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With one bound he was free!

The Internet organisation ICANN’s charismatic CEO, Fadi Chehade has moved on. Did he achieve what he set out to do? Was it what we needed him to do? And what about human rights?

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Fadi Chehade (left) as Dilma Roussef (middle) signs the Marco Civil at NetMundial, April, 2014. Wikicommons/Blog di Pianolto. Some rights reserved.On March 15, 2016, Fadi Chehade stepped down as CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organisation that manages the Internet’s global naming and numbering systems. Fadi was appointed in 2012 to get the organisation back on course after the tumultuous rein of Rod Beckstrom.*