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Date: 2015-02-09 17:35 GMT+01:00
Subject: [ALAC-Announce] ICANN News Alert -- Global Tech Leaders Reaffirm
Commitment to Multistakeholder Model of Internet Governance
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   [image: ICANN] <http://www.icann.org/> News Alert

https://www.icann.org/resources/press-material/release-2015-02-09-en
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Global Tech Leaders Reaffirm Commitment to Multistakeholder Model of
Internet Governance ICANN's 52nd Meeting Kicks Off in Singapore

9 February 2015

*Singapore…*Singapore's Minister of Communications and Information, Dr.
Yaacob bin Ibrahim, and former Senior Advisor to President Bill Clinton,
Ira Magaziner, spoke to the success of the multistakeholder model of
Internet governance during the Opening Ceremony of ICANN's 52nd public
meeting today.

"Singapore supports the shift to a multistakeholder model. We have
consistently articulated our belief that no one person, organization, or
even country, has a monopoly on the expertise and wisdom needed to meet the
challenges that we are facing on the Internet on a day-to-day basis," said
Ibrahim. "Such an inclusive, multistakeholder approach will enhance the
Internet's role as a catalyst for information flow and economic activity."

Magaziner spoke to the growth the Internet has experienced under the
multistakeholder model. "The fact of the matter is the Internet has worked
and the growth has been phenomenal and the growth to WiFi, and the growth
to mobile, and now the growth to the Internet of things and it has all
worked," said Magaziner. "You see tremendous success coming from this
model."

ICANN President and CEO, Fadi Chehadé, spoke about ICANN's continued
prioritization of both maintaining the security, stability and resiliency
of the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) and reinforcing the
multistakeholder model of governance.

"First, we have continue to strengthen the confidence in our operations,"
said Chehadé. "Then we have continue to make sure that our community, our
multistakeholder model, is strong. And all of this must continue to be
rooted in the global public interest."

The start of the meeting comes on the heels of an announcement that, with
the recent delegation of .NTT, .chat, .toshiba and .canon, the new gTLD
program has delegated over 500 new strings into the root zone of the
Internet. A full list of delegated strings is available at
http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/delegated-strings.

"This is a significant milestone for the new gTLD program," said Akram
Atallah, President of ICANN's Global Domains Division (GDD). "The Program
continues to make advancements and enable enhanced competition, innovation
and choice."

More than 1200 members of the global multistakeholder community, from over
100 different countries, will meet over the course of the week, both
in-person and remotely, to discuss and debate the future of ICANN and
Internet governance.

Those unable to attend ICANN52 in person are highly encouraged to
participate remotely. Details for doing so can be found for any of the
sessions listed at http://singapore52.icann.org/en/schedule-full.

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To learn more about ICANN 52 in Singapore, please visit:
http://singapore52.icann.org/en/

To download high-resolution photos of the meeting, please visit:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/icann
Media Contacts

*Liana Teo*
Head of Communications, APAC
Singapore
*Tel:* +65 6808 6669
*Email:* liana.teo at icann.org

*James Cole*
Global Media Coordinator
Washington, D.C.
*Tel:* +1 202-733-7598
*Email:* james.cole at icann.org
About ICANN

*ICANN's mission is to ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet.
To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into
your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so
computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique
identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have
one global Internet. ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit
public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world
dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It
promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet's unique
identifiers. ICANN doesn't control content on the Internet. It cannot stop
spam and it doesn't deal with access to the Internet. But through its
coordination role of the Internet's naming system, it does have an
important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet. For more
information please visit: www.icann.org.*



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