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Overview of internet governance history and links to organizations and information.
Net Dialogue: clearinghouse on international internet governance
Link to Net Dialogue home page
The clearinghouse on international Net governance is the website arm of Net Dialogue, a joint project between Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Berkman Center) and Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society (CIS). The project bridges the high-tech communities of Boston and Silicon Valley and the international policymaking community of Geneva, Switzerland. Net Dialogue is made possible by funding from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.
The clearinghouse website (a) presents consolidated news on what is happening in intergovernmental organizations dealing with the Net, and (b) offers a forum for public discussion of these initiatives.
Net Dialogue's List of International Organizations involved in net governance
This very useful list includes a description of the roles and functions of 18 organizations "at the center of Net governance," from groups directly setting policy (such as World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)) to groups which do not directly set policy but whose mandates include such authority (such as the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF))
Code v 2.0 (Lawrence Lessig)
This book updates Lessig's "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace" (1999). "'Code v2' updates the original work. It is not, as Lessig writes in the preface, a "new work." Written in part collectively, through a Wiki hosted by JotSpot, the aim of the update was to recast the argument in the current context, and to clarify the argument where necessary."
Full book available via the Internet at http://pdf.codev2.cc/Lessig-Codev2.pdf.
Internet Governance Forum
"This is the official Web site of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), run by the IGF Secretariat. Its purpose is to support the United Nations Secretary-General in carrying out the mandate from the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) with regard to convening a new forum for multi-stakeholder policy dialogue - the Internet Governance Forum (IGF)."
International Telecommunications Union
"ITU is the leading United Nations agency for information and communication technologies. As the global focal point for governments and the private sector, ITU's role in helping the world communicate spans 3 core sectors: radiocommunication, standardization and development. ITU also organizes TELECOM events and was the lead organizing agency of the World Summit on the Information Society.
"ITU is based in Geneva, Switzerland, and its membership includes 191 Member States and more than 700 Sector Members and Associates."
2005 World Summit
"The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was held in two phases. The first phase took place in Geneva hosted by the Government of Switzerland from 10 to 12 December 2003, and the second phase took place in Tunis hosted by the Government of Tunisia, from 16 to 18 November 2005." This site collects information on the summit, documents, and follow-up.
EFF Info Infrastructure
EFF "Information Infrastructure - Domain Naming System (DNS) Control - ICANN, IANA and IAHC" Archive