Raquel Renno Nunes
Raquel is a Senior Digital Programme Officer at ARTICLE 19, focusing on connectivity issues from an infrastructure and radio spectrum perspective. Since 2003, she has worked on human rights and the social impact of digital technologies within educational and digital rights organizations. Currently based in Berlin, she has also collaborated with grassroots communities across Central and South America on initiatives aimed at bridging the digital divide. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Semiotics.
Session
Net Neutrality is a core pillar of the open internet. But we witness a coordinated, world-wide attack from the telecom industry on the very foundation that ties the internet together. The interconnection of autonomous parts of the internet used to be a non-political and non-commercial field that not many paid attention to. But through heavy lobbying activity we are on the brink of regulating interconnection in the EU, Brazil and India to establish a new payment obligation that would force everyone who wants to send a significant amount of data to customers. Telecom companies would end up being paid twice for the same traffic, from their customers and the content and cloud providers that want to reach them.