Cybersecurity

Online Safety and AI

As AI reshapes the digital world, online safety depends on balancing smarter protection with growing risks. From cybersecurity to privacy concerns, understanding AI's role can help users stay secure, informed, and resilient online.

Fake News and Online Safety: Combating Disinformation in the Digital Age

Fake news spreads quickly online, fueling distrust, manipulation, and conflict. As AI-generated content grows more sophisticated, media literacy, fact-checking, and vigilance are essential to protecting online safety and preserving trust in information.

Procedural Resilience or Technological Rigidity? Reassessing Article 19’s DNS Abuse Framework in the Post-MLAT Era

As cross-border cyber enforcement falters, critics argue Article 19's DNS abuse framework prioritizes procedural purity over user protection, leaving courts too slow to counter AI-driven phishing, rapid-flux domains, and increasingly automated online threats.

Africa’s Data Sovereignty Challenge: Who Really Controls the Continent’s Digital Future?

As Africa digitises rapidly, control over data is emerging as a strategic contest. Foreign infrastructure dominance exposes economic and cybersecurity vulnerabilities, pushing governments to prioritise digital capability, regional cooperation, and stronger sovereignty over the systems powering the continent's future.

DNS Abuse Is Stealing India’s Youth: Fake Domains and the Job-Seeking Trap

Fake recruitment websites exploiting India's young job seekers are proliferating, exposing millions to identity theft, financial fraud and malware while regulators, registrars and digital literacy programs struggle to keep pace with a growing labor market.

The Illusion of Digital Sovereignty (Part II) - Emergence, Sovereign AI Ecosystem, the RIR System, Number Resources

As states chase digital sovereignty through clouds, AI and localized infrastructure, the internet's globally coordinated foundations reveal a harder truth: operational continuity depends less on control than on interoperable systems built on trust and governance.

Recent Advancements in the Rights to Public Knowledge: Technical Standards

Recent court rulings in Europe and America are reshaping access to technical standards, weakening paywalls and strengthening the principle that publicly mandated knowledge belongs to citizens, regulators and increasingly AI systems that depend on machine-readable information.

Africa’s Digital Transformation Is Outpacing Its Cybersecurity Governance

Africa's digital boom is accelerating, but safeguards lag. Governments and firms deploy systems at speed, while weak enforcement and fragmented oversight leave economies exposed to mounting cyber risks.

Beyond Connectivity: How Submarine Cable Resilience Dictates Digital Sovereignty in the Age of Fragmented Governance

Subsea cables underpin global data flows, yet resilience, control and deep sea access now define digital sovereignty as governance fragments, hyperscalers consolidate ownership, and states prioritize survivability over efficiency in an increasingly contested geopolitical seabed.

Trusted Notifier Network (TNN) Core Concept 2: Building a Chain of Indemnity

TNN proposes a contractual chain of indemnity to shift legal risk in global takedowns, replacing patchy statutory protections with enforceable accountability and a fund that makes good-faith action commercially viable for smaller intermediaries.