This lack of governance is in stark contrast to the first era, the Internet of Information, which had - and still has - a vast multi-stakeholder network of networks to govern the resource.
In many contemporary cases, it is intellectual property and contract law that govern the resources in question, and so there is often a concrete legal locus to the resources produced by participation [ 76, 77].
Nietschmann, a long time visitor to Tasbapauni, holds that the common perception of rights to land among the Miskito is that only their communities have the right to wakanka; that is, to govern the resources and territory (Nietschmann 1997, p. 205).
This paper investigates the way in which certain institutions governing the common resources shared by academics and others are affected by the increase in communication facilities, disciplinary transgression and the value of knowledge.
"We would be bigger if we could," he said, and began explaining the complex rules governing the ratio of resources that teams may allocate to their computational-fluid-dynamics departments and their wind tunnels, if they choose to have them.
The demonstrators delivered a letter to President Sebastián Piñera, complaining that the water shortages affecting local communities were due not only to persistent drought but to structural problems in the policies governing the exploitation of natural resources.
Because nations are prohibited from laying claim to space territories, for instance, there is a need to establish regulations governing the apportionment of usable resources that space may eventually provide.
Leif Wenar is also concerned with prevailing practices governing the sale of natural resources and their products (Wenar 2010).
The development and implementation of Sustainable Resource Management Programmes could provide a harmonized approach for governing the use of natural resources within the safe operating space.
At a meeting next month in Cancun, Mexico, parties to an international treaty governing the use of genetic resources, from medicinal plants to pest-killing microbes, plan to discuss whether and how the agreement should apply to digital DNA sequences.
