Perfect Constance, let me be a little critic and defend more the cause about Internet Community Providers (ICPs) as a good practice and solution for connecting the next billion.

 

1º - In the context about multistakeholder internet governance we will have a network infrastructure that are will be created in collaborative mode, with synergies and the focus in quality, netneutrality privacy and other principles that the citizens wants guarantee.

 

2º - Instead of InternetOrg, Googles fibers/loon etc, we will have an infrastructure managed in the last mile by the communities following rules and principles created democratically and nothing prevents that others players can join to this initiatives even facebook and google just need to change the goals of those networks to align with the desires of the communities principles and rules.

 

3º - Digital cities and after this smart cities/smart citizens are the perfect combination with ICPs, in truth ICPs is a fraction of the digital city, align with another level of multistakeholder internet governance in city councils created in the same rules with all parts of the local society.  Its important that this group recommends to the countries governments to create laws that guarantee this king of policy management with democracy and sustainability.

 

4º -  Synergy is the word to create the networks that we need to reduce or even eliminate the digital divide by using the governments and market to build networks that could be used in a shared way (market, governments, academy and communities). It is true that the internets economy impacts positively in GDP and if we want to resolve the problems of the scarcity of the access we will need to put aside the old model to sell only access and join that parts that really want to put down this kind of social and digital exclusion to build and maintain those networks all together.  What will make the sector of telecom providers profitable will not more selling internet access but what are running above it.  Its important to say that its not allowed data caps, zero rating and anything that breaks netneutrality or creates business models that hurts the consumer rights or even creates another kind of exclusion.

 

Finally I rewrote our proposal and the summary in English to IGF's document but I think that this email never got read when i sent. but no problem i send now again and let's keep walking

 

 

 

Atenciosamente,
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Marcelo Saldanha
Instituto Bem Estar Brasil - OSCIP
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