28th Meeting of ICANN – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

The 28th meeting of the ICANN – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers was held in Lisbon on 26-30 March 2007. It was organised by the FCCN – Foundation for National Scientific Computation, which has represented Portugal at the ICANN since mid-1999, shortly after the organisation was set up.

There were interventions at the opening session by the FCNN President, Pedro Veiga, the ICANN President, Vint Cerf, one of the “Internet’s fathers”, the ICANN CEO, Paul Twomey, and, after an introduction by Vint Cerf, the Portuguese Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education, José Mariano Gago.

Since it was set up in 1998, the ICANN has made the way it operates more open and transparent, based on the participation of multi-stakeholders and a large number of public and private organisations, and non-governmental organisations of different types and from different continents and countries. It has taken on a global character, becoming one of the clearest examples of the new organisational concepts that are deeply rooted in the paradigm of the online society that the Internet itself has brought us, together with its social values of freedom, openness and inclusion.