Internet Governance: The New Frontier of Global Institutions

by Mathiason, John

• ISBN13: 9780203946084
• ISBN10: 0203946081
• Copyright: 2008-08-04
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

John Mathiason tells the story of the internet governance, where the linkage between technology, information, individuals, old regulatory regimes and new approaches have led to a great experiment, what a volume produced by the United Nations Information and Communications Technology Task Force called A Grand Collaboration .

Author Biography

John Mathiason is Professor of International Relations at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University. A former official of the United Nations Secretariat, he is the author of Invisible Governance: International Secretariats in Global Politics and many articles on global governance

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
List of abbreviations	p. xviii
Introduction	p. 1
What is the Internet and what is governance?	p. 6
Before the Internet: communications and its regulation through history	p. 24
The non-state actors: engineers, entrepreneurs, and netizens	p. 32
Solving the domain name problem: Internet governance is born	p. 49
Regulatory imperatives for Internet governance: downloading music, free speech, YouTube, porn, and crime and terrorism	p. 59
The ICANN experiment	p. 70
Multi-stakeholderism emerges from the World Summit on the Information Society	p. 97
The IGF experiment begins	p. 126
What does the frontier look like?	p. 146
Notes	p. 151
Select bibliography	p. 161
Index	p. 162
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