Global governance and NGO participation : shaping the information society in the United Nations / / Charlotte Dany

• Autore: Dany Charlotte
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (199 p.)
• Disciplina: 341.2
• Soggetto topico: Non-governmental organizations - Political activity; Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: the ambivalence of NGO participation -- Power and influence in global governance -- A structurationist framework of analysis -- The information society: issues and practices -- Global ICT governance at the WSIS: NGO influence -- Structural power mechanisms at the WSIS -- Conclusions.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores the limits of NGO influence and the conditions that constrain NGOs when they participate in international negotiationsThrough an empirically rich study of the UN World Summits on the Information Society (WSIS) this book conceptualizes structural power mechanisms that shape global ICT governance and analyses the impact of NGOs on communication rights, intellectual property rights, financing, and Internet governance. The institutional framework of UN negotiations makes it easy for states to exclude NGOs from crucial meetings and to neglect their most relevant
• Titolo autorizzato: Global governance and NGO participation
• ISBN: 0-203-07818-7; 1-283-87143-2; 1-135-13646-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816175403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Rethinking Globalizations