Mapping an ignored agenda: Internet governance at the WSIS.(ComMunity IndePenDent MediA)(World Summit on the Information Society)

Women in Action, August, 2005 by Gurumurthy, Anita; Singh, Parminder Jeet

Introduction

A critical issue which is both a good and a bad barometer of the information society (IS) discourse at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) today is the issue of Internet governance (Ig). Within the negotiating framework of WSIS, the IG regime was divided into three parts: setting technical standards," critical resource allocation," and public policy-making, enforcement and dispute-resolution. (1) It is at present a very distributed regime.

The emphasis on IG and its high visibility in the WSIS process tended to take focus away from the important issue of exploring how the Internet can address long-standing development issues. It is, on the other hand, also a good barometer of the IS discourse because the issue of IG...

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