Please join us for the 2019 UK IGF meeting on Thursday 24th October, 9am – 5pm, at The Cavendish Conference Centre, 22 Duchess Mews, London W1G 9DT. The theme of this year’s UK Internet Governance Forum meeting is ‘Ensuring a healthy digital society by 2050’. We’ll be joined by experts from a variety of organisations...
Read more →GENEVA (22 August 2019) – UN human rights experts* today called on the Government of India to end the crackdown on freedom of expression, access to information and peaceful protests imposed in Indian-Administered Kashmir this month. The experts expressed concern that the measures, imposed after the Indian Parliament revoked the Constitutionally-mandated status of the...
Read more →ISOC UK has signed a call to world leaders attending the G7 summit to ensure the Internet can support a secure and trusted digital economy for everyone. Measures that undermine encryption weaken security for all. You can see the letter and sign it at http://www.g7openletter.org Endnotes: Exceptional access, also referred to as “lawful access,”...
Read more →(Reported by Louise Marie Hurel) Representatives and fellows from the European ISOC Chapters met in Bucharest, Romania (full agenda here) from 9-10 May 2019. The two-day discussions covered topics such as encryption, Internet consolidation, IoT, Internet of food, and stimulated an inclusive and dynamic exchange on Internet Society’s 2025 long-term strategic planning. It is...
Read more →The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) which has been working to facilitate that all domain names and corresponding email addresses work in all applications, has asked for this community’s help to voluntarily spread the word about Universal Acceptance. The Group includes Apple, Google, ICANN and Microsoft. So what is “Universal Acceptance”? Since 2010, non-Latin...
Read more →The UK Chapter has responded to the consultation on regulatory proposals for consumer IoT launched last month by the UK Government Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. For more information about the consultation, you can see the Webinar which the Chapter has arranged with DCMS. The Chapter’s response is here: ——– Forwarded Message...
Read more →19 June 2019 – 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Joseph Gaggero Hall | Chatham House | 10 St James’s Square | London | SW1Y 4LE
To Register interest – https://www.chathamhouse.org/event/how-regulate-internet-without-breaking-it
Internet regulation is increasing around the world creating positive obligations on internet providers and exerting negative unintended consequences on the internet infrastructure. In some ways, most of this regulatory activity is justifiable. Governments are concerned about the increased risk that the use of the internet brings to societies. As a response, many governments have been enacting regulations as their main approach to dealing with these concerns. The main challenge is that most of the current regulations are either ill-defined or unworkable.
On the one hand, several governments have established procedures that seek to analyze the impacts of new regulatory proposals before they were adopted. However, there hasn’t been enough attention aimed at analyzing regulations after they have been adopted and only a few have measures in place to evaluate the impacts of the procedures and practices that govern the regulatory process itself.
On the other hand, much of the regulation creates unintended consequences to the internet itself. It undermines many of its fundamental properties and challenges the integrity and resiliency of its infrastructure.
This event will be followed by an informal drinks reception.
This event will discuss current practices in internet-related regulation and the related challenges. Panellists will discuss how governments can enforce regulations that achieve their intended purpose while at the same time protecting the internet’s core infrastructure and its properties, including its openness, interoperability and global reach.
CONTACT – Calum Inverarity, Programme Coordinator and Research Assistant +44 (0) 207 957 5751 Email
A significant announcement has been made last week by DCMS as a follow-up to the Secure by Design UK Government Code of Practice for Consumer IoT Security. As mentioned in prior emails, ETSI has launched Technical Specification 103 645 – and all details about this are included in the email below. This new consultation...
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