By Prof. Dr. Rolf H. Weber.
2024 and 2025 will be exciting years for Internet Governance: The Global Digital Compact (GDC) should reach the final shape and the WSIS+20 celebration might be a milestone for the future of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). At the time of the two WSIS Summits (2003/05), Internet Governance was often seen as a mainly technical issue with some political implications. In the meantime, the equation appears to have reversed: Internet Governance has become a mainly political issue with a technical component. For the future, different pillars are important, namely, based on the multistakeholder participation principle, a consolidation of the institutional framework, the better alignment with generally accepted international legal principles and the inclusion of new policy issues into the debates.
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