Open Internet --- Indeed. Openness has both a technological meaning (that the Internet is open for any kind of innovation or content at its ends) and a political meaning (that it thus enables freedoms for innovations, expression, diversity, etc).

The 'East' has been pushing back on this concept since the WSIS (Tunis Agenda, for instance, doesn't contain reference to open Internet). Now, agreements between the sides increasingly contain the reference to open Internet/ICT environment. But, the way parties understand this term - and particularly the East - is not fully clear/elaborated.

Source author: Vladimir Radunovic vladar@diplomacy.edu