Carlos Afonso recalls the first global internet governance efforts

How did the world begin to establish the internet's basic governance rules and try to enable universal access? Carlos Afonso, director of Nupef, APC co-founder and one of the pioneers of the internet in Brazil, offers a historical look at the uneven global internet governance movement, from the 1998 International Telecommunication Union (ITU) meeting to the first World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and till the 2007 Internet Governance Forum (IGF).