From the article: "Since its infancy, the Internet has benefited from a lightweight and
decentralized approach to governance—a combination of targeted government
regulation, technical coordination by companies, and a number of formal and
informal multistakeholder organizations to help guide the Internet’s
development, such as the IETF, W3C, and the IGF, just to name a
few.
Typically, these multistakeholder organizations
include technologists, academic experts, and civil society representatives, as
well as governments and corporate voices. … But this framework is not set in
stone. … A diverse group of civil society organizations and academics in
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Egypt, the EU, India, Kenya, Pakistan, the US
and beyond have come together to request, in the form of an open letter, more
transparency from the ITU and its Member States as it considers proposals that
could give it power to regulate the Internet. … The letter states:
“The continued success of the information society depends on the full,
equal, and meaningful participation of civil society stakeholders (along side
the private sector, the academic and technical community, and governments)…such
participation depends on transparency and openness of process at every stage of
substantive and procedural dialogue.” "Read more
See also
Wong, Cynthia. "ITU Discussions Must Be Opened." Center for Democracy and Technology, May 17, 2012.
