The value of Digital Watch’s DiploAI Reporting page cannot be overstated. It comprises AI-generated reports from as many sessions as practical. These include not only verbatim transcripts, summaries, and in-depth analysis, but also speaker lists which, ridiculously some might say, calibrate the number of words delivered by each speaker and the actual rate of delivery!
ISOC LIVE is making backup recordings of just a few sessions (e.g., GigaNet, DC-CIV), which will be posted/archived with multilingual open captions when processed: https://isoc.live/?s=igf2025
This presentation will describe the use case of deep space networking, the key considerations to deploy such a network, and its requirements. It will also describe the current plans of the space agencies and private sector for Moon and Mars deployments. It will then describe the proposed solution. This work is being standardized in IETF by the newly formed working group called TIPTOP (Taking IP to Other Planets). A description of the working group, milestones and current work will conclude the presentation.
Speaker Marc Blanchet is president of Viagenie, a consulting firm on Internet engineering. He has been involved in IETF for 35 years, wrote 17 RFCs, co-chaired many IETF working groups, including DTN, and was an IAB member. He is the investigator of the Deep Space IP initiative which folded into the TIPTOP working group, where he is technical advisor and delegate. He is the founder of the Space Assigned Numbers Authority (SANA) which does a similar role to IANA, but for space communications standards of the CCSDS. He is currently leading the Moon networking governance group of the Interagency Operations Advisory Group (IOAG).
SPEAKERS Constanze Buerger – Member, ASO Address Council Nicolas Caballero – Chair, GAC Jordan Carter – Member, ccNSO Council Greg DiBiase – Chair, GNSO Council Philippe Fouquart – Chair, ISPCP Joanna Kulesza – ALAC Liaison to the GAC Ram Mohan – Chair, SSAC Nick Wenban-Smith – TCCM
HOSTS Christopher Mondini – Vice President, Stakeholder Engagement & Managing Director, Europe ICANN Org Thomas Rickert – Director Names & Numbers, eco – Association of the Internet Industry
This panel explores the challenges arising from the decline of legacy cable TV and the rise of streaming services. Consumer preferences have shifted the media marketplace over the last decade — from live linear television broadcast to streaming and on-demand viewing. Fifteen years ago, 85-90% of American households subscribed to cable TV, but today that number has dropped to around 50% as streaming platforms dominate the market. There are well over 200 streaming services available to consumers and an overwhelming 99 percent of U.S. households now subscribe to at least one or more streaming services. However, regulations governing this dynamic marketplace were developed in the 1980s and 1990s To what extent do these rules create an unlevel playing field. Should these regulations be eliminated or updated to reflect the current landscape, and if so, how? The conversation will also focus on how companies are being forced to innovate and compete to retain audiences, and discussants will offer predictions for the future state of the tv and video marketplace.
SPEAKERS Michael P. O’Reilly – Former Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission Cheryl Leanza – Best Best & Krieger LLP Kristian Stout – Director of Innovation Policy, International Center for Law & Economics
MODERATOR / HOST Tim Lordan – Executive Director, Congressional Internet Caucus Academy
On Thursday, June 12, 2025, at 09:00 EDT (13:00 UTC), the Atlantic Council’s Democracy + Tech Initiative will host a conversation on the importance of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and the role it has played for the past twenty years in providing an open, inclusive, and diverse space for discussing internet policy and governance. This event, held in the lead up to the 2025 IGF, will highlight the value of the annual forum and why digital democracy depends on keeping the internet open, global, and inclusive. The conversation will also showcase the Atlantic Council’s work to champion a free and open internet.
SPEAKERS Vint Cerf – Chair, IGF Leadership Panel / Chief Internet Evangelist, Google Anriette Esterhuysen – Senior Advisor on Global and Regional Internet Governance, Association for Progressive Communications (APC) Jason Pielemeier – Executive Director, Global Network Initiative (GNI) Chengetai Masango – Head of Office, United Nations Secretariat of the Internet Governance Forum
On Tuesday July 8, 2025 at 7:30pm-8:30pm EDT (11:30-00:30 UTC) the Accessibility NYC Meetup (A11yNYC) hosts a meetup ‘Digital Accessibility’s Gap: AI to Bridge Mobile and Web Barriers’. TestParty co-founders Michael Bervell & Jason Tan explore the thorniest challenges in both mobile and web accessibility — and how emerging AI techniques, automation strategies, and platform shifts are changing what’s possible. They’ll share insights from cutting-edge studies on how AI boosts productivity, reduces burnout, and supports non-experts in making meaningful contributions to accessibility.
