WATERLOO, CANADA - The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) has published a new resource, on challenges and opportunities in Internet policy, developed to inform the work of the Global Commission on Internet Governance (GCIG).
Chaired by Sweden’s former Prime Minister Carl Bildt, the GCIG is a two-year initiative launched in January 2014 by CIGI and Chatham House, and will produce a comprehensive stand on the future of multi-stakeholder Internet governance.
The new briefing book, Finding Common Ground: Challenges and Opportunities in Internet Governance and Internet-Related Policy, provides readers with an understanding of the key issues and actors involved in shaping Internet governance. Initially presented to the GCIG’s twenty-nine commissioners at their Stockholm meeting in May 2014, the briefing book is now available to the media and public by visiting: www.cigionline.org/publications/common-ground.
“Researchers with CIGI’s Global Security & Politics Program have conducted an extensive review of the issues affecting Internet governance,” says Fen Osler Hampson, Co-Director of the GCIG and Director of CIGI’s Global Security & Politics Program. “They are building a foundation of information to support the work the Commission is undertaking — helping to to contextualize the current debate on challenges, like surveillance, and opportunities, like economic development.”
By Valerie Tullar(info@koreaittimes.com)
