Booting up Brazil

The improvised alliance between ICANN and the government of Brazil is now beginning to take shape. The “summit” that President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil announced last month now has a name: the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance. It’s no longer a summit, it’s a GMMFIG. (Shall...

“A Contract with You”

When ICANN's Fadi Chehadé said that "The Affirmation of Commitments needs to change from being a contract between ICANN and the US Government, to a contract between ICANN and you" what exactly did he mean?  Was it just another Fadi-esque appealing turn of phrase? Was it anything more than a rhetorical jab...