Category: politics
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Net Dialogue: Clearing House on Internet Governance
One of the most useful sites that you will find concerning the complex subject of Internet governance is a ‘clearing house’ site jointly produced by Harvard and Stanford’s Law Schools. They demarcate the various communities of interest and the contested attributes of Internet governance and even suggest why we need Internet governance in the first…
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The Internet and Political Communication
1) What are the Internet's political features? 2 Why is the Internet important for politics? 3) How does it impact upon the public sphere? What sort of politics? There are a number of different ways that the Internet can be discussed in terms of politics; there are the issues that surround the governance and regulation…
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Asia Pacific Development Information Programme
As the Internet becomes more important within social, economic, and political processes, issues of Internet governance will continue to come to the fore. The governance of the Internet concerns all 'three sectors'; government, the private sector, and Non-Government Organisations (NGOs). Together they confront a range of issues including technical standards, control, and access to the…