Digital Media and the American Civil Conflict
Operation “Metro Surge” in Minneapolis-St. Paul, USA, has now attracted national and worldwide attention. Both sides in this conflict see it as a showdown. It is a showdown, and it matters who wins. In this blog, we try to focus on…
Identity Engineering: Why a leading Chinese AI startup abandons its home market
The Chinese AI and venture capital community was shocked by Meta’s swift acquisition of Manus, an AI agent company from Wuhan, China, in a deal worth an estimated $2–3 billion. For Meta, this deal is its third-largest acquisition to date….
Don’t Renew the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act
The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (CISA 2015) was enacted during a period of heightened anxiety over massive state-sponsored breaches and the burgeoning threat of global ransomware. Its architects envisioned a nationwide “digital neighborhood watch,” where private companies and…
IGP Year in Review (2025)
The Internet Governance Project’s coverage in 2025 documents a troublesome ongoing global shift from “multistakeholder” governance and ICT liberalization norms toward an era characterized by aggressive techno-nationalism and state-centric control over networks, software applications, and expression. However, there were also…
Join the Conversation: AI Governance and Global Economic Development
An Official Pre-Summit Event of the AI Impact Summit 2026 The Internet Governance Project at Georgia Tech invites scholars, practitioners, students, and representatives from civil society to an essential dialogue on how AI governance shapes our global economic future. Event…
WSIS+20: The UN Swallows the IGF
IGP attended the UN General Assembly meeting in New York December 15 – 17, where a much anticipated “overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society” took place. The “high-level meeting” produced…
Is the Banking System at a Turning Point?
In July 2025, the President signed the GENIUS Act into law, delivering the long-sought legal clarity for the stablecoin market. Under GENIUS, issuers can now acquire federal or state licenses to operate as primary issuers of dollar stablecoins, based on…
ICANN fosters some Not-So-Smart Ideas for AFRINIC
For the past four years, AFRINIC, the Regional Address Registry (RIR) for Africa, has been paralyzed by its legal conflict with Cloud Innovation in the Mauritius courts. The root cause of the conflict was a policy dispute over the inter-regional…
DeepSeek-OCR: China’s Answer to the U.S. Chip Ban
The CTO of Palantir Technologies Shyam Sankar recently criticized Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s idea that selling products in China would ultimately serve U.S. interests by making China dependent on American technology. Sankar argued that deepening economic dependence on China would…
Has Article 19 abandoned Article 19?
Two staffers at Article 19 Digital have declared that the AWS outage is a “democratic failure.” On its face, this is a really weird argument. What failed, exactly, other than Amazon’s DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1?…