Our guest on May 1st was Laura DeNardis, Professor and endowed Chair in Technology, Ethics, and Society at Georgetown University and a Senior Fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). Her topic was "Interplanetary Internet Governance."
The Internet’s next chapter will likely lie in both infinitesimally small and astronomically large spaces, including a leap further off Earth and into deep space. As the Internet moves off planet, so too will Internet governance and its attendant economic, political, and social implications. The security implications are immense. What are the Internet governance arrangements – meaning technical design, institutional coordination, norms of behavior, and legal instruments – that should be anticipated now to help operationalize an interplanetary Internet for the good of humankind?