WSIS Forum 2013 - I-Inform Alliance, Internet Governance Today (Global Knowledge Partnership Foundation; Not-For-Profit Operational Concerns Constituency; plus partners)

Andrei Barburas, CRSO/Information Officer at the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD), in The Hague, The Netherlands.

 

Internet Governance,(IG), has been likened to a country where 0.1% are in charge of 99.9% of the population. 99.9% of Information Technologies (IT) users are uninformed consumers. In the case of IG, the vast majority of IT users are completely ignorant even of its existence. The legitimacy and effectiveness of IG is in direct proportion to the ability to create general awareness and engagement of IT users. The biggest challenge for all those concerned with IG today is the lack of awareness and engagement of the vast majority of IT users. IG has to become a topic of common debate and interest for everybody like peace, the environment and climate change are today.

I-Inform is an alliance for collaborative large scale IG awareness building and engagement with IT users everywhere.

 

Day 4

16 May 2013

ITU/ Claudio Montesano Casillas

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