News and Research articles on Global internet governance

Volume 9, Issue 3

Russia’s great power imaginary and pursuit of digital multipolarity

Stanislav Budnitsky, University of Pennsylvania
PUBLISHED ON: 26 Aug 2020 DOI: 10.14763/2020.3.1492

Russian ruling elites’ view of Russia as a great power transcends political leadership and ideology, and directs the state’s advancement of a multipolar digital order.

KEYWORDS: Global internet governance, International Telecommunication Union, International information security, National identity, Russia
Volume 9, Issue 1

The crucial and contested global public good: principles and goals in global internet governance

Hans Morten Haugen, VID Specialized University
PUBLISHED ON: 28 Jan 2020 DOI: 10.14763/2020.1.1447

Management of the internet by the principle of the multistakeholder governance model has survived attempts of replacing it with inter-government management. What additional principles are useful to guide global internet governance and enhance ICANN’s legitimacy, seen in light of recent challenges? Are the disagreements over global internet governance also about diverging understandings of the goals in internet governance?

KEYWORDS: Global internet governance, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Internet Governance Forum (IGF), World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)