Mallory Knodel

This week I attended the Whistleblower Infrastructure Workshop that was hosted by the new Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard. It was a hybrid, one-day program to imagine new technology for supporting whistleblowers. There's certainly important and ongoing work to amplify for the public and potential whistleblowers alike,

The development of a Global Digital Compact (GDC) as part of the UN's Summit of the Future has the potential to shape the governance of digital technologies for years to come through a high-level expression of contributions by countries. This week there is a Stakeholders Informal Consultation in

This year's Raisina Dialogue has just ended in Delhi. I came to speak on a panel about "trends" and focussed my remarks on updates related to the Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime. Other sessions of note can be watched online: * Will Science Secure or Upend the

New report, “Finding the path to a more open internet. A new European approach toward internet standards” provides very timely suggestions for how the EU can resolve the tensions in its regulatory approach with open internet principles. Author Clément Perarnaud writes a terrific overview of the problem statement while also

This week's newsletter catches you up on the last three months in internet standards. The Star Monitor is a cooperative effort between Global Partners Digital and the Center for Democracy and Technology. Its aim is to help civil society organisations track discussions at internet standards bodies on a

The Council Working Group of the ITU is meeting this week in Geneva and I'm attending. As the discussions about the discussions for the 2024-25 internet governance cycle intensify, I'm happy to see momentum build for human rights considerations in technical standards. The Telecommunication Standardization Advisory

A new Cybercrime Treaty: Next week final negotiations kick off in New York on the UN's Ad Hoc Committee process to negotiate a Cybercrime Treaty. Since its inception in early 2021, accredited civil society and other stakeholders had hope that improvements on the Council of Europe's

Barriers to access: This week the Internet Architecture Board hosted a workshop on community networks, the digital divide and censorship to better understand what the technical community can do to lower the barriers to internet access. * Websites are getting bigger, and more expensive– also more consolidated in terms of market.

The Public Interest Technology Group (PITG) is a dynamic collective of individuals united by a common cause: advocating for the public interest in global standards setting. Our group is diverse, consisting of members from academia, the corporate world, and civil society organizations, all focused on the nexus of human rights

Sustainable development and AI: Last month I attended the AI & Data International Symposium in Berlin, which was a two-day event to place the most pressing issues of our modern world– climate change, economic inequality, health and governance– as the north star for data-driven technology solutions. Civil society experts, AI