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ICANN leaders push for broad-based Internet governance |
November 20, 2013
An Internet governance model that includes businesses and civil-society groups in the decision-making process remains the best approach, despite a push from some countries for a more government-centric model, officials with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said.ICANN will talk about the "immense success" of the current multistakeholder model in an April Internet governance conference in Brazil, ICANN President and CEO Fadi Chehadé said during a press conference at an ICANN meeting in Buenos Aires.Brazil's leaders have been pushing for the United Nations to take over some Internet governance functions from ICANN, but the U.N. has an "intergovernmental approach" to issues that doesn't include as much input from nongovernmental organizations, Chehadé said Wednesday.ICANN this week announced a new panel that will address concerns about Internet governance. People in government, civil society, the private sector, the technical community and international organizations will be part of the panel, ICANN said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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