Why the Internet Governance debate is repetitive and what the UN could do about it
The past 10 years of the international Internet governance
debate must have reminded some observers of the 1993 movie "Groundhog
Day" - the same protagonists making the same arguments in a seemingly
perpetual cycle.
In case you went on holiday and missed it: holidays have
been cancelled this Summer. Well, if you work on telecomms policy issues in
Brussels that is.
In February this year the European Commission fired
the starting gun on work on a single market for telecommunications. In what
is record time for a large organisation such as the European Commission it
produced a first draft for internal consultation in early July. With the
deadline for comments on 26th July, this leaves little time for, er, holidays
before a planned adoption by the College of Commissioners on 10th September.
Bureaucracy moving at Internet speed? May well be.
