Can We Govern Our Way to a More Perfect Internet?
Channel: New America
Date: 03/12/2012

Can We Govern Our Way to a More Perfect Internet?

The United Nations has its eyes on the Internet. A summit next month could lead to a telecommunications treaty granting a U.N. agency jurisdiction, and control, over the online universe. The issue is being furiously debated and lobbied in advance of the summit. Companies, technologists, free speech advocates and national governments must now consider the relative merits of the current decentralized, U.S.-centered governance of the Internet, versus a more equitable, multinational (but possibly more restrictive) system. Haven't heard much about this looming fight that could radically alter the character of the Internet?  It's not too late -- join Future Tense to learn about all about it. 

Derrick Cogburn --@derrickcogburn
Associate Professor of International Relations, American University

Jonathan Koppell -- @coppasu
Dean of College of Public Programs, Arizona State University
Author, World Rule: Accountability, Legitimacy, and the Design of Global Governance

Rebecca MacKinnon -- @rmack
Senior Fellow, New America Foundation
Author, Consent of the Networked

Moderator
Christine Rosen - @tnajournal
Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation
Senior Editor, The New Atlantis

http://newamerica.net/events/2012/who_should_govern_the_internet