A UN agency is trying to calm fears that the internet could be damaged by a conference it is hosting.
Government regulators from 193 counties are meeting in Dubai to revise a wide-ranging communications treaty. Google has warned the event threatened the "open internet," while the EU said the current system worked, adding: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." But the agency said action was needed to ensure investment in infrastructure to help more people access the net. "The brutal truth is that the internet remains largely the rich world's privilege, " said Dr Hamadoun Toure, secretary-general of the UN's International Telecommunications Union, ahead of the meeting. "ITU wants to change that." The ITU traces its roots back to 1865, pre-dating the United Nations. Back then the focus was on telegrams, but over ensuing decades governments have extended its remit to other communications technologies. Source: Voice of Russia
