Author: Jeremy Malcolm
Publisher: Terminus Pre
Keywords: governance, forum, internet, multi, stakeholder
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2008-05-09
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0980508401
ISBN-13: 9780980508406

Multi-stakeholder governance is a fresh approach to the development of public policy, bringing together governments, the private sector and civil society in partnership. The movement towards this new governance paradigm has been most marked in areas involving global networks of stakeholders, too intricate to be represented by governments alone. Nowhere is this better illustrated than on the Internet, where it is an inherent characteristic of the network that laws, and the conduct to which those laws are directed, will cross national borders. Thus momentum has developed to bring multi-stakehold