Strategies and Principles of Internet Governance for India to Play a Dominant Role in the Future of the Internet

Abstract

Based on the analysis of multistakeholder and multilateral approaches, the report has developed an appropriate approach for India. It has highlighted the issues in adopting either one in a dichotomous manner. IT proposes the multi-tier open participation (M-TOP) approach which embeds the relevant stakeholders and primary decision-making groups in Internet governance processes on the basis of a tiered architecture of the Internet and also takes in the scope of distributed nature of Internet. M-TOP embraces the positive aspects of both multistakeholder and multilateral approaches, and will be applicable at all domestic, regional, and international levels