India’s Satellite Communications Policy: Balancing Competition, Connectivity and Control
The integration of digital public infrastructure, like digital identity and wallets for accessing public and private services, has made Internet access a necessity in India. In 2024, India ranked second globally in Internet usage. Yet, only 49.15 percent of its population…
Join us to discuss The Dollar, Bitcoin, Stablecoins, and the interconnection of competing monetary networks
How does the digitization of money intersect with financial governance? This is an issue IGP has been working on since 2021. On August 7, two webinars hosted by the Institute for Humane Studies will bring our work directly into the…
Cloudflare Declares “Content Independence”: A New Phase of Data Enclosure in AI Markets
On July 1, 2025, dubbed “Content Independence Day”, Cloudflare announced a bold initiative to block unauthorized AI crawlers from accessing websites by default and to create a marketplace where content owners and AI model providers can transact. This move marks…
WSIS+20 Stakeholder Consultations: IGP’s Input
What should become of the World Summit on the Information Society? The WSIS+20 review process, culminating at the UN General Assembly in December 2025, will assess progress made since the original WSIS and chart a course for its future. The…
“Apple in China:” A Critical Review
A review of Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company by Patrick McGee Patrick McGee has written a splendid business history that also manages to wade into geopolitics in a misguided way. The book’s underlying focus is the…
IGP at IAEA Technical Meeting 2025
From June 23 to June 27, 2025, a Technical Meeting on Public Communication in Emergencies: Tackling Misinformation and Retaining Public Trust in Disruptive Information Environments was held at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna. The event aimed to…
Norway’s IGF: Crossroads or continuity?
No one will complain about the operation of the 2025 Internet Governance Forum. The Norwegians did everything right. Even their controversial decision to offer a rather small number of workshop rooms turned out rather well: it gave us a smaller…
Has the Supreme Court of Mauritius Resolved AfriNIC’s Governance Turmoil?
AfriNIC, the Internet Protocol address registry for the African continent, has been operating without a Board since 2022. The election for a new AfriNIC board is currently underway, with electronic voting having commenced on June 18, 2025, and in-person voting…
Should WSIS End? A call for discussion
The future of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) process will be one of the main topics of the 2025 Internet Governance Forum. Many in the IG community are heavily invested in the renewal of WSIS. They imply that…
Backgrounder: WSIS and the UN institutional landscape
As we approach the 20th Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Lillestrøm, Norway, a pivotal question looms: how will the United Nations system reconcile two competing efforts to shape global digital governance—the legacy of the World Summit on the Information Society…