[governance] identity - an IG-related issue that crosses boundaries

[Bertrand de La Chapelle]

On 3/10/06, Garth Graham <garth.graham at telus.net> wrote:
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> "in the longer term, "Internet governance is not about governance 'of'
> the Internet. It's governance 'by' the Internet."


Actually, you could distinguish three different aspects :
- governance OF the Internet (the typical DNS and scarce resources question)
- governance ON the Internet (rules and processes for activities conducted
on the Internet)
- and, governance IN THE AGE of the Internet (or also TROUGH the Internet
and other electronic tools)

The later seems to me what you mean by governance BY the Internet. But the
word "by" evokes a submission to the instrument rather than the empowerment.
You probably could also say governance VIA the Internet or even
 "Internet-supported governance".

This broader dimension addresses how the emergence of the global network is
giving birth to a new global polity. This polity needs governance mechanisms
as different from the traditional representative democracy of the industrial
age as representative democracy itself was from the feudal and monarchic
regimes of the agricultural age. What we have come to call
multi-stakeholderism is an other name for internet-supported participative
democracy.

Best

Bertrand
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