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# An Open Letter to the United Nations
- URL: https://werd.io/an-open-letter-to-the-united-nations/
- Published: 2024-07-01T19:30:07.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-01T19:30:07.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: Notable links, #Import 2025-06-11 21:47

\[[Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, Hadley Beeman, Daniel Appelquist, Robin Berjon, et al](https://open-internet-governance.org/letter)\]

> "Government engagement in digital and Internet governance is needed to deal with many abuses of this global system but it is our common responsibility to uphold the bottom-up, collaborative and inclusive model of Internet governance that has served the world for the past half century."

A tremendously important open letter to the United Nations in light of the opaque, hierarchical process the [Global Digital Compact](https://www.un.org/techenvoy/global-digital-compact) is being developed with, and the centralized governance many of its proposals can be read to call for.

It's worth clicking through to read the list of signatories: these are people we can thank for the existence of the internet and the web at all. That they believe this is important enough to create this open letter is worth paying attention to.

[#Democracy](https://werd.io/tag/Democracy)

\[[Link](https://open-internet-governance.org/letter)\]