Telecom Responsibilization: Internet Governance, Surveillance, and New Roles for Intermediaries

internet governance or internet control?

controlling the internet has for a long time been the privilege of academics in the usa. however, with the evolution of the internet as the world communication medium of the 21 st century and the world-wide-web providing the infrastructure for business and public services in the digital era, the stakes have risen dramatically. the value of the internet is nowadays considered extremely important...

Governance, Government, and the Search for New Provider Models

A central problem in designing effective models of provider governance in health systems has been to ensure an appropriate balance between the concerns of public sector and/or government decision-makers, on the one hand, and of non-governmental health services actors in civil society and private life, on the other. In tax-funded European health systems up to the 1980s, the state and other publi...

Governance in Health – The Need for Exchange and Evidence; Comment on “Governance, Government, and the Search for New Provider Models”

Governance in health is cited as one of the key factors in balancing the concerns of the government and public sector with the interests of civil society/private players, but often remains poorly described and operationalized. Richard Saltman and Antonio Duran look at two aspects in the search for new provider models in a context of health markets signalling liberalisation: (i) the role of the ...

Internet Governance

Governance and the Internet

effects. Some are Orwellian in depicting the threat that government would control citizens through massive files recording what individuals say in e-mails. Other visions are politically utopian. For example, Stanford economist Lawrence Lau (2000) rejects Schumpeter’s (1952) view of major societal changes imposing both costs and benefits, claiming that the Internet makes possible “creation witho...