Internet Regulation: Challenges of Governance

Abstract

This panel considers the challenges to international and comparative regulation of information and communications technologies. It particularly considers the role of the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG), an innovative forum established by the Secretary General to provide an expert forum comprised of government, corporate and civil society members, the latter recognized through an electronic caucus that nominated the individuals, and with full membership status. Such a radically inclusive process of innovative international regulation should be connected to the wider political science discourse on international regulation. This includes the questions of comparative national, regional and plurilateral communications regulation, and their linkage to the international context. The new features of governance through regulation, their new challenges for civil society, and the existing varieties of the Internet and telecoms regulatory world will be analyzed for their wider significance to the development of regulation. Insights from Politics and Society, Law and Economics, and International Political Economy will be utilized.

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