The Internet Governance Coalition submitted input to the UN for the ongoing consultation on priorities for the Global Digital Compact, recognizing the following:
Read the IGC’s comments here.
During the past few years, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has been a battleground where governments promote rival visions of how the Internet should be governed. Although there has been a recent cease-fire as Internet governance debates have focused more on the role of ICANN, those skirmishes may soon restart at the ITU. Indeed, Internet-related…
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…
The Internet Governance Coalition recently submitted comments to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (“NTIA”) Notice of Inquiry on proposals and positions for the 2020 World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly. Read the IGC’s comments here.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 17, 2017 Internet Governance Coalition Supports the Nomination of David Redl for NTIA Administrator WASHINGTON— President Trump yesterday nominated David Redl to be the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information within the United States Department of Commerce and Administrator of the National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA). The NTIA is the Executive Branch…
Chairman John Thune Written Questions for the Record to Ambassador Gross “Preserving the Multistakeholder Model of Internet Governance.” Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation … [all questions]
