2019 年第四个月份,DotAsia 收到了中国工业和信息化部(MIIT)的好消息,.Asia 域名已获得中华人民共和国工业和信息化部(MIIT)的认证,.Asia 域名将再次在中国市场推出 。 中国是 .Asia 重要的服务市场,随着一带一路意味着互联互通,互相贸易丶互相分享,互相关爱,中华民族五千年文明史上从未如此跟世界紧密连接过,随着国际互联网增长迅速, 至2017年,全球互联网增长率稳定在30%左右,當中一帶一路沿线国家互联网增长迅速。其中孟加拉等国在2017年的增长率均超过了80%,越南的增长率甚至是217%,反映出一带一路沿线各国重视互联网建设,积极与全球接轨。而当中发展数字经济,促进经济创新和转型发展,已经成为全世界的共同选择,在这个不可逆转的时代潮流大趋势中,也就出現了数字丝绸之路,它的出現,好像将古代的丝绸之路注入活力,生氣勃勃地走向全球化。域名将会是全球化的必然产业,.asia 希望在中国这个域名大舞台上,为中国丶亚洲甚至世界各国不同的支持者丶建设者和受益者饰演联系全球的角色,配上一个.Asia 域名,体现一带一路共商丶共建丶共享的战略理念,打通数字丝路沿线区域商机。 Image credit: Designed by rawpixel.com / Freepik

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How I See it – Internet Blackout: Who Are You to Take Away My Rights

How I See it – Internet Blackout: Who Are You to Take Away My Rights

Have you experienced an Internet blackout? Such incidence might occur when a city is hit by natural disaster or facing cyberattack. The outage of Internet service experienced by the people of Myanmar recently did not happen because of any such reasons above however, but about politics.

In this episode, Edmon Chung, the CEO of DotAsia Organisation, and Angela Arkandhi, NetMission ambassador — a university student from Indonesia who is passionate about Internet governance and digital policy — are going to explore how the Internet shutdown refrains us from exercising our rights. What are the compromises between tackling the dissemination of false information and ensuring freedom of speech online? Is Internet shutdown not an open-air prison for those who are experiencing it?

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Asian American Sustenance

Asian American Sustenance

Asian American Food and Identity Food is a vital part of culture.  Through food we are joined via a shared experience.  It is a connection to our earliest memories, our heritage and some say, an intercultural communicator.  Asian American cuisines are a category onto...

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