As China pushes through its universal cyberspace plan, WIC's international version will include 20 countries.
Beijing Attempts to Spread its Universal Cyberspace Goal Through WIC
China's World Internet Conference (WIC), an annual conference that advocated the nation's internet governance system, said that as part of Beijing's attempts to advance its goal of universal cyberspace, it had changed into an "international organization," as per a report from SCMP.
The official Xinhua news agency said that the initial members of the new organization comprise "institutions, organizations, corporations, and people" from close to 20 different nations, despite the fact that WIC did not publish a list of them. The organization's director-general will be Zhuang Rongwen of the Chinese Cyberspace Administration.
The group was formally introduced on Tuesday (July 12) in Beijing after holding the Wuzhen Summit, an annual event in the scenic canal town near Shanghai since 2014.
According to a statement on its website, the new organization plans to conduct additional regional and topical summits and seminars to encourage the growth of the global internet.
China is renowned for its strict internet censorship, with the Great Firewall preventing local users from accessing numerous global services, including Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Chinese policymakers have also restricted the ability of their own Big Tech companies to use the internet as a weapon for achieving national objectives.
Due to governmental monitoring, China's digital entrepreneurs have maintained a low profile in recent years, which has resulted in a relatively low-key yearly conference in Wuzhen. Lei Jun, the founder and CEO of Xiaomi, and Daniel Zhang Yong, the CEO of Alibaba Group Holding, vowed their support for Xi's initiative for "shared prosperity" that seeks to benefit Chinese society during the conference in 2021.
To Promote Cyberspace Alliance, Beijing Boosts a Clean and Civilized Internet
Beijing is still working to create its vision of a good and civilized online environment. Therefore, the Chinese government pushes for a clean internet environment and deepens global cyber-collaboration.
On Friday, the government-sponsored China Cyberspace Civilisation conference in Beijing centered on that mission. It was a one-day event highlighting the country's internet authorities' recent achievements in monitoring and regulating online content that the state considers detrimental or unhealthy.
The conference, which was jointly hosted by the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, the Beijing municipal government, and the Central Guidance Commission on Building Spiritual Civilization, featured government officials, academics, and representatives from internet companies and online users groups. A variety of topics, including regulation, teenage users, big data, and algorithms, were covered.
It was held in the middle of an extended crackdown on the internet sector, in which the Big Tech companies were in charge of its exponential expansion. China has one billion internet users, which is more than the population of the US, Russia, Mexico, Germany, the UK, France, and Canada combined.
Furthermore, President Xi Jinping urged China's Communist Party committees and government entities, online platforms, social organizations, as well as the nation's "huge community of netizens" to participate in maintaining the civilized development and usage of the internet in a letter distributed during the conference.
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