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Global Tech Outage Demonstrates Need for Resiliency in Software Systems
Today’s global outage of many systems was not an Internet outage, but it demonstrates the need for greater resilience in all our technical systems.
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Achieving Greater Heights for MANRS
Partnering with the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA), we believe that MANRS will continue to be further established as the globally recognized benchmark for global routing security ...
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Resources and Tools for Starting a Technical Community
Technical communities are our best partners to create a global movement of experts working together to build a stronger and more resilient Internet.
Explore how you can start your own group ...
Explore how you can start your own group ...
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Network Usage Fees: The European Commission Plays Politics with the Global Internet
The European Commission is playing politics with the global Internet. It’s time it clearly rejected the idea of “network usage fees” once and for all. What is the European Commission ...
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Building More Affordable and Reliable Internet Access in the Arctic
This community network connects over 50 households in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories of Canada. It runs a cellular (4G LTE) Internet access network dedicated to fair access to underserved communities at ...
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Techxit: The UK Declares Its Exit from the High-Tech Startup World
No one in their right mind would now want to start up a high-tech company in the UK. With a last-minute addition to the Online Safety Bill (OSB), the UK ...
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What’s the Internet Like Today?
Every day as I get my son ready for daycare, I recite seven words: “Hey Google, what’s the weather like today?” The results from this now-‘ritual’ search dictate what he’ll ...
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Encryption, Bad Bills, and Ripple Effects: How Riana Pfefferkorn Protects the Internet
We spoke with Riana Pfefferkorn, research scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory, about encryption and protecting the Internet ...