"Internet is freedom of speech" Freedom on the Internet is one of the most highly prioritised areas in Swedish foreign policy. Photo: BEE FREE/PGrandicelli/Flickr (CC)
Major global issues of the future
Freedom and security on the Internet are among the great global issues of the future. Freedom on the Internet is a priority throughout the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - in foreign policy, development policy and trade policy.
Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt has become involved in the international debate in favour of freedom on the Internet. Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson has taken an initiative to increase support to Internet activists in a number of countries. And Minister for Trade Ewa Björling has taken an initiative to strengthen the dialogue with companies on Internet freedom.
For Sweden, it is fundamental that the freedoms and rights that apply offline also apply online.
News about freedom on the Internet
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Speech, 23 May 2013
Opening address by Carl Bildt at Stockholm Internet Forum 2013 -
22 May 2013
Carl Bildt met Yoani Sánchez -
22 May 2013
Stockholm Internet Forum now under way -
Press release, 22 May 2013
Internet lifts developing countries -
Press release, 22 May 2013
Carl Bildt, Gunilla Carlsson and Anna-Karin Hatt involved in Stockholm Internet Forum 2013 -
Debate article, 22 May 2013
Internet freedom for more -
21 May 2013
Web cast interviews from Stockholm Internet Forum 2013 -
20 May 2013
Stockholm Internet Forum on the importance of an open and secure internet -
20 May 2013
SIF13 kicks off on 22 May -
Press release, 10 May 2013
14 May last date for accreditation: Stockholm Internet Forum on 2223 May
Posts from the Freedom on the Internet blog
Stockholm Internet Forum 2013
On 22-23 May 2013, Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt will host the second Stockholm Internet Forum - SIF13. The theme of SIF13 will be 'Internet freedom for global development', as it was for the first conference, SIF12.
