Virtual School of Internet Governance Begins Global Accessible Course
The Virtual School of Internet Governance (VSIG) has begun a massive global accessible capacity building programme on Internet Governance which had been carried out in face to face format prior to the Coronavirus (COVID-19)...
Kano Joins Six Other States in Switch Over to Digital Terrestrial Platform
Kano State in North-west Nigeria has joined six other states that have completed the Digital Switch Over (DSO) to migrate digital terrestrial broadcasting under the second phase of the national DSO programme.
The first rollout...
Mozilla Launches Dataset to Assess Transparency and Accountability on Network Outages
Mozilla, makers of the Firefox browser, has launched an anonymous telemetry dataset to enable researchers access and explore signals of network outages globally. The initiative is aimed at creating more transparency around outages, a...
Ranking Digital Rights Launches Inaugural Telco Giants Scorecard
The Washington D.C.-based Ranking Digital Rights, which advances corporate accountability for human rights in the digital age, has launched its inaugural Telco Giants Scorecard in which it evaluated 12 of the biggest global telecommunications...
3rd Session of UN Working Group on Security and Use of ICTs Holds in...
The Third Substantive session of the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on security of and in the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) 2021–2025, will take place at the United Nations headquarters in New...
UN Secretary-General Appoints Gbenga Sesan, 9 Others to Serve on Inaugural IGF Leadership Panel
The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has appointed Mr. Gbenga Sesan, Executive Director of Paradigm Initiative and nine other high-level and eminent persons to serve on his inaugural Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Leadership Panel.
The...