LARUS CEO Lu Heng: Open, multistakeholder Internet vital for a fairer and greener world
A 2023 CEOWORLD profile of Lu Heng’s work on open Internet access, education and wider participation in Internet governance.
Media profile · CEOWORLD Magazine
CEOWORLD’s June 2023 profile connects Lu Heng’s infrastructure work with a wider question: who has the opportunity to participate in the Internet’s development? It discusses education and the LARUS Foundation’s efforts to bring participants from the Global South into governance discussions.
The practical concern is that the people affected by Internet decisions do not all have the same opportunity to enter the room. Training and access can help more people take part. That is the emphasis of this early profile.
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Participation is the beginning of the question
Lu Heng’s later Note 54 draws a sharper distinction: taking part in a process does not give a committee or institution a mandate to speak for a continent or for all Internet users. Read the profile for the earlier work on access; read the Note for the later argument about the limits of representation.