ICC Statement on Information and Communication Technologies and the Internet for Economic Growth and Social Development

In order for ICTs and the Internet to reach their full potential as engines for economic growth and social development, ICC encourages all governments to develop an enabling environment that promotes competition and private sector investment. In turn, the private sector will continue to play its critical role in building and deploying the necessary infrastructures and innovating and developing applications and content.

Several fundamental elements of such an enabling environment are:

• intellectual property rights protection;
• stable and predictable legal systems;
• trade liberalization;
• education and capacity building;
• technology neutrality; and
• a regulatory framework which promotes competition and fosters entrepreneurship.