Let me go off topic here… Or maybe not so much.
First, perhaps the reason you came here for: who owns the Internet? NOBODY. Or rather, all of us...
Internet. We’re never away from it, not anymore. How else could you be reading this? Well, for that to be possible, a lot, a LOT of things have to happen. It’s really not just paying your bills to your Internet Service Provider (ISP. Oh, acronyms!).
Have I sparked a bit of curiosity in you yet? I hope, because it was that same curiosity spark that recently got me to enroll in a course on Internet Governance. Have you ever heard those 2 words together? I certainly hadn’t. I took this course for free thanks to www.internetsociety.org, I just had to create an account!
So, what did I learn from this course? First off, the term governance here doesn’t mean government(s) or the private sector. Not necessarily. To put it simply, let me list some of the things Internet Governance stands for:
- Technical Infrastructure: protocol numbers, domain names, root servers…
- Public Politics: content control, cybersecurity, cybercrime, intellectual property…
- Standards…
- Principles, norms, procedures…
That sure sounds interesting, right? Oh, for me it sure does! I dove deep into this course and I took a lot from it. The Internet’s an enormous, open, accessible platform. There are international associations and groups working day and night to make it possible for the Internet to be better than it is; international associations paying attention to all opinions from governments, companies, academies and of course, us! the civil society.
Not excited yet? Here’s the awesome part, then: I got a scholarship from Internet Society to attend this year’s Internet Governance Forum! An United Nations international multistakeholder event where issues pertaining 
Governance will be discussed. Internet Society will be paying all expenses for me and several other people in Latin America, US and Europe. Why am I telling you all this? Because I would like to encourage you to get involved in this type of topics, there are tons of things to discover. And, you’ll be contributing to the development of the Internet we all want to see!
I’ve talked a bit more into this in the following 5min video. Hope you like it :)
You can also go to this links to learn some more…
