Let’s face it: with self-isolation measures to curb the spread of COVID-19, our children are spending more time than ever online.
But do we actually know what they are doing? And if not, how can we keep them safe from digital harm?
Author Archives: Roland Turner
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Written Submission in response to the Public Consultations by the Committee Studying Deliberate Online Falsehoods
Thank you to all who attended the Forum on Falsehoods on February 23!
With the benefit of the presentations and discussion at that session, The Internet Society Singapore Chapter made a written submission [pdf] to the Select Committee.
Hauling the Internet to an Ex-Soviet Outpost High in the Caucasus Mountains
An Internet Society funded project deploys connectivity to the highest continuously inhabited village in Europe:
“There are not many places in the world without internet.”
This was one of those places.
ISOC policy framework for an open and trusted Internet
This is slightly dated (earlier this year) but is interesting reading nonetheless:
User trust: How and why Internet users – including government, private sector and citizens – trust the Internet, and how to build that trust.
Technologies for trust: The technical building blocks for establishing and maintaining trusted networks, applications and services.
Trusted networks: The Internet’s strength is that it is an ever-evolving collection of interconnected networks with distributed ownership and control. Trust is the glue that keeps networks connected and exchanging data.
Trustworthy ecosystem: How the Internet is governed and how it deals with Internet issues.
ISOC North America Director Mark Buell on Net Neutrality
We hope that the U.S. government can take a more sustainable approach to net neutrality; one that upholds the principles that are rooted in the Internet Society’s core values of a global and open Internet. Between seemingly endless court battles and the fact that FCC regulations can change from one US Presidential administration to another, it is clear that we need to try something different. Americans need clarity in this debate.