[Chapter-delegates] Internet Kill Switch - the Costs

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

This week I gave a talk at a conference on Internet and Democracy in
Kiev, Ukraine.
It was a general presentation, touching on many points and various
aspects of Internet Governance.

I therefore emphasized the following points (speaking on my own behalf
and not on behalf of ICANN At-Large):

- what is a multi-stakeholder governance process?
- what is the Internet model?
- what is ICANN?
- how is it structured?
- how is it multi-stakeholder bottom-up?
- Structure of GNSO
- Structure of At-Large
- The End-User principle (no filtering)
- The Internet is changing the world of business
- The Internet is changing the world
- The Internet economic weight on GDP
- how do you create a business climate which will take advantage of the
Internet?
- Join multi-stakeholder governance processes!
- An Internet Kill Switch is a Kill Switch for your economy

I linked the use of tough Internet controls with economics by explaining
that the Internet industry has thrived in the most open Internet
governance environments, the UK being one example.

The cartoon at the end of the Powerpoint presentation is a clear message
to avoid a kill switch.

Presentation slides are on:

http://www.slideshare.net/ocl999/multi-stakeholder-governance

I am told that a TV record of the talk has been taken, but the camera was very far and I gather that the audio is probably dubbed in Ukrainian. No transcript that I know of.

I hope that this will inspire everyone to follow the line that an Internet Kill Switch is a very bad idea indeed.

Kind regards,

Olivier

-- 
Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
http://www.gih.com/ocl.html