaugurale de la Semaine de l’Intelligence Artificielle à Lomé
Le chapitre togolais de l’Internet Society (ISOC Togo), en collaboration avec le Conseil International pour l’Intelligence Artificielle (CONIIA-Togo) et Human-AI, est fier d’annoncer sa participation à la première édition de la Semaine de l’Intelligence Artificielle (SIA), prévue du 19 au 24 mars 2024, à Lomé, Togo. Cet événement d’avant-garde vise à réunir les principaux acteurs […]
Perturbations du réseau Internet : Que savons-nous 48 heures après ?
48 heures après les premières perturbations signalées sur le réseau Internet en Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre, les investigations menées par le Chapitre togolais de l’Internet Society révèlent qu’il s’agit de plusieurs dommages aux câbles sous-marins, attribués à un incident sismique dans l’océan Atlantique entre le Sénégal et la Côte d’Ivoire, selon l’opérateur de […]
Perturbations significatives du réseau Internet
Internet Society Togo souhaite informer la communauté d’une perturbation majeure actuellement en cours dans les régions de l’Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre. Un certain nombre de réseaux de télécommunications sont impactés suite à des dysfonctionnements survenus sur les câbles sous-marins. Nous enregistrons une coupure critique en Côte d’Ivoire, alors que le Liberia et […]
WEBCAST MAR 19 – The WTO’s Digital Trade Negotiations in the Wake of its 13th Ministerial Conference
On Tuesday March 19, 2024, at 11:00-12:30 EDT (15:00-16:30 UTC), the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, as part of its Global Digital Governance series, presents a webinar ‘The WTO’s Digital Trade Negotiations in the Wake of its 13th Ministerial Conference‘. The World Trade Organization is struggling to respond to the proliferation of national restrictions and trade […]