This site, www.oecd.org/InternetGovernance, presents the OECD's contributions in several critical public policy areas related to the Internet; such as security, privacy, telecommunication policy, universal access, consumer protection, e-commerce, and broader information economy issues. It provides links to the relevant OECD resources on public policy issues related to Internet governance. The OECD prepared a report as an input to the United Nations Working Group on Internet Governance in 2005, available as a user-friendly e-book or as a PDF document. This report i) presents an overview of the major benefits that the developments of the Internet and ICTs provide to both OECD economies and non-OECD countries’ economies; ii) briefly reviews the evolution of the Internet and the parallel evolution of Internet governance from the 1960s until today; iii) provides the OECD’s perspective on the factors that were instrumental to the successful development of the Internet; and iv) finally, provides information on the relevant work conducted by the OECD on policy issues related to Internet governance as per the “Internet governance” public policy areas identified by the U.N. Working Group on Internet Governance.
http://www.oecd.org/document/21/0,3343,en_21571361_34590630_34591253_1_1_1_1,00.html
