Just Net Coalition: A call for openness and transparency in rulemaking for the internet

We call on the internet community to invite national governments to refrain from discussing internet-related matters in the World Trade Organization (WTO), in particular at its upcoming 11th Ministerial Conference, or in other bilateral or plurilateral trade negotiations, until such time as these negotiations are fully transparent and inclusive, in line with the multi-stakeholder approach to Internet governance.

Signatories

• Agencia Latinoamericana de Información - ALAI

• Association for Progressive Communications

• Association for Proper Internet Governance

• Digital Society Switzerland (Digitale Gesellschaft)

• IT for Change

• Just Net Coalition

• SFLC.in (Software Freedom Law Centre, India)

• Internet Governance Forum of Pakistan

• Urdu Internet Society

• Asociación Civil AlterMundi, Argentina

• Michael Geist, Canada (law professor at the University of Ottawa)

• Deirdre Williams, Saint Lucia, West Indies

Other signatories are invited to add their names.

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