Internet Governance and the Global South

Professor Abu J M S A Bhuiyan is the founder and Chair of the Department of Television and Film Studies at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Before founding the department, he taught at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada, and the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at the University of Dhaka.

• 1. Global South and Supranational Internet Policymaking 2. From UNESCO to ICANN: Rise of a New Model of Global Communication Policymaking 3. Uniqueness of ICANN 4. Resistance to the ICANN Model of Internet Governance 5. Bridging Digital Divide: Neoliberal Means with State Control? 6. Multilingualism: Does It Legitimize the ICANN Model? 7. Intellectual Property Rights on the Internet: Global South's Struggle for a Lenient Regime 8. Cybersecurity and States: Same Bed, Different Nightmares 9. New Multilateralism for Internet Policymaking Bibliography