The Narrative: Lots of stuff happening!
September 30, 2022 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is having its Plenipotentiary meeting in Bucharest. These four-year events are always redolent with claims that Russia and China will somehow use the ITU to “take over the internet”…
New Research: Non-governmental Governance of Trust on the Internet
IGP is pleased to report that we have received a $150,000 grant from the Internet Society Foundation to study the CA/Browser Forum and its governance of Web, Code-signing and other Public Key Infrastructures (PKI). We will be looking at PKI…
The Narrative: The Ethereum Merge; Vietnam’s Data Localization
September 15, 2022 What’s so great about The Merge? Ethereum finally upgraded its Proof of Work architecture to Proof of Stake, thus completing what was commonly being called “the merge.” Up until September 15, 2022, there were two chains running…
ICANN’s Accountability and Transparency: A Retrospective on the IANA Transition
Editors note: On the 5 year anniversary of the IANA transition, a group of people began collaborating on this report. It is being released in conjunction with ICANN 75 in Kuala Lumpur Keith Drazek, Verisign Jordan Carter, auDA Wolfgang Kleinwachter,…
Apple and YMTC: Another “national security” risk?
Recently, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) decried that Apple is considering adding Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp (YMTC), a Chinese state-owned manufacturer specializing in flash memory, to its supplier list for iOS-based devices. Today, bipartisan support exists…
Conference registration: From Internet Governance to Digital Political Economy
The 7th Annual IGP Conference in The Hague, Netherlands. October 17 – 18, 2022, 9:30 am – 4:30 p.m. CEST The Hague Conference Centre New Babylon Anna van Buerenplein 29, 2595 DA Den Haag, Netherlands RSVP to attend in person…
The Lufthansa Innovation Hub is using Feedly to define the future of strategic intelligence
Case Study Find out how Lufthansa Innovation Hub defines and interprets new macro-trends in travel and mobility tech The short version The customer: Tino Klaehne, Director of Strategic Innovation and Intelligence, Lufthansa Innovation Hub. Lufthansa Innovation Hub is “reinventing the…
The Narrative: US Psyops caught by US platforms; Paper trails vs E2EE; Another cloud over TikTok
September 1, 2022 Impartiality in Content Moderation (!) Post-2016 hysteria about “information warfare” – which should be labeled foreign influence operations (IO) – created serious concerns that U.S.-based social media platforms would collaborate with the U.S. government to censor foreign…