When we talk about privacy online, we usually picture companies harvesting our data, platforms tracking our movements, governments peering into our accounts. We rarely picture a blind woman in ...

I am a policy manager at a national media regulator, where I draft regulatory policies and specialize in developing codes and rules for online platforms, video-on-demand services, and broadcasters. My ...

Almost every adult in Africa has a mobile phone, but not all have access to the Internet. Community networks help connect underserved communities online with locally built and managed infrastructure.

“I used to have a hi-fi, a television set, a VCR, and a video game console,” says one Internet Society member. “Now, my phone does all that and more.” From the very beginning of the Internet, people ...

Dr. Muhammad Shabbir is an Internet governance and public-policy professional with extensive experience in board governance, multistakeholder processes, and global digital policy, particularly from a ...

The Internet Society will only support attendance (i.e., provide air tickets, accommodation, and a stipend) for one peering event per fellow. Selected fellows will be scheduled to attend the event ...

Q1: What is the “New IP” proposal? Who is promoting it and supporting it? A: Originally, “New IP” was a set of proposals that were submitted by Huawei to the ITU-T’s Telecommunications Standardization ...

The government claims Bill C-22’s lawful access powers will help stop crime, but ‘just trust us’ isn’t enough to keep Canada safe online. Security doesn’t fail because people are malicious; it fails ...

IPv6 deployment continues to increase around the world. In the six years since World IPv6 Launch[*] levels of IPv6 deployment in networks and service providers all over the globe have increased ...

On 12 May 2024, two fiber optic submarine cables—SEACOM and EASSy—were damaged off the coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, significantly reducing Internet connectivity in multiple East African ...

The outage did not directly impact Seacom, whose network spans the East African and South African coastlines. However, due to outages to its partner networks on the West Coast—WACS and MainOne—it had ...

The new cybersecurity directions from the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) lay out a new cybersecurity framework for service providers, intermediaries, body corporate, data centres, ...