Internet Gov Weekly Brief : Teresa May to fight cyber extremism; Egypt blocks 20 websites; Qatar QNA hacked; LACNIC-LACRALO sign MOU; Central Africa IXPs; AIS; India digital economy to grow;

[Yolanda Mlonzi]

This is a great summary Mamadou!

Thanks,
Yolanda.

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Mamadou LO <alfamamadou at hotmail.com> wrote:

> *SUMMARY*
>
> The United Nations peacekeeping office announced a new software
> application, created as a result of collaboration with the Government of
> Singapore, which will "help keep all entities updated in the unfortunate
> situation when colleagues in the field are killed, injured or fall ill,
> enabling Headquarters to respond with speed and efficiency,” Mr. Khare said.
> On cyber extremism, Theresa May is planning to introduce huge regulations
> on the way the internet works, allowing the government to decide what is
> said online. Also, In the wake of the Manchester attack, the U.K.
> government is fast-tracking new laws to access encrypted messages. At G7
> summit, British Prime Minister will urge internet companies to do more to
> remove extremist content. Furthemore, according to state news agency
> MENA, Egypt has blocked Al Jazeera's main website and 20 other
> publications, accusing them of supporting "terrorism and extremism".
> On fake news, Qatar said Wednesday its QNA news agency had been hacked by
> an "unknown entity" and had broadcast a false statement attributed to Emir
> Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani on sensitive regional issues.
> On e-commerce, India’s digital economy is expected to grow from the
> current $270 billion to around $1 trillion in the next 5-7 years, aided by
> the exponential growth witnessed in e-commerce.
>
> On infrastructure, after Gabon, the African Union makes the CGIX Congo the
> second internet exchange point of Central Africa.
> On event, we note LACNIC 27 meeting where the Latin American and Caribbean
> Internet Address Registry (LACNIC) signed a cooperation agreement with the
> Latin American and Caribbean Regional At-Large Organization (LACRALO) to
> work jointly on the programs driven by both organizations aimed at
> developing Internet infrastructure and services in the region. Also, we
> have Africa Internet Summit in Nairobi, Kenya and SEEDIG in Ohrid,
> Macedonia.
> Below, informations on those subjects and events as well as documents on
> ICANN, hate speech...
>
> Warm regrads
>
> See review in full here
> http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profiles/blogs/internet-gov-
> weekly-brief-teresa-may-to-fight-cyber-extremism
> Internet Gov Weekly Brief : Teresa May to fight cyber extremism; Egypt
> blocks 20 websites; Qatar QNA hacked; LACNIC-LACRALO sign MOU; Central
> Africa IXPs; India digital economy to grow
> <http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profiles/blogs/internet-gov-weekly-brief-teresa-may-to-fight-cyber-extremism>
> www.diplointernetgovernance.org
> SUMMARY The United Nations peacekeeping office today announced a new
> software application, created as a result of collaboration with the
> Government of Singapor…
>
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