Policy-makers and analysts want to understand and measure the importance of the activities of the ICT sector in order to properly inform policy-making that could support, and possibly expand, the realization of these benefits. [...] For example, the member nations of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) settled on an initial definition of the ICT sector in 1998 which was “limited to those industries which facilitate, by electronic means, the processing, transmission and display of information, and it excludes the industries which create the information, the so-called ‘content’ industries.”2 Unfort [...] Who among these entities is responsible for the distribution of Internet IP addresses;12 Internet domain name and management of the Internet root servers;13 the development and publishing of communication, networking and Internet standards?14 What entities coordinate all of the policy discussions involved with arbitrating and agreeing on these functions?15 Given the trans-border nature of the glob [...] Who represents the oversight interests of the general public on these issues?17 The answer is that none of the traditional ICT companies is fulfilling any of these roles, considered in many cases vital to the functioning and stability of the global communications infrastructure, other than through voluntary contributions to some of the collaborative organizations that do. [...] The proliferation of the duplication and distribution of culture in general as enabled by the Internet, more generally referred to as open source culture, has pulled content- producing industries not previously considered a part of the ICT sector into the system.