The “G8 of the Web” or the “eG8”, the next step for more control?

As you might already know, French President Nicolas Sarkozy wanted to organize a talk about the web, prior to the G8 meeting planned at the end of May.

This reunion will be called the “G8 of the web” or the “eG8” and Mark Zuckerberg has just confirmed that he will attend the event organized by Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris, on May 24th and 25th of this year.

He was not supposed to come but after a while decided to “take the time to think about it". In the end, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, will be in Paris on May the 24th and 25th.

This “eG8” seems quite interesting and Facebook’s young entrepreneur is one of the more than a 1000 decision-makers who are big players in the digital ecosystem and will participate to this forum.

The ambition of this reunion is to discuss the role of Internet in the economic growth. Among the participants we can also note the presence Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, Eric Schmidt, the president of Google, or even Rupert Murdoch, the absolute boss of News Corp.

The result of their exchanges and discussions will be presented the next day, in Deauville, to the head of governments gathered for the “regular” G8.

During this meeting they are meant to find a common position. The development and the implementation of this new project will be discussed during another meeting, probably in October. This additional meeting is an initiative of Eric Besson, French Secretary of Commerce and Digital Economy.

The “eG8” is for sure a very good idea and follows the trend of thoughts that governments should monitor Internet and its activities more closely.
For a “normal” citizen, this kind of meetings could also mean more control for these huge organizations that are News Corp, Google and Facebook but of course not, they are doing it for us and our well-being…

We will of course keep you informed of what is said in Paris on the 24th and 25th of May.

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