The Four Internets of COVID-19: the digital-political responses to COVID-19 and what this means for the post-crisis Internet

Kelsie  Nabban; Marta Poblet; Paul Gardner-Stephen

doi:10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342859

The Four Internets of COVID-19: the digital-political responses to COVID-19 and what this means for the post-crisis Internet

Kelsie Nabban, Marta Poblet, Paul Gardner-Stephen

College of Science and Engineering

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Abstract

Digital responses around the world to the COVID-19 pandemic highlight the acceleration in Internet governance trend towards authoritarianism in the digital-political responses to crisis and false trade-off decisions made by governments between privacy and public health. This paper investigates the digital-political responses to COVID-19 in the global contexts of ‘four internets’; the authoritarian Internet, the bourgeois European Internet, the commercial American Internet, and the propaganda Internet of state and non-state actors. We then explore the possible responses to the post-COVID-19 Internet, as well as the implications of geo-political Internet trends for crisis response groups and organizations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2020
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-7281-7388-7
ISBN (Print)	978-1-7281-7389-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342859
Publication status	Published - 29 Oct 2020
Event	2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) - (Virtual), Seattle, United States Duration: 29 Oct 2020 → 1 Nov 2020 Conference number: 10th https://ieeeghtc.org/program/

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Name	2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2020

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Conference	2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)
Abbreviated title	IEEE-GHTC 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	Seattle
Period	29/10/20 → 1/11/20
Other	The 10th IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (IEEE GHTC 2020) is an international flagship conference sharing practical technology enabled solutions addressing the needs of underserved populations and resource constrained environments around the world and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG).
Internet address	https://ieeeghtc.org/program/

Keywords

COVID-19
Privacy
Pandemics
Government
Market research
Internet
public healthcare
Crisis response strategies
Humanitarian technology
Surveillance
Internet governance
Internet-governance
crisis response
privacy
design
humanitarian technology
surveillance
policy

UN SDGs

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Nabban, K., Poblet, M., & Gardner-Stephen, P. (2020). The Four Internets of COVID-19: the digital-political responses to COVID-19 and what this means for the post-crisis Internet. In 2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2020 Article 9342859 (2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2020). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342859

Nabban, Kelsie ; Poblet, Marta ; Gardner-Stephen, Paul. / The Four Internets of COVID-19 : the digital-political responses to COVID-19 and what this means for the post-crisis Internet. 2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2020. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2020. (2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2020).

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Nabban, K, Poblet, M & Gardner-Stephen, P 2020, The Four Internets of COVID-19: the digital-political responses to COVID-19 and what this means for the post-crisis Internet. in 2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2020., 9342859, 2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2020, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), Seattle, Washington, United States, 29/10/20. https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342859

The Four Internets of COVID-19: the digital-political responses to COVID-19 and what this means for the post-crisis Internet. / Nabban, Kelsie ; Poblet, Marta; Gardner-Stephen, Paul.
2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2020. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2020. 9342859 (2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2020).

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