The Indian government has drummed support
for multistakeholder model of Internet Governance, at the opening ceremony of 53rd
public meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, reports ITRealms.
Speaking through the Minister of
Communications and Information Technology, Ravi Shankar Prasad, India said it
supports the multistakeholder model of Internet governance, because Internet
must remain plural and managed by a multistakeholder system.
“Not only do we support
multistakeholderism, but also we encourage multistakeholderism itself to
embrace all geographies and all societies. We will partner with you all to make
this a reality. We must work toward this new form of digital democracy,” he
said.
ITRealms
recalls that on March 14, 2014, the United States Government proclaimed intent
to transition its stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
functions to the global multistakeholder community. Minister Prasad’s statement
of support marks not only an important milestone for the transition, but also
speaks to the continued success of the multistakeholder model.
Equally speaking, ICANN President
and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Fadi Chehadé noted that today, with India
joining this group of countries that openly support the multistakeholder model
of Internet governance, will increase ICANN
ranking significantly.
“The decision that was made by India
is a significant decision” ICANN president said.
ICANN is a
nonprofit organization responsible for the coordination of
maintenance and methodology of several databases of unique identifiers related to the namespaces of
the Internet, by ensuring network's stability and secured operation.
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