The Digital Freedom Coalition held its first summit on December 9th, 2022, on the eve of World Human Rights Day, to promote the issues of democracy in the digital age. The summit was divided into four panel discussions, including “Democracy in the Digital Age: Political Perspective” , “Freedom to Connect: Infrastructure & Content” , “Digital…
My journey into Internet governance began when I attended the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) -2021 in Kathmandu, Nepal, for the first time. Following my interest in the Internet and Tech Policy, APrIGF enabled me to learn about Internet governance and its ecosystem. By definition, Internet Governance is “the development and initiatives by…
Engaging in local Internet Governance, yIGF Nepal as one of the committee members I was in search of a guiding light to give the best output to the organization and engaging more young people towards the Internet Governance ecosystem. By that time I was overwhelmed by the opening of the APSIG-APrIGF 2022 fellowship application. I…
Fellowship Opportunity It was my very first time attending a regional IGF in person and I was very thrilled to have been selected as one of the 28 fellows from 19 different countries through the APrIGF-APSIG Joint Fellowship program. This year it was more exciting because Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF), Asia Pacific…
Youth IGF Nepal along with Forum for Digital Equality and Internet Governance Institute hosted a one day Workshop on “Online Child Safety For School Teachers and Parents” on November 18, 2021, in Kathmandu, Nepal. The purpose of this workshop was to hold an interactive Discussion where school teachers, parents, law enforcement agencies and other stakeholders…
While the whole world is threatened by the COVID-19 Pandemic we are forced to remain at our home, this situation positioned the internet as a basic need. When still half of the world doesn’t have access to the internet the community networks are playing a very important role in this period. In my conversation with…
Community networks (CN) are networks built and owned by communities trying to build on low-cost and effective infrastructure solutions in the remote geographic locations where Internet Service Providers (ISPs) would not expand their networks due to lack of profits and other business opportunities. Usually, community networks build upon low-cost Wi-Fi equipment utilizing the unlicensed spectrum…
As covid 19 was one of the most painful pandemics this generation has seen ever. In the case of domain names, there was a huge increase in registrations of corona related domain names. Along with genuine causes, a lot of domains also entertained malicious, phishing, and spam content. This panel was moderated by Vice President…
Universal Acceptance is one of the aspects of the Internet which deals with the inclusion of the internet or we can also say democratization of the internet by making the domain names and email addresses accessible/supported in multiple languages. This aspect not only refers to the technical implication but also connects multilingualism, cultural diversity and…