System Update - Episode 5: When digital policies need to reflect a changing ecosystem

How is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN responding to the current challenges and future direction of internet governance, responding to major shifts in the digital ecosystem? Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence are influencing online behaviour, cybersecurity threats, domain name management, and policy-making processes. There is a need to look at how internet governance organisations balance the need for security, accessibility, innovation, and stability while coordinating decisions among diverse stakeholders. Policies are now being developed, when new rules are required while existing commitments need to be upheld, so which issues are likely to shape the evolution of the internet ecosystem in the years ahead? Today we are joined by Rafik Dammak engineer currently the chair of the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group in ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. He has been involved in ICANN community for many years, works in Japan and improves awareness and capacity building about Internet Governance in Tunisia and the MENA region in general. "System Update", is produced by Forus as part of CADE - the Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment - a project co-funded by the European Union. CADE’s objective is to support the capacity of civil society organisations for effective advocacy in multilateral and multistakeholder internet governance processes. https://cadeproject.org/ https://www.forus-international.org/en/campaign/let-s-talk-digital This podcast was co-funded by the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of Forus and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.