Co-Creating Process in Global Governance: The Case of the Internet Governance Forum

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nanette S. Levinson
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Governance

Internet Governance

2011 ◽  
pp. 468-483
Author(s):  
Lauren Movius
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Governance ◽  
World Summit ◽  
Technical Issue ◽  
Domain Name ◽  
Formal Framework ◽  
The World ◽  
National Governments

As the Internet has spread globally, and its economic, political, and cultural influences have increased, it is necessary to develop appropriate policy to govern it, in order to manage and protect it’s presence in our lives. While national governments apply their laws on the Internet, the Internet presents many issues that span national jurisdictions, and therefore requires global governance. Early Internet governance was self-regulatory and involved organizations and a community of users that made decisions through rough consensus. ICANN and the technical issue of domain name and addressing began debates over the issue of Internet governance. Larger issues of Internet governance emerged during the World Summit on the Information Society, whose existence illustrates the shift towards accepting the need for a global, more formal framework of governance. This chapter explores Internet governance and covers the following themes: understanding the challenge of governing the Internet; frameworks and definitions of Internet governance; and the evolution of the Internet governance debate. As there is much disagreement about what Internet governance is, this chapter synthesizes the main issues and debates and provides an overview of Internet governance.

scholarly journals Legitimacy in Multistakeholder Global Governance at ICANN

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 298-324
Author(s):  
Hortense Jongen ◽  
Jan Aart Scholte
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Governance ◽  
The Core ◽  
Geographical Regions ◽  
Legitimacy Beliefs

Abstract This article examines levels and patterns of legitimacy beliefs toward one of today’s most developed global multistakeholder regimes, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Two complementary surveys find that levels of legitimacy perceptions toward ICANN often rank alongside, and sometimes ahead of, those for other sites of global governance, both multilateral and multistakeholder. Moreover, average legitimacy beliefs toward ICANN hold consistently across stakeholder sectors, geographical regions, and social groups. However, legitimacy beliefs decline as one moves away from the core of the regime, and many elites remain unaware of ICANN. Furthermore, many participants in Internet governance express only moderate (and sometimes low) confidence in ICANN. To this extent, the regime’s legitimacy is more fragile. Extrapolation from mixed evidence around ICANN suggests that, while multistakeholder global governance is not under existential threat, its legitimacy remains somewhat tenuous.

scholarly journals Internet Governance: A Developing Nation's Call for Administrative Legal Reform

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 368-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Surya Mani Tripathi ◽  
Anshu Pratap Singh ◽  
Dipa Dube
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Legal Reform ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Governance ◽  
Global Village ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Barriers ◽  
Networked Society

AbstractThe internet has emerged as a reservoir of information and has pushed the world to evolve into a global village. Increased communication across political, social and economic barriers has created a virtual society of its own. This networked society poses considerable challenges for Internet Governance. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the institution responsible for the internet management. ICANN has been at the center of the debates over global governance of the internet. Key concerns raised in these debates involve the legitimacy of institutions as well as the participation of developed and developing nations in Internet governance.

scholarly journals Deconstructing Internet Governance: A Framework for Analysis

2019 ◽  
pp. 15-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roxana Radu
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Governance ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Governance Mechanisms ◽  
Sources Of Authority ◽  
Key Dimensions ◽  
Cross Fertilization

Chapter 2 explores the global governance scholarship and its cross-fertilization with the study of Internet developments. Clustered around three prominent themes in international affairs—varieties of governance, sources of authority, and praxis—the chapter scrutinizes scattered, often implicit proposals on the emergence and articulation of governance. It links these to more recent attempts to study the Internet as part of distinct repertoires, identifying the genesis and structuration of new issue domains as a marginal focus in the literature. Based on a deconstructive approach, this chapter provides a guiding frame that distinguishes between three key dimensions for the enactment of governance: mechanisms, actors, and anchoring practices. Methodologically, this translates into a complex research design combining historical and empirical analysis, explained in detail in the second part of the chapter.

THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN INTERNET GOVERNANCE. PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 26-32
Author(s):  
N. S. FILATOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
The State ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Governance ◽  
State Management ◽  
Governance Model ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Development Goals

The article is devoted to the study of the concept of the Internet governance model with the participation of stakeholders and its impact on business in regions and countries, as well as to the discussion of sustainable development goals related to Internet governance. Examples of how enterprises suffer from state management methods in this area are presented.

Innovations in Global Governance: Toward a Distributed Internet Governance Ecosystem

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefaan Verhulst ◽  
Beth Simone Noveck ◽  
Jillian M Raines ◽  
Antony Declerq
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Internet Governance
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