This is an extraordinary time of change and opportunity in higher education with a special focus on civic engagement. Approximately twelve years ago, Thomas Ehrlich’s published his call to action for universities and colleges (Ehrlich, 2000), following several key reports on civic...

Highlighting the extension of rights to participate in Internet governance related dialogue, this paper makes a distinction between e-government and internet governance, although it identifies an e-government trend toward a focus on civic engagement and thus, ‘participation’. It focuses on...

Reporting on a study of both internet and environmental governance against a backdrop of fiscal, technological, and political uncertainties, this paper examines key factors from these literatures in comparative perspective. Particular attention is paid to level of analyses and co-processes....

This paper examines two key but often overlooked analytic dimensions related to global technology governance: the roles of culture and cross-cultural communication processes and the broader framework of Multistakeholderism. Each of these dimensions has a growing tradition of research/conceptual...

There is a need now to focus on co-creation and co-production processes in Internet governance related policy discussions. This paper presents a conceptual framework from research related to such processes in other domains and highlights elements requisite for understanding these processes in...

Arguing that an ecological or ecosystem view is vital for understanding the complex and messy global policy space for internet governance, this paper provides a model and raises issues regarding “representation’ in this policy space. It examines questions of informal (non-electoral)...