Technology

Client mindset takes centre stage under new ICC Court President Claudia Salomon

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Claudia Salomon made history on 1 July 2021 becoming the first female President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, the world’s foremost international arbitral institution. Ms Salomon spoke to Barry Fletcher, Head of Arbitration at LexisNexis® UK, about her first weeks in the role, her commitment to diversity and inclusion, and how she intends to build on the successes of her predecessor to ensure a client-focused mindset for the ICC Court and ICC Arbitration.

Effective technology development and deployment is key to meeting climate change

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The development and global deployment of advanced low emissions technologies to address climate change will require appropriate institutional frameworks, intellectual property rights protection, and innovative funding mechanisms, ICC told the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

ICC works to close digital divide through Global Alliance

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ICC Secretary General Guy Sebban recently joined UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Intel Chairman Craig Barrett to set objectives for the UN Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development (GAID) at the initiative's steering committee meeting in New York.

Fragmented domain names could destabilize Internet, ICC warns

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The International Chamber of Commerce today warned that designs by China and other countries to create their own domain name systems in Letters Digits Hyphen (LDH) for locating data on the Internet exposes the Internet to new risks that could destabilize it if technical and logistical issues are not urgently addressed.