Their position is outlined in a joint letter sent to senior members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, calling for Section 6612 of S.2296 to remain intact as negotiations advance.
The ICANN Fellowship Program is designed to help people from underserved and underrepresented communities gain the knowledge and experience needed to participate meaningfully in ICANN’s multistakeholder processes.
According to the prosecutor’s statement, Delaporte’s referral highlighted several issues: insufficient moderation, easy access to the platform by minors, and an algorithm capable of quickly directing vulnerable users into harmful content cycles, including material that may encourage self-harm. These concerns were examined alongside findings from several earlier reports.
The Asia Pacific Youth IGF has released its 2025 Declaration on Meaningful Youth Participation, outlining principles and concrete actions for embedding young people as full partners in internet governance and the WSIS+20 process.
The Blueprint provides a roadmap for building age-appropriate, transparent, and research-informed AI products, focusing on key areas such as age verification, parental engagement, and ongoing evaluation.
ICANN has opened a new request for proposal to recruit expert panels that will evaluate look-alike and variant top-level domain names in the 2026 new gTLD round. The selected provider(s) will assess 'String Similarity' and 'Variant Strings' to prevent confusing or misleading domain endings and ensure the stability of the global DNS. Vendors may bid for one or both evaluation areas, with final proposals due by 16 January 2026.
ICANN’s background-screening RFP is one of many preparatory steps leading up to the 2026 new gTLD round.
With the committee vote concluded, the draft Regulation now moves to the European Parliament plenary for a final vote at the end of November. MEPs will decide whether to approve, amend or reject the reform.
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has directed major platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat, to enforce a minimum user age of 16 from 10 December. Services that fail to take 'reasonable steps' to block underage accounts could face penalties of up to 49.5 million AUD as part of strengthened child-protection measures.
The code will be developed over seven months by independent experts appointed by the European AI Office. The process began with a kick-off plenary meeting and will involve public input and contributions from stakeholders selected through an open call.
Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment (CADE) is a project co-funded by the European Union.
