• A derivative term for e-democracy
  E-democracy
  E-democracy refers to the use of information technologies and communication technologies and strategies in political and governance processes...
  
  (electronic democracy), especially related to projects and concepts centered on using the Internet.
• Self-regulation of the Internet
  Internet Engineering Task Force
  The Internet Engineering Task Force develops and promotes Internet standards, cooperating closely with the W3C and ISO/IEC standards bodies and dealing in particular with standards of the TCP/IP and Internet protocol suite...
  
  , with the development of its constituent technologies through "rough consensus and running code," RFCs and expert boards.
• Participation of Internet users worldwide in non-governmental bodies that are setting Internet policy.

See also

• Democracy (varieties)
  Democracy (varieties)
  -Direct democracy:Direct democracy, classically termed pure democracy, is any form of government based on a theory of civics in which all citizens can directly participate in the decision-making process...
  
  
• eGovernment
  EGovernment
  E-Government is digital interactions between a government and citizens , government and businesses/Commerce , government and employees , and also between government and governments /agencies...
  
  
• Electronic voting
  Electronic voting
  Electronic voting is a term encompassing several different types of voting, embracing both electronic means of casting a vote and electronic means of counting votes....
  
  
• The party of Internet DEmocracy
  Party of Internet Democracy
  The party of Internet DEmocracy （Hungarian: Internetes DEmokrácia pártja. Abbreviated IDE） was a Hungarian political party, which was established at 23 July 2004 in Gyöngyös.- Aims of IDE :...
  
  
• Emergent democracy
  Emergent democracy
  Emergent democracy refers to the rise of political structures and behaviors without central planning and by the action of many individual participants, especially when mediated by the Internet...
  
  
• Hacktivism
  Hacktivism
  Hacktivism is the use of computers and computer networks as a means of protest to promote political ends. The term was first coined in 1994 by a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective named Omega...
  
  
• ICANN
  ICANN
  The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is a non-profit corporation headquartered in Marina del Rey, California, United States, that was created on September 18, 1998, and incorporated on September 30, 1998 to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed directly...
  
  
• IETF Working Group
• Internet activism
  Internet activism
  Internet activism is the use of electronic communication technologies such as e-mail, the World Wide Web, and podcasts for various forms of activism to enable faster communications by citizen movements and the delivery of local information to a large audience...
  
  
• Internet Governance Forum
  Internet Governance Forum
  The Internet Governance Forum is a multi-stakeholder forum for policy dialogue on issues of Internet governance. It brings together all stakeholders in the internet governance debate, whether they represent governments, the private sector or civil society, including the technical and academic...
  
  
• Netiquette
  Netiquette
  Netiquette is a set of social conventions that facilitate interaction over networks, ranging from Usenet and mailing lists to blogs and forums. These rules were described in IETF RFC 1855. However, like many Internet phenomena, the concept and its application remain in a state of flux, and vary...
  
  
• Online consultation
  Online consultation
  Online consultations or e-consultations refer to an exchange between government and citizens using the Internet. They are one form of online deliberation. Further, online consultation consists in using the Internet to ask a group of people their opinion on one or more specific topics, allowing for...
  
  
• Radical transparency
  Radical transparency
  Radical transparency is a management approach in which all decision making is carried out publicly. The term was used by Daniel Goleman in his book...
  
  
• Request for Comments
  Request for Comments
  In computer network engineering, a Request for Comments is a memorandum published by the Internet Engineering Task Force describing methods, behaviors, research, or innovations applicable to the working of the Internet and Internet-connected systems.Through the Internet Society, engineers and...
  
  
• Second Superpower
  Second Superpower
  "Second Superpower" is a term used to conceptualize a global civil society as a world force comparable to or counterbalancing the United States...