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Can UN Peacekeeping Enter The Digital Age?
Peacekeeping is in trouble. More peacekeepers are in the field than ever before, and, as UN Ambassador Samantha Powers noted, “we are asking peacekeepers to do more, in more places, and in more complex...
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Is the UN finally moving beyond Internet governance to focus on what really...
Nick Ashton-Hart is the Executive Director of the Internet & Digital Ecosystem Alliance (IDEA). He has been the senior permanent representative of the Internet sector to the UN and its agencies and...
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The Challenges Facing Computer Security Incident Response Teams
Tim Maurer is the director of the Global Cybersecurity Norms and Resilience Project and Head of Research of New America’s Cybersecurity Initiative. Isabel Skierka is a research associate at the Global...
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New Report: China’s Internet Is Pretty Big
Lincoln Davidson is a research associate for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. You can follow him on Twitter @dvdsndvdsn. The number of Internet users in China has grown to 668...
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More Broadband, More Problems
Alex Grigsby is the assistant director for the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and United Nations Economic,...
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Zero Rating: Are We In Danger of Killing the Goose Before Knowing If Its Eggs...
Helani Galpaya is CEO of LIRNEasia, a pro-poor, pro-market think tank working on ICT and infrastructure regulatory and policy issues in the Asia Pacific. You can follow her @helanigalpaya. Bringing...
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WSIS Beyond 2015: A Peek at the Preparations for the UN High Level Meeting
Samantha Dickinson is an Internet governance consultant and writer. You can follow her on Twitter at @sgdickinson and via her blog, Lingua Synaptica. The eagerly anticipated draft outcome document for...
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Net Politics Podcast: Catherine Novelli
Joining the Net Politics podcast for our eleventh episode is Catherine Novelli, undersecretary of state for economic growth, energy, and the environment. I spoke with her about the State Department’s...
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Cyber Diplomacy with Africa: Lessons From the African Cybersecurity Convention
Mailyn Fidler is a Marshall Scholar studying international relations at the University of Oxford. You can follow her on Twitter @mailynfidler. Two years ago, the African Union (AU) adopted its...
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For the People and By the People: Shaping Norms for the Internet of Things
Susan Ariel Aaronson is a research professor and cross-disciplinary fellow at George Washington University. Ethan Wham is social media consultant and a member of the greater Washington, DC chapter of...
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The Push to Have Digital Technologies Included in the Sustainable Development...
This year marks an historic turning point for development policy. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) end their fifteen-year run as the centerpiece of global development activities, and...
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The UN GGE on Cybersecurity: The Important Drudgery of Capacity Building
This week, Net Politics is taking a look at the work of the UN Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security,...
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The Global Conference on Cyberspace: Putting Principles into Practice
Christopher Painter is the coordinator for cyber issues at the U.S. Department of State. Last week I traveled to The Hague for the Global Conference on Cyberspace, hosted by the Dutch government. This...
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The Global Forum on Cyber Expertise: Its Policy, Normative, and Political...
The big idea emerging from the Global Conference on Cyberspace 2015—the latest iteration of the London Process—is the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE). According to The Hague Declaration, the...
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Does Free Wi-Fi Improve Internet Accessibility in South Africa?
Chenai Chair and Broc Rademan are researchers at Research ICT Africa, a public-interest research organization that examines information and communication technology policy in Africa. You can find them...
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The Link Between Internet Access and Economic Growth Is Not as Strong as You...
Mark Graham, Nicolas Friederici and Sanna Ojanperä are researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute. They recently published The Impact of Connectivity in Africa: Grand Visions and the Mirage of...
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The Benefits of Trade Have Not Been Equitable. Digital Commerce Can Change That
Joakim Reiter is the former deputy secretary general of the UN Conference on Trade and Development. Trade, and its phenomenal expansion in the last two decades, has been decisive for lifting more than...
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Why Policymakers Should Care About Weak Digital Infrastructure Abroad
Mirko Hohmann is a Project Manager and Alexander Pirang is a non-resident Fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin. You can follow Hohmann @mirkohohmann. Last month, INTERPOL...
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