Internet Society - Philippines Chapter (ISOC.PH)

18/05/2026

📢 Announcing the IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) for 2026

We’re pleased to share the newly appointed Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) members for 2026. 🌐

👉 View the full list of members: https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/mag-2026-members

🙏 We also extend our sincere thanks to all outgoing MAG members for their dedication, expertise, and commitment. Your contributions have been vital in strengthening the IGF and advancing open, inclusive dialogue on the future of the Internet.

The MAG, established by the UN Secretary-General, plays a central role in shaping the programme and schedule of the Internet Governance Forum. It brings together 40 experts from governments, the private sector, civil society, and the academic and technical communities, ensuring that the IGF remains grounded in a truly bottom-up, inclusive, and multistakeholder approach to digital governance.

👉 Learn more about the MAG: https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/about-mag

17/05/2026

ASEAN is setting ambitious goals to advance and lead in the digital age. The forthcoming ASEAN Digital Masterplan 2030, expected in early 2026, will steer regional digital development for the next five years. As ASEAN enters this new phase, it is crucial that its strategies align with a rights‑based approach.

In 2025, Access Now, EngageMedia, FORUM‑ASIA, Oxfam, and the Wikimedia Foundation developed a briefing paper assessing digital rights across more than 16 ASEAN frameworks and documents. Through consultations with diverse civil society groups, the briefing developed recommendations on key issues such as the digital economy, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence.

This paper offers the first comprehensive mapping of ASEAN’s digital rights landscape. It reveals a gap between ASEAN’s ambitions and its commitments to equity and inclusion, as well as limited civil society participation in major processes. It concludes with practical recommendations for building a rights‑respecting, inclusive digital ecosystem.

ASEAN is setting ambitious goals to advance and lead in the digital age. The forthcoming ASEAN Digital Masterplan 2030, expected in early 2026, will steer regional digital development for the next five years. As ASEAN enters this new phase, it is crucial that its strategies align with a rights‑bas...

17/05/2026

It may seem natural for us to feel a measure of personal responsibility for the many problems that plague society; or, if we ourselves don’t feel personally responsible for them, to at least blame them on the actions of other individuals. ... we have been led astray by the equivalent of a “crying Indian,” misled into believing that individuals created these problems, and that individuals can fix them.

In this book, we examine many daunting challenges that face our societies and troubled planet: from climate change to gun violence, from obesity to the opioid epidemic, from the crippling cost of health insurance in the US to global income inequality, from a spike in American traffic fatalities to a crisis in pensions and retirement savings.

In every case we believe the only way to fix these problems is with a systemic approach, by changing the rules of the game: introducing regulations and taxes, removing perverse incentives, adding checks and balances, remaking infrastructure and redesigning institutions.

"It’s on You" chronicles how corporations and behavioral economists pushed for huge, systemic problems to be fixed by personal choices.

17/05/2026

Artificial intelligence isn’t living in the “cloud.” It’s rooted in massive data centers that consume vast amounts of water, energy, and land.

In Brazil, these facilities are expanding rapidly often without environmental studies, community consultation, or transparency.

They promise innovation and jobs, but frequently export profits, strain local resources, and deepen environmental and social inequalities.

This animated video by Idec (Brazilian Institute for Consumer Defense) breaks down the hidden costs of the AI boom and calls for a new digital model: one built on transparency, community rights, climate justice, and true digital sovereignty.

Artificial intelligence isn’t living in the “cloud.” It’s rooted in massive data centers that consume vast amounts of water, energy, and land.In Brazil, thes...

16/05/2026

Tonight 8pm on TechSabado

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15/05/2026

15/05/2026

📍Call for Session Proposals

📝Call for Session Proposals for are now opened! Submission is accepted until Thursday, 25 June 2026 at 23:59 UTC.

Help shape the program agenda with your submission here:
👉igf.asia/CFP2026

15/05/2026

📣 Request For Proposals for Hosting APrIGF 2028 are now welcome! Interested parties in the Asia Pacific region may submit your proposals by July 31, 2026.

👉Find out more at our website: aprigf.asia/hosting-aprigf/

14/05/2026

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝘁𝘀 𝗘𝗻𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗲𝘀

Artificial intelligence is regarded as the driving force of progress. Yet it has long since become a challenge to democracy. In this FEPS book, Paul Nemitz, Matthias Pfeffer, and Jürgen Pfeffer view AI as a fundamental issue of power and democracy and analyse the conflict between algorithmic control and democratic self-determination.

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How we can protect free society from AI dictatorship

14/05/2026

US policymakers are rushing to build guardrails for artificial intelligence in government. One safeguard is quickly becoming the default answer: keep a human in the loop.

The logic is intuitive and politically reassuring. Let the system assist, let a person review the output, and accountability will remain intact.

But this assumption deserves much closer scrutiny. The real implementation problem is not only whether a human remains somewhere in the workflow. It is whether public institutions are deploying AI in ways that preserve the practical conditions of human judgment—or quietly erode them in the name of efficiency.

AI governance is advancing, but human oversight risks becoming procedural theater if it fails to preserve meaningful judgment, argues Nicolas Spatola