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;

[Matthew Shears]

I agree Bill - what a dreadful piece of geopolitical waffle.


On 27/05/2017 06:44, William Drake wrote:
> Hi
>
> Yes, thanks Mamadou.  The first article, by a member of the US FCC, is 
> notably pathetic and muddy headed.  The ICANN transition is bad 
> because some ITU members want to set technical standards for the 
> Internet of Things, China released a paper, and at an ITU SG meeting 
> Russia and some African countries put forth a recommendation to define 
> and potentially regulate "over-the-top” services.  So surely the ICANN 
> model is broken.  Sigh…and this is a guy who gets to gut net 
> neutrality in the US...
>
> Bill
>
>
>> On May 26, 2017, at 21:48, Yolanda Mlonzi <mamiyaomhle at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:mamiyaomhle at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> This is a great summary Mamadou!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Yolanda.
>>
>> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Mamadou LO <alfamamadou at hotmail.com 
>> <mailto: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
>>     <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
>>     <http://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…
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> ***********************************************
> William J. Drake
> International Fellow & Lecturer
>   Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
>   University of Zurich, Switzerland
> william.drake at uzh.ch <mailto:william.drake at uzh.ch> (direct), 
> wjdrake at gmail.com <mailto:wjdrake at gmail.com> (lists),
> www.williamdrake.org <http://www.williamdrake.org>
> ************************************************
>
>
> <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> 
> 	Virus-free. www.avg.com 
> <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> 
>
>
> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

-- 
Matthew Shears
matthew at intpolicy.com
+447712472987
Skype:mshears

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ncsg.is/pipermail/ncsg-discuss/attachments/20170527/f5d7bec6/attachment.htm>