Posted by Karen Kornbluh on Jan 14, 2012 - 12:34 PM
![U.S. Ambassador to the OECD Karen Kornbluh participates in OECD Conference in the Internet Economy in Paris, France, June 28, 2011. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]](http://blogs.state.gov/images/Dipnote/behind_the_scenes/2012_0114_net_conference_m.jpg)
The Recommendation was born at a U.S.-initiated high-level meeting earlier this year. It was developed through the OECD's multilateral consensus-based process and is a successful follow-on to the June 28-29 High Level Meeting on the Internet Economy. A Communique' was agreed to by the member countries, Egypt, businesses, and Internet technical advisory groups, setting the principles to guide Internet-related policy making.
This is an important deliverable on the U.S. open Internet agenda. In May, President Obama issued the U.S. International Strategy for Cyberspace, an agenda for safeguarding the single Internet. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has developed a groundbreaking Internet freedom agenda, a principled approach to preserving the freedom to connect -- the freedoms of expression, association and assembly online -- and to ensuring that the Internet can be a platform for commerce, debate, learning and innovation in the 21st century.
The stakes are high. According to McKinsey and Associates, over the past five years, the Internet has been responsible for 21 percent of the growth in mature economies and has created 2.6 jobs for every job it has displaced. Its power to generate innovation is rivaled only by its potential to help people realize their rights and democratic aspirations, as the Arab Spring demonstrated. According to McKinsey, this platform produced more growth in its first 15 years than the Industrial Revolution did in its first 50. The United States plans to work with others to continue building consensus for global norms that promote a free future for the Internet.
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Maureen in Massachusetts writes:
Thank you Ambassador kornbluh for including the OECD Council Recommendation in your post making it very accessible to all. Things are moving very fast. Coincidentally, for DiPNote participants interested in this topic today marks an official statement out of the White House Blog, “Combatting Online Piracy While protecting An Open And Innovative Internet” by Victoria Espinel, Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator at Office of Management and Budget, Aneesh Chopra, U.S. Chief Technology Officer, and Howard Schmidt, Special Assistant to the President and Cybersecurity Coordinator for National Security Staff: Source- 'http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/01/14/obama-administration-responds-we-people-petitions-sopa-and-online-piracy'
Posted on Sat Jan 14, 2012
Thank you Ambassador kornbluh for including the OECD Council Recommendation in your post making it very accessible to all. Things are moving very fast. Coincidentally, for DiPNote participants interested in this topic today marks an official statement out of the White House Blog, “Combatting Online Piracy While protecting An Open And Innovative Internet” by Victoria Espinel, Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator at Office of Management and Budget, Aneesh Chopra, U.S. Chief Technology Officer, and Howard Schmidt, Special Assistant to the President and Cybersecurity Coordinator for National Security Staff: Source- 'http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/01/14/obama-administration-responds-we-people-petitions-sopa-and-online-piracy'
Posted on Sat Jan 14, 2012
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