Multilingual Internet Root

Multilingual Internet Root

While ICANN is striving to maintain its dominant role in Internet governance, new institutional and policy developments, particularly those activities of the International Telecommunications Union and the Multilingual Internet Names Consortium, may signal the end of the single-authority era. The future governance structure of a multilingualized Internet will likely take the form of international regime, defined by sets of rules, norms, procedures, and programs which are developed by various local and international players in the process of the DNS internationalization.

Internet Governance and the Global South

A welcome addition to Palgrave's Global Media Policy and Business series, Internet Governance and the Global South documents the role of the global south in Internet policymaking and challenges the globalization theories that declared the death of the state in global decision-making. Abu Bhuiyan argues that the global Internet politics is primarily a conflict between the states - the United States of America and the states of the global south - because the former controls Internet policymaking. The states of the global south have been both oppositional and acquiescing to the sponsored policies of the United States on Internet issues such as digital divide, multilingualism, intellectual property rights and cyber security. They do not oppose the neoliberal underpinnings of the policies promoted by the United States, but ask for an international framework to govern the Internet so that they can work as equal partners in setting norms for the global Internet.

Internet governance