希拉里发表演讲:Internet Freedom THE FREEDOM TO CONNECT The final freedom I want to addre today flows from the four I\'ve already mentioned: the freedom to connectand a cureall good things.However, right now, mobile application developers have no financial incentive to pursue that project on their own and the State Department lacks a mechanism to make it happen.This initiative should help resolve that problem, and provide long-term dividends from modest investments in innovation.We\'re going to work with experts to find the best structure for this venture, and we\'ll need the talent and resources of technology companies and non-profit organizations in order to get the best results.So for those of you in this room, consider yourselves invited.In the meantime, there are companies, individuals, and institutions working on ideas and applications that could advance our diplomatic and development objectives.And the State Department will be launching an innovation competition to give this work an immediate boost.We\'ll be asking Americans to send us their best ideas for applications and technologies that help to break down language barriers, overcome illiteracy, and connect people to the services and information they need.Microsoft, for example, has already developed a prototype for a digital doctor that could help provide medical care in isolated rural communities.We want to see more ideas like that.And we\'ll work with the winners of the competition and provide grant to help build their ideas to scale.PRIVATE SECTOR AND FOREIGN GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBILITY As we work together with the private sector and foreign governments to deploy the tools of 21st century statecraft, we need to remember our shared responsibility to safeguard the freedoms I\'ve talked about today.We feel strongly that principles like information freedom aren\'t just good policy, they\'re good busine for all involved.To use market terminology, a publicly-listed company in Tunisia or Vietnam that operates in an environment of censorship will always trade at a discount relative to an identical firm in a free society.If corporate decision makers don\'t have acce to global sources of news and information, investors will have le confidence in their decisions.Countries that censor news and information must recognize that, from an economic standpoint, there is no distinction between censoring political speech and commercial speech.If businees in your nation are denied acce to either type of information, it will inevitably reduce growth.Increasingly, U.S.companies are making the iue of information freedom a greater consideration in their busine decisions.I hope that their competitors and foreign governments will pay close attention to this trend.The most recent example of Google\'s review of its busine operations in China has attracted a great deal of interest.We look to Chinese authorities to conduct a thorough investigation of the cyber intrusions that led Google to make this announcement.We also look for that investigation and its results to be transparent.The internet has already been a source of tremendous progre in China, and it\'s great that so many people there are now online.But countries that restrict free acce to information or violate the basic rights of internet users risk walling themselves off from the progre of the next century.The United States and China have different views on this iue.And we intend to addre those differences candidly and consistently.Ultimately, this iue isn\'t just about information freedom; it\'s about what kind of world we\'re going to inhabit.It\'s about whether we live on a planet with one internet, one global community, and a common body of knowledge that unites and benefits us all.Or a fragmented planet in which acce to information and opportunity is dependent on where you live and the whims of censors.Information freedom supports the peace and security that provide a foundation for global progre.Historically, asymmetrical acce to information is one of the leading causes of interstate conflict.When we face serious disputes or dangerous incidents, it\'s critical that people on both sides of the problem have acce to the same set of facts and opinions.As it stands, Americans can consider information presented by foreign governmentsa voluntary effort by technology companies who are working with non-governmental organization, academic experts, and social investment funds to respond to government requests for censorship.The Initiative goes beyond mere statements of principle and establishes mechanisms to promote real accountability and transparency.As part of our commitment to support responsible private sector engagement on information freedom, the State Department will be convening a high-level meeting next month co-chaired by Under Secretaries Robert Hormats and Maria Otero to bring together firms that provide network services for talks on internet freedom.We hope to work together to addre this challenge.Pursuing the freedoms I\'ve talked about today is the right thing to do.But it\'s also the smart thing to do.By advancing this agenda, we align our principles, our economic goals, and our strategic priorities.We need to create a world in which acce to networks and information brings people closer together, and expands our definition of community.Given the magnitude of the challenges we\'re facing, we need people around the world to pool their knowledge and creativity to help rebuild the global economy, protect our environment, defeat violent extremism, and build a future in which every human being can realize their God-given potential.Let me close by asking you to remember the little girl who was pulled from the rubble on Monday in Port-au-Prince.She is alive, was reunited with her family, and will have the opportunity to help rebuild her nation because these networks took a voice that was buried and spread it to the world.No nation, group, or individual should stay buried in the rubble of oppreion.We cannot stand by while people are separated from our human family by walls of censorship.And we cannot be silent about these iues simply because we cannot hear their cries.Let us recommit ourselves to this cause.Let us make these technologies a force for real progre the world over.And let us go forward together to champion these freedoms.
