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Mapping An Ignored Agenda: Internet Governance at the WSIS
- Category: Women in Action 2005-2
- Author: Anita Gurumurthy, Parminder Jeet Singh
- Year: 2005
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A critical issue which is both a good and a bad barometer of the inforrnation society (IS) discourse at the World Swnmit on the Information Society (WSIS) today is the issue of Internet governance (IG). Within the negotiating framework of WSIS, the IG regime was divided into three parts: setting technical standards; critical resource allocation; andpublic policy-making, enforcement and dispute resolution. It is at present a very distributed regime.