OREANDA-NEWS. November 26, 2013. Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves has been appointed to lead a committee of IT experts drawing from government, business and civil society, whose task is to address global challenges facing the future of the Internet.

The organization, called together by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an organization that manages IP addresses and domain names, will hold its first meeting in London in December.

Ilves said the group aims to develop principles for maintaining a free and secure Internet.

Ilves has been an outspoken advocate of Internet freedom and a critic of authoritarian governments that restrict such freedoms.