ITU Telecom World 2009 In Review 2009 Geneva 5-9 October Questions being raised around the Internet are certainly not new. Indeed, when paper first became democratically available just before Renaissance, concerns about its potential misuse were also raised; history has demonstrated however that ultimately it ended up empowering people. Citizens can do much more if given the possibility and freedom. 200 years ago, the majority of smart people worked for governments. Nowadays, smart ideas come from the masses. In-novation happens at the edges. Threats arising from the Internet take multiple forms. How can one be critical on what the Internet delivers? 500 years ago, when books – the ultimate au-thority on everything at that time – first appeared in public space, people ended up being the ultimate filter of what is good or bad. Humans are predetermined to cherish and value peace, empathy. More biological goodness – vs. the cur-rent power model – is to be seen in the Internet era if power is given to average population. Summary of closing remarks ITU is a multi-stakeholder organization that is enabled with perspectives from different interest groups. Moderator * Dr João Augusto Schwarz da Silva, Director, DG Information Society , European Com-mission, EC Panellists * Dr Hiroshi Miyabe, Vice President, National Institute of Information & Communciations Technology (NICT), Japan * Ms Lynn St Amour, President and CEO, Internet Society, ISOC * Mr Dirk Trossen, Director, BT Innovate, British Telecom, United Kingdom * Mr EunWoo Lee, Member of Steering Committee, Jinbonet, Korea (Rep. of) * Dr Ziga Turk, Professor of Construction Informatics, Secretary General for Reflection Group, University of Ljubljana , Slovenia * Dr Helmut Schink, Vice-Chairman ITU-T/SG 15, Head of Industry Environment Wireline, Service Delivery and Multimedia, Nokia SiemensNetworks GmbH & Co. KG, ITU * Mr Chae-Sub Lee, Chairman, ITU Study Group 13, ETRI, Korea (Rep. of) 72 Forum Summary Report