An Approach to Investigating Socio-economic Tussles Arising from Building the Future Internet

Abstract

With the evolution of the Internet from a controlled research network to a worldwide social and economic platform, the initial assumptions regarding stakeholder cooperative behavior are no longer valid. Conflicts have emerged in situations where there are opposing interests. Previous work in the literature has termed these conflicts tussles. This article presents the research of the SESERV project, which develops a methodology to investigate such tussles and is carrying out a survey of tussles identified within the research projects funded under the Future Networks topic of the FP7. Selected tussles covering both social and economic aspects are analyzed also in this article. An Approach to Investigating Socio-economic TusslesArising from Building the Future Internet Abstract. With the evolution of the Internet from a controlled research network to a worldwide social and economic platform, the initial assumptions regarding stakeholder cooperative behavior are no longer valid. Conflicts have emerged in situations where there are opposing interests. Previous work in the literature has termed these conflicts tussles. This article presents the research of the SESERV project, which develops a methodology to investigate such tussles and is carrying out a survey of tussles identified within the research projects funded under the Future Networks topic of the FP7. Selected tussles covering both social and economic aspects are analyzed also in this article.

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“…These tussles are intensifying on the expectation of more significant impacts that the Internet will have across social, economic and political domains in the future (Ford et al, 2009). Therefore, the initial assumptions of cooperative behaviour within and between the stakeholder groups are not valid anymore (Kalogiros et al, 2011). This has led to numerous trust and security concerns like distributed denial-of-service attacks, cyber terrorism, espionage, viruses, identity theft, and data interception and modification.…”

“…Stakeholders of the Internet comprise of firms, governments and the general public typically represented by civil society organizations. With their diverse historical and cultural backgrounds, different stakeholders have varied and mutually conflicting expectations from the Internet (Kalogiros et al, 2011). For many years, stakeholders at the periphery of Internet governance discussions have been concerned about the excessive influence exerted by the technologically dominant parties in decision-making.…”