Policy Brief #54 / 2024
Policy Brief #54 / 2024
BRICS has successfully fulfilled its role as an international negotiating platform. For over a decade of its existence, member states have made hundreds of decisions on key issues on the agenda. The most general list of issues discussed within the framework ...
... Arab Emirates and Ethiopia.
Digital cooperation is one of the critical and most sought-after issues within BRICS. The agenda had taken shape as an independent area by 2015 through the efforts of Russia, whose initiatives in the field of international information security were not limited to BRICS but also have been supported at the UN level for many years. In 2015, the first meeting of BRICS communications ministers was held in Moscow, where the priorities of multilateral ICT collaboration
were articulated
for the first time. The list of ...
... mostly ignored the interests of the developing world. Voices from the Global South would grant recognition and support to the BRICS multilateral initiatives, among which might be the reform of some of the key Internet governance institutions including ... ... Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and the Internet Society, making them more transparent and accountable.
Also, the information security agenda might flourish without direct interference from the Western parties which intend to keep their privileged ...