(25 Apr 2014) An international two-day conference in Brazil came to a close late on Thursday with a call for an effective, legitimate and evolving framework for Internet governance.
During the two days of the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance, or NETmundial, government officials, academics and technical experts from some 90 countries met in Sao Paulo to debate how the Internet should be run.
Cyber-security expert Jacob Appelbaum called for the end of mass surveillance by nations.
"There must be accountability and that democratic nations must not get a free pass on it," said Appelbaum, who has drawn on the files of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden to illustrate some of the ways in which the NSA could allegedly tap into computers.
Appelbaum is a core member of the Tor project, a free software network designed to provide online anonymity.
The meeting's final statement welcomed the US government's recent announcement that it plans to turn over the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, known as ICANN, which manages the core functions of the Internet, to a "global multi-stakeholder community" once its contract with the US Commerce Department expires in 2015.
The NETmundial conference was seen as an effort to chart a path for a less US-centric Internet.
The conference's final document said "mass and arbitrary surveillance undermines trust in the Internet."
However, it added that "more dialogue is needed on this topic."
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