Briefing on the Challenges of Internet Policy Governance in 2025 | Webinar | 4 March 2025

Briefing on the Challenges of Internet Policy Governance in 2025

In 2024, the Russian-originated Cybercrime Convention was adopted, despite the global private sector openly calling for states not to do so. Russia made clear during the adoption this is only the first stage in creating international legal agreements that would create increasing legal risk for OECD country multinationals to trade throughout emerging markets.

In 2025 several processes at the UN will have far reaching implications on governance of digital technologies.

• Will the world start down a path leading to governments deciding who can connect to the Internet and under what circumstances (review of the World Summit on the Information Society);
• Whether the norms of AI governance will be driven by governments, or shared decision-making with stakeholders (UNGA negotiation of mandate and ToR for the Global Dialogue on AI);
• Whether the world’s first global scientific panel on AI will be government-centric or a science-driven collaboration between governments and stakeholders (UNGA negotiation of mandate and ToR for the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI).
• Whether stakeholders will have a meaningful role in decisions on global cybersecurity policy.

Join us for an exclusive update and conversation about these critical issues and what that means for key private sector priorities. Register to receive the Teams meeting invite.

Nick Ashton-Hart is Senior Director of Digital Economy Policy at APCO, UN Representative of the Cybersecurity Tech Accord,  and a member of the ICC Global Digital Economy Commission.