Internet Governance and the Global South ― Demand for a New Framework

A welcome addition to Palgrave's Global Media Policy and Business series, Internet Governance and the Global South documents the role of the global south in Internet policymaking and challenges the globalization theories that declared the death of the state in global decision-making. Abu Bhuiyan argues that the global Internet politics is primarily a conflict between the states - the United States of America and the states of the global south - because the former controls Internet policymaking. The states of the global south have been both oppositional and acquiescing to the sponsored policies of the United States on Internet issues such as digital divide, multilingualism, intellectual property rights and cyber security. They do not oppose the neoliberal underpinnings of the policies promoted by the United States, but ask for an international framework to govern the Internet so that they can work as equal partners in setting norms for the global Internet.

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.