By: Pari Esfandiari It is almost 25 years since the Internet was privatized by the U.S. government. ICANN was formed by Esther Dyson and Jon Postel as a California-based non-profit with the responsibility to administer…
Democracy in the Digital Age
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5G, security risks, and a way forward
Gregory Treverton and Pari Esfandiari First published on The Hill 5G, the fifth-generation standard for broadband cellular networks, will soon appear on our phones if it hasn’t already. Its potential is stunning, faster speed and…
DNS4EU
Zoom Recording - English Additional Resources Audio Recording: English, French, Spanish and Russian Transcript: English, French, Spanish and Russian Zoom Chat: EN Topic The European Commission plans to onboard 100 million people to a new…
5G: Geopolitics and Security
To watch the webinar please click here. 5G is a transformative technology, offering tremendous advances from predecessor mobile technologies, especially in speed and low latency optimizing existing services and enabling new innovations. Yet 5G's decentralized…
Digital Democracy
To watch the webinar please click here. The Global TechnoPolitics Forum in collaboration with the International Forum on Digital and Democracy and its partners __ Associazione Copernicani, Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Re-Imagine Europa, and SoBigData++__ focused…
Environment & Development
By Pari Esfandiari First Published in Iran International Magazine in September 2000. There was a time when concern over environmental threats was only voiced by environmentalists. However, at the start of a new millennium during…
Embracing Green Values
An Overview of Current Debates on Green Business By: Pari Esfandiari First published at the Iran International Magazine in March 2000. The much-celebrated notion of green business emerged in the 1990s as a result of…
Fragmentation & DNS
ICANN75 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - September 21, 2022. The plenary session was an attempt to contribute to the emergence of a shared understanding of Internet fragmentation and to provide a space for an inclusive dialogue and…