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Issue 9 - March developments

The March issue of the GIP Digital Watch newsletter features the main developments on the Apple/FBI controversy and other privacy-related updates, a look into the IANA stewardship transition and ICANN accountability proposals, updates from Geneva-based events, and more. The Brazilian version of Issue 9, in Portuguese, will soon be available. Download your issue.

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IANA transition and ICANN accountability

In March 2014, NTIA announced its intention to transition its oversight role over key Internet domain name functions to the global multistakeholder community. The transition process, which also triggered a discussion on ICANN's accountability, is now under way. Learn more about key proposals, consultations, meetings, and other developments that are continuously shaping the process...

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IG Barometer: Trends and Actionable Insights

Review the trends and actionable insights for 40 Internet governance topics. The IG Barometer provides monthly surveys on relevance, specificity, diversity, and positivity of each IG topic. Learn more on how the IG Barometer scores are calculated, based on data-mining of 28,862 texts (28 Sep), including Google News, New York Times, and more. See more…

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Net neutrality and zero-rating services

Zero-rating services allow unlimited use of specific applications or Internet services. A well-known example is Facebook's Free Basics service. However, the service attracted controversy, as it has been seen as challenging the principle of net neutrality. Learn more about the issues surrounding net neutrality and zero-rating, and the way countries have reacted to Free Basics.

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Human Rights

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Economic

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Development

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Events

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Feb

APRICOT 2016
15
Feb

ITU Council Working Group Meetings
17
Feb

GigaNet Open discussion on Internet fragmentation
21
Feb

NDSS Symposium 2016
22
Feb

GSMA Mobile World Congress 2016
23
Feb

Cybersecurity and Digital Challenges for Europe -...
23
Feb

Internet Governance Players
23
Feb

Pathfinder 3 - Nonprofits and the DNS: Why it Matt...
23
Feb

[Briefing] Internet governance in February 2016
26
Feb

DiploHack on Human Rights
26
Feb

WSIS Open Consultation Final Review Meeting
29
Feb

Internet Research Fair
29
Feb

Human Rights Council – 31st session
1
Mar

#DigitalDestination: Creating Value and Improving...
1
Mar

Internet Freedom Festival
4
Mar

Africa Domain Name System Forum 2016
5
Mar

ICANN55 - Marrakech
7
Mar

UNESCO Mobile Learning Week
8
Mar

IPEP16: Workshop on Internet Policy in Eastern Par...
11
Mar

Atlantic Council Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge Wash...
13
Mar

Internet Diplomacy Spring Institute
14
Mar

CeBIT 2016
15
Mar

DIDS Serbia - Annual conference on development of...
17
Mar

[Webinar] Opening backdoors: Encryption, privacy,...
17
Mar

Committee of experts on Internet Intermediaries
20
Mar

Connected Summit 2016 - Kenya
23
Mar

EBU-RTS Big Data Hackathon
23
Mar

Nonprofit Technology Conference 2016
29
Mar

[Briefing] Internet governance in March 2016
29
Mar

Eighth South School on Internet Governance
30
Mar

IP and Trademark in the DNS
30
Mar

RightsCon Silicon Valley 2016
31
Mar

WiCyS - Women in Cyber Security Conference
3
Apr

Global Privacy Summit 2016
3
Apr

IETF 95 Buenos Aires
4
Apr

Open Consultation and MAG meeting April 2016
5
Apr

High Level Launching Conference: Council of Europe...
7
Apr

7th Russian Internet Governance Forum
7
Apr

Atlantic Council Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge Gene...
8
Apr

Cybersecurity Competence Building Trends: Presenta...
12
Apr

Expert Meeting on Cyber Security in West-Africa
16
Apr

Open Geneva Hackathon 2016
18
Apr

UNCTAD E-Commerce Week
19
Apr

[Webinar] Cybersecurity competence building trends
20
Apr

WIPO Conference on the Global Digital Content Mark...
21
Apr

High-level Thematic Debate on Achieving Sustainabl...
22
Apr

2nd Annual SEEDIG Meeting
25
Apr

Technical Innovation for Digital Policy
26
Apr

[Briefing] Internet governance in April 2016
1
May

Fast Africa - Action Week for Internet Rights
2
May

Consensus 2016 summit
2
May

Station Berlin
2
May

WSIS Forum 2016
2
May

Engaging digital actors - fostering effective digi...
2
May

LACNIC 25
8
May

International Telecoms Week 2016
9
May

CSTD 19th Session
10
May

2016 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies...
11
May

Global Symposium for Regulators 2016
16
May

2016 ICT4D Conference: From Innovation to Impact
23
May

37th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
23
May

World Humanitarian Summit
23
May

RIPE 72
25
May

ITU Council: 2016 Session
26
May

St. Petersburg Internet Forum
26
May

EFC Annual Conference 2016
27
May

Estonian ICT Week 2016
29
May

Africa Internet Summit 2016
31
May

[Briefing] Internet governance in May 2016
31
May

CommunicAsia 2016
9
Jun

IFCLA Conference 2016
9
Jun

EuroDIG 2016
13
Jun

11th International Security Forum

Actors

Association for Progressive Communications

(APC)
European Court of Human Rights

(ECHR)
European Organization for Nuclear Research

(CERN)
Hague Conference on Private International Law

(HccH)
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa

(COMESA)
European Cybercrime Centre

(EC3)
Universal Postal Union

(UPU)
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

(Berkman Center)
Latin America and Caribbean Network Information Centre

(LACNIC)

Instruments

A wealth of instruments has been generated by Internet governance actors and processes, from treaties and judgments to request for comments and standards.

The Instruments section on the Digital Watch includes all the binding and non-binding instruments related to digital policy.

Processes

The WSIS+10 Process

IANA Transition and ICANN Accountability

Sustainable Development Goals and the Internet

Freedom Online Coalition

Global Forum on Cyber Expertise and Global Cyberspace Conference

Internet Governance Forum

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