The internet has created a one world of information and commerce. According to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) nearly 40 per cent of the world population is currently using the Internet. While in the developed world over 75 per cent of the people use the Internet, only 30 per cent of individuals in developing countries use the Internet. Nations blessed with comprehensive Internet connectivity are priviledged and tend to call themselves Internet societies. In less priviledged societies not everybody ‘enjoys’ the Internet and a large number of people are left out of all benefits that the Internet stands for. A natural transformation for these societies would be to aspire and achieve Internet connectivity. However, this process of virtual integration, which is by far the most outstanding character of contemporary human civilization, stands threatened due to unforeseen dangers of covert surveillance by those who are better equipped by history and accident to undertake such attacks on privacy of individuals anywhere in the world. The Snowden revelations have exposed the extent of secret cyber surveillance by a single world power and have rang alarms on violations of basic human rights like online privacy as well as of dignity and sovereignty of nation states. This has suddenly made Internet governance one of the foremost international issues that various nations are seeking to address with a definite urgency.