Rights in the Network

In the article, “Controversy blights UN net summit”, the author said that an important UN summit, which is about global internet access, was held in Tunis. About 17,000 representatives from over 170 countries attended the conference. They talked about the technological gap between More Developed Countries and Less Developed countries. Further, the idea of freedom of speech was also focused on as a topic on the conference. While they were talking about it, the director of International Telecommunication Union said that freedom in the cyberworld is essential for an information society. He also stated they have a role to manage the cybersecurity, but they do not have efficient international standards. The summit about world wide net access was ruined by the argument.

We should build the fund to poor countries to keep up with the new technologies, oversee the net access world with the global rule and think our privacy in the worldwide network.

First of all, they should make money to adjust the technological gaps between the rich and the poor. Although many countries noticed the current fund is not enough to catch up with the developing countries, there is little way to make new money. Actually, the documents that described try to help provide information technology for poor countries. However, they mentioned they can supply little funding to do it. Global internet access or its knowledge will solve some problems we are facing now; therefore, if we need to start correcting the disparity, we have to look for sponsors.

Second, we should establish the same rules about the freedom of speech. A representative in China stated that some kinds of websites should be restricted, but they insist on the freedom of speech. For example, we have a lot of video-sharing sites, but it has many problems because of illegal uploading. How can we deal with this matter? We should protect the freedom of expression; consequently, we have to create the regulation against what violates it.

Finally, however, we also must defend our privacy. We want the freedom of speech, but we will lose our privacy instead of getting the freedom. In fact, the secretary general of ITU mentioned that they have a responsibility in the cybersecurity field, yet they cannot find efficient global standards. If there is no guarantee about cybersecurity, we will be in danger of having no privacy. To prevent it, we must consider whether easy net access is safe or not.

The global net access is important to connect the world. Therefore, we need to provide it for poor nations. All we have to do is to fund them to remove the differences, create new rules for the freedom of expression, and discuss about our privacy in the cyber field. We use internet access every day, so we have to think about it. Moreover, it can be used for advantage in the business world. It is convenient for everything; therefore, we have to make rules about easy net access.

Reference is here

Twist, J. (2005, November 18).Controversy blights UN net summit.BBC news. Retrieved March 19, 2008, from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/ technology/4450474.stm