Ethics and the governance of the internet: Recommendations of IFIP - SIG 9.2.2

Abstract

There is an increasingly dynamic debate about the ethics of regulating the Internet: the issues are provocative and controversial. Certain profoundly challenging ethical issues surround the question of Internet governance. They include: equity of access; justice and social exclusion; the dignity of users; and respect for the interests and rights of users. As a result of deliberations that took place at the HCC5 conference, IFIP's special interest group on a Framework for Ethics recommends to its, and to IFIP's, members to become more active in the debate about the ethics of governing the Internet. Faithful to the group's creed of creating spaces for discussion locally and internationally, this paper poses a series of pertinent, pressing questions about the ethics of Internet governance that it believes should form a more active part of the public debate. © 2001 by Springer Science+Business Media New York.