i2Coalition Urges for Multi-Stakeholder Process in WSIS Review

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The Internet Infrastructure Coalition is one of 10 global organizations that recently petitioned the co-facilitators of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) to keep Internet policy negotiations open and collaborative for the 10-year review.

The next set of consultations on the WSIS process is March 11. The i2Coalition believes that the WSIS process creates a unique opportunity to ensure that the future of both is more synergistic. We envision an overall WSIS review that:

  • Renews and revives the international community’s commitment to the Geneva principles’ vision of a “people-centred, inclusive, development-oriented and non-discriminatory Information Society”;
  • Is firmly rooted in the international human rights framework and the multi-stakeholder tradition, which is at the heart of the Information Society;
  • Considers fully how private enterprise, especially SMEs, can help deliver a networked economy with the greatest benefits at the lowest cost for all, especially those who are in developing and least-developed countries and not yet online;
  • Learns from the last 10 years WSIS implementation and ensures future implementation is designed to helping the world deliver on the goals of the post-2015 development agenda.

[March 10]


i2Coalition Urges for Multi-Stakeholder Process in WSIS Review