A free and open internet cannot be taken for granted

Apolitical governance provides key safeguard for global users

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Women throng an internet cafe in Sanaa, Yemen after a four-day service outage in 2022: For many, daily life is now unimaginable without the internet. © Reuters

Amandeep Gill is the U.N. secretary-general's envoy on technology. Vint Cerf was appointed by the U.N. secretary-general to chair the Internet Governance Forum Leadership Panel and was a co-designer of the architecture of the internet.

The internet is a unique and extraordinary global resource.

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