The Internet and Ethiopia’s IP Law, Internet Governance and Legal Education: An Overview

political disputes of governments on internet governance and international law

the variety of issues posed by the internet today cannot be easily neglected by jurists and politicians. these are problems that the international community has no other way but to find appropriate solutions to. the first and most important issue faced in relation to the internet, is the problem of internet governance. the internet is currently managed by the icann, an american company and the ...

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 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...

International Issues: Transnational Legal Tensions and Internet Governance

International Issues: Transnational Legal Tensions and Internet Governance