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Last week, states in New York reviewed the latest draft of the UN Global Digital Compact. The GDC is an initiative of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to establish shared principles and state responsibilities for the internet and AI. It's expected to be adopted at the UN Summit of

In just a couple of weeks I'll be at Hackers on Planet Earth delivering an in-person version of this newsletter. At HOPE I'll give an update on several I-star organizations, namely ICANN, IETF, IEEE, W3C, and ITU. The tensions and synergies of human rights considerations in

It's been a big week for encryption. * Signal's statement against "upload moderation" in EU chat control debate https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/upload-moderation.pdf * You love to see the headline, "Draft law to detect online child sexual abuse material stalled again" https:

This week, ICANN 80 met in Kigali and here's what you might have missed. The Governmental Advisory Committee constitutes the voice of governments and intergovernmental organizations and hosted a High-Level Governance Meeting. The HLGM covered cybersecurity and meaningful connectivity and was invite-only but published its session recordings. https:

The US Trade Representative Katherine Tai spoke at the Atlantic Council earlier this week. I was a keen audience member because Tai has recently walked back lines drawn by the US in the WTO's e-commerce negotiations, which I've written about previously. A core quote from her

There was a flurry of activity this week in Geneva with the annual WSIS Forum of the ITU officially kicking off the WSIS+20 review with a high level event, with the fourth annual AI Summit for Good tacked on, too. Two working meetings were also hosted for members of

I really enjoyed this conversation with colleagues in which I got to go into some of the specific threats to human rights in the current technical landscape. Video formats are fun, and so is reaching out to a new audience: And on the theme of non-English contexts I also spoke