Multi-Stakeholder Public Policy Governance and its Application to the Internet Governance Forum

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This thesis has been adapted into a book that has been called "a timely contribution and a useful reference" that "ought to be read by every participant in the UN Internet Governance Forum."

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1. Introduction

The hacker ethos

Genesis of the Internet

Technical and social architecture

Shaking the architecture’s foundations

Governance mechanisms

Rules
Norms
Markets
Architecture
Networks

2. Internet governance as it was

Technical coordination

Historical development
Current arrangements
Criticisms

Standards development

Standards bodies
Criticisms

Public policy governance

Internet-related public policy issues
Criticisms

Governance mechanisms revisited

3. The international system

International law and international relations

International law
International relations

Actors in international law

Governments
The private sector
Civil society
New medievalism

Sources of international law

Hard law
Soft law
Private law

Limitations of international law

The legitimacy of authority
Jurisdiction
Universality

Internet governance as law

4. Designing a governance network

Anarchistic

Anarchy and the Internet
Anarchistic Internet governance
Criticisms

Hierarchical

Bureaucracy
Oligarchy
Meritocracy
Hybrid models
Anarchistic-hierarchical Internet governance
Criticisms

Representation
Consent
Transparency and accountability
Inclusion
Criticisms

Consensus between stakeholder groups
Deliberative consensus
Consensus in Internet governance
Criticisms

Multi-stakeholder public policy development

5. Reform of Internet governance

Processes
First phase
WGIG
Second phase

Preparations
The First Meeting
Outcomes
The Second Meeting

Regional initiatives

CGI.br

Other proposals

Anarchistic
Hierarchical
Democratic
Consensual

The need for further reform

6. The IGF’s report card

Other organisations as models

Policy-setting
Coordination
Development

Existing structures
Structural reform

Representation
Consent
Transparency and accountability
Inclusion

A. Comparison of other organisations

B. GNU Free Documentation Licence

GNU Free Documentation Licence

Preamble
Applicablility and definitions
Verbatim copying
Copying in quantity
Modifications
Combining documents
Collections of documents
Aggregation with independent works
Translation
Termination
Future revisions of this license

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