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Who do you think you are? Individual stakeholder identification and mobility at the Internet Governance Forum

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  • Tjahja, Nadia
  • Meyer, Trisha
  • Shahin, Jamal

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In order for the Internet Governance ecosystem to work effectively, it requires a variety of expertise and advice from different sectors and backgrounds. Drawing on the public Internet Governance Forum (IGF) participation lists from 2006 to 2019, this paper analyses how individual participants chose to identify themselves in the given frameworks applied across the IGFs, and how they ‘travel’ through the Internet Governance ecosystem over successive fora. Identifying 18,968 unique IGF participants from 2006 to 2019, representing 7326 unique organisations, this paper thus provides an unprecedented level of detail as to who is present in multistakeholder discussions. It sets the scene for a more reflective discussion on the inclusivity and effectiveness of the multistakeholder model pursued at the IGF and engages with literature in the field of stakeholder mobility and stakeholder interests, opening up potential for further research on the legitimacy of multistakeholderism.

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  • Tjahja, Nadia & Meyer, Trisha & Shahin, Jamal, 2022. "Who do you think you are? Individual stakeholder identification and mobility at the Internet Governance Forum," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 46(10).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:telpol:v:46:y:2022:i:10:s0308596122001124
    DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2022.102410
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