ICANN’s GNSO has opened a 40-day public comment period on an initial report proposing new obligations for registrars to investigate domains associated with actionable evidence of DNS abuse.
Belgium’s Cybersecurity Centre has informed NIS2 essential entities about the conformity assessment deadline of 18 April 2027 and the conditions under which organisations may be required to submit a remediation plan.
The Internet Governance Forum has invited stakeholders to submit practical proposals for its pilot Internet Governance Lab.
Registration is open for ARIN 58, which will take place in Miami and online on 22–23 October 2026 and will focus on Internet policy and community participation.
ARIN is seeking community feedback on a plan to retire Whois-RWS, RWhois and Whois (Port 43), moving to RDAP as its single standardised directory service.
AFRINIC has completed the reconstitution of its Governance Committee, appointing members elected by the organisation’s membership and additional members selected by the Board.
The Internet Governance Forum will hold its second round of open consultations and a meeting of its Multistakeholder Advisory Group from 7 to 9 September 2026 in Geneva and online.
The UN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies and UNDP are inviting government officials, technical experts and other practitioners to join working groups focused on financing, governance and technical safeguards for digital public infrastructure.
Germany’s federal data protection authority is calling on EU lawmakers to abandon the current cookie-banner model and replace it with a centralised, machine-readable consent system embedded in the Digital Omnibus package. In new recommendations published on 13 August 2026, the Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit (BfDI), Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider, argues that cookie banners have [...]
More than 600 young people gathered at UN Headquarters in New York on International Youth Day to present a Youth-led Declaration on AI Policy and Governance. The declaration sets out youth perspectives and recommendations on AI and is intended to contribute to future UN discussions and the implementation of the Global Digital Compact.
Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment (CADE) is a project co-funded by the European Union.
