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 […]

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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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NetMission Insight: Better Model for Track-and-trace

Written by Jenna Fung How much has our life changed since the pandemic? From how we attend our classes and work, to how we do our daily grocery shopping. Undeniably, technology and the Internet have “saved” us and have enabled our society to function even during the worst period of this global crisis.  Following the […]

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NetMission Insight: Diversity & Multistakeholder Participation

Written by Akram Rashid (Edited by Guntur Ramadhan) Diversity is a concept that encompasses acceptance and respect by recognizing and understanding each individuals’ uniqueness and differences. Multi-stakeholder is on a basic level participatory decision-making and data sharing at the national level. Key partners ought to be spoken to and choose what issues to center on […]

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NetMission Insight: Digital Economy and Emerging Technologies

Written by Arbi Wijaya (Edited by Jenna Fung) Our world is full of perspectives. We all are living in different places, continents, countries, cities, and regions so it drives us to explore those perspectives in the vastness of the world. Not yet, the world is being engulfed by the Covid-19 pandemic & has been a […]

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