Four Internets: The Geopolitics of Digital Governance

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The internet — a fragile construction of hardware, software, standards and databases — is run by an ever-expanding range of private and public actors constrained only by voluntary protocols and subject to political pressure. The authors describe four emerging views of how best to govern the internet, each playing a geopolitical role and championed at the national level.

 

 

PUBLISHED: DECEMBER 7, 2018
AUTHORS: KIERON O’HARA, WENDY HALL