Federative Republic of Brazil
Summary of Brazilian Proposal
Brazil joined the United Nations on October 24, 1945. The following is excerpted from a proposal presented by Brazil on June 3, 2005, to the Interministerial Group on Information Society Subgroup on Internet Governance in preparation for the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis, Tunisia. Brazil was represented at the summit by Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil.Despite the success in ensuring high availability and great stability to the operation of the network, the current structure for global governance of the Internet presents significant limitations. The governance issue involves challenges that go beyond ICANN’s (Internet Corporation for…
