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The Web lets us speak out, share, and connect around the things that matter. It creates economic opportunity, holds governments to account, breaks through barriers, and makes cats famous. This isn't a coincidence. It's because the web belongs to all of us. We all get a say in how it's built. And we have made it our [ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/ mission] to keep it this way: To keep the power of the Web in people's hands. | |||
But on December 3, our governments will begin a 10 day meeting in Dubai that could change the future of the Web. They are meeting to review an old treaty - the International Telecommunication Union - and see if it can be expanded to regulate the Internet. | |||
On December 3rd, the world’s governments will begin a ten-day meeting in Dubai to update a key treaty of a UN agency called the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Some proposed changes to that treaty could threaten Internet openness and innovation, increase access costs, and erode human rights online. We are urgently calling for projects that will help give civil society organizations that support an open Internet a stronger voice before and during that key meeting, the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT). | |||
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is a specialized agency of the United Nations focusing on information and communications technologies. In December 2012, the member nations of the ITU will be meeting in Dubai to consider treaty commitments that would sweep significant aspects of web regulation into the scope of the agency, stripping away functions that have always been managed through open, community-based approaches. | The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is a specialized agency of the United Nations focusing on information and communications technologies. In December 2012, the member nations of the ITU will be meeting in Dubai to consider treaty commitments that would sweep significant aspects of web regulation into the scope of the agency, stripping away functions that have always been managed through open, community-based approaches. | ||