A new report from the Coalition on Digital Impact finds that Internet access does not always lead to meaningful participation online, with thousands of languages still poorly supported by digital services and content.
The European Commission has registered a European Citizens’ Initiative calling for a European digital space using the proposed .IA domain and measures to support what its organisers describe as European digital sovereignty in AI.
The European Commission has proposed changes to the EU standardisation system aimed at speeding up the development of standards, increasing participation by smaller organisations, and strengthening the EU’s role in international standard-setting.
ICANN has published a report describing a transparent method for identifying domain names that may be technically associated with domains involved in DNS Abuse, using publicly available data.
ICANN has published new Second-Level Reference Label Generation Rules for the Javanese and Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics scripts and updated seven existing sets of rules.
A coalition of Nigerian civil society organisations has called for an independent investigation into reported disruptions to TikTok access in parts of northern Nigeria, while urging greater transparency from authorities, telecom operators, and TikTok.
KICTANet documented 58 cases of technology-facilitated gender-based violence in Kenya between July and September 2026. Women and girls were the targets in 43 cases, while harassment and gender-based hate speech were the most frequently recorded forms of abuse.
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute has published a new standard for assessing the environmental impact of smartphones across their full life cycle, providing a common basis for comparable environmental data.
The European Commission is collecting feedback on its proposed EU KIDS Act, which would introduce new measures to improve children’s safety online, including stronger safety-by-design requirements and privacy-preserving age assurance.
The UN Security Council has included emerging technologies and security in its provisional October programme, with a high-level briefing scheduled for 29 October under Greece’s presidency.
Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment (CADE) is a project co-funded by the European Union.
