1st Edition
Global Governance and NGO Participation Shaping the information society in the United Nations
By Charlotte Dany
Copyright 2013
208 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
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Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
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This book explores the limits of NGO influence and the conditions that constrain NGOs when they participate in international negotiations
Through an empirically rich study of the UN World Summits on the Information Society (WSIS) this book conceptualizes structural power mechanisms that shape global ICT governance and analyses the impact of NGOs on communication rights, intellectual property... Read more
1. Introduction: The Ambivalence of NGO Participation 2. Power and Influence in Global Governance 3. A Structurationist Framework of Analysis 4. The ‘Information Society’: Issues and Practices 5. Global ICT Governance at the WSIS: NGO Influence 6. Structural Power Mechanisms at the WSIS 7. Conclusions
Biography
Charlotte Dany is Assistant Professor, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
