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The United States will oppose attempts to create a "supranational regulatory body" for the Internet during a planned December 2012 meeting of the International Telecommunications Union, said Larry Read more...

Authoritarian governments use public network interference as a governance tool, and while authoritarian regimes conduct shutdowns with greater frequency, democracies actually participate in more Read more...

Deterrence, as an enforceable strategy, has been much more difficult to understand in cyberspace than in the kinetic domain, said Dmitri Alperovitch, an Internet security researcher and vice Read more...

Virtual currencies and an increase in electronic banking are making it harder for governments to trace illicit financial transactions, warns a paper published Aug. 29 by the Brookings Institute. The Read more...

Social media will cause a decentralization of presidential campaigns during the coming election year, said Mindy Finn, a Republican political operative during a June 28 event held at the Brookings Read more...

Cyber Czar Howard Schmidt said four guiding principals lie behind White House Internet policymaking: Deterrence, resilience, privacy and partnerships. Schmidt spoke Dec. 6 at an event hosted by the Read more...

The White House is getting ready in the next few days to release guidance that will promote electronic dockets for rulemaking, said Cass Sunstein, administrator of OMB's Office of Information and Read more...

Congressional websites are generally mediocre even if they tend to perk up in quality during an election year, states a new paper printed in a Brookings Institution newsletter. Based on the Read more...

Standards around cloud computing and processes to ease cloud adoption by federal agencies are taking shape, say government officials. It's easy to get "wrapped around the abstraction of cloud Read more...

Even as private-sector enterprises gain efficiencies and cost savings from cloud computing, cloud strategies continue to present challenges for government, said Federal Chief Information Officer Read more...