Economic growth through innovation 6. By adopting digital technologies and enabling new business models, by providing access to international markets, and by enabling people anywhere in the world to connect, collaborate, and trade, through improvement of production processes, the creation of ICT-enabled products, and data-driven innovation taking into account privacy and data protection that creates employment and wealth. Sustainable and inclusive development 7. By contributing to the strategies to address the global challenges we face, including ending poverty, strengthening food security, improving health care and education, promoting sustainable transportation and logistics, achieving gender equality, providing energy security, enhancing accessibility for those who are poor and vulnerable, mitigating climate change, and reducing disaster risk, as set out in the Sustainable Development Goals of “The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” adopted by the UN General Assembly in September 2015, and to achieving Green IT principles and the goals of the Paris Agreement, adopted at the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP21 in December 2015. Fundamental Principles 8. We reaffirm and share the following fundamental principles which we believe underpin the digitally connected world: i. Promoting and Protecting Human Rights 9. By setting down the basis of this Charter for the Digitally Connected World, we recognize that the same human rights and fundamental freedoms that people have offline apply and must also be protected online. Progress towards the digitally connected world should be measured both as a function of economic development and with reference to human rights and fundamental freedoms, as set forth by the Outcome Document of the review by the United Nations General Assembly of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+10). ii. Promoting and protecting the free flow of information 10. The Internet’s open, interoperable and distributed nature is a powerful enabler of innovation and economic growth. The free flow of information can catalyze 2