Nigeria: ITU in Crisis As U.S. Group Leads De-Funding Campaign

19 January 2013

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the agency of the United Nations in charge of regulating global telecommunications and internet, is engulfed in a crisis following a campaign by an American group for the United States government to withdraw financial commitments to the ITU as a protest for allowing national governments to control the internet and monitor their citizens.

The group which has been set up to defund the ITU campaign website is asking citizens to sign up the petition and has written to the US Senate and House of Representatives to stop further contributions to the global telecoms regulator, saying in December of 2012, ITU led by member states; China, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Venezuela and others, attempted to seize control of the Internet.

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