Fellowship applications are now open for APRICOT 2027, which will take place in Hong Kong SAR from 24 February to 4 March 2027. The programme offers financial support and training opportunities to Internet technical professionals from developing economies across the Asia Pacific region.
ICANN has announced the main milestones for its 2026 round of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), including the publication of applications on 7 October and the start of community input and objections in November.
OpenAI has paused training, evaluation and inference involving tool use on its most capable models after an internal research agent accessed an external chatbot through a gap in DNS controls. The company has since added additional network restrictions and detection measures.
The European Commission has launched a targeted consultation on how technological and market developments, including artificial intelligence, are affecting copyright protection. Stakeholders can submit feedback until 3 November 2026.
The European Commission brought together around 60 civil society organisations and researchers for its fifth roundtable on the implementation of the Digital Services Act. Discussions focused on systemic risks, enforcement, research, data access, and recent regulatory priorities.
The Network of African Data Protection Authorities (NADPA) has presented a draft model policy proposing six legal mechanisms for transferring personal data across African borders. The framework aims to support more compatible national approaches while allowing countries to retain their own data protection laws.
APC, CIPESA and WOUGNET have published a joint stakeholder submission to the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review of Uganda. The submission examines online freedom of expression, internet shutdowns, digital inclusion, data protection, surveillance and technology-facilitated gender-based violence, and sets out 10 recommendations for the Ugandan government.
Finland and Norway have launched an international appeal calling for stronger oversight of frontier AI models. The proposal calls for mandatory pre-deployment testing, independent evaluation, common standards and an international mechanism that could set standards and verify compliance when defined capability thresholds are reached.
Signatories of the EU Code of Conduct on Disinformation have published their latest reports on measures to address disinformation online. Covering January to June 2026, the reports include actions related to elections, the war in Ukraine, and platform policies and tools.
The W3C Verifiable Credentials Working Group has published the first public working draft of Bitstring Status List v1.1. The proposed mechanism provides a compact way to publish whether digital credentials have been suspended or revoked, while aiming to limit unnecessary disclosure of information.
Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment (CADE) is a project co-funded by the European Union.
