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Profiles:

ICANN

auDA

ITU

     business advocacy

This page looks at business groups concerned with governance of the net.

It covers -

• ICANN and the ITU
• business.

     ICANN

As its name suggests, the Noncommercial Domain Name Holders Constituency (NCDNHC) represents non-commercial groups (including many non-government organizations) within ICANN.

Analysis of its activities is provided by a number of bodies, including ICANNWatch and the Internet Democracy Project. We've identified such bodies in the more detailed ICANN profile on this site.

     business

The Australian Internet Industry Association (IIA) is the local industry association.  

The Global Internet Project (GIP), another US-based and industry-driven group, founded by Netscape's James Clark (star of silicon western The New New Thing) comprises "well-known leaders of the Internet Revolution" but its papers for international senior executives supply a perspective on how the managerial elite are perceiving the online world. 

Among the wave of US business lobby groups influencing policy in the US and Australia are NetCoalition.com, the strangely named Global Information Infrastructure (GII) which is not to be confused with the nonprofit Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC), the E-Fairness Coalition (a "level playing field" for taxing retailers) and the Global Business Dialogue for Electronic Commerce (GBDe).

The Electronic Commerce Forum (ECF) competes with NetCoalition.com and the strangely named Global Information Infrastructure (GII).  US bricks-&-mortar retailers, including the International Council of Shopping Centers and International Mass Retail Association, have formed the E-Fairness Coalition, a lobby group advocating a 'level playing field' at the state and national levels.

The Internet Alliance, another business advocacy group, advertises itself as the "premier organisation of Internet policy professionals representing the Internet online industry" [sic] and strongly aligned with the Direct Marketing Association of America.

The Global Internet Project (GIP) is another US-based industry-driven group, associated with bodies such as the  Global Business Dialogue for Electronic Commerce (GBDe).

The Information Economy guide elsewhere on this site provides more information about the nature, extent, governance and development of the digital economy in Australia and overseas. 




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