[AfrICANN-discuss] Internet Gov Weeky Brief : Cyber extremism; cyber attacks; NTIA RFC to fight botnet; IPv6 Deployment in 2017; Digital economy & investment; Artificial Intelligence; EuroDIG 2017..

[Mamadou LO]

SUMMARY


This week, cyber extremism and cyber attack on headlines as European Union reportedly to make a number of proposals to make it easier for the police and other law enforcement agencies to obtain cloud data from tech firms. Furthemore, "the Parties to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime <http://www.coe.int/en/web/conventions/full-list/-/conventions/treaty/185>  agreed to lauch the preparation of a protocol to this treaty to help law enforcement secure evidence on servers in foreign, multiple or unknown jurisdictions". Also, according to Theeza May, new international agreements should be introduced to regulate the internet in the light of the London Bridge terror attack. In addition, according to reports, a large-scale cyber attack was directed at Al Jazeera on Thursday. The Qatar-based broadcaster stated on its Twitter account that “all systems, websites and social media platforms” were affected as a result of the hack.

Otherwise, NTIA issued a Request for Comments<https://www.ntia.doc.gov/federal-register-notice/2017/rfc-promoting-stakeholder-action-against-botnets-and-other-automated-threats> asking for broad input from "all interested stakeholders, including private industry, academia, civil society, and other security experts," on actions against botnets and distributed attacks.

Also, two interesting documents resources released this week,  the State of IPv6 Deployment in 2017<https://www.internetsociety.org/doc/state-ipv6-deployment-2017> staggering how far IPv6 deployment has progressed in five years and World Investment Report 2016  <http://unctad.org/en/pages/PublicationWebflyer.aspx?publicationid=1782> anlysing Investment and Digital Economy, released by UNCTAD<http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Startpage.asp?intItemID=2068&lang=1> in which only four companies in the top 100 were based in developing nations.

On events; we note the Artificial Intelligence for Good Global Summit<https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/AI/Pages/201706-default.aspx>, to bring key innovators in the field with humanitarian actors and academics and The Pan-European dialogue on Internet governance (EuroDIG) 2017 on public policy issues related to internet governance and the future of digitalization.

Below, informations on those events and subjects as well as documents on domain name, net neutrality..


Review in full here :

http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profiles/blogs/internet-gov-weeky-brief-cyber-extremism-cyber-attacks-ntia-rfc

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