ICANN has published new guidelines aimed at increasing the adoption of Universal Acceptance, a principle that ensures all valid domain names and email addresses can work correctly across internet applications and systems, regardless of their language, script or length.
French President Emmanuel Macron has called on the European Commission to introduce an EU-wide rule prohibiting children under 15 from accessing social media platforms.
ICANN and UNESCO have submitted a joint response to a questionnaire on ICT indicators, highlighting the importance of multilingual domain names and Universal Acceptance for expanding access to the Internet. The organisations propose measuring the share of domain name registrations using local languages and scripts.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has called for stronger international oversight of AI, warning that weak controls could create serious risks for human rights and humanity.
China is planning a more integrated national logistics network by 2030, with data-sharing, common standards and digital infrastructure playing a growing role across transport systems.
Australia has proposed new rules that would require social media platforms to give users more control over algorithmically recommended content and to document measures taken to reduce online harms.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for stronger cross-border police cooperation as organised crime increasingly involves digital technologies and activities that span multiple jurisdictions.
ICANN’s 2027 Nominating Committee is asking the community to provide feedback on the skills, experience and qualities it should consider when selecting candidates for several leadership positions.
The UK National Cyber Security Centre has warned that operational technology systems are increasingly being targeted by cyber attackers, highlighting the risks posed by internet-exposed industrial devices. The warning follows a wave of attacks against US water and wastewater utilities in July that affected internet-facing programmable logic controllers and, in some cases, disrupted operations.
ETSI has published a Technical Report defining 18 standardised metrics for assessing data quality, covering reliability, completeness, bias, privacy and other characteristics relevant to data-driven and AI systems.
Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment (CADE) is a project co-funded by the European Union.
