Is the internet decentralised? I argue that it is not. To understand power in the internet, it must be viewed as a distributed system.
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This special issue calls to rethink how we conceptualise both internet and governance.
How has policy reacted to the post-Snowden surveillance discourse in the UK? This paper identifies eight dynamics.
One multi-stakeholder process is not like another, but how can we distinguish those that promote meaningful inclusion from those that don't?
This article revisits the multistakeholder approach to internet policymaking and makes a case for a new model recognising the heterogeneity of stakeholders’ interests.
The World Economic Forum talks internet governance. Who listens?
The World Economic Forum (WEF) starts on Wednesday in Switzerland. Count on internet governance to become a trending topic.
Trials and tribulations of changing oversight of core internet infrastructure
The whole family of internet self-governing bodies are busy preparing their takes on how to reign the future Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). As a coordinator of core infrastructure services for naming (ICANN), numbering (Regional Internet Registries) and standardisation (IETF), IANA has been in the middle of quite some fights. This one
Privacy gets another push from recent surveillance revelations, but who shall provide it? A workshop on data protection in cloud computing prior to the upcoming meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force tries to get an answer from politicians and techies.