How Do App Stores Challenge the Global Internet Governance Ecosystem?

2016/12/15 by Almeida, Virgilio A. F., Doneda, Danilo, Rossini, Carolina
#Computers and Society (cs.CY) #FOS: Computer and information sciences

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1612.05218

Abstract

App stores challenge the culture of openness and resistance to central authorities cultivated by the pioneers of the Internet. Could multistakeholder governance bodies bring more inclusivity into the global cyberspace governance ecosystem?

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