John Mathiason

Internet Governance

The New Frontier of Global Institutions

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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".

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780415774024
• ISBN-10: 0415774020
• Artikelnr.: 25683857

Autorenporträt

John Mathiason is Professor 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.

Inhaltsangabe

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, You-tube, 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?