An Overview of TAWASOL Project

By Meher Bnouni, Ichrak Mars, Samar Baba Every great project starts in small steps. This year, IEEE SIGHT Tunisia has made its very first steps in the pilot project TAWASOL, shaping what is coming out to be as a milestone and a game changer in Tunisia. Throughout this year, we have been setting up a Read More

Improving Lives Together: an Internet Imperative

PCI co-founder Vint Cerf and our incoming Executive Director for PCI Dr. David Bray discussed the People Centered Internet at the international Data Summit in Ireland in June 2017. The discussion focused on advances in artificial intelligence and potential intersections with both policy as well as social initiatives in Europe, the U.S., and globally. Vint Read More

IEEE Global Internet Policy Monitor: 26 July 2017

Valuable coverage of significant current policy activities happening around the world in the sphere of internet technology is provided courtesy of IEEE. 26 July 2017 summary – IEEE Global Internet Policy Monitor – is available here. Read more summaries here.

How Identity Can Enable a People-Centered Internet

Understanding Identity through Function By Joe Andrieu This is the second of a regular column on Identity for the People Centered Internet. In the first column, I introduced the idea of Functional Identity as a way for ordinary people to discuss identity, with this definition: Identity is how we keep track of people and things, Read More

IEEE Global Internet Policy Monitor: 19 July 2017

Valuable coverage of significant current policy activities happening around the world in the sphere of internet technology is provided courtesy of IEEE. 19 July 2017 summary – IEEE Global Internet Policy Monitor – is available here. Read more summaries here.

IEEE Global Internet Policy Monitor: 12 July 2017

Valuable coverage of significant current policy activities happening around the world in the sphere of internet technology is provided courtesy of IEEE. 12 July 2017 summary – IEEE Global Internet Policy Monitor – is available here. Read more summaries here.

Tunisia’s Digital Inclusion Team: TAWASOL Enters the World Stage

By Meyer Bnouni, IEEE SIGHT Tunisia Secretary-General We live in a world ruled by interconnectivity where everything must evolve together. Scientists and engineers, once confined to their labs, are now bringing new dimensions to their work, taking into account political, economic, social and ethical considerations. One of the occasions during which such synergistic interactions and collaborations Read More