Ralf Peter Reimann Who owns the Internet? The answer is actually clear. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which manages the global internet’s domain system, operates as a nonprofit public benefit corporation. No single country or company owns the internet. Instead, ICANN itself...
Aniruddha Jena and Sriyanka Sahoo The 20-year review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+20) and the Global Digital Compact set out a simple test: the digital world should expand rights, dignity and opportunity, not narrow them. [1][2] In an eastern India state, Odisha,...
Kamal Sedra In the early days of the Arab Spring, digital platforms lit up with the voices of citizens reclaiming their space in history. Mobile phones turned into tools of truth, livestreams outpaced official narratives, and hashtags transcended borders. It was the dawn of what many...
José Luis Aguirre Alvis De la realidad del Sur a los debates globales del WSIS: el caso del Proyecto “Escuchar las Voces de la Amazonia: Comunicación Integral para Comunicadores Amazónicos” en Bolivia. La WACC en su Convocatoria a Proyectos (2024-2025) incluyó en sus líneas de apoyo el...
Erick R. Torrico Villanueva La desinformación representa un problema real en la vida diaria actual y un obstáculo creciente para el desempeño del régimen democrático. Contrarrestar ese fenómeno es urgente y necesario; hacerlo desde el enfoque de los derechos humanos es plenamente factible. La propuesta para...
Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) 2025 At the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 4-12, 2025), the Ecumenical Jury, appointed by INTERFILM and SIGNIS, awarded its Prize to Rebuilding directed by Max Walker-Silverman (USA, 2025). Motivation: A quiet, divorced Colorado rancher who lost everything in a wildfire...
Anna Oosterlinck Independent journalism is under attack. The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that 2024 has been the deadliest year for journalists in the past three decades. ARTICLE 19 reports that 27 countries experienced decline in media freedom in the past year alone; over the past...
The Internet is the world’s digital lifeline. For the approximately 5.6 billion people connected to the Internet (some 70% of the global population), access is essential. The entire Internet cannot be switched off, but governments and other actors can temporarily disrupt or restrict access by shutting...
A Beijing+30 reflection Exactly 30 years ago today, hope for a new dawn for women and girls was palpable. Governments and civil society that had gathered in Beijing for the Fourth UN World Conference on Women were united on a roadmap to end gender-based discrimination and achieve...
Have you ever read through the agenda of a United Nations General Assembly? The 80th regular session of the General Assembly opens tomorrow, 9 September. Under the theme, “Better Together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights,” the provisional agenda has 174 main...