ITU:The future of the Internet under discussion in Wcit at Dubai
A UN agency,the International Telecommunications Union ( ITU) is preparing a new international telecoms treaty. At the heart of the debateis the control of relationships between operators and Web giants.They have twelve days to agree on a new version of the International Telecommunication Regulations, the ITR.
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The European Telecommunications network Operators Association (Etno)issuggesting it should be paid for providing subscriber content such as Youtube video access which is free today.There is also a perceived need to fight cyber crime and that member states should have equal rights to manage the Internet. Russia and China and Arab countries already control access to certain sites.The United states controls domain names.
In The ITU Dubai conference Google and the Mozilla Foundation, which developed the Firefox search engine are leading the fight against what they perceive asa threat to freedomof expression on the web.Hamadou Toure secretary-general of the UN's International Telecommunications Union said that action was needed to ensure investment in infrastructure to help more people access the net. The ITU thinks that access to the web is still for the priveleged few in the rich world andthe ITU wants to change this,the BBC reported.
The World Conference on International Telecommunications (Wcit) in Dubai marks the first time it has overseen changes in telecommunications regulations since 1988 and it denies that it wants to overseethe internet but there are many,Google and the Mozilla Foundation amongst them who are extremely suspicious of proposals,many of them still unpublished which are being raised at the ITU conference.
Vint Cerf ,the computer scientist who co-designed some of the internet's core underlying protocols warns that the "free and open net is under threat".
In The ITU Dubai conference Google and the Mozilla Foundation, which developed the Firefox search engine are leading the fight against what they perceive asa threat to freedomof expression on the web.Hamadou Toure secretary-general of the UN's International Telecommunications Union said that action was needed to ensure investment in infrastructure to help more people access the net. The ITU thinks that access to the web is still for the priveleged few in the rich world andthe ITU wants to change this,the BBC reported.
The World Conference on International Telecommunications (Wcit) in Dubai marks the first time it has overseen changes in telecommunications regulations since 1988 and it denies that it wants to overseethe internet but there are many,Google and the Mozilla Foundation amongst them who are extremely suspicious of proposals,many of them still unpublished which are being raised at the ITU conference.
Vint Cerf ,the computer scientist who co-designed some of the internet's core underlying protocols warns that the "free and open net is under threat".
Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/ITU-The-future-...