[fellowships-alumni] 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;

[Wisdom Donkor]

I agree Bill. The Mafia's won't sleep until they course the harm to the
very hard work the community has put in.

The community must wake up and  accelerate it effort to curving the
situation.

Thanks Mamadou

Cheers,

On Saturday, May 27, 2017, William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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>   University of Zurich, Switzerland
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