The Narrative: Panic over Generative AI Risks; WebPKI GIG-ARTS conference; Oversight Board consultation
15 May, 2023 More Wrong Thinking on Generative AI Risks Civil society is in trouble if the musings of an anonymous philosopher on the LESSWRONG website, most likely by a national security official with access to a closed CISA meeting,…
The Narrative: AI regulation frenzy; An assault on proof of work; & IMF puff piece
15 April, 2023 The AI Regulation Frenzy Technology panics now seem to go through fashion cycles. Last month it was Tiktok. The new trend in town is AI regulation. Would-be policy influencers are falling all over themselves to advance the…
The Narrative: A Plurilateral export control regime; a cyber social contract is promised; India moves to crackdown on smartphone manufacturers
March 16, 2023 New Dutch semiconductor export controls, a global regime grows In a March 8 letter, the Dutch Ministry of Economic and Development Cooperation and Ministry of Foreign Affairs notified the elected Parliament of its plan to implement additional…
The Great Reframing: IG2DPE
So, is it still “Internet governance” that we do, or is it going to be re-framed as “digital political economy”? IG or DPE? Our conference in The Hague hosted fascinating discussions on this question. The answer to the re-framing question…
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”…
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 Narrative (Metaverse, USITC, Spotify-Rogan, Digital Money & India)
The Metaverse will be territorialized Metaverses are being promoted as a virtual reality universe where users can interact and feel present “no matter how far apart…” Well, some users, anyway. The technology in VR headsets seems to be so advanced…
The Narrative: European DNS policy, Apple & competition, Ukrainian cyber incidents, new IGP paper
Europe’s industrial policy for recursive DNS The European Commission’s 2020 Data Strategy is intended “to make the EU a leader in a data-driven society [by] creating a single market for data.” As part of its misguided “digital sovereignty” effort, the…
CCP Continues to Seal Off Its Digital Economy
The Chinese Communist Party’s focus on building a governance regime for cyberspace has resulted in the rapid introduction of several new laws and regulations on data governance, cybersecurity, the digital economy, and online media content. The targeting of the digital…
The Narrative: IGF plans; Lessons from fingering China; Reframing Intermediary Liability
IGP at UN Internet Governance Forum The UN Internet Governance Forum announced its draft schedule. The event will be held December 6 – 10; it is planned as a face to face meeting in Katowice, Poland, but, due to the…