The United
Nations (UN) Working Group on Internet Governance (UN-WGIG) has released its 10th
anniversary reflections to mark the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS)+10, reports
ITRealms.
The UN General Assembly, ITRealms
recalls reviewed the progress made over the past decade and negotiated a text
that addresses a number of global Internet governance issues, while 2015 is
also the 10th anniversary of a multistakeholder experiment that helped bring
the WSIS to a successful conclusion through the Working Group on Internet
Governance (WGIG).
Convened in 2004, the WGIG assembled
40 representatives of governments and stakeholders who engaged in months of
intensive peer-level dialogue and collective analysis. The WGIG process was an
important turning point and catalyst in the intergovernmental recognition of
multistakeholder processes for Internet governance.
ITRealms reports that in June 2005,
the WGIG released a widely noted report that advanced a “broad definition” of
Internet governance; holistically addressed a range of policy issues; offered
four competing models for the ”oversight” of critical Internet resources; and
proposed the establishment of the Internet Governance Forum. The report
significantly influenced the final agreement adopted by WSIS same year.
This book, edited by William J.
Drake and published by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), Asia
Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), CGI.br, Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and Internet Society, reflects on the
WGIG’s procedural and substantive contributions to the evolving global Internet
governance dialogue and institutional ecosystem. Written by former WGIG members
and others who played key roles in the debates on the WGIG and WSIS, the volume
is a follow-up to a book produced in the summer of 2005: William J. Drake,
ed., Reforming Internet Governance: Perspectives from the UN
Working Group on Internet Governance.
Some fo the topics include: historical overview; understanding Internet
governance; institutionalizing multistakeholder cooperation; from oversight to
stewardship; Internet governance for development; and closing reflections.
ITRealms further gathered that other contributing authors include: Fiona Alexander, Peng Hwa Ang and Sherly Haristya,
Karen Banks and Anriette Esterhuysen, Nitin Desai, Avri Doria, William J.
Drake, Raúl Echeberría, Baher Esmat, Juan Fernández González, Hartmut R. Glaser
and Diego R. Canabarro, David Hendon, Jānis Kārkliņš, Wolfgang Kleinwächter,
Jovan Kurbalija, Markus Kummer, Olivier Nana Nzépa, Alejandro Pisanty, Paul
Wilson and Pablo Hinojosa, and Michael Yakushev.
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