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How Can the Global Internet Be Governed?
A Brown University professor offered a working paper on Internet governance at the fifth Global Cyberspace Cooperation Summit in Berlin.
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There is little governance for the Internet outside of domain name and Internet Protocol address management, and Brown University professor John Savage offered a working paper on tackling Internet governance at this week's fifth Global Cyberspace Cooperation Summit in Berlin.
Savage says the paper focuses on the meaning of Internet governance, which can vary among different stakeholders. The paper outlines five wide-ranging issues, including network architecture, content control, cybercrime, cyberattacks, and human rights.
Savage notes existing organizations set up to deal with such issues as human rights and crime should be authorized to manage Internet-related governance matters that fall into their area of specialty. A key challenge involves making these agencies Internet-savvy, and to do this Savage suggests the organizations hold forums with multiple stakeholders with Internet expertise to air these issues.
"As a consequence, they can make better decisions and move forward more rapidly," he says.
Savage cites decentralized Internet governance as beneficial, given its complexity and the greater likelihood of consensus on key issues among stakeholders if such a framework is implemented. "If one organization governs all of the Internet, some governments may be tempted to try to capture control of this organization and, thereby, have too great a say about Internet governance," he warns.
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