Internet governance must be open, inclusive: Prasad

Advocating a multi-stakeholder model, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today emphasised that internet governance must reflect the views of all and be "open and inclusive".
"We have articulated a multi-stakeholder model...The growth of internet is because of governments, academia and business...And therefore after much deliberation, we consciously took a decision that we shall support the multi-stakeholder model in a very big way," the minister said while addressing cyber conference 'CyFy 2016'.
The minister further said that governance of internet must reflect the "views of all", be inclusive and more open.
With over 3 billion users globally and more than a billion websites, there is growing concern towards creating some internationally-accepted mechanism for governing the internet. Many governments have supported the multi-stakeholder model to handle key features of internet governance, that will represent views of individuals, corporates and public interest groups.

"This world has to be an equal world...This world has to be a world where voice of everyone is heard and the architecture of internet governance must emerge from that point....You must take views of all countries, particularly countries of Asia and India," he said.