info: Volume 3 Issue 4

The silent subversive: ICANN and the new global governance

Wolfgang Lleinwächter

Puts ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) into a broader political and legal context, and asks whether the new Internet corporation could be seen as a…

Non‐state governance and the Internet: civil society and the ICANN

Stephen D. McDowell, Philip E. Steinberg

Explores a number of the debates and justification used to support and advance non‐state governance of the Internet in the USA. Reviews public reports released leading up to the…

ICANN and democracy: contradictions and possibilities

Renée Marlin‐Bennett

Argues here that ICANN, as it is currently formed, falls well short of democratic ideals, despite a founding principle of providing “bottom‐up, representative decision‐making”…

Geeks and Greeks

Jonathan Weinberg

Rejects arguments that ICANN is engaged in mere technical management or technical co‐ordination, rather than political governance. Examines ICANN’s structure through the lens of…

The feasibility of global democracy: understanding ICANN’s at‐large election

Hans Klein

Stages global elections held in 2000 by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), provide opportunities to test claims of the sceptics of global democracy…