News and Research articles on UNESCO

Volume 8, Issue 1

Communication and internet policy: a critical rights-based history and future Practicing rights and values in internet policy around the world

Aphra Kerr, Maynooth University
Francesca Musiani, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Julia Pohle, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
PUBLISHED ON: 31 Mar 2019 DOI: 10.14763/2019.1.1395

This issue brings together a selection of articles presented in the Communication Policy and Technology section of the IAMCR conference in 2018.

KEYWORDS: IAMCR, User rights, State policy, Communication rights, UNESCO
Volume 2, Issue 2

WSIS+10: the self-praising feast of multi-stakeholderism in internet governance

Francesca Musiani, MINES ParisTech
PUBLISHED ON: 12 Apr 2013 DOI: 10.14763/2013.2.121

Ten years after the first World Summit on the Information Society, WSIS+10 was held in February 2013 at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Internet governance scholar Francesca Musiani attended and reports back with a critical assessment of the “multi-stakeholder” approach to global governance of information and communication technologies.

KEYWORDS: Internet governance, WSIS+10, Internet Governance Forum (IGF), World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), Knowledge society, Multi-stakeholderism