Internet : Who should manage the giant.

Pictures taken from http://www.ub.es/geocrit/sn/sn-270/sn-270-151b.htm and http://www.nro.net/governance/index2.html

Like all Internet began in an experimental mode, but as it grew was born the need for control by someone or something. This was the main topic in the World Summit on Information Society, WSIS (2003)).With these need it also arose the concept of Internet governance which is “the development and application by Governments, the private sector and civil society, in their respective roles, of shared principles, norms, rules, decision-making procedures, and programmes that shape the evolution and use of the Internet”.

The objective of this governance is to achieve a sustainable economic , social and institutional development, promoting a healthy balance between government, civil society and market economy.

The definition was not always as above; At first they wanted it to be describe as a mechanism for management of the network without boundaries, without direct government participation, known as "governance without government". All government was rejected. Everything worked to perfection according to the followers of this system

But there comes a time when the action of the providers and Internet users was not enough. With twentieth-century technological innovations like the telegraph or radio broadcasts government regulation became more than necessary

Immediately appeared people against this who feared that governments restrict the rights and freedoms of individuals-in particular the right to freedom of expression and the right to privacy "and introduce expensive procedures and long-term, lowering the speed of innovation in developing new services and Internet applications.

Internet is a very controversial topic and a place without borders where it is necessary that we should walk very carefully, and that just make a click can change the course of history

From all this emerges a huge debate: should we completely remove the governments of Internet governance? or else should we let them engage in a symbolic way to have a strong power in the network?

Here I upload a very interesting video of the evolution of Internet Governance