Safeguarding Cyberspace
Contrary to the view that the Internet is the ultimate egalitarian conduit of free-flowing information, governments have always played a central role in regulating it – or at least have tried. But cyberspace presents a major governance challenge, and international efforts have yet to make much progress.
CAMBRIDGE – Brazil recently hosted NETmundial, the first global conference on Internet governance, attended by 800 representatives of governments, corporations, civil-society organizations, and technologists. Based on the notion of “multi-stakeholderism,” the meeting produced a 12-page “outcomes” document.