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Because there is this asymmetry, which creates, basically, failing governance.

They help the developing world establish telecommunication networks and expand high speed broadband connections.

It's the savings accounts versus the debit accounts with no deposits.

like sustainable development targets, natural resource governance targets, access to opportunity, to knowledge, equity, fighting corruption.

With green technology and with investments to alleviate poverty, and global governance, the world can become like this.

And this is the phenomenon which I call failing governance, because when I then came to Germany and started this little NGO here in Berlin, at the Villa Borsig, we were told, You cannot stop our German exporters from bribing, because we will lose our contracts.

And this leads me to the third, and in my view, the most significant shift in development open governance.

If governments succeed in giving the ITU more power to make decisions about the Internet, we get an old school, top down, government centric organisation replacing the open bottom up governance that made the Internet so world changing.

I've repeatedly seen that what makes corruption on a global, massive scale possible, well it isn't just greed or the misuse of power or that nebulous phrase weak governance.

I believe that what we managed to achieve in fighting corruption, one can also achieve in other areas of failing governance.

We're going to voyage to some of these special places that we've been discovering in the past few years to show why we really need to care.

But we need to fix these problems in a way that preserves the openness, pragmatism and bottom up governance, that made the Internet so great.