On Sunday 8 June 2025, at 6:30pm IST (13:00 UTC) the Internet Society India Mumbai Chapter (ISOC Mumbai) will present a webinar ‘Quantum 101‘. Blackhole Academy founder Rajan Chopra will explore the fascinating principles of quantum mechanics and how things operate in the quantum realm, from the bizarre behaviour of particles to foundational concepts like entanglement, superposition, and more, and how these principles are poised to revolutionize the future of the Internet and technology.
SPEAKER Rajan Chopra – Founder / Educator, Blackhole Academy
Lillian Naroka – Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa, (CIPESA) Margaret Nyambura Ndongo – Internet Society Tanzania Chapter Imazo Mataji – Program Advisor, Digital Agenda for Tanzania Initiative Bridget Ndongo – Paradigm Initiative Céline Bal – UN IGF Secretariat Peace Oliver-Muge – Africa Regional Strategy Lead, APC / Member, IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) Sorina Safa – UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Craig Stanley-Adamson – Head of Internet Governance, UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) Dawit Bekele – Regional Vice President for Africa, Internet Society (ISOC) Mohamed Farhat – AfIGF MAG Andrea Calderaro – Director of Cyber Diplomacy, EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) Ahmed Haroun – Chad Emmanuel Manassi – Acting Regional Director for Africa, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Navina Mutabas – Data Values Advocate, Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD) Providence Baraka – Program Associate, Bingo Civic Tech Lab, Democratic Republic of Congo Huroma Gideon Manyama – Law Student, Tanzania
Moderator: Elonnai Hickok – Managing Director, Global Network Initiative (GNI)
Celà m’aide énormément dans mon travail de recherche ede thèse. J’aimerais vraiment recevoir plus d’informations sur la réglementation de l’internet, de l’IA et des technologies nouvelles.
Car se sont des outils nécessaires au développement global mais aussi l’Afrique.
J’espère grandement apprécié chaque élément.
Respectueusement Taïno Marcel, depuis le Cameroun.
June 2025 is the 20th anniversary of the report by the UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). Convened by the UN Secretary General to help resolve key questions that were blocking the World Summit on the Information Society negotiations, the WGIG produced a reportthat inter alia advanced a broad and holistic “working definition” of Internet governance and proposed the establishment of the Internet Governance Forum with the same character. The definition highlighted that Internet governance involves shared frameworks developed by both states and stakeholders for both the underlying infrastructure and its diverse uses. The WGIG’s recommendations helped to deescalate a divisive battle over intergovernmental vs. multistakeholder governance and were incorporated into the negotiated outcome, and the definition has been invoked as foundational in UN processes and beyond ever since.
But while governments and stakeholders signed onto the WGIG’s understanding of Internet governance in 2005, the international debates and politics over the twenty years since suggest that commitment to it has not been uniform or deep. The balance between intergovernmental and multistakeholder approaches has remained contested, and attention to improving the design of institutions has been limited. This has special salience today not only because the UN is reviewing the World Summit’s twenty-year implementation in order to determine the next steps, but also because we are once again in a period where there are pressures to establish new international governance mechanisms. In and outside the UN, there are multiple processes underway concerning the governance of the digital economy, data, and artificial intelligence that are raising challenges akin to those confronted in the Internet governance battles of the past.
Among the questions worth exploring in this context are: 1) Has the WGIG’s understanding of Internet governance stood the test of time? What are its strengths and weaknesses, and with the benefit of hindsight would a similar exercise produce the same results today? 2) To what extent is the approach taken in 2005 useful in addressing the contemporary push for governance of the digital economy, data, and artificial intelligence? Are there lessons to be learned that would assist in managing the analytical and political challenges? 3) What are the implications of the new governance debates for the Internet Governance Forum and related institutions?
This webinar explored these questions. A panel of WGIG veterans led off the conversation, and then the rest of the session was devoted to open discussion among all interested attendees. At the June 2026 Internet Governance Forum meeting in Norway, a largerWGIG+20 session will build upon this discussion.
PANEL Avri Doria – independent researcher and consultant. Wolfgang Kleinwächter – Professor Emeritus of International Communication Policy and Regulation, University of Aarhus Markus Kummer – Internet governance and policy expert Vittorio Bertola – Head of Policy & Innovation, Open-Xchange
HOST / MODERATOR William J. Drake, Director of International Studies, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
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