1+ hour, 1+ min ago  (1031+ words) The new opportunities will also lead to new conflicts within and between countries. Are we prepared to handle these new challenges? Do we have the institutional frameworks to deal with these new conflicts? And do we have the political leaders…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1327+ words) Why regional engagement needs enforceable limits before governance drift hardens Africa needs deeper technical capacity, stronger participation in global fora, more resilient Internet infrastructure, and better access to the policy rooms where the future of the Internet is shaped. But…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (1668+ words) When Non-Endorsement Is Not Enough: CAIGA, ICP-2, and the Risk of "Legitimacy Transfer" The issue is not whether ICANN should engage Africa, it should. The issue is whether ICANN's engagement was bounded before its presence could be read as "implied…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (224+ words) The proposal targets undersea cables carrying vast quantities of data between Europe, Asia and the Gulf. Iranian outlets suggested that firms such as Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon could be required to operate under Iranian law and pay for cable…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (410+ words) Protecting digital rights and maintaining network security are not a zero-sum game. Yet, if policymakers continue to apply 20th-century legal inertia to 21st-century bit speeds, the result is a "security vacuum" where users are left vulnerable to the inefficiencies of…...

2+ week, 12+ min ago  (482+ words) Data has become one of the most valuable strategic assets in the modern world. Governments rely on it for decision-making, businesses use it to drive innovation, and digital platforms depend on it to shape economies and societies. As Africa accelerates…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (1488+ words) This series does not repeat old work. It asks a narrower and more consequential governance and political-institutional question: once an ICANN-supported regional process began touching the governance of an independent Regional Internet Registry, what duty did ICANN have to warn,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (501+ words) Circle ID Maria Xynou, co-founder of the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), has warned that internet censorship is becoming increasingly sophisticated, targeted and difficult to detect, complicating efforts to defend online freedoms worldwide. In a recent blog post, she…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (326+ words) Undersea cable systems continued to carry the overwhelming majority of international traffic through geographically vulnerable maritime chokepoints, a vulnerability explored in the Stimson Center's 2026 assessment, "Beneath the Strait: Iran Could Threaten Gulf Data Centers, Undersea Cables. 1 Routing ecosystems remain dependent…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (308+ words) This collision extends far beyond numbering systems or cloud infrastructure alone. It increasingly shapes the architecture of digital governance itself. The contradiction is subtle initially. Under stress conditions, however, it becomes impossible to ignore. Modern digital policy frequently collapses these…...