Governments and international institutions should ensure that decision-making activities relating...
Governments and international institutions should ensure that decision-making activities relating to Internet governance be open and inclusive to all stakeholders, said an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) official at a meeting of the U.N. Commission on Science and Technology for…
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Development in Paris. The World Summit on the Information Society-Tunis Agenda, signed by heads of state in 2005, recognized the “critical role of all relevant stakeholders on issues of Internet governance,” said Subramaniam Ramadorai, chair of the ICC’s Business Action to Support the Information Society. “The forward-looking agenda established a new multistakeholder process for Internet governance, which helped to establish it as a model for global Internet policy development.” He said cooperation among agencies and organizations on Internet governance can be done through “existing frameworks.” Creating new “entities and processes” would be “counterproductive,” he said.