Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The western world’s internet doublespeak was on show at the United Nation’s (UN) ...

Five days after Russia’s all-out invasion, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, requested that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), one of the institutions ...

While reaffirming the need to strengthen the multi-stakeholder approach to Internet governance, the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which took place from 22-25 October in Bali, Indonesia, concluded ...

For decades, the Internet has developed with a minimum of government interference. The core governance of the medium has been performed by non-governmental entities and overseen by the U.S. government ...

Networked technologies are complex, multi-layered, interdependent, and subject to multiple competing interests. Through original research and by creating connections between stakeholders, we work to ...

9 October 2023 - Against a backdrop of growing geopolitical tensions, proliferating crises and widening inequalities, the challenges facing the global community in reaching the 2030 Agenda for ...

In January 2019, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called for the upcoming G20 summit in Osaka to “be the summit that [starts] world-wide data governance.” The rise of the data economy has driven ...

Over the past decade, the concept of building a community of a shared future in cyberspace and its successful practices have not only profoundly influenced the global internet governance landscape but ...

Today, if you post a video on a social media platform, you can be confident that it will be seen by people across the globe within seconds. Whether you’re in a remote village in Indonesia, the vibrant ...