The Narrative: September 1, 2023
Reports on the evolving digital political economy Human Authorship and AI Images A lot of bad policy about AI is being made because people are overstating its risks. These overstatements usually derive from overestimating the autonomous nature of the AI….
Analyzing India Stack
Today IGP is releasing an important new paper analyzing “India Stack” in depth. With roots going back two decades, including Aadhaar, India’s biometric digital identity scheme, the Modi administration is now attempting to create a national digital public infrastructure under…
The Technical Community and Internet Governance: A Response to the Costerton-Curran-Wilson letter
As participants in – and long-time supporters of – the governance model of ICANN and the regional Internet registries, we were puzzled by a recent blog post by three leaders of these important institutions. Sally Costerton is the interim CEO…
US Restricts Capital Flows to China…Sort of
A new Presidential Executive Order authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to regulate U.S. investments in “countries of concern” (a nice euphemism that avoids calling China an “adversary”). The E.O. identifies three categories of “national security technologies” covered by the…
What will China’s new export controls achieve?
On July 3rd 2023, China’s Ministry of Commerce announced it will be controlling Chinese exports of gallium and germanium effective August 1st, 2023. With this new licensing regime, China is responding to the US government’s (USG) weaponizing of semiconductor patents…
Final Conference Program Set!
IGP’s 7th Annual Conference, “From Internet Governance to Digital Political Economy,” is only a few days away. We’ve added a few new things, including Louise Marie Hurel Silva Dias to the opening panel discussion, and an assessment of the new…
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”…
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…
The Narrative: Have we reached splinternet yet?
March 8, 2022 The Russian invasion of Ukraine has put global interconnection to the test as never before. Every media outlet is now talking about “Splinternet.” The ruptures extend beyond the internet and web to include many forms of cooperation…
ICANN, Ukraine and Leveraging Internet Identifiers
Ukraine’s representative to ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) has sent a letter to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to remove Russian-administered top level domains (.RU, .SU and .??) from the DNS root zone. In a separate…