INTERNET GOVERNANCE

PROGRAM AREA

IP3 does policy-relevant research on global Internet governance. We produce analysis, host events, and participate in policy processes. Much of this work has focused on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the 2003-2005 UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

Internet Governance Project: much of our current work is done in a cross-university collaborative project with researchers at Syracuse University in New York.

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR): during the late 1990s much of IP3's work was done in partnership with CPSR under the title "Civil Society Democracy Project" (CivSoc). This work is archived here.

Selectected publications

Selected Publications from the Internet Governance Project

IGP Partners: Statement Opposing Political Intervention in the Internet's Core Technical Administrative Functions. (August 25, 2005)

Klein and Mueller: What to do About ICANN: A Proposal for Structural Reform. (April 2005)

Mathiason, Mueller, Klein, and Holitscher: Internet Governance: the State of Play. (September 2004) A comprehensive overview of Internet governance regimes, organizations, issues.

Selected Publications by Hans Klein

"The Right to Political Participation" in Rikke Frank Joergensen and William Drake, eds., Human Rights in the Global Information Society (MIT Press, 2006).

"Understanding WSIS: An Institutional Analysis of the UN World Summit on the Information Society," Information Technology and International Development, "Special Issue on WSIS." MIT Press, Vol.1, No. 3-4, Spring-Summer 2005, pp. 3-13.

"Working with the Resources at Hand: Constraints on Internet Institutional Design," Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, Vol. 9, No. 3, September 2004, 403-410.

"Technology, Contracts, and the Internet: Private Governance for Global Communications," in The Emergent Global Information Policy Regime, Sandra Braman, ed., (New York: Palgrave, 2003).

"ICANN and Internet Governance: Leveraging Technical Coordination to Make Global Public Policy," The Information Society, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2002, 193-207.

"ICANN et la gouvernance d'Internet: la coordination technique comme levier d'une politique publique mondiale," Les cahiers du numerique, Vol. 3, No. 2, September 2002, 93-128.

"Global Democracy and the ICANN Elections" info, Vol. 3, No.2, August 2001.

"The Feasibility of Global Democracy: Understanding ICANN's At-large Elections," info, Vol. 3, No.2, August 2001.