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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">I'm coming into this discussion late because I'm (still) on vacation.</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">A couple of years ago, I looked into this question of what might be the constraints if an international body were to be set up for "oversight" of the Internet. The paper was presented at the 2010 symposium of the Global Internet
Governance Academic Network in Vilnius.</div>
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<div>The paper is clickable from <a href="http://giga-net.org/page/2010-annual-symposium" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">http://giga-net.org/page/2010-annual-symposium</a> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">Peng
Hwa Ang and Natalie Pang, </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Going
Beyond Talk: Can International Internet Governance Work? -</i><i style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000ff"> <a href="http://api.ning.com/files/jwkXigWnjeUpz3PsEm*jQDIriMRnQvWRcAb7VdIsAHg1PoLefTm6sWd2kVrDxX*D*k4R*9-waGtoguraB6uvwt5gri3l8ZUg/ANGandPANG.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; ">ANG
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<div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; ">To sum up: there are 3 factors to be considered in such a situation—globalization, sovereignty (of governments) and democracy (where accountability comes into the picture).
The model is drawn from Dani Rodrik's</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; "> trilemma of global integration. My colleague and I concluded that governments will not surrender their sovereignty easily; citizens will not surrender democracy
easily. So it's globalization that has to give. We call it "thin globalization." This means that conceptually speaking, any international body will not be a truly global entity. It will likely have to be anchored in some national jurisdiction. (The model discussed
would be an example of thin globalization.)</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">My colleague and I then ask: ok, assuming that we have thin globalization, how realistic would it be that this body can function? That is, what is needed for this body
to function as oppose to malfunction? Drawing from the theory of collective action by Mancur Olsen, we concluded that there needs to be a critical mass of support. This critical mass refers more to the quality of support (think heavyweights) as opposed to
quantity of support. We also said that the USA must remain involved.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">Hope this sheds some light.</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Peng Hwa ANG<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Peng Hwa (Professor) |</span></b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> Director, Singapore Internet Research Centre | Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information | Nanyang Technological University <b>|</b> WKWSCI
02-17, 31 Nanyang Link, Singapore 639798 <br>
Tel: (65) 67906109 GMT+8h | Fax: (65) 6792-7526 | Web: <a href="http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc</a></span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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