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Multi-stakeholder governance and the Internet Governance Forum

"Multi-stakeholder governance is a fresh approach to the development of transnational public policy, bringing together governments, the private sector and civil society in partnership. The movement towards this new governance paradigm has been strongest in areas of public policy involving global networks of stakeholders, too intricate to be represented by governments alone. Nowhere is this better illustrated than on the Internet, where it is an inherent characteristic of the network that laws, and the behaviour to which those laws are directed, will cross national borders; resulting not only in conflicts between national regimes, but also running up against the technical and social architecture of the Internet itself. In this book, Jeremy Malcolm examines the new model of multi-stakeholder governance for the Internet regime that the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) represents. He builds a compelling case for the reform of the IGF to enable it to fulfil its mandate as an institution for multi-stakeholder Internet governance."--Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, 2008
1st pbk. ed
Terminus Press, Perth, 2008
xxviii, 611 pages ; 21 cm
9780980508406, 9780980508413, 0980508401, 098050841X
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Introduction
Internet governance as it was
International system
Designing a governance network
Reform of internet governance
IGF's report card
Comparison of other organizations