Internet Governance Coalition Bloomberg op-ed : “Walking the Talk: The Role of U.S. Leadership in the Wake of WCIT”
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Internet Governance Coalition Bloomberg op-ed : “Walking the Talk: The Role of U.S. Leadership in the Wake of WCIT”

During the past month, more has been written about December’s World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), hosted by the United Nation’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Dubai, than about any previous international telecoms treaty conference. And for good reason. Despite the fact that the nominal focus of the conference was to bring up-to-date a 1988…

Internet Governance Coalition Ambassador 2012 Testimony before House Committee on Energy and Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
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Internet Governance Coalition Ambassador 2012 Testimony before House Committee on Energy and Subcommittee on Communications and Technology

  In the United States, there has long been a bipartisan consensus supporting decentralized, multistakeholder mechanisms associated with Internet governance. This approach has been essential to the extraordinary success of the Internet as well as to counter the many international attempts during the past decade or so for centralized government imposed “top down” control over…