The 25 companies involved come from a broad range of sectors, including payment providers Visa and Nexi, carmakers Toyota and Mercedes and global healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline.
Just Net Coalition: There is an urgent need to establish legal regimes that assert the rights and ownership of people over their data, both individually and collectively.
Over the last three months of 2017, EFF has been representing the interests of Internet users and innovators at three very different global Internet governance meetings; ICANN, the Global Conference on Cyberspace (GCCS), and this week in Geneva, the global Internet Governance Forum (IGF). All of...
The Times of India said officials at the news conference "spoke at length about close cooperation between China and Russia, another Communist country, in pushing for the "cyber sovereignty" principal at the U.N. and other international bodies."
Preface
Chapter I. Opportunities and Challenges
Chapter II. Basic Principles 1.The Principle of Peace 2.The Principle of Sovereignty
3.The Principle of Shared Governance 4.The Principle of Shared Benefits
Chapter III. Strategic Goals 1. Safeguarding Sovereignty and Security
2. Developing A System of International Rules 3. Promoting Fair Internet Governance
4. Protecting Legitimate Rights and Interests of Citizens 5. Promoting Cooperation on Digital Economy 6. Building Platform for Cyber Culture Exchange
Chapter IV. Plan of Action 1. Peace and Stability in Cyberspace 2. Rule-based Order in Cyberspace 3. Partnership in Cyberspace 4. Reform of Global Internet Governance System 5. International Cooperation on Cyber Terrorism and Cyber Crimes
6. Protection of Citizens’ Rights and Interests Including Privacy 7. Digital Economy and Sharing of Digital Dividends 8. Global Information Infrastructure Development and Protection 9. Exchange of Cyber Cultures
Conclusion
Prepared by Michael Marien, August 2013
The Quest for Security: Protection Without Protectionism and the Challenge of Global Governance. Edited by Joseph E. Stiglitz (University Prof and co-chair, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia U) and Mary Kaldor (Prof of Global Governance and director, Human Security Research Unit, London School of Economics). NY: Columbia U Press, April 2013, 412p, $39.50.
"The grandfather of the Internet" Louis Pouzin backs the alternative DNS movement, with Open Root which wants to break ICANN's monopoly on top level domains
Guardian A new report wants to foster a digital age underpinned by human rights and calls for greater transparency from global giants. But will we ever trust the internet?
Julia Powles: "The report [from Chatham House etc. ] pushes what it calls a “social compact” – an invented term, not the philosophical concept of old. It reflects the frightening prospect that the new age bonds of society are not between citizens and states, but between citizens (likely, in the imagining of its proponents, to be self-employed cheap workers of the “sharing economy” and other fabricated markets) and a nebulous “community” of “stakeholders”. "