A new stage in the Internet governance - Telefónica

A statement betwixt administrations, exertion companies and operators

The annual lawsuit of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) successful Spain took spot connected 16 and 17 November. Under the taxable “Technology and radical much agreed than ever”, specialists, nationalist decision-makers and companies successful the integer system were capable to stock their points of presumption successful a bid of presentations and circular array discussions, with the purpose of uncovering caller ways of Internet governance to link radical done technology.

Thus, the Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, Carme Artigas, stressed that “Thinking astir governance gives america the accidental to resoluteness the issues raised by the Internet: concern models, content, privateness and security”, indispensable pillars from a technological humanist perspective.

“Telefónica has been committed to the Internet Governance Forum for much than 10 years,” said Juan Luis Redondo Maillo, Director of Digital Public Policy, besides stressing the value of an inclusive debate. After the pandemic, galore things person changed; it brought a alteration successful mentality and a translation of our economies and societies, driving digitalisation forward.

But, successful a polarised satellite and “at the gates of a caller net era”, the accidental arises to flooded the challenges of a planetary internet, which contrasts with determination regulations, to trim integer divides and to rethink the rules. Overcoming the infrastructure concern spread requires some addressing market fragmentation and enabling caller models for a fairer publication to web sustainability.

Multi-stakeholder collaboration for Internet governance

In the look of the existent challenges, determination is simply a unsocial accidental to deliberation astir however we tin determination towards a much sustainable and balanced Internet, wherever each actors lend much fairly, and to bespeak connected what rules should govern this caller Internet.

In the 3rd league of the IGF Spain, the statement connected “The publication of OTTs to the financing of European telecommunications infrastructures” took place. As Jorge Pérez, manager of the Internet Governance Forum successful Spain, pointed out, this is the “first clip successful Spain that this statement has been raised successful a shared circular table” with the information of technological companies that make postulation (Google, Meta, Netflix) and operators (Telefónica, Orange, Vodafone). Gonzalo López Barajas, Manager of Corporate Regulation astatine Telefónica, presented the request for a just and proportionate publication to the sustainability of the network by integer platforms liable for 57% of Internet traffic, successful a discourse of imbalance successful bargaining powerfulness and successful the worth concatenation and increasing demands for web investment.

Innovation successful a discourse of integer sovereignty and net fragmentation

In the second league of the Internet Governance Forum, connected integer sovereignty and Internet fragmentation, Eusebio Felguera, Telefónica’s Digital Policy Manager, expressed the operators’ interest astir regulatory fragmentation and the problems that method and regulatory fragmentation tin bring successful an planetary discourse of geopolitical fragmentation.

Young radical successful shaping the net of the future

Finally, 1 of the events of this IGF was the instauration of the Youth IGF, sponsored by the United Nations, which volition laic the foundations for the Forum successful which young radical volition person the accidental to contiguous what the Internet of the aboriginal should beryllium like. Telefónica believes it is indispensable that young radical person a dependable successful shaping the aboriginal governance of the Internet. In this European Year of Youth, initiatives specified arsenic this 1 are peculiarly positive.