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WEBCAST MAR 19 – The WTO’s Digital Trade Negotiations in the Wake of its 13th Ministerial Conference. Clion on this link to access it. I attended the following remotely on Tuesday March 19, 2024, at 11:00-12:30 EDT the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, as part...

As discussed in earlier posts, we are encouraging students and Somali IT community to take Ai and Blockchain innovation seriously. This is a very fast developing area with a lot of protentional in many sectors. To promote this idea, we are now launching a competition....

The following are courses that are available to all and the Chapter encourages its members and the community at large to take advantage of this opportunity and to do these courses. Visit this site and please enrol to these free courses. To succeed as leaders in...

INTERNET SOCIETY SOMALIA CHAPTER STATEMENT ON THE RUPTURE OF OPTICAL FIBER SUBMARINE CABLES. Many in Somalia are feeling intermittent stressed internet access outages and without clear explanation many are working on their access points, or their equipment, etc....

In this post we want to share with you the following two important items. The Chapter founder was in Mogadishu assessing the status of the chapter and the following have been decided. To fast track the election process, and to give opportunity to members of the...

Calling for NextGen@ICANN Applications for ICANN80 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is calling for applications for the NextGen@ICANN Program for the ICANN80 Policy Forum. ICANN wants to hear from university...

Thanks for the emails and feedback from our webinar. The Chapter was recently busy in internal review and we will update and share the outcome of this review soon. We would like to invite you all to attend the AfPIF 2023: The African Peering and Interconnection...

The responses from the survey that we launched, see Chapter Activities... have your say. - som-isoc.org, confirms the need for digital education and education in general. Based on that feedback, we have decided to focus on activities related to digital literacy, and...

The note from our Chapter president ( https://som-isoc.org/chapter-activities-have-your-say/) has generated a lot of responses and a summary of the emails we have received shows an interest in community networks, encryption, digital literacy, and informing the...

Download In our last meeting, we discussed what activities the Chapter should focus on and I would like to share the outcome of that discussion with you and also to allow you (those who did not attend the meeting) to have a say. It seems there is a great deal of...