Global Governance
On the road to Hyderabad – Internet Governance and Development Agenda
January, 2008, Gurumurthy Kasinathan & Anita Gurumurthy, IT for Change
Given that the Internet has emerged as a critical global public good, and a fundamental building block for transformative change, its governance is being increasingly perceived as a critical political arena. The contestations around Internet governance are significant for the vision of an inclusive, just and development-oriented information society. The trajectory of Internet governance processes has led to creation of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), characterised by its format of ‘multi-stakeholderism’, which opens up an opportunity for governments, civil society, business sector and inter-governmental institutions to collaborate in discussing and suggesting policies for meaningful governance of the Internet.
Input from India for the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) meeting
February 2005, United Nations Online Network in Public Administration and Finance
The document details the submissions from India to the Working Group on Internet Governance(WGIG). It defines the term Internet governance (IG) and brings up important aspects of IG, such as administration of domain names, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, root server management as well as strategies for tackling some of the contentious problems such as hacking and spam.
Regulation of cyber – A space or a medium?
Lawrence Liang , Alternative Law Forum
This paper examines the philosophical basis for a claim to regulate cyberspace rather than looking at specific loopholes in existing laws and the proposed legislations which deal with cyberspace. The author critically assesses the claim that cyberspace has to be regulated and the particular mode of regulation that is envisaged. According to him, cyberspace may be one of the last surviving commons which has evaded strict regulation. The issue at hand is whether the Internet is simply a technological medium or a technological space.
Domain names in Indian languages soon
October 22, 2007,Indiatimes Infotech
With initial registration beginning in early 2008, Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) are opening up to the Indian market. The first domain names, available in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi and Sanskrit, aim to promote diffusion and accessibility of the Internet to rural areas, by facilitating websites' use of local languages in domain names as well as content. However, the opening up of IDNs to India also faces many challenges.
