We invite applications from members who are interested in joining the IIC Board of Directors. The IIC Board anticipates proposing a slate of three new directors for election at the AGM in November 2024, which will take place in Bangkok, Thailand. This represents a new cadence for IIC board service and an opportunity to refresh… [Read More]
News
Regulatory Watch – July 2024
Round-up of the latest news Meta could be forced to carry news in Australia Malaysia introduces new license for social media platforms Microsoft blames EU blame for outage Digital trade deal reached without US UK Online Safety director departs OpenAI launches SearchGPT See more
IIC Australian Chapter Supports Student Paper Competition
We are pleased to congratulate Cameron McTernan, a PhD student at the University of South Australia, who won the recent Global Media and Internet Connection Project symposium student paper competition sponsored by the IIC Australian Chapter. You can read a copy of Cameron’s winning paper here: Source and Exposure Diversity of Australian News on Facebook…. [Read More]
IIC Future Leaders Competition 2024
A competition, supported by members of the IIC, to encourage and promote original thought in the areas of communications and policy What do you need to do? Entrants are asked to produce an essay, submitted electronically, on the following topic: A green and digital ‘twin transition’ is underway but can both targets be met? What… [Read More]
Regulatory Watch – June 2024
Round-up of the latest news Microsoft accused of Teams antitrust violation California AI Bill AI companies should be spending ‘one third of resources’ on safety US government bans sale of Kaspersky software Apple charged with breaching EU competition rules ‘Upload monitoring’ proposed to unlock Child Sexual Abuse regulation BEREC issues draft report on M2M and… [Read More]
Regulatory Watch – May 2024
Round-up of the latest news US plans to help connect 80 per cent of Africa Large language models ‘will not reach human intelligence’ Microsoft unbundles Teams globally to avert antitrust concerns EU approves Act designed to increase domestic green tech production AI is more hyped than used but people are optimistic, finds study See more