New OECD study promotes importance of open, decentralized Internet

PARIS – The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has released a new framework that it says will help to promote a more transparent and open Internet.The Communiqué on Principles for Internet Policy-Making was released Wednesday after two days of meetings between OECD governments and other stakeholders in Paris. The new principles aim to advance the debate on Internet governance by highlighting the benefits that “light-touch, flexible regulation has brought in driving innovation and economic growth”.“The Internet has achieved global interconnection without the development of any international regulatory regime”, reads the report. “The development of such a formal regulatory regime...