... approach to the Internet governance is regularly
criticized
is its bias in favor of the interests of Western nations and large IT companies.
Amid such conditions, the Ukrainian crisis has turned out to be a stress-test for the established practices of Internet governance. Each level of the Internet (infrastructure, routing, apps, content) has its own stakeholders in charge of decision-making: while
certain decisions
made by foreign social networks and services in terms of content prompted Russia to restrict or block their operations in ...
... the internal affair of each country. Indeed, every country has the right to regulate Internet business on its territory, and in some cases, the government actively utilizes this right. This practice is not unusual. However, the global processes of the Internet, including Internet governance, are based on the principle of collective management, which is referred to in English as ‘multistakeholders’. All interested parties participate in decision-making to ensure the effective functioning of the Internet. This ...
... statement
: “We look forward to ICANN (Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) convening stakeholders across the global Internet community to craft an appropriate transition plan”. The statement emphasized the multi-stakeholder model of Internet governance that implies the administration of the Internet by other international actors apart from states.
The next conference of the ITU in 2014 revealed differences on the issue again.
Representatives of the US delegation
expressed hope that the vote on the question of the Internet governance would ...
