Considering measures to achieve this is one of the most important items on WCIT's agenda.
The country's ambassador to Wcit added that he was "very concerned" by the apparent hack attack.
Early discussions at Wcit have included a debate over an internet-related clause championed by Tunisia.
"We will actively oppose the Russian proposal, " said Terry Kramer, the US ambassador to Wcit, last week.
Curbing the open Internet, indeed, is a priority for these countries that goes well beyond the WCIT process.
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Meanwhile, in Dubai, the US fought against measures to give governments more control over the Internet at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT).
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As a crossroads in the interconnected global economy, Dubai is a natural venue to bring together the diversity of voices and views at the WCIT.
Called the World Conference on International Telecommunications, or WCIT, the conference was intended to update a treaty governing international telecommunications that hasn't been refreshed since 1988.
Some proposals for the WCIT would control the routing of Internet traffic in the name of security but would balkanize the Internet and threaten Internet freedom.
Their plan is to use WCIT to resurrect the old international long distance model, enabling them to extract revenue from high-volume websites and other Internet services.
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Just prior to WCIT, European experts published research demonstrating that some countries were advancing proposals in that forum that were at odds with their WTO obligations.
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We cannot afford to miss the opportunities presented by WCIT.
Those countries and organizations who led the now-explicit effort to change the architecture of the Internet and the nature of its governance will surely count WCIT as a success.
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In the end, we may count WCIT as the beginning of a devolution that ultimately leads to multiple Internets, with varying degrees of freedom of speech and other human rights respected.
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The U.S and 55 other countries left WCIT last week without signing the treaty after extensive negotiations led to a treaty text that included language on spam, security, and government control of the Internet.
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Both in his truly excellent blogging, which he promises to do more of, and in co-creating WCIT Leaks, a site for people to leak documents related to the U.N. agency related to internet regulation that lacks transparency.
"It creates an open door for review of content and potential censorship there, it will create a chilling environment for the internet, " said Terry Kramer, the US's ambassador to Wcit, in a video uploaded by the ITU on Sunday.
Prior to the opening of the WCIT conference, for example, Google organized a campaign to raise awareness of the secret negotiations and to encourage users to express their disappointment with both the process and substance of the treaty revisions.
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There are some who want to use the review of the 1988 ITRs in December at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) as an excuse to impose legacy telecommunications regulation on the Internet and Internet Protocol networks and services.
This is why the United States is strongly represented at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) treaty conference in Dubai this month, where over 100 delegates from the public sector, private sector, and civil society are joining with our international partners to ensure the future of global, interoperable telecommunications networks.
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