GOING FORWARD: NETmundial will map out best practices for resolving complex problems, ranging from online privacy to Internet taxation and leverage the Internet's own models of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding to devise action plans.
FRANKFURT: Responding to a dizzying array of issues that threaten to break the Internet, from privacy to tax dodging to cybercrime, a group of the world's leading governance organisations say greater user involvement, not top-down control, is needed.
Three organisations — Brazil's Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br), Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) — said they were setting up a new group to find solutions to Internet governance issues, instead of waiting for governments to agree.
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