What is yIGF? Organized and facilitated by NetMission.Asia, the Youth IGF occurs in conjunction with the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) annually, to raise awareness and build the capacity for youth to join the Internet governance discussions. Based on the mandate of IGF to bring people together from various stakeholder groups as equals, […]
Tag: Internet governance
Gather&Talk インターネット ホットトピックス 2021 Recruitment
Background 開催背景 私たちは、日常生活をインターネットとテクノロジーにますます依存するようになっており、今こそ若者がインターネットガバナンスに関連する議論に参加する時だと考えています。インターネットガバナンスは一般的に認識されていることではないですが、若者は今後のインターネットの発展にとって重要なステークホルダーのひとつであり、次世代の成長は重要な課題です。このイベントでは、皆で意見を交換できるオープンなプラットフォームを提供し、日本の若者も参加することで、より強いコミュニティとインターネット政策策定に誰もが参加する環境を作る事を目的としています。 With our daily life getting more dependent on the Internet and technology, it is time to call on the youth to participate in Internet governance discourse. Internet governance is new to most of us, however, youth is one of the important stakeholders in building our future Internet, and it is the time […]
NetMission Insight: What does ethical technology mean to you?
Written by Jenna Fung Ethics is based on standards of right and wrong that prescribe what one ought to do in terms of rights, obligations, fairness, or specific virtues. (Velasquez et al., 2010) To describe a person who is being ethical generally means someone who is behaving as “right” in a moral sense and following […]
NetMission Insight: What are Blacklist and Whitelist – A Recent case of Myanmar
Written by Phyo Thiri Lwin (Edited by Jenna Fung) Back in February 2021, there were two nationwide Internet outages in Myanmar. On February 5, the military council started banning social media and messaging apps such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and WhatsApp by using the blacklist method to users as an immediate response to interrupt international […]
NetMission Insight: Conflicts between states & the private sector over the possession of domain names
Written by Felicia Yunike (Edited by Jenna Fung) At the beginning of April, I felt privileged to host a webinar about “Trademark and Domain Names”. Not an easy topic to discuss but, throughout the session, we mostly talked about .amazon which I find quite phenomenal among other cases. In this regard, I would like to […]
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