FREEDOM & DATA PRIVACY

With the rise of the digital age, telecommunications have never been more advanced, with billions of messages and emails sent across the world in a matter of mere seconds. However, regulations have failed to catch up. The International Telecommunication Union is the primary regulatory agency for such services around the world, with a history older than the United Nations itself. It deals with global radio spectrum regulations, satellite communications, and access to global broadband. With thousands of companies and hundreds of nations involved, each actor has brought a different view of what progress should look like, and thus a different agenda to push. This committee will challenge delegates to think about the future of a free and open internet; the topic of net neutrality, and whether Internet service providers are obligated to treat it as sacrosanct. Further, digital health faces numerous challenges following the COVID-19 pandemic. E-health services have exploded in popularity—even though the pandemic may have faded away for some, e-health services have not. The decisions that delegates make will be felt for decades to come and either propel the internet and healthcare to a new age of prosperity, or lead to the weakening of the worldwide web as a whole.