Intergovernmental Organizations And Global Internet Governance Architecture

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Discussing results of our joint project that examines the complexinteractions among intergovernmental organizations and othertransnational institutions and nonstate actors in the global Internetgovernance ecosystem, this study highlights themes related to thechanging architecture and roles of international organizations from WSIS(World Summit on the Information Society) until NetMundial. Attention ispaid to old and new categories of organizations that emerged in thiscontext; and how they have been recognized as stakeholders in theprocess. These organizations form a network, set in an environmentalcontext, thus constituting the interorganizational infrastructure for internetgovernance today. Additionally, tracing knowledge flows and powerdifferentials over time among the different stakeholder organizations helpsto illustrate a major finding, the pro-active role of the internationalorganizations studied here in the messy, complex, and cross-nationalinternet governance ecosystem, shaped by and, at the same time, shapingthe technical infrastructure.