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Towards a Global Digital Constitutionalism: A Radical New Agenda for UN75

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  • Anita Gurumurthy

    (IT for Change)

  • Nandini Chami

    (IT for Change)

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Twenty years after the WSIS, even as multi-stakeholder governance models in the domain have been stripped of any claim to their democratic potential, global digital governance is in shambles. Norm-building for the digital paradigm is increasingly shifting to plurilateral spaces and private sector-led rule-making in the guise of technical standards development. The UN Secretary-General’s Roadmap for Digital Cooperation (2020) has failed to address this crisis. The paper argues for how in its 75th year, the UN needs to make a clean break from its historical soft-pedalling of corporatized rule-making for the digital by embracing the radical agenda of a transformative global constitutionalism, and proceeds to outline its constituent elements.

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  • Anita Gurumurthy & Nandini Chami, 2021. "Towards a Global Digital Constitutionalism: A Radical New Agenda for UN75," Development, Palgrave Macmillan;Society for International Deveopment, vol. 64(1), pages 29-38, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:develp:v:64:y:2021:i:1:d:10.1057_s41301-021-00287-z
    DOI: 10.1057/s41301-021-00287-z
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