This is my first newsletter of 2024, and it’s a long one. I look forward to writing more during the year. I won’t promise they will be sent on a strict schedule, but I’m setting an overall goal to get back into the rhythm of writing these long-form posts here and in newsletter form for this year’s subscribers list.
Enjoy, and let me know your thoughts by email or on Mastodon.
I wanted to expand upon our thoughts on the research question for our proposal at the Stanford Internet Observation Center.
To recap, the research question is:
What key factors constrain the development of online safety skills in the Caribbean? Does uneven technology adoption in the Caribbean affect the vulnerability to online harms, what role does early education have in mitigating them, and do current multistakeholder collaboration initiatives have a significant effect?
Internet governance training and being spied on by Meta I started a new training course from the Virtual School of Internet Governance this week. Over the next ten weeks, I’ll read, watch and learn more about the Internet and the structures and people behind its governance. I already know a fair amount, some of it from the fact that I was on the internet very early through a university account in London around ’89/’90.
Following on from the announcement we made relating to the research proposal, the next bit of news is that we have submitted our final proposal.🙌🥳
Proposals of this type are actually more challenging to write than you think. They often come with constraints, and this one was no exception. We had only two pages of plain text in a traditional font like Times New Roman, at size 12. That turns out to be around 800 or so words.
If you’re interested, last month, I presented a case study on CBDCs in the Caribbean for an UNCTAD training course (Legal Aspects of eCommerce). The video is up and available here. Reach out if you’d like to discuss.