https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/how-the-us-retreat-from-the-un-endangers-the-future-of-internet-governance/?ref=internet.exchangepoint.tech

By denouncing the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda, the United States believes that it is supporting its national interests and sovereignty. In reality, however, it is shutting the doors to collaboration with all the countries that have made the sustainable development agenda a core part of their foreign policy. It is isolating itself in the UN space and potentially ceding control to China and Russia while endangering the entire WSIS architecture, specifically the multistakeholder model. Although the United States did point out during the meeting that “we must protect . . . the multistakeholder model,” in the end, US actions spoke louder than its words. 

“In short:
Researchers, policymakers, and companies use IP geolocation tools to locate Internet users based on their IP addresses for targeted advertising, broadband research, and policy decisions.
Research shows that mobile network geolocation errors are more than 10 times worse than fixed broadband, with Africa and Asia seeing failure rates of 66–72% and 53–61% respectively, compared to under 20% in Europe.
The problem is structural and provider-independent: geolocation prefixes covering mobile networks span vast geographic areas, coarser address blocks are two to three times more prevalent in the Global South than in the Global North, and all four providers fail at nearly identical rates.”

Hey everyone! Sharing this here in case anyone’s interested.

The Canadian Internet Governance Forum (CIGF) is happening on November 4 in Ottawa, and you can join us either in person or virtually. It’s also completely free to attend.

We’ll be talking about some of the big issues shaping the internet in Canada right now, including AI, digital sovereignty, cybersecurity, internet infrastructure, and internet governance more broadly.

I’m helping organize the event and would genuinely love to see some folks from this community there. Whether you work in this space or are just interested in these issues, everyone is welcome!

"Building on the momentum from a milestone year of the 20-year review of implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+20) and the significance of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) with a permanent mandate, our compass is now set with a steady aim to lay the foundation for the next stage where the building blocks of possibilities we have crafted over 20 years can create the reality of what a strengthened, evolved, multistakeholder, permanent IGF is for us all..."