India on Thursday lamented the lack of truly representative and democratic nature of the existing systems of internet governance, including the management of critical internet resources, and called for cyber jurisprudence to ensure security of the cyberspace.Vinay Kwatra, joint secretary at Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and Indian representative, said this at the April 23-24 Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance, also called the NETmundial, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The proposal for a decentralised internet assumes significance in the wake of Edward Snowden's Wikileaks revelations of mass surveillance in recent months. India has been a vocal critic of the current structures that govern internet system and called for making it more broad-based with multi-stakeholder in the backdrop of Snowden revelations.
Representatives from nearly 180 countries are debating the future of the internet in Brazil. The South American nation has criticised the US after NSA snooped the cell phone of its president and critical internet systems. ..
Source: Hindi News
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