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NETmundial and the future of Internet governance

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AutorMarília Maciel
Páginas128-132

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See note 50

The Internet governance regime is going through a moment of reevaluation and changes. Under the Unites Nations, several meetings will be held in preparation to the review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+10), which will take place in 2015.

1 A geopolitical shift and the role of Brazil

In parallel, the United States government announced its willingness to transfer the stewardship of the IANA functions, particularly of its unilateral oversigt over the root zone ile (a server that is the base for the functioning of the domain name system) to the multistakeholder community. In the

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midst of these processes, the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance (NETmundial), convened by the Brazilian government, was an important milestone.

The fact that a developing country took the lead on these discussions is a symptom of a shifting balance among governmental actors. The United States lost its moral high ground after Snowden’s revelations, creating a relative vacuum of leadership. Therefore, there are political conditions to promote the redistribution of power in the regime in favor of developing nations and to try to move forward issues that have been stalled. Those seem to have been the goals of the Brazilian government when it decided to convene NETmundial.

The meeting was also marked by visible lack of coordination among BRICS countries on Internet issues. Russia heavily criticized NETmudial and did not accept the inal document. India was more moderate and afirmed that the country could not endorse the document as a whole, although it contained many positive aspects. The meeting happened in the moment in which Brazil has established a positive dialogue with European countries, particularly with Germany, on Internet Governance issues. The problem of mass surveillance brought them together, but the collaboration is being extended to areas such as privacy and infrastructure.

In the institutional debate, Brazil argues for the need to conciliate multilateral and multistakeholder arrangements. The country defends the creation of a centralized platform to discuss public policy issues, with the full participation of all stakeholders, on the understanding that "fragmentation of policy spaces, among other factors, greatly undermines the ability of under resourced groups to engage with global Internet governance, because they are unable to be present in all places". Brazil did...

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