- Dec 2021
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COVID-19 crisis has accelerated existing inequalities and discriminations posing the fundamental threats to democracy.
The UN guiding principles for business should be applied to internet. It should help development of 'social contract' and make companies contribute to human-centered and responsible technological development.
IGF should play a critical role in develpment of the different governance frameworks.
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The underlying theme is how to preserve open and interoperable Internet. ISOC developed Internet Impact Assessment Toolkit in order to, at least, preserve open Internet and, at best, to make it thriving.
The Toolkit has three properties supporting open internet: accessible infrastructure with a common protocol, open architecture of interoperable and reusable building blocks, a decentralised management and a distributed routing system, common global identifiers, a technologically neutral, general-purpose network.
Interoperability supports market competition by avoiding locking users in one platform. While technical solutions are important, it is not enough to preserve open internet. Smart regulation is needed.
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