He is a founding steering committee member of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) and its former Vice Chair. He also serves as Executive Director of the Institute on Disability and Public Policy (IDPP) and the Collaboration Laboratory (COTELCO).
Cogburn is Associate Professor in the School of International Service at American University and a pioneer in the study of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D). Francesca is a former Yahoo! Fellow in Residence at Georgetown University, USA and the recipient of the 2013 Informatique et Libertés Award of the French Privacy and Data Protection Commission, and currently a member of the French Parliamentary Commission on Law and Liberties in the Digital Age.
Keywordsįrancesca Musiani is a researcher with the French National Centre for Scientific Research and Associate researcher at the Centre for the Sociology of Innovation-MINES ParisTech-PSL. This transformation into an era of global governance by Internet infrastructure presents a moment of opportunity for scholars to bring these politicized infrastructures to the foreground. An area once concealed in institutional and technological complexity is now rightly bracketed among other shared global issues-such as environmental protection and human rights-that have considerable global implications but are simply incongruous with national borders. Much of the Internet governance ecosystem-both technical architecture and coordinating institutions-is behind the scenes but increasingly carries significant public interest implications. High-profile controversies include the disclosures about NSA surveillance by intelligence analyst Edward Snowden, controversy over a decision by the US government to relinquish its historic oversight of Internet names and numbers, and countless cybersecurity breaches involving unauthorized access to Internet users' personal data. Never in history have conflicts over Internet governance attracted such widespread attention. This edited volume brings together experts from around the world to provide coverage and analysis of infrastructure's role in Internet governance, both now and in the future.