ICANN and UNESCO have released the programme for Universal Acceptance Day 2026, a global series of events focused on making the Internet work equally well for all languages and writing systems. The initiative will run through May and include events in more than 30 countries.
A draft bill would allow Chinese authorities to bar convicted cybercriminals from leaving the country for up to three years after serving their sentences, expanding enforcement powers and targeting cross-border online fraud networks.
ICANN has selected 40 participants from 34 countries to take part in its Fellowship Program at the ICANN86 Policy Forum, scheduled for June 2026 in Seville.
A new international report reviews advances in general-purpose AI and highlights growing risks, from cyber misuse to reliability failures, while urging evidence-based policymaking.
UNICEF has urged governments to criminalise the creation and distribution of AI-generated sexualized images of children, citing new evidence that more than one million children reported having their images manipulated into explicit deepfakes in the past year.
The United Nations Secretary-General has forwarded to the UN General Assembly a proposed list of 40 international experts to serve on a newly established scientific panel on artificial intelligence. The panel is intended to offer independent, science-based insight into AI’s impacts on society, economies, and governance.
The World Wide Web Consortium has released a draft document that explains, in simple and structured steps, how to assess whether websites and digital services meet international accessibility standards. The methodology is intended to support consistent and transparent accessibility evaluations.
The World Wide Web Consortium has approved a technical standard that explains how accessibility tests should be written and documented. The new recommendation aims to make accessibility testing more consistent, transparent, and easier to share across tools and organisations.
ICANN has released the official rulebook for the 2026 round of new generic top-level domains in six languages. The Applicant Guidebook explains, step by step, how organisations can apply to operate new domain name extensions and how those applications will be evaluated.
ICANN has published a report examining how often internationalised domain names appear in Internet security block lists. The analysis covers reported cases of malware, phishing, and botnet activity between late 2023 and late 2025.
Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment (CADE) is a project co-funded by the European Union.
