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Internet Openness for an Open Internet Governance

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AutorAnriette Esterhuysen
Ocupação do AutorExecutive director of the Association for Progressive Communications established in 1990
Páginas147-149
147The Value of Internet Openness in Times of Crisis
First, I would like to congratulate the editors and the authors of this very
important volume on the value of Internet openness in times of crisis. The
reflections contained in this volume come at a historical moment where
reliance on an open and inclusive Internet is more widely shared and under-
stood than ever before. Internet governance, policy and regulation needs to re-
spond to this moment.
WHY IS INTERNET OPENNESS RELEVANT?
Internet openness has been at the root of the idea of an “Internet for all” that en-
ables access to information, innovation and expression, provided one can con-
nect to it. It conveys the idea of the Internet as a platform for inclusion, for people
to tell their stories, connect to one another,, participate, and create content and
services. This openness has shaped the Internet into a platform that has grown
beyond the expectations of those who first conceptualised and developed it.
It is through this notion of openness that the Internet has the ability to cross
borders, languages, and all traditional barriers of identity and nationality. For a
long time the openness of the Internet created the preconditions for it to be in-
clusive. Its openness made the Internet into an "interconnected network" both
technically, at the level of interoperability of protocols, systems and applications,
but also at a more human, people-to-people level.
POSTFACE
Anriette Esterhuysen
Internet Openness for an Open
Internet Governance
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