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....

2009 marks the fourth year of an experiment in a global governance domain marked by deep change and technological complexity: the UN-convened Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and the internet governance realm. Many of the innovations in this realm are shared with or borrowed from other global...

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)...