网络空间的全球化与治理:全球信息和通信政策中紧急制度形成的过程
Globalization and Governance in Cyberspace: Mapping the Processes of Emergent Regime Formation in Global Information and Communications Policy
摘要:
本文发展了一个全球化和信息社会的理论视角,并结合国际制度理论的关键用途,作为理解当前的历史时期的启发式从国际信息化制度(Cowhey,1990年; 1994年),以提供治理的全球信息基础设施和全球信息社会(GII/GIS)的一个新的和复杂的制度。在分析GII/GIS应急机制的原则、价值、规范、规则、集体决策程序和执行机制时,本文将其分为三个层次:(1)宏观机制--全球;(2)中观机制--区域和次区域;(3)微观机制--国家。本文采用案例研究的方法,探讨一些具体的国家(即南非)对这一制度过渡的反应,与其他新兴经济体的潜在的最佳做法和经验教训的分析。本文的主要结论是:(1)一系列社会、政治、经济和技术因素正在侵蚀现有的国际电信体制(例如,VOIP;(2)一个新的全球信息和通信政策体制正在形成,但它不是由信息社会的广泛可能性驱动的,而是由与全球电子商务有关的全球和跨国公司的更具体利益驱动的;(3)在国家、次区域和区域各级,发达地区和发展中地区都为应对这一转型的挑战制定了许多战略对策;(4)如果没有合作对策,发展中国家将被这一新制度进一步边缘化。
英文摘要:
This paper develops a theoretical perspective on globalization and the Information Society and combines it with a critical usage of international regime theory as a heuristic for understanding the current historical period of transition from an international telecommunicaitons regime (Cowhey, 1990; 1994) to a new and complex regime aimed at providing governance for the Global Information Infrastructure and Global Information Society (GII/GIS). In analyzing the principles, values, norms, rules, collective decision-making prdocedures, and enforcement mechanisms of the emergent GII/GIS regime, this paper differentiates between three regime levels: (1) Macro-Regime--global; (2) Mezzo-Regime--regional and sub-regional; and (3) Micro-Regime--national. The paper employs a case-study approach to explore some of the specific national responses (i.e. South Africa) to this regime transition, with an analysis of potential best practices and lessons learned for other emerging economies. Key findings in this paper are: (1) that a range of social, political, economic, and technological factors are eroding the existing international telecommunications regime (e.g., VOIP;, call-back, VSATs, accounting rate restructuring, pressure for applicaitons development, and SMMEs); (2) a new regime for global information and communicaitons policy is emerging, but is being driven not by the broad possibilities of the Information Society, but by the more specific interests of global and multi-national corporations related to global e-commerce; (3) numerous strategic responses have been developed at national, subregional, and regional levels to the challenges of this transition in both developed and developing regions; and (4) without a collaborative response, the developing world will be further marginalized by this new regime.
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