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Could Brazil become the leader in Internet governance?

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Vincent
AutorClaudio Ruiz
Páginas121-123

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See note 47

One of the surprises of the last Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was the emergence of Brazil as a country that could potentially overshadow U.S. dominance in these issues. However, the doubts of making concrete changes to the model persist.

As expected, no representative of the government of Chile attended the 8th version of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) held in October on the island of Bali, Indonesia. This was to be expected not only because of the poor, or rather nonexistent, digital strategy of president Piñera, but more so because, strictly speaking, a representative of Chile has never attended this meeting organized by the United Nations, where government emissaries hold discussions on equal terms with the private sector and civil society about the issues and challenges of the regulation of Internet governance.

As was also to be expected, the agenda for this year was intense and mainly focused on aspects related to security, privacy and Human Rights. The irst, a ‘classic’ topic for those who have been following this forum since the beginning, acquired greater importance after the revelations made this year by Edward Snowden, who unveiled the dubious activities of online surveillance on behalf of the U.S. government, putting in check much of the infrastructure on which the Internet rests or at least as we know it.

With regard to privacy and Human Rights, both were analyzed with reference to Snowden’s revelations, although they have also been key elements of the discussion on Internet governance in the past. Unlike previous years, this was the irst time that the discussion of Human Rights in the digital environment was treated with particular relevance, as part of an entire section of the program, and having, for the irst time, a plenary session specially dedicated to the subject.

Nevertheless, there were two large "elephants in the room" present throughout many of the IGF discussions.

First, the tension between those who argue that the best form of Internet governance is one that seeks to maintain, with some variation, its current

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state, focusing on ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers): a model known as multistakeholder, which is controlled in a way that is usually considered benevolent by the more naive analysts of the U.S. Government. On the other hand, there is increasing pressure from a number of countries – some with questionable Human Rights records such as China and...

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