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Reporter: Carlton Samuels

Staff Support: Silvia Vivanco

Abstract

ICANN has been created to provide a global infrastructure to manage worldwide Internet resources like domain names, IP addresses and Internet parameters. To be really “global”, ICANN needs to provide a framework where all stakeholders worldwide can interact on equal footing, without cultural, geopolitical, gender, or other barriers to participation.Moreover, ICANN needs to be accountable to the global Internet community: the globalization of ICANN is strictly linked to the ability of the multi-stakeholders to set checks and balances to verify that ICANN is really independent from local constraining factors limiting the global equal access to the process.

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