UN thinks what will happen to the Internet
The Forum on Internet Governance (Internet Governance Forum) under the auspices of the UN will convene on its first meeting on October 30. On the agenda are many aspects of the future of the world wide web.
The Internet Governance Forum is an international organization created in early 2006 and replacing the Working Group on Internet Governance. The Forum Secretariat is headed by Markus Kummer. The main objectives of the organization are “discussing public policy issues related to key elements of Internet governance in order to help ensure the viability, operational reliability, security, stability and development of the Internet and facilitate dialogue between bodies dealing with various cross-cutting issues of international public policy regarding the Internet.”
Already this week, Forum participants will hold the first meeting to solve the organizational issues of the meeting. It will be fully accessible to the network public: those who wish can follow the Forum through webcasts and an official blog . The meeting will discuss issues of security, access to the network, freedom of speech, phishing, combating child pornography, control over the Internet.
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Nitin Desai, appointed chairman of the first meeting of the Forum, in a published webcast says that the World Wide Web is too young, many still do not understand what can and should be done with it. He compares the controversy over Internet governance with the controversy over the chemical composition of ink and the appearance of paper in the days when the printer was invented.
“In fact, the importance of the printer as an invention was, of course, not the case. And apparently, when we argue about the Internet, we put not the questions that would need to be posed and solved. But they will certainly appear, ”Desai says. - “This is a very young technology. It takes time to get on the right track. ”
Desai also notes that the Internet has greatly helped the countries of the former Yugoslavia and Iraq to provide information. “We should not underestimate the role of the Internet in the democratization of access to information, as well as in political mobilization.”
Commenting on the disputes over the openness of the Internet and the possibility of control over it, Desai says that such disputes have been and always will be: the very nature of power and governments has a desire to control, prohibit, restrict the freedom of citizens.
The new organization, according to its representatives, will help the development of discussions and finding compromises on one or another controversial issues. It remains to be hoped that the next structure, which has no decision-making powers and is designed to “intensify discussions,” will somehow help the governments of different countries to learn something new about what to do with “this Internet”.
The Internet Governance Forum is an international organization created in early 2006 and replacing the Working Group on Internet Governance. The Forum Secretariat is headed by Markus Kummer. The main objectives of the organization are “discussing public policy issues related to key elements of Internet governance in order to help ensure the viability, operational reliability, security, stability and development of the Internet and facilitate dialogue between bodies dealing with various cross-cutting issues of international public policy regarding the Internet.”
Already this week, Forum participants will hold the first meeting to solve the organizational issues of the meeting. It will be fully accessible to the network public: those who wish can follow the Forum through webcasts and an official blog . The meeting will discuss issues of security, access to the network, freedom of speech, phishing, combating child pornography, control over the Internet.
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Nitin Desai, appointed chairman of the first meeting of the Forum, in a published webcast says that the World Wide Web is too young, many still do not understand what can and should be done with it. He compares the controversy over Internet governance with the controversy over the chemical composition of ink and the appearance of paper in the days when the printer was invented.
“In fact, the importance of the printer as an invention was, of course, not the case. And apparently, when we argue about the Internet, we put not the questions that would need to be posed and solved. But they will certainly appear, ”Desai says. - “This is a very young technology. It takes time to get on the right track. ”
Desai also notes that the Internet has greatly helped the countries of the former Yugoslavia and Iraq to provide information. “We should not underestimate the role of the Internet in the democratization of access to information, as well as in political mobilization.”
Commenting on the disputes over the openness of the Internet and the possibility of control over it, Desai says that such disputes have been and always will be: the very nature of power and governments has a desire to control, prohibit, restrict the freedom of citizens.
The new organization, according to its representatives, will help the development of discussions and finding compromises on one or another controversial issues. It remains to be hoped that the next structure, which has no decision-making powers and is designed to “intensify discussions,” will somehow help the governments of different countries to learn something new about what to do with “this Internet”.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4527/
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