Understanding WSIS: An Institutional Analysis of the UN World Summit on the Information Society

Klein, Hans

doi:10.1162/1544752043557341

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“…Et knippe studier har også sett spesifikt på multistakeholdertilnaermingen i cybersikkerhet. Disse fokuserer på sivilsamfunnets deltakelse og på hvordan statlige og ikke-statlige aktører deler makten igjennom multistakeholderstrukturer og -prosesser (Froomkin 2003;Klein 2004;Kleinwächter 2004;Koppell 2005;Palfrey 2004;Pavane & Diani 2008;Huijstee 2012). En viktig del av denne debatten omhandler hvorvidt en multistakeholdertilnaerming er best egnet (Sahel 2016), eller hvorvidt et direkte samarbeid mellom staten og privat sektor vil fungere bedre (Cavelty & Suter 2009;DeNardis & Raymond 2013;Drezner 2004 ).…”

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Makt og avmakt i cyberspace: hvordan styre det digitale rom?

Muller

2016

Internasjonal Politikk

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Et sikkert cyberspace er nødvendig for en fungerende samfunnsstruktur, økonomisk, politisk og sosialt. Med samfunnets økende avhengighet av cyberspace for å kunne fungere normalt, har sikringen av cyberspace blitt stadig viktigere. For å løse sikkerhetsutfordringene knyttet til utviklingen av cyberspace har stater søkt støtte fra private aktører gjennom såkalte multistakeholder-initiativer. Med slike initiativer mener man en åpen form for samarbeid mellom interessenter, basert på en idé om likeverdige partnere. Stater iverksetter slike initiativer ut fra en tanke om at et samarbeid mellom private og offentlige aktører gir den beste formen for styring og sikring av aktiviteter i cyberspace. Implementeringen foregår imidlertid uten at de nødvendige forutsetningene for at en slik styringsform skal fungere er til stede. Selv om mange i dagens akademiske debatt stiller spørsmål ved om disse initiativene fungerer, er det få som har stilt spørsmål ved hvordan cybersikkerhet kan utøves i praksis. Dette fører til at man overser det sentrale spørsmålet om hvordan maktdynamikken mellom offentlig og privat sektor fungerer med henblikk på sikkerhet i cyberspace. Denne artikkelen diskuterer hvorvidt multistakeholder-initiativene faktisk fungerer som en kontrollog styringsmekanisme i cyberspace. Ved å se naermere på offentlig-privat samarbeid om cybersikkerhet i Norge er hensikten å gi en bedre forståelse av årsakene til at multistakeholder-initiativer ofte ikke fungerer i praksis.

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Section: Sikkerhet I Cyberspaceunclassified

Makt og avmakt i cyberspace: hvordan styre det digitale rom?

Muller

2016

Internasjonal Politikk

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“…In most countries, for example, the telecommunications authority is in charge of shaping the road toward the information society, and private and public authorities of computer engineering often do not even participate in policy-agenda setting (for LAC, see, e.g., Guerra et al 2008). As another example, the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (2003)(2004)(2005); see also Klein 2004) has been organized by the International Telecommunications Union, and its audience and the discussed topics have been largely determined by this bias. Looking at table 3, one can no longer say that technological progress in communication technologies is the defining characteristic of the information society.…”

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Information Societies or “ICT Equipment Societies?” Measuring the Digital Information-Processing Capacity of a Society in Bits and Bytes

Hilbert

López

Vasquez

2010

The Information Society

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The digital divide is conventionally measured in terms of information and communication technology (ICT) equipment diffusion, which comes down to counting the number of computers or phones, among other devices. This article fine-tunes these approximations by estimating the amount of digital information that is stored, communicated, and computed by these devices. The installed stock of ICT equipment in the consumer segment is multiplied with its corresponding technological performance, resulting in the "installed technological capacity" for storage (in bits), bandwidth (in bits per second), and computational power (in computations per second). This leads to new insights. Despite the rapidly decreasing digital equipment divide, there is an increasing gap in terms of information-processing capacity. It is shown that in 1996 the average inhabitant of the industrialized countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) had a capacity of 49 kibps more than its counterpart from Latin America and the Caribbean. Ten years later, this gap widened to 577 kibps per inhabitant. This innovative approach toward the quantification of the digital divide leads to numerous new challenges for the research agenda.The far-reaching and profound impact of the digitization of information and communication processes has long been noted (e.g., Wiener 1948; Machlup 1962;Bell 1973). It is widely recognized that the advancement of digital information and communication technologies (ICT) has led to a new mode of development (e.g., Perez 1983; Freeman and Louça 2001). With the arrival of digital systems, the storage, communication, and computation of information became the omnipresent core of social and political activity, and of economic and cultural production (e.g., Webster 1995;Castells 1996). This has put the question of how to track and measure the diffusion and eventual impacts of these new technologies on the center stage.This article is a contribution to this discussion. We propose to improve the measure of traditional ICT access indicators by adjusting existing ICT equipment statistics with the corresponding quality of their performance. The stock of available technologies is multiplied with their corresponding performance measures. The result is three new aggregate indicators that represent the "installed information-processing capacity": (1) how much information can be stored (in bits), (2) communicated (in bits per second), and (3) computed (in computations per second). This improvement not only contributes to the 157

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“…The concurrent production of national digital strategies within the past decade has several specific contexts: the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 2003 and 2005 rounds (Klein, 2004); the liberalisation and harmonisation goals of the OECD (OECD, 2006a); and trade negotiations involving intellectual property (Weiss et al, 2004). The rhetorical preference for 'strategy' over 'policy' can be traced to a WSIS agreement on the development of such documents, stressing intergovernmental planning and coordination.…”

Section: Digital Strategies -The International Contextmentioning

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Unlocking the potential? – Australia's digital strategy and major public libraries

McShane

Thomas

2010

Prometheus

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This paper examines some implications for public libraries of the Australian government's 2009 strategy for the digital economy. Many countries have produced national digital strategies in recent years, but these key pieces of policy architecture have received little critical attention. The rhetorical framing of the Australian document indicates the shift of communication and information to the centre of economic policy. This has particular significance for public libraries, as the major public information portals and cultural storehouses of liberal democracies. The strategy's emphasis on productivity and economic competitiveness, boosted by a proposed high‐speed national broadband network, presents major opportunities for Australian libraries. However, libraries and other collecting institutions have voiced concern over assumptions that they can simply ‘unlock’ their collections and supply content for new broadband applications. In contrast to some other countries, the Australian strategy pays no attention to the profound implications for information integrity and cultural memory presented by the expansion of cultural and economic activity in the digital sphere. The challenge for public libraries, the paper argues, is to explore ways that orthodox library responsibilities and new roles can be articulated in this evolving policy framework.

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Understanding WSIS: An Institutional Analysis of the UN World Summit on the Information Society

Cited by 34 publications

References 2 publications

Makt og avmakt i cyberspace: hvordan styre det digitale rom?

Makt og avmakt i cyberspace: hvordan styre det digitale rom?

Information Societies or “ICT Equipment Societies?” Measuring the Digital Information-Processing Capacity of a Society in Bits and Bytes

Unlocking the potential? – Australia's digital strategy and major public libraries

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