Ger­ard Best

Trinidad and To­ba­go cit­i­zens can take part in a glob­al meet­ing on the fu­ture of In­ter­net Gov­er­nance be­ing held in Brazil this week, with­out ever hav­ing to leave the coun­try.

The event has the goal of bring­ing to­geth­er rep­re­sen­ta­tives of civ­il so­ci­ety, pri­vate sec­tor, acad­e­mia and tech­ni­cal com­mu­ni­ty to es­tab­lish strate­gic guide­lines re­lat­ed to the use and de­vel­op­ment of the In­ter­net in the world.

The glob­al com­mu­ni­ty of In­ter­net users, in­clud­ing cit­i­zens of Caribbean coun­tries, are in­vit­ed to par­tic­i­pate through the of­fi­cial re­mote par­tic­i­pa­tion web chan­nels of the con­fer­ence. The chan­nels will broad­cast the meet­ing live in Eng­lish and al­low users to make com­ments. There are al­so live trans­lat­ed op­tions for six lan­guages.

The re­mote hub in Trinidad and To­ba­go will be host­ed by the Caribbean Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Union (CTU) Sec­re­tari­at at their Port of Spain head­quar­ters at 4 Mary Street, St Clair. Stream­ing will start at 8 am and is ex­pect­ed to run un­til at least 5 pm on both days.

The CTU is hold­ing the event in part­ner­ship with the Trinidad and To­ba­go chap­ter of the In­ter­net So­ci­ety (ISOCTT) and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Net­work In­for­ma­tion Cen­tre (TTNIC).

#net­mundi­al2014.