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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>For your information, please find at <a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-14-333_en.htm">http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-14-333_en.htm</a>
and reproduced below the <b style><u>speech</u></b>
(as prepared for delivery) of Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European
Commission, at the Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet
Governance or NETmundial (Sao Paulo, 23-24 April 2014).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>Please also note that an <b style><u>extended
version</u></b> of Vice-President Kroes' remarks ("<u>Global governance
for a global, common, public resource</u>") is available at <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/kroes/en/content/global-governance-global-common-public-resource">http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/kroes/en/content/global-governance-global-common-public-resource</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>I'd like to also refer you to the <b style>press release</b> of the European Commission of 23 April 2014,
concerning our priorities for the NETmundial meeting (<a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-14-315_en.htm">http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-14-315_en.htm</a>)
as well as the <b style><u>two open letters</u></b>
of Vice-President Kroes of 11 April 2014 (<a href="http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/kroes/en/content/my-thoughts-netmundial-and-future-internet-governance">http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/kroes/en/content/my-thoughts-netmundial-and-future-internet-governance</a>)
and 16 April 2014 (<a href="http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/kroes/en/content/netmundial-lets-get-work">http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/kroes/en/content/netmundial-lets-get-work</a>),
in which the six priority areas of the European Commission for this conference
are outlined:</span></p>
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<p class="" style><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style>Improvements to the multi-stakeholder model of
governance (and resistance to calls for greater government-control) model</span></p>
<p class="" style><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style>Strengthening the Internet Governance Forum</span></p>
<p class="" style><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style>Providing tools and mechanisms for better
information sharing and capacity building, so that a truly global debate and
governance is possible</span></p>
<p class="" style><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style>Globalising IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers
Authority)</span></p>
<p class="" style><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style>Globalisation of ICANN (Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers)</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style>Jurisdictional issues on the Internet</span></p>
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<h1><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The
Internet needs better governance, starting now</span></h1>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">European
Commission - SPEECH/14/333 23/04/2014<br>[Check Against Delivery]</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="" style="width:100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr style><td style="padding:0.75pt">
<p class=""><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Neelie KROES<br>
Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda</span></p>
<p class=""><span class=""><b style><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The
Internet needs better governance, starting now<br>
</span></u></b></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Opening remarks, NETMundial<br>
<i style>Sao Paulo, Brazil, 23 April 2014</i></span></p>
<p class=""><span class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">To add your comment to this speech, see the social version of
the speech </span></i></b></span><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://commentneelie.eu/"><span class=""><span style="color:blue">here</span></span></a></span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">This could be an historic gathering.</span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">So ask yourself: are we here to make a change, and live up to
the call made by President Rousseff in New York, or are we here to waste
time?</span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The Internet is more disruptive than the printing press,
electrification and industrialisation combined.</span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The Internet is the quickest, biggest revolution in history. </span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The Internet is now a global, common, public resource and its
governance must be truly global, transparent and accountable.</span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">That means we all have to change. No existing organisation or
nation is exempt.</span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">This puts a huge responsibility on us in this room. </span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">This week we must move forward.</span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">If we simply do more talking, use more nice words, we will have
wasted the opportunity and failed the global community.</span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">What should we do?</span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">First: we can only create positive change based on what we agree
on, not what divides us. </span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Let’s admit our recent work has produced a large degree of
consensus. We can get excited about a word here or there, but let us not lose
sight of the bigger picture.</span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">In most cases we want the same things. We agree on: </span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">(1) An improved multi-stakeholder model: transparent, democratic,
based on human rights; and a roadmap to get there;</span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">(2) A process for the transition of the IANA functions involving
all the stakeholder community;</span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">(3) Strengthening the Internet Governance Forum;</span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">(4) Capacity building through information sharing and Internet
observatories; </span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">(5) We must address jurisdictional issues on the Internet with
transparent systems. </span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">In summary: we agree on more than we disagree on.</span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">While I do not want to trivialise the challenges, I believe we
can meet them. </span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">***</span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">We need to decide where we want to be, by the end of 2014.</span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">During these next two days I will be breathing down everybody's
neck until we have a discussion on concrete actions.</span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">So two days of dialogue please, not a string of monologues. </span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">This is what open and democratic debate should be: we listen, we
discuss, and then we reach real decisions.</span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I'm looking forward to that.</span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><i style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Thank you</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">. </span></p>
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