week8

In This week, the lecture main talk about the distinguishing between cyberpolitics and eDemocracy

Cyberpolitics, the politics of the internet that exists predominantly on the internet. Cyberpolitics stretches from the powerplays around the actual structure and functions of the internet that are decided by the Internet Society and ICANN through to the political activities that occur on forums, between bloggers and even in games.


E-Democracy, the internet's intervention in and contribution to real world politics that exists predominantly off the internet. eDemocracy covers everything from political campaigning on the internet and the government's use of the internet to raise awareness and debate on issues to the people's use of new technologies to criticise governments and reveal their mistakes.
I must to say I do not understand both of them clearly. Accounting to some references, I found that theISOC (Internet Society) founded in 1992, is dedicated to providing leadership in Internet related standards, policy, and education. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is another non-profit organisation, started in 1998.