Internet Governance Forum

US Senate Majority Chuck Schumer on Wednesday called for "comprehensive legislation" to advance and ensure safeguards on artificial intelligence (AI) and will hold a series of forums in later this year. "If the government doesn't step in, who will fill its place? Individuals and the private sector can't do the work of protecting our country," Schum...

Governments and Internet forums have lagged behind in setting up rules for Big Tech, according to Minister of State for Electronics and IT Raneev Chandrasekhar. The minister stated that safety and trust are core issues for the government to address because 1.2 billion Indians are going to use the Internet, adding that the government is slowly and s...

The event included talks on internet governance, multilingual internet, and Universal Acceptance (UA) by subject experts.

The IIT Gandhinagar virtual and open-for-all event is lined-up with many scholarly talks by eminent subject experts of Computer Science and Engineering, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) from industry and academia.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said advanced cyber capabilities helped identify the Russian activities on the Ukranian infrastructure long before the attack. Speaking at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, he mentioned how these signals helped the Ukrainian government in a significant way.

The World Economic Forum and leaders of some of the world’s largest businesses have announced to expand a partnership to promote green technologies. Sweden, India, Japan, Denmark, the United Kingdom and other countries also joined the initiative.

Internet giants, including social media apps Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat, joined several world leaders to issue a global call to better protect children online at a Paris summit on Thursday.

Videos of local government meetings have emerged as the latest vector of COVID-19 misinformation, broadcasting misleading claims about masks and vaccines to millions and creating new challenges for Internet platforms trying to balance the potential harm against the need for government openness.

Singapore's health minister said the strike was "a deliberate, targeted, and well-planned cyber-attack and not the work of casual hackers or criminal gangs".

The organisations whose services may be at risk are: UIDAI (Aadhaar), Idea Telecom, Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), Flipkart, and DRDO, among others.

A change in the forum's transparency report suggests it may have been asked to give customer data to FBI investigators under a secretive government authority.

Governance of the Internet will be a high-profile topic at the ICANN 51 meeting that will continue through October 16 in Los Angeles.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan approved a law tightening government control of the Internet and expanding the powers of the telecoms authority late on Thursday, part of the first legislative package he has effected as head of state.

Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who exposed the U.S. government's secret phone and Internet surveillance programs, said in an online forum on Monday that he could not get a fair trial in the United States.

Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has called on Pakistanis to revolt against their government and military in a video posted on the Internet on Friday, US monitors said. In a 10-minute speech uploaded to jihadist forums, Mr Zawahiri argued that the Pakistani authorities only represented US interests, according to a statement from SITE Intelligence G...

US Senate Majority Chuck Schumer on Wednesday called for "comprehensive legislation" to advance and ensure safeguards on artificial intelligence (AI) and will hold a series of forums in later this year. "If the government doesn't step in, who will fill its place? Individuals and the private sector can't do the work of protecting our country," Schum...

Governments and Internet forums have lagged behind in setting up rules for Big Tech, according to Minister of State for Electronics and IT Raneev Chandrasekhar. The minister stated that safety and trust are core issues for the government to address because 1.2 billion Indians are going to use the Internet, adding that the government is slowly and s...

The event included talks on internet governance, multilingual internet, and Universal Acceptance (UA) by subject experts.

The IIT Gandhinagar virtual and open-for-all event is lined-up with many scholarly talks by eminent subject experts of Computer Science and Engineering, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) from industry and academia.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said advanced cyber capabilities helped identify the Russian activities on the Ukranian infrastructure long before the attack. Speaking at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, he mentioned how these signals helped the Ukrainian government in a significant way.

The World Economic Forum and leaders of some of the world’s largest businesses have announced to expand a partnership to promote green technologies. Sweden, India, Japan, Denmark, the United Kingdom and other countries also joined the initiative.

Internet giants, including social media apps Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat, joined several world leaders to issue a global call to better protect children online at a Paris summit on Thursday.

Videos of local government meetings have emerged as the latest vector of COVID-19 misinformation, broadcasting misleading claims about masks and vaccines to millions and creating new challenges for Internet platforms trying to balance the potential harm against the need for government openness.

Singapore's health minister said the strike was "a deliberate, targeted, and well-planned cyber-attack and not the work of casual hackers or criminal gangs".

The organisations whose services may be at risk are: UIDAI (Aadhaar), Idea Telecom, Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), Flipkart, and DRDO, among others.

A change in the forum's transparency report suggests it may have been asked to give customer data to FBI investigators under a secretive government authority.

Governance of the Internet will be a high-profile topic at the ICANN 51 meeting that will continue through October 16 in Los Angeles.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan approved a law tightening government control of the Internet and expanding the powers of the telecoms authority late on Thursday, part of the first legislative package he has effected as head of state.

Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who exposed the U.S. government's secret phone and Internet surveillance programs, said in an online forum on Monday that he could not get a fair trial in the United States.

Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has called on Pakistanis to revolt against their government and military in a video posted on the Internet on Friday, US monitors said. In a 10-minute speech uploaded to jihadist forums, Mr Zawahiri argued that the Pakistani authorities only represented US interests, according to a statement from SITE Intelligence G...