Governance for the Digital World: Neither More State nor More Market

This book explores new frameworks, institutional arrangements, rules, and policies for governance of the digital world. As digitization rapidly intertwines the many dimensions of society, billions of people have witnessed a quiet and seamless integration of the Internet, software, platforms, algorithms, and digital devices into their daily lives, as well as into many forms of governance and decision making in the public and private sectors.
The new technologies require new norms and practices to govern the digital world. This is the challenge addressed by this book: How can society create institutions that govern the digital world in a way that is beneficial to society? This book explores answers—still initial and provocative—to this central question. The reflections presented in this book have a theoretical and conceptual nature borrowed from different fields of science to identify the main challenges for the governance of the digital world.

Fernando Filgueiras is Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy and Government, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Brazil. Researcher at the National Institute of Science and Technology – Digital Democracy (INCT-DD).
Virgilio Almeida is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, and Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.