The Africa Internet Summit (AIS) is an annual, regional, multi-stakeholder ICT conference held by the African Network Operators Group (AfNOG). It is where the African Internet community—drawn from ...

Few technologies are more critical to the Internet than the Domain Name System (DNS), which translates domain names into IP addresses. DNS Security Extensions — DNSSEC — helps to ensure that you are ...

Q1: What is the “New IP” proposal? Who is promoting it and supporting it? A: Originally, “New IP” was a set of proposals that were submitted by Huawei to the ITU-T’s Telecommunications Standardization ...

The Internet Society’s goal is to make the Internet available for everyone, everywhere. 1 The Internet currently reaches three (3) billion users, meaning that over half of the world’s population ...

In 2014, African Union (AU) members adopted the African Union Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data Protection (“the Convention”).[1] To facilitate implementation of the Convention, the ...

A series of enacted and proposed revisions to South Korea’s Telecommunications Business Act (TBA) spell out new interconnection rules for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Value-Added Telecom ...

What is DNS, and Why is it Critical? The domain name system (DNS) [1] is fundamental to everything we do online. Serving as a directory lookup for the Internet, it makes the Internet easier for humans ...

As proponents of new interconnection rules in Europe champion a new settlement regime, based on a model of “sending party pays”, there is one important question looming over the debate: why are ...

The Internet of Things, or IoT, is the latest wave of integration of technology into our lives and surroundings. This rapidly-spreading new generation of devices brings cameras, microphones, sensors, ...

The Internet as we know it hinges on the outcome of an upcoming United States Supreme Court case you may not have heard of. In the case of Gonzalez v. Google, which was heard by the Supreme Court this ...

The Internet Society’s 2030 Strategy embodies our mission: the Internet is a resource to enrich people’s lives and a force for good in society. Developed through an inclusive process led by our Board ...

Responsible data handling means applying ethical principles of transparency, fairness and respect to how we treat the data that affects people’s lives. It can protect our privacy and autonomy and ...