The Australian Government has ordered a review into the operations of the .au policy and regulatory body, auDA. The order to could coming after 2 years or turmoil and mismanagement and that the government has had enough of the unending organization disputes. The Minister’s statement says that since auDA was established in 2000 “the digital …
Tech. blogs and financial news networks are buzzing about blockchain, a cryptographic, distributed trust technology. The key innovation is how it reduces the need for central third-party institutions to serve as central authorities of trust — banks, courts, large corporations, stock markets and even governments, for example. Distributed trust enables co-operative forms of organization without …
Rwanda is one of the fastest-growing African countries in ICT development and use, and in fact the country seeks to create an ICT infrastructure comparable to those in the developed world to tap into the opportunities the sector presents. A robust ICT industry can thus create wealth, jobs and entrepreneurs. Therefore we applaud the government’s …
Hurricane Maria’s devastation could necessitate moving 61st ICANN meeting away from Puerto Rico for the second time, but ICANN hopes that won’t be the case. The non-profit released a statement this weekend saying that it still hopes to hold ICANN61 in San Juan, Puerto Rico March 10-15, 2018: ICANN joins the rest of the world …
Africa has lost about $237 million dollars due to internet disruptions since 2015, a report by the Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) disclosed. The report, released on Friday at the Forum On Internet Freedom in Africa 2017 in Johannesburg, said there was a total of 236 days of internet shutdown in …
The cyber security news has been dominated by just one story all month of september: Equifax, which suffered one of the largest reported corporate data breaches in history. Lewis Morgan has gone through the trouble to list the September 2017 cyber breaches, by his count, there have been 174,429,805 known leaked records this month yet …
Dailymail is reporting that airline passengers are suffering major disruption at airports around the world as various check in systems have crashed. Problems have been reported in Charles de Gaulle Paris, London Gatwick, Washington DC, New York, Changi in Singapore, Johannesburg and Zurich. Passengers are reporting huge delays A Gatwick Airport spokesman said: ‘This is …
Taxi-hailing app Uber is set to lose its London licence at the end of the month after a ruling from regulators at Transport for London. However, the US tech firm has said it plans to appeal against the ruling. This makes it unclear whether Uber will stop being available to its 3.5 million customers in …
According to Reuters, Twitter Inc representatives will meet with the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff next week in relation to inquiries into the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a company representative said. The committee, along with other congressional committees and special counsel Robert Mueller, is investigating possible links between President Donald Trump’s campaign and …
VeriSign a global leader in domain names and internet security, has today announced that approximately 1.3 million domain name registrations were added to the internet in the second quarter of 2017, bringing the total number of domain name registrations to approximately 331.9 million across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of June 30, 2017.1 The increase …