India is potentially one of the largest Internet markets in the world and has a unique mix of digital excellence along with digital divide. From e-commerce and digital news to gaming and e-government, India has changed a lot over the last 15 years since commercial launch of the Internet. This book addresses a number of…
GISWatch 2012: The Internet and Corruption GISWatch 2012 explores how the internet is being used to ensure transparency and accountability, the challenges that civil society activists face in fighting corruption, and when the internet fails as an enabler of a transparent and fair society.The eight thematic reports and 48 country reports published ask provocative questions…
Author (s), Editor (s): Lee A. Bygrave, Jon Bing ISBN-10: 0199561133, 9780199561131 This book focuses on the issues involved in the ongoing development of Internet governance, and the challenges associated with developing and applying governance structures at a global level based on bottom-up, consensus-seeking decision-making procedures, without direct foundation in a treaty frame-work. Link/ Website:…
Author (s), Editor (s): Adam D. Thierer, Clyde Wayne Jr
ISBN-13: 978-1930865433
This book considers the threats to free speech and online commerce posed by international goverment attempting to impose such territorial statutes and standards within cyberspace.
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Author (s), Editor (s): John Mathiason ISBN-10: 0415774039 | ISBN-13: 978-0415774031 Based on international regime theory, this book analyses how the multi-stakeholder institutions have grown along with the Internet itself. Starting with an examination of how communications were regulated under the Westphalian system, John Mathiason shows how governance of the Internet started as a technical…
Author (s), Editor (s): Robert K. Knake ISBN-10: 0876094817 | ISBN-13: 978-0876094815 Cybersecurity and homeland security expert Robert K. Knake urges the United States to promote its vision for a secure Internet through existing international forums. His report provides a clear statement of U.S. national interest in cyberspace and develops an agenda for promoting it…
This report explores key trends and challenges to the right of all individuals to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds through the Internet. The Special Rapporteur underscores the unique and transformative nature of the Internet not only to enable individuals to exercise their right to freedom of opinion and expression, but…
Author (s), Editor (s): Laura DeNardis ISBN-10: 0262258153, 9780262258159 This book demonstrates the considerations on specifications of various intrnet protocols. The emergence of Internet as what we see today is in part a consequence of specifications set forth by these standards and any future changes will also play a major role for future of Internet…
Author (s), Editor (s): Mueller, Milton L. ISBN-10: 0262288796, 9780262288798 Milton Mueller’s “Networks and States” continues his exploration of the forces shaping Internet policy across the globe. What Mueller is doing in his work in this book and elsewhere is becoming the early chronicler of the unfolding Internet governance scene. He meticulously reports on, and…
Author (s), Editor (s): William J. Drake ISBN-10: 9211045576, 9789211045574 The aim of this book is to give some insight into an exceptional experience of multistakeholder cooperation. It contains personal impressions of a group of people with a wide variety of backgrounds who were either members of the United Nations Working Group on Internet Governance…