Dr. Janil Puthucheary:

One of the problems for the committee is that this industry is not adequately regulated. In no other industry domain have we tried to have a global set of standards prior to the industry adhering to national laws or national sovereignty in regulation in the first instance. The tension arises as there is an issue about the accountability of platforms and the varying measures of accountability different countries and jurisdictions use in of the strength of democratic institutions brought to bear on the problem. I just want to get a sense from the delegates, on the work of the committee, of how we can balance the tension in arriving at some transboundary set of standards and norms versus solving the very practical problem of getting tech companies to adhere to local laws in the first instance.