EIS calls for tax-free global public interest fund

Telecompaper - 11/03/2014 - [ gif ]
Assunto: Netmundial

France's Economic and Social Council held its first internet governance forum FGI meeting in Paris on 10 March ahead of the world event, NetMundial, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on 23-24 April. Le Monde has published the French version of the contribution of Dominique Lacroix, of the European Internet Society.

Lacroix writes that the new TLDs distribution shows shocking regional disparities. A group of US companies use tax evasion on a large scale from European micro-states. These companies cannot ignore issues of global public interest. They often show a sort of allergy to public policies. But, facing the major global risks for the planet and humans populations, it could be possible to make converge, within the ecosystem of naming, conventional approaches to public policy with liberal philanthropic initiatives.

Lacroix advocates the creation of a Sustainable Responsible Business Committee (SRBC) to collect financial contributions to projects of global public interest, without going through national taxation. Companies could affect their contributions to projects of their choice among three categories: rebalancing the global distribution of TLDs, basic training in computing for young children worldwide and visualization of data on major global issues.

The analysis addresses regional disparities, tax evasion, the convergence of apparently conflicting interests and develops the idea that actors of the ecosystem become “Entrepreneurs of cognition in the 21st Century”.