Internet governance

October 2004 -

Participants

• Dr Ian Brown, Oxford Internet Institute

• Professor William H. Dutton, Oxford Internet Institute

• Professor Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard University

Abstract

Our research on Internet governance is complemented by a programme of seminars, forums and conferences. This page provides links to these events, and also to webcasts and other resources arising from them.

Many events were organised as part of our work on civil society participation issues relating to the World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS): the WSIS project website provides a background to WSIS, and links and resources.

Workshops and events

12-15 Nov 2007 (IGF 2007, Rio de Janeiro): Marcelo Thompson has organised a workshop: 'Human Rights and Neutrality in the Information Age' addressing: 'In which sense are technologically neutral laws and policies suitable to harness the development of a people-centred Information Society and to protect and fulfil the human right of access to knowledge and technology?'. Ian Brown has co-organised the IGF 2007 workshop: 'Managing security issues: authentication at the transaction level' (pdf, 74kb) and published a paper: 'Co-regulating Internet Security: The London Action Plan' (pdf, 1Mb) at the Global Internet Governance Academic Network's (GigaNet) second annual symposium.

Publications

• Dutton, W.H. and Peltu, M. (2007) The Emerging Internet Governance Mosaic: Connecting the Pieces. Information Polity 12 (1-2) 63-81.
• Dutton, W.H., Palfrey, J. and Peltu, M. (2007) Deciphering the Codes of Internet Governance: Understanding the Hard Issues at Stake. Oxford Internet Institute Forum Discussion Paper No. 8, University of Oxford.
• Rasmussen, T. (2007) Techno-politics, Internet Governance and some challenges facing the Internet. Oxford Internet Institute Research Report No. 15, University of Oxford.

Webcasts

• Internet Governance for Development

  Recorded on: 31 August 2006 Duration: 01:41:29

  An overview of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and the issues it plans to address under the theme 'Internet Governance for Development'. What are its overarching goals? What are its priority issues? How can people participate, and why should they?

• The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It

  Recorded on: 25 April 2006 Duration: 00:59:34

  What lies around the corner for the Internet .. and how do we avoid it? How can we study and affect the future of the Internet using the distributed power of the network itself? Prof Jonathan Zittrain's inaugural lecture at the University of Oxford.

• Recent Developments in FCC Internet Regulation

  Recorded on: 18 April 2006 Duration: 00:53:11

  The US Federal Commmunications Commission has moved swiftly to remove old rules (common carriage) and impose new ones (E911, CALEA). This talk summarises and assesses the US debate about network owners' provision of a 'prioritized Internet'.

• Internet Governance for Dummies

  Recorded on: 4 July 2005 Duration: 00:57:51

  What aspects of the Internet need to be governed? How effectively are ICANN, the IETF and the ITU dealing with the key issues of Internet governance? Session introduced and chaired by Ted Nelson.

Last updated on: 2 February 2010