Internet giants meet in Paris on his first e-G8

The global Internet giants meet on Tuesday and Wednesday in Paris in the first edition of "e-G8" whose proceedings are intended to feed the G8 in Deauville (west) to be held on 27 and 28 May.Facebook to Google via e-Bay or Amazon, all the big Internet names will share in a series of roundtables and his vision of the Network and the economic model that will be put in place to ensure their development and duration.This e-G8 was organized by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, current president of the G8, to prepare the traditional summit of heads of State and Government of the club that brings together the world's richest economies, whose agenda is first After an encounter.Following the forum, to be held in the Tuileries Gardens, a delegation of participants will Deauville a summary of the discussion to "facilitate the reflection of the heads of state," said Maurice Lévy, Publicis company director, responsible by the Elysee presidential palace, for organizing this summit."The Internet is a major phenomenon of our time who has never been addressed by the G8 or other major international summit. The desire of the heads of state is to listen to the biggest names in the world of INTERNET his vision for the future," said the French presidency.On the agenda of discussions included the issues common to industry players, such as the Internet's impact on growth, the problem of respect for privacy and intellectual property, or the development of networks at the explosion of width band.The French Minister of Culture, Frédéric Mitterrand, wanted, according to French daily Le Figaro on Saturday that Internet companies "contribute much more to finance the creation."However, it is unlikely that the e-G8 reaching specific ads worldwide on sensitive and strategic issues, such as storage of personal information or the financing of new infrastructure."In practice, we can attend a series of monologues as the difference of views between States on the one hand, and between actors, on the other, are considerable," says one participant, Benoit Sillard, director of CCMBenchmark group.Some associations, such as Attac http://www.attac.org/, go even further by announcing a purely economic vision of e-G8 and the fact that civil society and Internet users are not represented."This forum is a smoke screen. Under the guise of a process pseudoconsultivo the will expressed by the rulers is to control a bit more online," said Jérémie Zimmermann, spokesman for the French, the square of the WebIf the Internet can embarrass states and governments as demonstrated by sites like WikiLeaks revelations is another image of the network that the French Presidency to highlight."The issue of Internet freedom will have a fundamental dimension" in the G8, said the French presidency. "It is clear that the Internet in all its forms has probably played a decisive role in the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions," he admits."The Internet is an element of freedom and political and social emancipation absolutely unavoidable. The G8 countries are democracies, they should make a wholehearted support for this mission," concluded the French presidency of the group.