APIGA 2026 Alumni & NetMission.Asia APAC Youth Community members (see the list of contributors below) have collectively submitted to the ICANN Public Comment proceeding on the DNS Abuse Mitigation PDP 1 Initial Report, which proposes a policy framework for Associated Domain Checks (ADCs). Under the proposed framework, registrars would investigate other domains linked to a […]
Category: NetMission Digest
Who Gets a Dot? ICANN’s 2026 New gTLD Round and the Fight for a More Inclusive Internet
For most Internet users, the characters after the final dot in a web address barely register. We type .com, .org, .net or .asia without thinking much about who decides which extensions exist, who can operate them, or what it takes to create a new one. But behind that small part of a web address lies […]
Civic Space Under Pressure: The Mazari-Chattha Case and Pakistan’s Digital Rights Standoff
A previous piece in this series examined the prosecution of human rights lawyer Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and her husband, advocate Hadi Ali Chattha. It argued that cybercrime laws can be used against political speech. Since then, the case has grown into a long back-and-forth between civil society and the state. That exchange is worth reading […]
Brokering Trust in Tumultuous Tech Tides
Insularity. The 2026 Edelman Trust Barometer has, for the first time in over a quarter of a century, coined trust worldwide has retreated to this psychological state that is shaped by fears and crises. 70% of 33,938 individuals across 28 countries expressed hesitancy and unwillingness to trust persons with a different way of life at […]
AI Agents, Uneven Futures: Literacy, Risk, and Governance in Asia-Pacific
Welcome to Issue #6 of NetMission Digest. As we move further into 2026, the digital landscape is undergoing a fundamental shift. While the previous years were defined by generative AI, Microsoft leadership labelled 2026 the year of AI agents – systems that, unlike chatbots that respond to prompts, can independently plan, make decisions, and execute […]