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In this chapter, we focus on the highly technical and politically sensitive policy issues related to the global governance of the Internet and the World Wide Web. We examine the people, networks, and issues giving rise to the fundamental changes in which the Internet has to be governed, and what it means to “govern” the Internet. We talk about the creation of the Internet Society (ISOC) to provide a stimulus toward informed policy- and standard-setting for the Internet. We then talk about the landmark creation of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as an innovative multistakeholder institution, designed to address the growing calls for the internationalization and privatization of the oversight and maintenance of the key technical functions related to the stability and functioning of the Internet.
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Cogburn, D.L. (2017). ISOC, ICANN, and Experiments in Multistakeholder Global Internet Governance. In: Transnational Advocacy Networks in the Information Society. Information Technology and Global Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48361-4_4
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