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Current happenings in the Internet governance context October to December 2021: Developments around Internet governance confirmed one trend in particular in the fourth quarter of 2021: With Internet-relevant issues such as cyber security or the development of the digital economy becoming ever more fundamental political issues and digitisation increasingly affecting

Current happenings in the Internet governance context July to September 2021: The discussions and happenings related to the evolution of Internet governance in the third quarter of 2021 reinforced the recent trends of a transforming global Internet governance ecosystem. The developments can be summarised in seven points. 1. The call

Current happenings in the Internet governance context April to June 2021: The second quarter of 2021 with its series of inter-governmental summits has made it obvious that the topic of Internet governance has arrived on the high stage of world politics. Digitisation and cybersecurity have become problems that preoccupy heads

Current happenings in the Internet governance context January to March 2021: By now, the geo-political effects the Covid-19 pandemic will have in the long term are becoming obvious. They will also have an impact on the future structure of the global Internet governance ecosystem. In the first quarter of 2021,

Current happenings in the Internet governance context October to December 2020: In the fourth quarter of 2020, the global discussion on Internet governance continued to be strongly impacted by the coronavirus crisis. At the inter-governmental level, even summit and ministerial conferences, such as G20 and BRICS, and diplomatic negotiations, such