Internet Governance - Issues, Actors and Divides

This booklet aims to propose a practical framework for the analysis, discussion, and resolution of the key problems in this field. It examines internet governance and its implications for development, covering political, legal, technological, social and economic aspects, as well as the debate around internet governance that emerged at the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Co-published by DiploFoundation as part of its information society library series and Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) as part of its knowledge for development series, the booklet may be downloaded in full or by chapter.

Chapters include:

Introduction
• The Evolution of Internet Governance
• International Negotiations and Internet Governance
• What does Internet Governance Mean?
• Internet Governance Toolkit
• The Classification of Internet Governance
• "Building under Construction"
• The Infrastructure and Standardisation Basket
• The Telecommunications Infrastructure
  • Technical Standards and Services (The Internet Infrastructure)
  • Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
  • The Domain Name System (DNS)
  • Root Servers
  • Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
  • Internet Bandwidth Providers (IBPs)
  • Economic Model for Internet Connectivity
  • Web Standards
  • Open Source
  • Convergence: Internet-Telecommunications-Multimedia
  • Internet Security
  • Encryption
  • Spam
• The Legal Basket
  • Legal Mechanisms
  • Jurisdiction
  • Arbitration

Click here to download this publication as a PDF file from the GKP website.

The publication may also be downloaded as a PDF file from the DiploFoundation website, where it will soon be available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish.