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July 27, 2015
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What are the real trends in cybercrime? Recent media coverage has been rife with stories of large-scale data breaches, hacks and online financial crime. Information technology security firms publish yearly reports that generally show the security of cyberspace to be poor and often getting worse. However, as Eric Jardine argues in a new paper from the Global Commission on Internet Governance, security in cyberspace is actually far better than the picture we are given.
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Recent turmoil in Greece has again highlighted the lack of an effective international framework for handling severe sovereign debt crises. Distressed countries tend to wait too long to address their debt problems, and tackle them only superficially; it’s a case of “too little, too late.” Structures and incentives are needed to increase the probability that “just enough, just in time” becomes the new normal of sovereign debt restructuring. This special report reviews the diverse perspectives raised in CIGI’s Sovereign Debt Forum consultations since 2012, and identifies some pathways toward pragmatic reform.
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A conversation among Canadian premiers at the Climate Summit of the Americas laid the groundwork for the advancement of clean technology innovation in Canada and support for joint action on climate change. In her latest blog, Oonagh Fitzgerald, Director of the International Law Research Program, discusses the meeting and new opportunities for collaboration that could open the door to international climate change action.
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Canada’s copyright history illustrates the long-standing influence of geopolitics and foreign interests in an important aspect of the national economic policy. CIGI Senior Fellow Myra J. Tawfik wonders if the trade-off in copyright protection and appeasement of outsiders is still justifiable for Canadian innovators.
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Fixing Climate Governance Policy Brief No. 6 by Alvin Lin, Luan Dong and Yang Fuqiang
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After China’s coal consumption was successfully lowered in 2014 in large part as a result of new sustainable climate policies, the country could be positioned to help lead a transition to clean energy that will contribute to the global efforts to keep global warming to no more than two degrees Celsius. A new CIGI policy brief outlines the steps China could take to advance the international climate agenda.
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GCIG Paper No. 17 by Samantha Bradshaw (@sbradshaww), Laura DeNardis (@lauradenardis), Fen Osler Hampson (@fenhampson), Eric Jardine (@ehljardine) and Mark Raymond (@mraymondonir)
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The emergence of contention in Internet governance entails a twofold shift in the nature of the problems posed by Internet governance: first, cooperation problems have emerged where few previously existed; and second, existing coordination problems have become increasingly difficult to manage as a result of a rapidly increasing number of players and heightened distributional consequences. Why have these shifts occurred? CIGI Internet governance experts explore four contemporary explanations in a new paper from the Global Commission on Internet Governance.
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Commentary by Enrique Boone
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Laura DeNardis (@lauradenardis) and Carolina Rossini (@carolinarossini)
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While the Internet has grown and evolved — creating new digital divides over privacy and challenges of access, connectivity and expression — some Internet governance issues remain consistent, such as multistakeholderism. In this video, Senior Fellow Laura DeNardis and Global Commission on Internet Governance Research Advisor Carolina Rossini participate in Internet Governance Forum (IGF) USA 2015, where their panel reviews key milestones, contemporary and future issues for Internet governance.
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