Our Story

What Is This Blog — And Why Does It Exist?

The internet is the most powerful infrastructure humanity has ever built. It carries our economies, our conversations, our education, our identities, and increasingly, our rights. Yet the decisions about how it is governed — who controls its naming systems, how its resources are allocated, what policies shape its future — are made in rooms that most people have never heard of.

This blog exists to change that. We believe that internet governance is too important to be understood by only a small circle of experts, diplomats, and technologists. Every person who uses the internet — every student, every entrepreneur, every civil society activist, every government official, every journalist — has a stake in how it is governed. And every one of them deserves access to clear, honest, and timely information about the decisions being made on their behalf.

We are an independent, community-driven platform covering the full landscape of internet governance — from the technical coordination work of ICANN and the regional internet registries, to the multistakeholder policy debates at the Internet Governance Forum, to the treaty negotiations at the ITU, to the grassroots advocacy of civil society networks around the world. We cover policy as it happens, explain it in plain language, and connect our readers to the opportunities that exist to participate.

We are not affiliated with any single organization or government. We do not represent any one stakeholder group. We represent the open internet — and the millions of people whose lives it touches every day.

Content Pillars

What We Cover — And How

Internet governance is not a single topic. It is an ecosystem of intersecting issues — technical, political, economic, social, and legal. Our coverage reflects that complexity, organized into six core pillars.

Editorial Focus

The Issues That Define Our Coverage

Internet governance touches almost every dimension of digital and social life. These are the themes that run through everything we publish.

Our Audience

This Blog Is For Everyone Who Cares About the Internet

You do not need to be a policy expert to read this blog. You just need to care about the internet — and what kind of internet the world is building for the future.

Our Principles

What We Stand For

We are guided by the same values that underpin the open internet itself — openness, inclusion, accountability, and the free flow of knowledge.

Independence. We are not funded by any single government, corporation, or international organization. Our editorial decisions are made free from commercial or political pressure. When we analyze a policy decision, we call it as we see it — not as any stakeholder wants it seen.

Accessibility. The best policy analysis is useless if it cannot be understood. We write for the curious non-expert as much as for the seasoned practitioner. If something can be said simply, we say it simply. If a technical concept needs explaining, we explain it — without condescension and without jargon.

Multistakeholder commitment. We believe in the multistakeholder model of internet governance — the principle that decisions about the internet should involve governments, the technical community, civil society, academia, and the private sector as equal participants. We reflect this in our coverage, our guest contributors, and our community.

Global perspective. The internet is not a Western institution, and internet governance is not a conversation that belongs only to the Global North. We actively seek voices, stories, and perspectives from Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, the Middle East, and every underrepresented region in the governance conversation.

Opportunity over gatekeeping. One of our core missions is to lower the barriers to participation in internet governance. Fellowships, open calls, capacity-building programs, public comment periods — we publish these widely, because we believe the more people who participate, the better the internet gets for everyone.