The Informal Multistakeholder Sounding Board has released detailed reflections on Revision 1 of the WSIS+20 Outcomes Document. The group welcomes stronger language on digital inclusion, multilingualism and the IGF mandate, but warns that key areas such as human rights, surveillance, environmental impacts and internet fragmentation have been weakened or removed.
While acknowledging that Revision 1 preserves key commitments to multistakeholder participation, international human rights law, and inclusion, the coalition warns that several protections have been weakened. It calls for restoring stronger safeguards against intrusive surveillance, protecting encryption and anonymity tools, reinforcing private-sector human rights due diligence, and addressing environmental and AI-related risks more directly.
LACNIC has launched its call for presentations for the 2026 LACNIC Technical Forum, inviting experts and practitioners from across the Internet community to contribute to the programme for LACNIC 45, scheduled for 11–15 May 2026 in Guadalajara, Mexico. The forum offers a dedicated venue for sharing operational experience and technical developments in areas such as IP network operations, routing and switching, DNS, interconnection, and IPv6 deployment. Submissions are now open for those interested in supporting regional knowledge exchange ahead of next year’s event.
The Internet Society has published its analysis of WSIS+20 Revision 1, welcoming stronger recognition of the WSIS vision, the IGF mandate and multistakeholder principles, while urging member states to address critical gaps around IGF financial sustainability and the enabling environment needed for meaningful connectivity. The organisation encourages negotiators to maintain transparency, deepen engagement with non-governmental stakeholders and reinforce commitments to an open, globally connected and trustworthy Internet.
Spanish authorities will assess whether the alleged practices violated the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the ePrivacy Directive, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Hosted by the National Internet Exchange of India, the hybrid forum will bring the global community together to review and advance policy and technical work. Participants planning to attend onsite must register by 6 March 2026, and the full schedule will be published on 9 February 2026.
ICANN has released a new step-by-step guide to help users submit DNS Abuse complaints more effectively. The document explains how to identify whether an issue involves phishing, malware, botnets, pharming or spam used to deliver these abuses, and outlines how to determine the correct party to contact - typically the registrar or registry operator responsible for the domain.
Europe is intensifying its drive for digital independence as France and Germany introduce a joint roadmap focused on regulatory simplification, data sovereignty, fairer digital markets, and frontier AI. The Berlin summit also launched the European Network for Technological Resilience and Sovereignty (ETRS), a new expert coalition aimed at reducing reliance on foreign technologies.
The proposal introduces updates to the PDP and GGP Manuals to address a procedural gap, highlighted during the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures process when the Board needed to revisit an adopted recommendation without a formal path to do so.
The European Commission’s newly unveiled 'Digital Omnibus' reform package has drawn strong backlash from civil-society groups and data-protection advocates, who warn that the proposals risk undermining the stringent privacy standards established by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other EU digital laws.
Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment (CADE) is a project co-funded by the European Union.
