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

At the WRC-23, the ITU-Radio sector meeting, 151 states signed 43 new resolutions, revised 56 existing ones, and suppressed 33 resolutions. You could read the 629 pages for fun, but the main resolution that I wanted to highlight is Resolution COM6/6 (pages 561-562) that spells out a new area

Identity on the internet: Digital identity has become a central priority for service providers, governments and users of the internet. From authentication to credentials to passwords and, of course, user privacy considerations, the ideas space is pretty crowded. At the same time, cooperation in standards and across standards development organizations

This week in Montreal is the invite-only inaugural edition of Splintercon, an event focused on innovative solutions for isolated networks. Here are some highlights: * The Splintercon knowledge base is everything already, and growing https://splintercon.net/resource * Splinternet is an evolution of Internet Without Borders a nomadic event series held