An international cast of scholars, policy makers, and activists are included here to address the findings of the Middle Eastern Dubai meeting of the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT). A subsequent meeting took place in Switzerland confronting the lack of consensus between the policy recommendations of the WCIT and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), with its intimate relationship with the US Department of Commerce. The volume is indicative of the tensions of the last 15 years between maintaining a primary role for the US to govern the Internet or to cede control to an international entity, a UN of the internet as it were (page 5).
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