Thanks Mamadou LO for this update.

Peter O. Adeleye

On 2017-12-15 19:47, Mamadou LO wrote:
> SUMMARY
> 
> This week, after the United States Federal Communications Commission
> [1] voted Thursday to repeal net neutrality [2] regulations imposed in
> 2015.
> 
> On e-commerce, hopes that World Trade Organization members would fix
> an all-party deal on e-commerce during its Eleventh Ministerial
> Conference (MC11) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, were dashed as the
> meeting closed on Wednesday.
> 
> On artificial Intelligence, Google announced Wednesday that it will
> open a new artificial intelligence research center in Beijing despite
> the U.S. search giant’s exclusion from the country’s internet.
> 
> On Child online protection, "governments and the private sector have
> not kept up with the game-changing pace of digital technologies,
> exposing children to new risks and harms – both on and offline –
> and leaving millions of the most disadvantaged behind, the United
> Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF [3]) said Monday in a new report".
> 
> On cyber geopolitics, Russia could pose a major threat to the UK and
> other Nato nations by cutting underwater cables essential for
> international commerce and the internet, the chief of the British
> defence staff, Sir Stuart Peach, has warned.
> On infrastructure, Google announced that it will invest in a new
> subsea cable that will connect Singapore to Perth and Sydney in
> Australia (with a branch to Jakarta, Indonesia).
> 
> The growing volume of electronic waste, including discarded products
> with a battery or plug, such as mobile phones, laptops, televisions,
> refrigerators and electrical toys, poses a major threat to the
> environment and human health, the United Nations warned on Wednesday.
> 
> Also, more announcement on the the 2017 Internet Governance Forum
> sponsored by the United Nations (UN) which will be held at the UN's
> European headquarters, the Palais des Nations in Geneva, from Dec. 18
> to 21.
> 
> Below, informations on those subjects and events as well as documents
> on data protection, surveillance..
> 
> Regards
> 
>  Find review and sources here
> http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profiles/blogs/ig-weekly-brief-fcc-vote-to-repeal-net-neutrality-un-on
> 
> 
> Links:
> ------
> [1] 
> http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/us/federal-communications-commission.htm
> [2] http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/issues/net-neutrality.htm
> [3] http://www.unicef.org/