ICANN Independence, Seven Years On?

On  Thursday February 23 2023  at  11:00-12:30 EST  (16:00-17:30 UTC) the  Columbia Institute for Tele-Information , as part of its  Global Digital Governance series , presents a webinar ‘ ICANN Independence, Seven Years On? ‘. 2023 marks 25 years since  ICANN ‘s founding in 1998, and 7 years since the  2016 IANA transition  made it a free-standing organization that is accountable primarily to its multistakeholder community. The panel will consider such questions as: the transition’s geopolitical, interest group, and institutional consequences; the implementation of ICANN’s accountability fram…