ICANN: Governance and Authority

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…

The United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 

Governing Data and Protecting Privacy Roundtable Click here to watch the discussion. Speakers Marilia Maciel, Head of Digital Commerce and Internet Policy at Diplo Foundation  Magdalena Jozwiak, Associate Researcher CEPS and Fellow Datasphere Initiative  Pari…

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…

GOVERNING THE INTERNET AFTER THE UKRAINE WAR

By: Pari Esfandiari The Russian invasion of Ukraine, for the most part, seems an old-fashioned war of invasion and terror that demands boots on the ground. In reality, it has blended traditional and innovative elements,…