Topic: Net Neutrality
Country: India
Delegate Name: Braden Porterfield
School: Royal Oak High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All India position papers GLIMUN 2016 committees
Net neutrality is one simple step toward a whole world that can access the internet. The most important thing to remember about the world’s advancement of internet technology is that every nation is advancing at a different pace. 74 percent of US citizens have access to internet while India is at 34% and Burkina Faso is at 3%. SCITEC’s job as a committee is to establish policies that allow every nation to grow in a safe way.
India is strong in their stance against large corporations attempting to limit the access low-income citizens have to the internet. Facebook’s “free basics” is one example of limiting options citizens have to the internet, providing only websites approved by Facebook to families that have no other access to internet. Endeavors like this one restrict growth because they promote a reliance on an unsatisfactory option for internet access
It is India’s responsibility as a nation that is still developing in technology to protect others that are even less developed. We will encourage smaller countries to resist easy access to internet in favor of access that is built from the bottom.
India understands the need for cyber security, and sees the serious possibility that a completely neutral internet may leave a nation more open to attacks. India urges SCITEC to pass resolutions that support national safety, while never loosing the virtue of freedom for the people
Net neutrality is one simple step toward a whole world that can access the internet. The most important thing to remember about the world’s advancement of internet technology is that every nation is advancing at a different pace. 74 percent of US citizens have access to internet while India is at 34% and Burkina Faso is at 3%. SCITEC’s job as a committee is to establish policies that allow every nation to grow in a safe way.
India is strong in their stance against large corporations attempting to limit the access low-income citizens have to the internet. Facebook’s “free basics” is one example of limiting options citizens have to the internet, providing only websites approved by Facebook to families that have no other access to internet. Endeavors like this one restrict growth because they promote a reliance on an unsatisfactory option for internet access
It is India’s responsibility as a nation that is still developing in technology to protect others that are even less developed. We will encourage smaller countries to resist easy access to internet in favor of access that is built from the bottom.
India understands the need for cyber security, and sees the serious possibility that a completely neutral internet may leave a nation more open to attacks. India urges SCITEC to pass resolutions that support national safety, while never losing the virtue of freedom for the people.
