OECD Council Recommendation on Principles for Internet Policy Making

Citation
OECD Council Recommendation on Principles for Internet Policy Making (Dec. 13, 2011).

Overview
This documents recommends that, in developing or revising their policies for the Internet Economy, Members, in co-operation with all stakeholders, take account of the following high level principles:


 * 1) Promote and protect the global free flow of information;
 * 2) Promote the open, distributed and interconnected nature of the Internet;
 * 3) Promote investment and competition in high speed networks and services;
 * 4) Promote and enable the cross-border delivery of services;
 * 5) Encourage multi-stakeholder co-operation in policy development processes;
 * 6) Foster voluntarily developed codes of conduct;
 * 7) Develop capacities to bring publicly available, reliable data into the policy-making process;
 * 8) Ensure transparency, fair process, and accountability;
 * 9) Strengthen consistency and effectiveness in privacy protection at a global level;
 * 10) Maximise individual empowerment;
 * 11) Promote creativity and innovation;
 * 12) Limit Internet intermediary liability;
 * 13) Encourage co-operation to promote Internet security;
 * 14) Give appropriate priority to enforcement efforts.