Weekly Report - 10 October 2013 (WR-13-40)

On her new favourite medium, Twitter, President Dilma Rousseff proposed that Brazil should host an international summit in 2014 about the use and regulation of the Internet. Her proposal came just days after the Canadian ambassador in Brasília was hauled in to explain the latest spying allegations against the Brazilian government. Next week, Brazil’s congress will be asked to approve urgently the ‘Internet Constitution’ which Rousseff hopes to use as a platform at the United Nations (UN) to push for her proposed civilian multilateral framework for the governance and use of the Internet.