Protecting the vulnerable online: Global lawmakers push for new digital safety standards
From digital deepfakes to economic exploitation, global experts reveal how online threats are evolving faster than current laws can contain them.
Ireland’s NCSC issues new guidance for EU cybersecurity rules
NIS2 expands cybersecurity requirements and penalties, covering more sectors in public and private industries.
World gathers in Norway to shape digital future
Digital leaders from around the world gathered in Norway to confront the urgent question of how to ensure technology serves humanity in an increasingly divided and accelerated digital age.
Global South pushes for digital inclusion
As global leaders gather to confront the rising tide of digital inequality, a new urgency emerges: ensuring the world’s most vulnerable communities aren’t left behind in the AI revolution.
WhatsApp ad rollout in EU slower than global pace amid privacy scrutiny
NOYB accuses Meta of bypassing EU user consent rules.
Civil society pushes for digital rights and justice in WSIS+20 review at IGF 2025
As global civil society leaders converge to reshape the digital rights landscape, their bold proposals signal a pivotal moment in the future of internet governance.
Global Partners Digital analyses how stakeholders envision the IGF’s role beyond WSIS+20
A new comparative analysis from Global Partners Digital maps how governments, civil society, the technical community and multistakeholder bodies view the future of the Internet Governance Forum. The document highlights broad support for making the IGF permanent, while exposing disagreements on structural reforms, funding models and the Forum’s role within the UN system.
The 20th IGF 2025 kicks of in Norway
With five days of sessions, workshops, and community exchanges ahead, IGF 2025 promises to be a pivotal moment for assessing progress and charting a collaborative path for the next era of digital governance.
France’s data watchdog issues AI guidance on legal basis and web scraping
The guidance focuses on two areas critical to AI model development: the legal basis for processing personal data under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the collection of data through web scraping.
ICANN seeks expert panels for New gTLD evaluations ahead of 2026 round
Official responses to this RFI should be electronically submitted using ICANN's sourcing tool by 23:59 UTC on 11 August 2025. Access to this tool may be requested via the same email address.
