As members of a small hunter-gatherer group thousands of years ago that ‘transaction’ landscape could be said to belong either to everybody or to nobody… it was made from the air through which our voices carried and the light by which we saw the smile or frown on the fellow next to us.

But scaling of civilization has required a multitude of scaling technologies. Money, alphabets, telephone cables and the Internet are all examples of technologies for scaling transaction; however its worth noting both money and alphabets are NOT landscapes themselves but operate through them… whereas a telephone network and the Internet are.)

I believe there’s a place for enterprise, business and private ownership (no argument with inventors of great phones with handy features being rewarded… or those with innovations fro improving technical landscapes)… but transaction landscapes themselves may be best held in some sort of universally owned or governed formulation. So in that sense a global involvement is logical. However, as an organization of governments rather than an organization of individuals… the U.N. may not have the proper incentives (or too narrow a perspective) to find best solutions.

Regardless, solutions which will be tough to find and difficult to implement under the best of circumstances… and even then… likely only temporary.