Internet governance : the new frontier of global institutions /

Main Author: Mathiason, John, 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, England : Routledge, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. What is the Internet and what is governance?
  • 2. Before the Internet : communications and its regulation through history
  • 3. The non-state actors : engineers, entrepreneurs, and netizens
  • 4. Solving the domain name problem : Internet governance is born
  • 5. Regulatory imperatives for Internet governance : downloading music, free speech, YouTube, porn, and crime and terrorism
  • 6. The ICANN experiment
  • 7. Multi-stakeholderism emerges from the World Summit on the Information Society
  • 8. The IGF experiment begins
  • 9. What does the frontier look like?