Why global governance of the Internet must be democratised

In the run up to the UN CSTD meeting in Geneva in May 2012, IT for Change ran a campaign for 'democratising global Internet governance'. This campaign was supported by over 67 civil society organisations and many more individuals, from across the world. An article written on this issue by Parminder Jeet Singh was published in The Hindu, a leading English newspaper daily in India before the important meeting in Geneva. The article talks of the various issues and misconceptions around the India proposal for the meeting. The article also addresses the manner in which these economic and political powers are coming together in a new digital-political complex, which is well on its way to becoming a principal global challenge in the near future. The op-ed (opposite editorial) page on the same day also carried the entire joint civil society statement proposed by 6 organisations.