WEBCAST TODAY: Does the UN Want to Take Over the Internet? @RSI w/ Larry Strickling @InternetSociety, Fiona Alexander @NTIAgov, + Milton Mueller @IGPAlert
Today, Monday April 9 2018 at 9am EDT (13:00 UTC) the Internet Society Livestream Channel will webcast R Street Institute‘s panel Does the UN Want to Take Over the Internet? which was held at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington DC on March 30 2018. The ITU’s Plenipotentiary Conference this fall will bring the spotlight back to Internet governance. How will the ITU affect American interests in the future? How do the IANA transition and recent ICANN decisions influence the diplomatic landscape? Panelists: Milton Mueller: Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy; Director Internet Governance Project; Fiona Alexander: Associate Administrator of Office of International Affairs, National Telecommunications and Information Administration; Larry Strickling: Executive Director, Collaborative Gove. Moderator: Joe Kane, R Street Institute.
Watch on Livestream: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/rstreet (open captions)
Twitter: @RSI + ITU
Andrea Romaoli Garcia 8:43 am on 04/09/2018 Permalink |
From my point of view, I don’t believe the UN wants to take over the internet.
And indeed, the way is another.
It wants to ensure that the Internet is broad, secure and integrated because freedom of communication embodies human rights and increases wealth.
Freedom of communication guarantees a globalized world and that is the solution to reduce poverty.
And it will not happen without internet broad access.
But a concern for ITU has been the monopoly.
No country can have internet monopoly
So I see that dual root for DNS should always be a reason for surveillance.
IF ICANN has the Internet in hand this is correct because the principles within ICANN are in the same sense as the United Nations and there is a collective conscience to the detriment of monopolizing powers.
There is no competition between UN, ICANN and ITU , but there is cooperation.
Governance is done through cooperation and this achieves humanitarian ends without being an obstacle to corporate profits.