[governance] FW: <nettime> Brazil to push for greater decentralization of Internet infrastructure

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

High speed Internet and satellite don't exactly go together as our colleagues from parts of Africa and Asia will attest. 

And then keeping local traffic local ad the minister suggests is indeed a best practice 

These two are not specifically igov related though so something more concrete would remain to be seen.. I suggest we wait for something more specific from Brazil 

--srs (htc one x) 

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Brazil moves to secure telecom, Internet systems after US spying
Brasilia, Aug 15
The Hindu http://tinyurl.com/kmnrp8b


(AFP) Brazil said on Wednesday it is moving to secure its communications
through its own satellite and digital networks to end its dependence on the
United States, which is accused of electronically spying on the region.

?Brazil is in favour of greater decentralisation: Internet governance must
be multilateral and multisectoral with a broader participation,? 
the Communications Minister, Paulo Bernardo, told a congressional panel.

Yesterday, Foreign Minister, Antonio Patriota, warned his US counterpart,
John Kerry, that the row over Washington?s electronic snooping could sow
mistrust between the two countries.

Kerry responded by conceding that Brasilia was owed answers from Washington
and would get them.

He suggested that the vast US surveillance programme aimed to "provide
security, not just for Americans, but for Brazilians and the people of the
world."

But Bernardo today criticised the ?strong concentration of (Internet)
traffic? by US firms.

Revelations by US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden about the vast scope of
US electronic surveillance programmes have caused deep unease in Brazil and
other Latin American countries that have reportedly been targeted by the
spying.

Bernardo said Brasilia was finalising the selection of companies that will
be tasked with building and launching a geostationary defence and strategic
communications satellite.

French-Italian group Thales Alenia Space (TAS) has said it had won a
contract worth about $400 million to build a satellite for Brazil's
developing space programme.

The order, placed by Visiona -- jointly owned by Brazilian aeroplane maker
Embraer and telecom provider Telebras -- is for a geostationary satellite
for civil and military use.

Telebras said that with the satellite, "high-speed Internet will be extended
to the entire nation and will ensure the sovereignty of its civil and
military communications."

Arianespace has been selected to launch the satellite in 2015.

The deal also allows for a transfer of technology between TAS and Brazil,
making TAS the preferred industrial partner in building up Brazil?s space
programme.

(This article was published on August 15, 2013)



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