The ICANN85 Community Forum will be held from 7 to 12 March 2026 in Mumbai, India, with both in-person and online participation available. The meeting website is now live, and registration is open for all attendees. Participants planning to join on-site must register by 6 March 2026. As the final ICANN Public Meeting before the [...]

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) will hold its 125th meeting in Shenzhen, China, from 14 to 20 March 2026. The IETF Hackathon and IETF Codesprint take place on the weekend. Events to help new participants get the most out of IETF meetings begin on 15 March afternoon. IETF meetings are central to the organisation’s open standards development process. They provide [...]

The 2026 edition of the Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum, DRIF26, organised by Paradigm Initiative, will take place from 14 to 16 April 2026 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The Forum is designed as a multistakeholder platform, convening policymakers, government representatives, legislators, civil society organisations, non-governmental organisations, academia, members of the technical community, media professionals, innovators, [...]